BOSTON -- An Easton teenager arrested in connection with the death of his mother this week showed up at his girlfriend's house Wednesday, broke down in tears and told her mother 'I did something bad,' according to an Easton Police Department report.
Matthew Worster, 17, has been ordered held on $500,000 bail, charged in connection with the death of his mother, Beth Spartichino, 42, whose body was found buried in a grave behind her house at 7 Union St. on Thursday.
Worster was arraigned on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and intent to murder in connection with the missing person case.
His attorney, Joe Krowski Jr., entered a not guilty plea on his behalf saying there was little evidence tying him to the crime.
Worster's parents had just gone through a bitter divorce before she was slain.
Denise Desmond, 46, the mother of Worcester's girlfriend, told police her teenage daughter called her from school that morning asking to be let out of school immediately. Desmond said when she arrived home later that afternoon, Worster was sitting with her daughter at their kitchen table.
"Denise stated that Matthew appeared to be distraught and crying. Denise and Matthew then had a conversation. Matthew stated to Denise, 'I needed to do what I needed to do,'" according to the police report.
"I needed to save my brothers," Worster told Desmond, according to the police report.
"Denise went on to describe that Matthew stated, 'I did something bad,'" the police report said. After that, Desmond said, Worster called his father, Michael, who urged him to turn himself in.
Police arrested Worster Thursday morning when he returned to his parents' homes, which are located next door to each other on Union Street.
Members of the Manchester Police S.W.A.T. team gather behind their armored vehicle Friday afternoon as they arrive at the scene of a stand-off that police say developed after a man brandished a gun when they went to his apartment to check on the welfare of a child Thursday night.
MANCHESTER --The man involved in a three-day standoff with police on the city's West Side was shot and killed early this morning.
The 7-year-old girl, who was in the 298 Main St. apartment with the man, was not injured in the gunfire nor were police officers, according to a press release from the Attorney General's Office.
The child's mother works at his restaurant, Joe Kelly Lavasseur said.
The Attorney General's Office this morning assumed control of operations, and many of the city and state police left the scene.
All but the street behind the apartment building were open by police this morning , including Main Street, where the Department of Safety's Division of Emergency Services Incident Management Unit was parked near the apartment building.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin arrived around 9 a.m. and went into the apartment building with state and city officers.
When he left the scene about 45 minutes later, Strelzin said more information would be released this afternoon and a press conference would be held later today. He said authorities are still trying to figure out what happened.
Levasseur said his employee, Laura Gardner, has been in a relationship with the man in the apartment, Jim Breton. He said Breton and Gardner have a 7-year-old daughter together and live at the Main Street address. Gardner has an older daughter, about 17 years old.
Gardner had the couple's 7-year-old girl with her at Levasseur's restaurant, Theo's, on Thursday, when Breton came and took her away, Levasseur said.
The standoff began Thursday and continued through early this morning. Authorities said the man displayed a firearm when they went to his first-floor apartment in connection with concerns about a child.
HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (WXYZ) - A Highland Park woman and her husband have been charged with premeditated murder in connection with the death of her young nephew. They were arraigned Thursday at 11:30 a.m.
Matilda Brown Gardner and her husband Randy Gardner are both being charged with first degree murder, felony murder and child abuse for the starvation death of four year old Robert Byrd.
A jury of family members blasted them as they showed up to court.
Matilda Brown Gardner shook her head no as she and her husband were charged with the murder of 4-year-old Robert Byrd.
Afterward nearly a dozen of Matilda’s closest relatives disowned her. “If you didn’t want the baby why didn’t you give him to nobody in the family. I could have even took the baby. You’re rude, you all is rude and I hope you die in jail. Both you all” said Denise Brown, Matilda’s cousin.
Matilda's uncle said "as I look at my niece in the courtroom, a whole lotta things went through my head and one of them was how could you be that sick to kill your own blood."
The boy was left in the Gardener's care in 2007 when his mother, who was Matilda's sister, died.
Robert weighed twenty-four pounds when he died. For his age he should have weighed at least forty. The Wayne County Medical Examiner says he died of starvation and neglect.
Prosecutor Kym Worthy says this case ranks "right up there with the worst we've ever seen."
Robert's body was found on the couple's kitchen floor in Highland Park early Mother's Day.
Robert and his older brother had been living with his aunt, her husband and their kids since their mother passed away a few years ago.
If convicted, the Gardners face life in prison without parole.
A woman who could have gone on to win the Miss USA title has been charged with identity theft.
Shaletta Porterfield won the Miss Wisconsin USA competition this year and automatically qualified to take part in the national competition which is being held in Las Vegas next month.
