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A life cut short by violence
Vigil honors Arizona girl slain by Everett woman
Date: 05/31/2012 | Local News
Woman calls 911 to report husband's death
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- The Clark County sheriff's office says deputies who responded to a 911 call from a woman who said she had murdered her husband found an adult man dead in the Vancouver, Wash.-area home.
Date: 05/30/2012 | Northwest
2 arrests, 1 sought in Shelton double killing
SHELTON, Wash. (AP) -- Police in Shelton have arrested two people in a double homicide but say they're still looking for a third person in the shooting.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Northwest
Man, 19, charged in ex-girlfriend's death
SEATTLE -- A 19-year-old Washington man accused of killing is 17-year-old ex-girlfriend, setting fire to her house and fleeing the state has been charged with first-degree murder and arson.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Northwest
Detectives investigating Puyallup double-killing
PUYALLUP -- The Pierce County Medical Examiner has identified two men found fatally shot at a home in Puyallup’s South Hill neighborhood.KOMO-TV reports that the victims were identified Tuesday as 36-year-old Jeffrey Poling and 32-year-old Travis Dennis.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Northwest
2 dead in Pierce County home
TACOMA -- Police are investigating the deaths of two men found with gunshot wounds in a Pierce County home.
Date: 05/29/2012 | Northwest
N.J. man charged with murdering boy in 1979
NEW YORK -- Thirty-three years to the day after 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished without a trace while walking to catch a school bus, a man accused of strangling him and dumping his body with the trash was arraigned on a murder charge on Friday in a locked hospital ward where he was being held as a...
Date: 05/25/2012 | Nation & World
Murder charges expected to be dropped in stabbing
EVERETT -- Murder charges against two women were expected to be dropped Friday while detectives continue to investigate last month's stabbing death of an Everett man.
Date: 05/25/2012 | Local News
Scherf’s trial for murder delayed to 2013
EVERETT -- The death penalty trial for an inmate accused of murdering Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl will not happen this year.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Local News
Everett homicide suspect arrested in Bellingham
BELLINGHAM -- A man wanted in connection with an Everett homicide was arrested after he was caught shoplifting about $239 in clothing from a Bellis Fair mall store, police said.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Local News
2 1/2 years for fatal wreck
Mother sentenced for drunken crash that killed son
Date: 05/24/2012 | Local News
Unabomber submits update to Harvard alumni book
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Harvard University's alumni association says it regrets including the Unabomber's references to his convictions in a directory for his 50th class reunion this week.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
Somali man charged with 4 murders in N.D.
FARGO, N.D. -- A Somali man charged in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old woman in northwest North Dakota is now accused of killing her mother, brother and the mother's boyfriend, who were found dead the same day in mobile home across town.
Date: 05/23/2012 | Nation & World
18 years for wife's killing
Man shot victim 8 times in their Lynnwood-area home
Date: 05/22/2012 | Local News
Mental health worker fatally stabbed in Oregon
ST. HELENS, Ore. -- A mental health worker has been stabbed to death while visiting a client in St. Helens.St. Helens Police Chief Steve Salle told The Oregonian that a man named Brent Redd called police at about 8 a.m. to report that Jennifer Warren had been stabbed.
Date: 05/20/2012 | Northwest
Skagit killer could move from hospital to prison
MOUNT VERNON -- A judge is expected to decide whether the gunman who killed a sheriff's deputy and five other people during a 2008 spree should be moved from a state psychiatric hospital to prison.
Date: 05/20/2012 | Northwest
Man gets 17 years in 1986 Spokane slaying
SPOKANE -- A 63-year-old man is now serving a prison sentence after his DNA was linked, years later, to a 1986 rape and murder of a Spokane woman.Spokane County Superior Court Judge Kathleen O'Connor sentenced Gary Trimble to just over 17 years in prison Friday.
