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Man killed by stranger he bumped into on NYC sidewalk, police say
Police say an accidental bump between strangers on a Manhattan sidewalk cost a 63-year-old man his life back in April. Uncovered surveillance video from the area now proves what was believed to be an accidental death, was actually murder, according to law enforcement. Officers found 63-year-old Charles Cunningham lying on the sidewalk near death at the corner of 5th Avenue…
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Man killed by stranger he bumped into on NYC sidewalk, police say
Police say an accidental bump between strangers on a sidewalk cost a 63-year-old man his life. 4’s Ida Siegal reports.
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Joran van der Sloot transferred to US custody
Van der Sloot is the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway.
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NYC Man Arrested for Murders of Reported Girlfriend, Ex-Wife Weeks Apart
A Brooklyn man wanted in connection to two separate murders of women in Williamsburg and Schenectady has been arrested after a multi-state manhunt. Timothy Taylor, 35, was picked up by the U.S. Marshals Service nearly 100 miles from New York City, where he’s accused of killing Theresa Gregg back on May 13. The 37-year-old woman was found unconscious inside the…
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Ex-NYPD Officer, Lawyer Convicted of 2018 Montclair Murder
Angela Bledsoe was murdered in Oct. 2018 by the father of her then 6-year-old girl.
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Ex-NYPD Cop Captured After Fleeing to Cuba Found Guilty of Murdering NJ Mom
A lawyer and former officer with the NYPD was convicted of killing the mother of his 6-year-old daughter at their suburban New Jersey home five years ago before fleeing the country for Cuba. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said a jury sat for a six-week trial and deliberated just three hours before finding James Ray III guilty for the...
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Mother's Day NYC Cold Case Murders
Detectives can’t quite crack a pair of cold case murders around Mother’s Day 2018. News 4’s Marc Santia reports.
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Baffling Mother's Day Killings in Brooklyn Go Unsolved for 5 Years
Two days before Mother’s Day in 2018, 62-year-old Ana del Valle was found dead inside the Brooklyn apartment she shared with her daughter. A few days later, her neighbor next door was discovered shot to death inside his apartment. Detectives with the NYPD know the murders are connected, but in the five years since the killings they have not been…
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Poughkeepsie Marriott Gunman Found Guilty of Killing Long Island Father
Roy Johnson, one of the two men charged in the deadly Marriott hotel shooting of a Long Island father visiting Poughkeepsie for a college family weekend last fall, was found guilty Friday of second-degree murder. A Dutchess County jury found Johnson guilty of the murder charge, in addition to a number of weapon charges and reckless endangerment, the county...
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Man Accused of Murdering Mom of 3 in Manhattan Apartment — While Kids Were Home
A 36-year-old man has been indicted for allegedly murdering the mother of his children in her Manhattan apartment — while the kids were home — in a harrowing gun case last month, prosecutors say. Carmelo Castillo lived with the victim, 32-year-old Marisol Duran, their two children and Duran’s third child by another individual in an East Harlem apartment, court documents…
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Man Charged With Murder in 31-Year-Old Cold Case Killing Of Queens Teen: DA
A Virginia man was indicted and arraigned Monday on a murder charge for the 1992 death of a 15-year-old girl who was found naked and strangled in her Queens home, the local district attorney’s office announced. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that Jerry Lewis, 58, of Shawsville, Virginia, was arraigned for second-degree murder in connection to the 31-year-old cold…
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Stepmother Sentenced to 25 to Life in Valva Freezing Death
There was grim applause after a judge delivered a scathing rebuke and hard time to Angela Pollina for causing the cruel, painful death of 8-year-old stepson Thomas Valva. Prosecutors called her crime a “horror movie,” while the judge called Pollina “evil” before sentencing her to 25 years to life. Greg Cergol reports.
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Stepmom Gets Maximum Sentence in Boy's Freezing Death
Angela Pollina was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Tuesday in the January 2020 freezing death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva.
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‘Wicked Stepmother' Gets 25 to Life in Prison for Long Island Boy's Freezing Murder
The “wanton, evil and cruel” Long Island stepmother, as prosecutors portrayed her, convicted by a jury last month of murder in the death of 8-year-old Thomas Valva received a maximum sentence Tuesday of 25 years to life in prison “My only regret is they don’t have a garage there, with no heat, no mattress and no blankets…where you could...
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2nd Suspect Charged in Deadly Bar Druggings
Senior police officials said a second man is in custody for the death of John Umberger after turning himself into police. News 4’s Romney Smith reports.
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Appeals Court Overturns Queens Man's Murder Conviction From 30 Years Ago
DNA evidence proved that a Queens man did not commit a murder 30 years ago, but it has taken one of New York’s highest courts to overturn his conviction. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace, who has covered the case for years, talked with the man about his latest court victory.
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Florida Doctor Charged With Murder in Lawyer's Disappearance
A Tampa-area plastic surgeon has been charged with murder, accused of killing a lawyer missing since last week from a firm that represents former co-workers the doctor has been suing in a business dispute.
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Minnesota Man Who Fatally Stabbed Wife During Bible Study Charged with Second-Degree Murder
A Minnesota man has charged with second-degree murder, accused of fatally stabbing his wife during a Bible study session.
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Boyfriend Charged in Murder of NYC Woman Found Dead in Her Bed: Cops
The boyfriend of a Bronx woman found dead in her bed this week has been arrested on murder charges, police announced. Jeremy Cortorreal was arrested Thursday, one day after Lissette Gomez was discovered dead inside her apartment on Cauldwell Avenue, according to the NYPD. She was discovered around 12:45 p.m. The 38-year-old woman was found “with trauma to her face…
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Boyfriend Charged in Murder of Bronx Woman Found Dead in Her Bed
Investigators haven’t shared how the woman died, only saying that she suffered brutal injuries to her neck and face.