However, her dreams of winning the title have been shattered after she was charged by police in Dane County last month with three counts of misappropriating identity information to obtain more money.
Porterfield, 26, has now been forced to pull out of the competition and has resigned from her current title.
According to police she is alleged to have faked the signatures of three business owners while working at a marketing company.
All three companies became suspicious and called police after they were contacted and asked to proof adverts they had not agreed to buy.
Porterfield's attorney Robert Nagel said she was under extreme pressure to achieve goals and added that 'she has a lot going for her, and she's ready to move on.' to jail?
She has pleaded not guilty and will appear before a court in July.
First runner up of the Miss Wisconsin USA competition Jordan Marie Morkin, of Green Bay, will now take part in the Miss USA pageant.
The title is not to be confused with Miss Wisconsin who will go on to take part in Miss America.
(01-25-2011, 05:02 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: a very fucked up guy.
frankly, the entire lot is fucked up. it's a sad tale.
Boston Herald
The older brother of Olympic figure skating sweetheart Nancy Kerrigan will stand trial for killing their father during a domestic dustup last year over harassing phone calls and text messages made to a cousin’s wife, a judge has ruled.
Middlesex Superior Court Judge John T. Lu has thrown out Mark Kerrigan’s petition that the manslaughter charge he faces be dismissed for lack of evidence. Lu concluded in a 16-page decision that “Mr. Kerrigan’s conduct was both intentional and highly likely to cause substantial harm.”
Mark Kerrigan, 46, is free on bail and living in Stoneham with Brenda Kerrigan, his legally blind, widowed mother who witnessed the fatal fracas over control of a telephone. His trial is scheduled to begin April 29.
Daniel Kerrigan, 70, who suffered from heart disease, died one year ago yesterday as his allegedly drunken son throttled him in their kitchen, according to authorities. A state medical examiner ruled Daniel Kerrigan had a fracture to his larynx, but died of a heart attack that the coroner said was triggered by the brawl.
According to Lu’s memorandum, on the night before his father died, Jan. 23, 2010, Mark Kerrigan made 21 calls to his cousin’s wife in the span of little more than an hour after he and the woman spent the day horseback riding, and she called the cops on him after he later tried to stop her from leaving the Kerrigan home, according to court documents. By 3 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2010, Lu said the woman had 56 text messages and seven voicemails from Mark Kerrigan on her cell phone.
Boston Globe 5⁄16
Daniel Kerrigan was "pushed and shoved" by a son who was "drunk, angry, abusive, argumentative and physically violent," a prosecutor said today in an opening statement at the trial of the son, Mark Kerrigan, on a manslaughter charge.
Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Keeley outlined the prosecution's case at the start of Kerrigan's trial.
Attorney Janice Bassil, previewing the defense case, said Kerrigan "loved his father" and that his father was a "very sick man."
"They want someone to blame," Bassil said. "Sometimes things just happen."
Daniel Kerrigan, 70, died after a confrontation with his son in January 2010 at the Kerrigans' Stoneham home. Mark Kerrigan's defense team has argued that the father died of a preexisting heart condition. The family has stood behind the son.
It was not clear if former Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan would be called to testify in the case. Kerrigan, who was in the courtroom today during the proceedings, said during a break that "no one asked me to testify." Prosecutors said they didn't plan to call her, but defense attorneys declined to say what they planned to do.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- The mother of a 6-week-old baby was arrested Sunday evening and accused of trying to stab her baby to death.
Deputies with the Kern County Sheriff's Department said that around 6:50 p.m., they were sent to a home in the 1300 block of Crawford Street regarding a situation involving an infant child.
Deputies said they found a 6-week-old infant with numerous stab wounds.
The baby was transported to Kern Medical Center and later transferred to Children's Hospital of Central California.
The infant was listed in stable condition.
The victims’ mother, Danielle Mailloux, 24, was arrested and booked into the Kern County Sheriff's Central Receiving Facility on charges of attempted murder.
The 70-year-old father of Olympic silver-medalist ice skater Nancy Kerrigan wasn’t the “type to tell you anything,” testified neighbor Douglas Meahal.
He didn’t tell his family that he had heart disease, clogged arteries, high cholesterol and high blood pressure, testified his sister Jane Bergeron.
“Daniel Kerrigan was a very, very sick man. No one knew it. Maybe he knew it, but he didn’t share it with anyone,” defense attorney Janice Bassil said.
And most people didn’t know that behind the manicured lawn and neat country kitchen, his son Mark was living in the basement, drinking Scotch and spitting chewing tobacco in Poland Springs bottles.