Date: 05/19/2012 | Northwest
Spokane Valley man dies in N. Idaho
PLUMMER, Idaho -- Authorities say a Washington state man is dead and a northern Idaho man has been taken into custody.
Date: 05/19/2012 | Northwest
Man accused of killing beauty-school classmate on trial
WENATCHEE -- Mackenzie Cowell told her beauty school classmates she would be gone for 15 minutes just before she walked to her car and drove off. Four days later, police found her body miles away on the edge of the Columbia River.
Date: 05/19/2012 | Northwest
Charges in Shoreline shooting; suspect at large
SHORELINE -- King County has filed murder and attempted murder charges against a 20-year-old man suspected in a shooting earlier this week in Shoreline that killed a 17-year-old girl and critically wounded an 18-year-old man.
Date: 05/19/2012 | Northwest
Soldier faces murder charges in Iraq base deaths
SEATTLE -- Murder charges have been filed against a sergeant accused of killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in May 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, the Army said Friday.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Northwest
Man sentenced to 45 years for shooting death
EVERETT -- Brian Jones was executed and left to die in a cluttered south Everett apartment. His methamphetamine addiction led him to the apartment that morning on Jan. 2, 2011. It also put him in the path of Joshua Monson, an armed and violent meth addict.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Local News
Duncan faces review in Idaho torture, killing case
BOISE, Idaho -- A man convicted of killing children in Idaho and California and suspected in the deaths of two Washington girls has returned to U.S. District Court in Boise to prepare for a complicated review of part of his death penalty case.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Northwest
Parents of slain armored car guard file suit
TACOMA -- The parents of a Loomis armored car guard killed in June 2009 have sued Washington state, contending corrections officers didn't do enough to monitor the gunman.
Date: 05/17/2012 | Northwest
Missouri man charged in Minneapolis-area triple slaying
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. -- A Missouri man was charged Monday in the fatal shootings of a daycare provider and her elderly parents in their Minnesota home, where authorities believe he'd gone to find a teenager who had accused him of rape.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Nation & World
Idaho football player slain in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES -- Police detectives were working Monday to determine a motive and find the killer of a University of Idaho football player who was shot to death at a weekend party.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Northwest
Man convicted in Jennifer Hudson family slayings (video)
CHICAGO — A Chicago jury on Friday convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors' described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband.
Date: 05/11/2012 | Nation & World
Portland police link 3 deaths to 'I-5 killer'
PORTLAND, Ore. -- More than 30 years after her daughter’s death, Candee Wilson has confirmation of what she had always known.
Date: 05/10/2012 | Northwest
Police have DNA evidence in Spokane stabbing
SPOKANE -- Spokane police say they have DNA evidence that may identify the man who killed Sharlotte McGill on May 3 as she was walking her dog along the Spokane River.
Date: 05/10/2012 | Northwest
Arrest after man found dead in Tacoma alley
TACOMA -- Tacoma police have arrested a man in the death of another man found stabbed in an alley in the city’s Hilltop area.An anonymous tip directed police to the body at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday. The victim, believed to be in his 50s, was not immediately identified.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Northwest
Accused pencil-stabber guilty of murder
EVERETT -- Seconds after a Snohomish County jury convicted Joshua Monson of first-degree murder on Wednesday, corrections officers swiftly moved in to shackle his one free hand to a chair.Monson, 28, didn't resist.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Local News
High bail for 2 stabbing suspects
EVERETT -- A judge on Tuesday set high bail for two women accused of taking part in the fatal stabbing of an Everett man in what police believe is a drug robbery gone awry.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Local News
Rapper G. Dep gets 15 to life in 1993 NYC shooting
NEW YORK -- When rapper G. Dep turned himself in for a nearly two-decade-old shooting, he told police he wanted to clear his conscience.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Nation & World
Women held, man sought in Everett stabbing death
EVERETT -- A Bothell woman arrested Sunday is one of three suspects police are investigating in connection with what is believed to be a drug-related stabbing death in Everett last month.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Local News
Man's body found on park beach in Seattle
SEATTLE -- A jogger found a man's body Monday morning on the beach at Golden Gardens Park on Puget Sound in Seattle.Police say there's no sign of trauma or a crime but they're investigating the death as a homicide for now.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Northwest
Scherf stopped talking when told no snacks, he says
EVERETT -- An inmate accused of killing a Monroe corrections officer apparently wants people to blame staff at the Snohomish County Jail for his decision months ago to stop cooperating with police and prosecutors.
