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Fairfax County built its first courthouse in 1742 at a site called "Spring Field", which is near present-day Tysons Corner. By the middle of the eighteenth century, the city of Alexandria , Virginia, had established itself as one of the major ports of the region for coastal and oceangoing ships, and in the year 1752, the courthouse for the ...
Fairfax: Mohammed Kayani 81 Christopher Cornelius Goins: Black 27 M December 6, 2000 Richmond City: 5 murder victims [k] 82 Thomas Wayne Akers: White 31 M March 1, 2001 Franklin: Wesley Brant Smith 83 Christopher James Beck: White 26 M October 18, 2001 Arlington: Florence Marie Marks, David Kaplan, and William Miller 84 James Earl Patterson ...
The Fairfax County police homicide unit investigated the shooting and provided its file to Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh in late 2013. [1] Torres was fired from the Fairfax County Police Department on July 31, 2015, due to violating the department's policies and procedures on the use of force.
Peres Magalhaes' ex-lover Brendan Banfield was indicted in September by a Fairfax County grand jury on four charges of aggravated murder and one charge of use of a firearm in the commission of a ...
Struck by fire likely caused by arson in 1828, it was heavily rebuilt using and incorporating the original walls. The courthouse was the scene of the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the man convicted in the Lindbergh kidnapping case in what became coined as "The Crime of the Century" and "The Trial of the Century" in popular media and folklore at the ...
The infamous Manhattan Well Murder became the first sensationalized US murder trial in 1800, and a new podcast finally focuses on the victim at its center: Elma Sands, a 22-year-old found dead at ...
The Fairfax Circuit Court of the 19th Judicial Circuit, [1] is a court of general jurisdiction, serving the County and City of Fairfax, Virginia, in the United States. It is the largest trial court in Virginia and handles both civil and criminal cases. The Court comprises fifteen full-time judges. [2] Fairfax Courthouse main entrance
Dominic Daley and James Halligan were convicted of the murder of Marcus Lyon, a farmer who was found beaten and shot near Wilbraham, Massachusetts on 5 November 1805. There was very little evidence against the two men and the consensus of historians is that they were innocent and were convicted largely due to anti-Irish bigotry; both were legally exonerated in 1984, over a century after their ...