Until now.
Prosecutors say that during an argument Jan. 24, 2010, Mark Kerrigan grabbed his father by the throat so hard he crushed the cartilage in the left side of his larynx, and that pushing and shoving caused Daniel to go into cardiac dysrhythmia and die on the kitchen floor of his Stoneham Cape.
“Daniel Kerrigan spent the last few minutes of his conscious life fighting off his drunk 45-year-old son,” said Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Keeley in her opening statements at Middlesex Superior Court yesterday.
Team Kerrigan — sitting squarely behind the defendant — remained stoic. His sister Nancy comforted their mother Brenda, who dabbed at her eyes. Nancy’s husband Jerry Solomon, Dan’s sister Jane and a dozen or more family and friends were there, too, all supporting Mark and bracing themselves for what came next.
The 911 call was played: “(Expletive) piece of (expletive),” Mark screams in the background as his mother, Brenda says,“Get away from him.”
“Is he breathing?” Brenda cries.
“How the hell should I know?” Mark yells.
The family sat through testimony from Stoneham police officer Jonathan Mahoney, who told the court it took three officers to subdue the younger Kerrigan, who had retreated to the basement to hide his bottle of Scotch.
They listened as paramedic Joseph Amello described intubating Daniel and how his ribs were broken after they attempted CPR. They bowed their heads when Amello recalled a drunken Mark at the police station, a Mark who vomited on the floor and wouldn’t follow simple commands.
“Oh my God,” Brenda cries in the emergency call. “I hope he’s not dead.”
That night didn’t just end Daniel Kerrigan’s life. Anyone sitting in the Woburn courtroom yesterday knew it also destroyed the perfect family portrait he had worked so hard to present to the world.
ORANGE COUNTY Fla.--
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The murder trial is set to begin Monday for the estranged daughter of actor Billy Bob Thornton.
Prosecutors said Amanda Brumfield, a mother of three, was watching a friend's child in Orange County in 2009 when the 1-year-old girl fell, hit her head and died.
The medical examiner said bruises were found on the child's head, and says the child's skull was also fractured.
According to investigators, Brumfield didn't get immediate medical attention when the girl got hurt.
She's charged with first degree murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter.
Thornton's publicist has said the actor hasn't spoken to Brumfield for a number of years.
Boston Herald
WOBURN — The brother of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was acquitted today of manslaughter in the death of their 70-year-old father by a jury that apparently agreed with his defense that the elder man died of heart disease, not from a scuffle between the two.
Mark Kerrigan, 46, was convicted, though, of a misdemeanor assault and battery charge in a January 2010 altercation with Daniel Kerrigan at the family’s home in Stoneham, just north of Boston.
i'm sickened by this. he may do 2 years. the vicious mean drunk killed his father as sure as hell, and the mother and crybaby twat nancy kerrigan defend him. they'll be next if he goes back to live in their basement.
An Atlanta woman suspected of being the "Grandma Bandit" died Friday morning after being shot multiple times at the end of a police chase on North Druid Hill Road, DeKalb police said.
The woman, identified in an arrest warrant as Roxanne Taylor, 58, of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Atlanta, was spotted in the drive-through at a Wendy's on Piedmont Road by someone who noticed that she matched the description of the bandit who has robbed several metro area drugstores in the past two weeks.
The person notified Atlanta police, who attempted to stop the woman after she left the drive-through, DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said. The woman fled, leading police on a chase up Interstate 85 northbound in a gold Jeep Liberty. She was involved in a minor traffic accident after exiting at North Druid Hills Road, Parish said.
At that point, the police officers who had been pursuing her heard a single gunshot, and they returned fire, hitting Taylor multiple times, Parish said. Neither of the officers was injured.
Witnesses at the shooting scene could see two bullet holes in the windshield and in a small window toward the rear on the driver's side of the Jeep. Also, the driver's side window was blown out and part of the driver's side rear seat window was shattered.
The so-called "Grandma Bandit" was wanted in a series of robberies at metro drugstores; she had been described as driving a tan or gold Jeep Liberty.
Since May 14, police have been searching for the woman, who was captured on surveillance video wearing a black University of Georgia ball cap; she was suspected of robbing four pharmacies in two weeks, most recently Tuesday at the Rite Aid pharmacy on Howell Mill Road.
She was also accused in similar crimes May 12, May 14 and May 20, when a woman matching her description pointed a gun at employees at a pharmacy on North Druid Hills Road and demanded cash, DeKalb County police said last week.
hahahahaha:
Greetings,
Positive identification has been made on the person involved in todays incident on North Druid Hills. After further investigation detectives have determined the person believed to be a female suspect in fact is a male.
now THAT'S evidence! :O
i guess there was no attempt to re-attach.