Date: 05/07/2012 | Local News
Everett police arrest suspect in fatal stabbing
EVERETT -- Police made an arrest early Sunday in connection with the stabbing death of Luis Verduzco, 23, of Everett.
Date: 05/06/2012 | Local News
Woman won't face death penalty in Everett killings
EVERETT -- An Oregon woman won't face the possibility of the death penalty for her alleged role in killing an Everett couple, Snohomish County Prosecutor Mark Roe said Friday.Holly Grigsby, 25, is charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Local News
Police search for suspect in fatal stabbing
SPOKANE -- Spokane police hunted Friday for a suspect in what they call a random attack in which a woman was stabbed to death as she walked her dog.Interim police chief Scott Stephens warned residents to be vigilant while the suspect remained on the run.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Northwest
5-year term for Vancouver heroin overdose death
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A woman who sold the heroin that killed a Vancouver man was sentenced Thursday to more than five years in prison.Brittany Sonnen of Vancouver had pleaded guilty to controlled-substance homicide in the overdose death last August of 24-year-old Adam Hurd.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Northwest
Lawyer in Afghan slayings case objects to background check
SEATTLE -- The lead civilian lawyer for a U.S. soldier accused of massacring 17 Afghan villagers in March doesn't want to undergo a background check.
Date: 05/03/2012 | Northwest
Woman stabbed to death in Spokane
SPOKANE -- A 55-year-old Spokane woman who was walking her dog was stabbed to death Thursday morning in what police say was a rare case of stranger violence.
Date: 05/03/2012 | Northwest
Feds seek death penalty in Somali yacht hijacking
NORFOLK, Va. -- Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against three Somalis charged with murder in the fatal shooting of four Americans aboard a hijacked yacht last year, according to a court document unsealed Tuesday.
Date: 05/01/2012 | Northwest
Husband arrested in wife's death in Dayton
WALLA WALLA -- Sheriff's deputies in Columbia County have arrested a 58-year-old man on investigation of second-degree murder in his wife's death.Suzanne Shuba was found dead of a gunshot wound Sunday night in their home in Dayton, about 30 miles northeast of Walla Walla.
Date: 05/01/2012 | Northwest
Susan Powell described family problems in emails
SALT LAKE, Utah -- Before she disappeared, Susan Powell told friends and co-workers her husband had become moody and controlling, and she feared he could harm her.
Date: 04/29/2012 | Northwest
Local veterans support accused soldier's family
TACOMA -- A local veterans group has been raising money to support the wife and children of Sgt. Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians.
Date: 04/29/2012 | Nation & World
Byron Scherf's wife of 24 years files for divorce
EVERETT -- The longtime wife of an inmate accused of killing a Monroe corrections officer has filed for divorce, saying that the marriage is "irretrievably broken."
Date: 04/28/2012 | Local News
Little known about Everett man found slain
EVERETT -- A man found slain in Everett this week had a warrant for his arrest.Luis Verduzco, 23, had a few brushes with the law, but little else is known about him.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Local News
County cleared in fatal weed-control conflict
VERLOT -- A federal judge has handed Snohomish County a big victory by throwing out a civil lawsuit filed in connection with a 2009 police shooting that left a Verlot man dead.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Local News
Murder trial begins for man accused of lawyer stabbings
EVERETT -- No lawyers were injured on Thursday as a murder trial got under way for an Everett man accused of stabbing three of his previous attorneys.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Local News
Body found near vacant home ID'd as Everett man
EVERETT -- A man found dead near a vacant home at 22 Madison St. in Everett on Tuesday has been identified as Luis Verduzco, 23, of Everett.Verduzco suffered a fatal stab wound, according to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office.
