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By March 1980, she was on trial for attempted murder in an unsuccessful attempt to shoot him after their relationship ended. Although convicted in the assault on Taylor and suspended from the practice of law, Mehaffey later regained her license and practiced law again in Dallas under the name Catherine Shelton. [10]
The murder did not receive much immediate media attention. It took a remark from New York City Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy to New York Times metropolitan editor Abe Rosenthal over lunch – Rosenthal later quoted Murphy as saying, "That Queens story is one for the books" – to motivate the Times into publishing an investigative report.
Roach pleaded guilty to two counts of murder, rape, kidnapping and armed robbery. On December 16, 1977, both men were sentenced to death. Shaw was sentenced to death for the murders of Taylor and Hartness and received a life sentence for the murder of Swank. [7] Mahaffey was sentenced to life in prison.
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States
Your Worst Nightmare is an American television documentary series on Investigation Discovery that debuted on October 22, 2014. [1] The show is a 60-minute narrated true crime show blending reenactments of key events with commentary from law enforcement, criminal justice professionals, friends and family of the victims, and occasionally, the victims themselves.
A woman who has sat in prison for more than a decade was released Tuesday after new evidence contradicted accounts that she helped a hitman take out an innocent victim 25 years ago in the Bronx.
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.
Second-degree murder is the second most serious homicide offense in New York. It is defined as when someone commits an intentional killing without a felony under New York's felony murder rule, or an unintentional killing which either exhibits a "depraved indifference to human life" or an unintentional killing caused by the commission or attempted commission of a felony under New York's felony ...