Arab Times
Bangladesh woman takes 'attacker's' penis to police
DHAKA, May 30, 2011 (AFP) -A 40-year-old Bangladeshi woman cut off a man's penis during an alleged attempted rape and took it to a police station as evidence, police in a remote part of Bangladesh said Monday.
The woman, a married mother of three, was attacked while she was sleeping in her shanty in Jhalakathi district, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) south of Dhaka, on Saturday night, officers said.
"As he tried to rape her, the lady cut his penis off with a knife. She then wrapped up the penis in a piece of polythene and brought it to the Jhalakathi police station as evidence of the crime," police chief Abul Khaer told AFP.
The woman has filed a case accusing the man -- who is also 40 and a married father of five -- of attempted rape, saying that he had been harassing her for six months.
The severed penis has been kept at the police station and the rape suspect was undergoing treatment in hospital.
"We shall arrest him once his condition gets better," Khaer added.
edit to add: Speaking from hospital, Mr Mazi told the BBC he had been having an affair with the woman, who was his neighbour.
'We were having an affair and recently she suggested that both of us can go and settle down in Dhaka,' he said.
'I refused and told her that I cannot leave my wife and children, so she took revenge on me.'
Surgeons later tried to reattach the penis but they were unable to do so because several hours had passed.
i saw that story a few days ago...it's positively an embarrassment for Sheriff Judd. some people manage to get into law enforcement who have er...."issues"...and it can be tough to weed them out until they expose themselves. ick.
So true! I figure just another weak woman giving her perv BF what he wants and probably made money off of. If she's into that sort of thing then she should couldn't have been more stupid.
Well, I saw another article and she does happen to be a freak fo' realz! She has a spanking fetish and met her BF that she sent the cell phone vids to at SpankFinders.com! Go figure! It just goes to show you that you never know a person you are working with or sometime even a personal friend.
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A Hawthorne man found dead inside his home Thursday morning was murdered by his adult daughter who was assisted by her mother, according to the Alachua County Sheriff's Office. The likely motive was money, deputies said, and the weapon used to kill the man while he slept was a pickax.
William Arnold Hudnall, 51, was found dead inside the home he had been renovating at 22118 SE 71st Ave. in Hawthorne.
Investigators said the death was reported by the women charged with killing him, his estranged wife Stephanie Lynn Hudnall, 41, and the couple's adult daughter, Guenevere Lynn Hudnall, 19. Both women had been living at 6787 Gilda Court in Keystone Heights with another family member, William and Stephanie's 12-year-old daughter. Deputies said William and Stephanie's adult son has been serving with the U.S. military overseas and is on his way back to the Florida.
Sheriff's Detective Sandra Myers said Stephanie and Guenevere were unemployed and their mobile home was being foreclosed on. In interviews with the women, Myers said investigators determined they had previously discussed receiving Social Security benefits if William died and that Guenevere was willing to kill William if Stephanie would drive her to his home.
The women told investigators they arrived at William's home at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. After talking to William, Stephanie left at about 8:15 p.m. to return to Keystone Heights while Guenevere remained at William's home.
According to Myers' report, once William had gone to sleep, Guenevere went into the back enclosed porch of his home, picked up a pickax and carried it to William's bedroom. Myers said Guenevere used to the pickax to hit her father in the head and chest several times.
“The victim (William) continued to make noise so she (Guenevere) struck him with the axe until he was quiet to make sure he was dead,” Myers wrote in an arrest report.
To make the murder appear to be a part of a break-in, Guenevere threw mail on the living room floor, investigators said. Then she took a truck key from William's key ring, walked out the front door of his home, and drove back to her mother's home in Keystone Heights. The two women worked together to destroy some of the evidence from the crime scene, according to investigators.
Myers said Stephanie and Guenevere drove back to William's home on Thursday morning and called the Sheriff's Office to report finding him dead in his bed.
Following interviews with detectives, Guenevere and Stephanie were arrested late Friday and each charged with one count of premeditated murder. The women were being held at the Alachua County jail on Saturday.
The two women made their first court appearance Saturday morning via video. A judge set their bail at $1 million each with the conditions that they have no contact with each other and possess no weapons.
i remember this old bat, she probably DID kill 5 pesky inconvenient husbands.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – An elderly grandmother who left a trail of five dead husbands in five states over decades has died in Louisiana after an illness, her son-in-law said Monday.