Date: 04/26/2012 | Local News
Homicide victim found at vacant Everett house
EVERETT -- Police on Wednesday were canvassing the View Ridge-Madison neighborhood in Everett after a man was found dead there the night before.A neighbor spotted the man on the ground outside a vacant house at 22 Madison St. He called 911 about 6:20 p.m.
Date: 04/25/2012 | Local News
North Bend man sought in deaths; 2 victims ID'd
NORTH BEND -- The King County medical examiner has released the names of the two women shot to death at a North Bend home on Sunday.Eighteen-year-old Kaylene Keller and 41-year-old Lynnettee Keller both died from gunshots to the head.
Date: 04/24/2012 | Northwest
Judge blocks move to suppress key Powell evidence
TACOMA -- A state judge on Tuesday cleared the way for the voyeurism trial of missing Utah mother Susan Powell's father-in-law, dismissing his request to suppress key evidence in the case.
Date: 04/24/2012 | Northwest
$1M bail for mental patient held in slaying
TACOMA -- A Western State Hospital mental patient accused of killing another patient by stabbing a pen into his ear has been ordered held on $1 million bail.
Date: 04/23/2012 | Northwest
Women found in house fire had been shot, officials say
SEATTLE -- Two women whose bodies were found in a fire at a home in Washington state had been shot to death, the medical examiner’s office said Monday.
Date: 04/23/2012 | Northwest
State mental patient accused of killing another
LAKEWOOD -- A 40-year-old mental patient at Western State Hospital is accused of killing another patient by stabbing a pen or pencil into his ear.Lakewood police said responders from West Pierce Fire & Rescue found a 28-year-old man dead in another patient's room Friday afternoon.
Date: 04/22/2012 | Northwest
Gang member charged in warehouse party killing
TACOMA -- A gang member has been charged with second degree murder in connection with the shooting death of a man last weekend at a Tacoma warehouse party.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Northwest
Report details how daughter was shot with officer’s gun
STANWOOD -- Derek Carlile heard a pop and then saw one of his daughters step out of the family van, saying something about a gun and her brother.
Date: 04/19/2012 | Local News
Charges filed in missing barista case
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The man suspected of kidnapping an 18-year-old Anchorage barista killed her less than a day after her abduction and then used her cell phone and debit card to demand and obtain ransom money, a federal prosecutor said.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Northwest
Investigation complete in death of officer’s daughter
STANWOOD -- Snohomish County sheriff's detectives have wrapped up their investigation into last month's shooting that took the life of a Marysville police officer's young daughter.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Local News
Army denies clemency in 2010 'thrill kill' case
SEATTLE -- The Army has denied early release for a soldier who tried to blow the whistle on a plot to kill Afghan civilians in 2010, only to later be convicted in the plot himself.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Northwest
Monroe woman's death still a mystery
MONROE -- Police want to talk to anyone who might have known a Monroe woman who was found slain in March.No arrests have been made in the death of Jacqueline A. Rothenbuhler, 59.
Date: 04/16/2012 | Local News
Scherf's video statement released in Biendl killing
EVERETT -- The video and audio recordings of an inmate admitting that he ambushed and killed Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl were released on Friday under state public records laws.
Date: 04/13/2012 | Local News
Zimmerman pursued Trayvon despite police warning (video)
SANFORD, Fla. — After weeks in hiding, George Zimmerman made his first courtroom appearance Thursday in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and prosecutors outlined their murder case in court papers, saying the neighborhood watch volunteer followed and confronted the black teenager...
Date: 04/13/2012 | Nation & World
Man, 64, arrested after wife fatally shot
HOODSPORT -- A Mason County sheriff's officer says a 64-year-old Hoodsport-area man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of his wife at their home.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Northwest
Coast Guard: 2 dead in shooting at Alaska station
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Two Coast Guard members were fatally shot Thursday at a communications station on an island off Alaska in what officials said appeared to be a double homicide. They said they have yet to identify a suspect.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Northwest
Pre-trial hearing in Wenatchee murder case
WENATCHEE -- A pretrial hearing beginning Thursday in Wenatchee will determine some of the evidence that may be entered in the murder trial of Christopher Scott Wilson.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Northwest
19-year-old slain at Toppenish-area home
YAKIMA -- Yakima County sheriff's detectives are investigating the shooting death of a 19-year-old man at a home near Toppenish.Deputies were called to the home Wednesday night and found the victim dead at the scene with a head wound.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Northwest
Man's body parts found in 2 locations in Seattle
SEATTLE -- Police say DNA testing has confirmed that body parts found in two locations in Seattle are from the same man, 53-year-old Donald Meyer, who was reported missing in June 2011.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Northwest
Investigation continues into girl’s fatal shooting in van
STANWOOD -- Snohomish County detectives continue to investigate the March 10 shooting death of 10-year-old Jenna Carlile.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Local News
Scherf pretrial hearing continued to next month
EVERETT -- Snohomish County Superior Court Judge George Appel agreed Wednesday to continue the rest of a pretrial hearing in Byron Scherf's death penalty case until early next month.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Local News
Prosecutors: Trayvon killer ignored warning to back off (video)
SANFORD, Fla. — After weeks in hiding, George Zimmerman made his first courtroom appearance Thursday in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and prosecutors outlined their murder case in court papers, saying the neighborhood watch volunteer followed and confronted the black teenager...
Date: 04/11/2012 | Nation & World
Charles Manson denied in possible final bid for parole
CORCORAN, Calif. -- A California prison panel denied parole Wednesday to mass murderer Charles Manson in his 12th and possibly final bid for freedom.Manson, now a gray-bearded, 77-year-old, did not attend the hearing.
Date: 04/11/2012 | Nation & World
Scherf’s confession played in court for judge
EVERETT -- Byron Scherf calmly sipped a cup of coffee and tried to explain to detectives what came over him the night he is accused of strangling Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl.
Date: 04/11/2012 | Local News
Man, 71, enters plea in wife's hatchet death
SEATTLE -- A 71-year-old Bellevue man accused of using a hatchet to kill his wife of 46 years has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. James Schumacher is charged in last month's death of his wife, Jean Schumacher. His plea was entered Tuesday.
Date: 04/10/2012 | Northwest
Warrant issued for Quincy murder suspect
QUINCY -- An arrest warrant has been issued in Grant County for a man wanted in the shooting death last fall of another man in Quincy. The shooting marked the third gang-related fatality in the community in nine months and prompted hundreds of residents to march against gang violence.
Date: 04/10/2012 | Northwest
Officers testify on first day of Scherf hearing
EVERETT -- For the first time in open court, Monroe corrections officers testified about their encounters with an inmate the night he allegedly strangled Jayme Biendl at her post in the prison chapel.
Date: 04/10/2012 | Local News
3 adults killed at Minn. day care; suspect sought
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. -- A mother who had a suspicious feeling after she dropped off her toddler at a home day care Monday returned to the house a few minutes later to make a grisly discovery: three adults inside, shot dead.
Date: 04/09/2012 | Nation & World
Jury selection to begin in rape case
SYCAMORE, Ill. -- Attorneys in the trial of a Seattle man suspected in the sexual assault of an Illinois teenager 50 years ago say they're ready for trial.
Date: 04/08/2012 | Northwest
Utah police likely had enough on Josh Powell, experts say
SEATTLE -- Recently released documents show the evidence against Josh Powell was mounting. The blood in the house. The midnight winter camping trip. A generator, gas can, tarps and shovel in his van.