Terry Sanders said Betty Neumar died in a hospital in Louisiana. Stanly County, N.C., Sheriff Rick Burris said authorities are looking into her death.
"We're going to make sure we examine the death certificate," Burris said.
The 79-year-old was facing three counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder. She was accused of trying to hire someone to kill her fourth husband, Harold Gentry, in the weeks before his death in 1986.
Neumar was arrested in 2008 and released on a $300,000 bond. She had been living in Augusta, Ga., where she moved after Gentry's death. She also spent time with Sanders and his wife, Peggy, in Ocala, Fla. Her trial was postponed numerous times since her arrest.
Authorities discovered Neumar had been married five times since the 1950s, and each union ended with her husband's death. Investigators in three states reopened several of the cases, but have since closed them.
"She was tough country girl and fought through a lot of pain," said Sanders, who has been married 38 years to Neumar's daughter.
He said he didn't know about funeral arrangements. "I'm not sure where she's going to be buried. Peggy and (her sister) Kelli, are taking care of all that."
But the latest development was bittersweet to Gentry's brother, Al Gentry of Albermarle, N.C.
For two decades, Al Gentry had pressed investigators in vain to re-examine his brother's death. The case was finally reopened in January, 2008, after he asked Burris, then the newly elected sheriff, to look into it.
"I'm numb," said Al Gentry, one of eight siblings who grew up in rural North Carolina. "I wanted justice and we're not going to get it."
...not sure if this is the right one to post this in but I couldnt fit it anywhere else and theres not enough info for it to be on its own..
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) -- A teenager was shot and killed after attending a party in Moreno Valley on Sunday.
Chelsia Joyce, 17, was shot as she sat in a car in front of a home on Bay Avenue.
Joyce and friends managed to drive less than half mile before stopping in front of Tanya Rayfield's home.
"Suddenly we hear a woman screaming, 'Help me,' and she just repeated it over and over again at the top of her lungs. At that point I called the police," Rayfield said.
Deputies arrived within minutes and found Joyce sitting in a car with a single gunshot wound. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she later died.
A memorial of flowers, candles and signs are displayed along the sidewalk where her life was cut short. A vigil was held for the teen Sunday evening.
On Monday, friends stopped by to leave mementos and mourn the teen. Sherry Walker went by to offer her prayers.
"I try to go around and pray for a lot of our youth that's out here, that's kind of going through the things they going through," Walker said. "Our youth out here is leaving us."
Joyce's family and friends said that they were too distraught to comment on her sudden death.
Residents said they were in disbelief. Ashtin Bryant was two streets away when she heard gunshots.
"I don't know exactly how many it was," Bryant said. "I was coming outside helping my friend get her stuff out the car and I just heard gunshots."
Left over cans littered the front yard of the home where Joyce had attended a party with friends. Neighbors said the home was packed with young people.
"There was a couple hundred people here," neighbor Jeremy Adammichia said. "I only heard three or four shots. I asked someone what happened, he just said someone let off."
DURHAM -- A Durham man shot and killed three of his friends in bursts of gunfire inside a car along an empty stretch of Research Triangle Park, authorities disclosed Sunday, leaving behind stricken families and friends, and lots of questions.
He then killed himself, authorities said.
The alleged shooter and victims were all in their 20s - some had apparently been friends in high school - and deputies said they believe they know what's behind the killings, which were carried out late Friday and discovered early Saturday on N.C. 54.
But they would not elaborate, other than to say that drugs or gangs were not the reasons.
"We are not saying right now," Durham sheriff's Lt. Stan Harris said. "We are still conducting some interviews. We have families who are grieving. We are not going to get into it right now."
Durham County Sheriff Worth Hill called what happened a triple murder and then suicide, and also said he could not discuss his office's theory of what happened.
"He shot them, then shot himself," the sheriff said, declining to answer other questions.
The shooter was identified as Brinton Marcell Millsap, 23, of Mellon Court in Durham.
The victims:
♦Alexandria J. Baker Pierce, 23, of Oriole Drive in Durham.
♦Amesha Alia Page-Smith, 24, of Roane Street in Durham.
♦Adrianne Celeste Stevens, 22, of Buffalo Way in Durham.
Authorities said that Millsap did not have an extensive criminal record. Court documents show that he was charged last year with carrying a concealed weapon and resisting an officer, both at the misdemeanor level.
A close friend of his, La'Teish Breeden, said that none of the people involved was in "street" life.
"They weren't troublemakers - they went to church, they were family-oriented people," Breeden said. "All of us are in the same boat: We can't understand why."
She said Millsap attended Southern High School in Durham several years ago with both Page-Smith and Stevens.
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