Date: 04/08/2012 | Northwest
2 suspects arrested in Tulsa shooting spree
TULSA, Okla. — Acting on a tip and shadowed by a helicopter, police arrested two men early Sunday in the recent shootings that terrorized Tulsa's black community and left three people dead and two others critically wounded.
Date: 04/07/2012 | Nation & World
Murder defendant to be restrained during trial
EVERETT -- An Everett man accused of stabbing three attorneys with pencils will be trussed up with leather cuffs and belts and restrained to a chair during his murder trial.
Date: 04/07/2012 | Local News
Drunken drivers who kill face longer prison terms
After she signed the bill, Gov. Chris Gregoire stood up to give Carol Blair a hug and hand her the pen she used to turn a quest for justice into law.The Tacoma woman held a large poster of her daughter by her side.For Frank Blair, Carol's husband, it was a poignant moment.
Date: 04/06/2012 | Local News
Lynnwood man pleads not guilty to wife's murder
SEATTLE -- The husband of a Lynnwood woman who was strangled in 2006 made a brief court appearance Wednesday in King County Superior Court.
Date: 04/05/2012 | Local News
County weed inspector under scrutiny in lawsuit
VERLOT -- More than one manager raised concerns about an apparent lack of oversight for a Snohomish County weed inspector, whose fellow co-workers reportedly nicknamed him "Little Hitler" because of his temper, according to court documents recently filed as part of a federal lawsuit.
Date: 04/03/2012 | Local News
Tacoma mother says she killed her 2-year-old
TACOMA -- A Tacoma woman who called police Friday and said she killed her son has been jailed for investigation of murder.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Northwest
Blood found at Utah home from man's missing wife
TACOMA — Authorities investigating the 2009 disappearance of a Utah woman found her blood in the family home and a hand-written note in which she expressed fear about her husband and her potential demise, according to documents unsealed Friday.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Northwest
Somali man gets life sentence for yacht hijacking
NORFOLK, Va. -- A Somali man has received a life sentence for his role in the hijacking of an American yacht.A federal judge in Norfolk, Va., sentenced Said Abdi Fooley on Friday. He had pleaded guilty to piracy, which carries a mandatory life term.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Northwest
Man gets life without parole for Pasco murder
PASCO -- A 33-year-old Pasco man was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole in the stabbing death of his girlfriend.Gregorio Luna Luna was convicted of aggravated murder last month in Franklin County for the death of 21-year-old Griselda Ocampo Meza.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Northwest
Video raises doubts about Trayvon gunman's story (video)
MIAMI — Newly released police video of a handcuffed George Zimmerman may be important for what it doesn't show: No obvious cuts, scrapes, blood or bandages. No clearly broken nose. No plainly visible evidence of a life-and-death struggle with Trayvon Martin.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Nation & World
Vehicular homicide charge in Seattle fatality
SEATTLE -- The King County prosecutor's office filed vehicular homicide and reckless endangerment charges Wednesday against a Covington woman accused of driving the wrong way on Interstate 5 and causing a crash that killed a passenger in her car.
Date: 03/29/2012 | Northwest
New judge keeps schedule for Scherf hearings
EVERETT -- A Snohomish County Superior Court judge on Wednesday declined to reschedule hearings to decide whether a jury will hear the alleged confession of an inmate accused of strangling Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl.
Date: 03/29/2012 | Local News
Argument over rent led to slaying, say prosecutors
EVERETT -- An Arlington woman may have been strangled and later set on fire all because she asked a tenant for overdue rent.
Date: 03/28/2012 | Local News
Sentence in Idaho road rage death
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- A man convicted of running over a northern Idaho woman during a 2006 road rage confrontation has been given a reduced prison sentence.Jonathan W. Ellington was ordered Monday to serve up to 18 years in prison for second-degree murder.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Northwest
Plea in death of man who tried to break up party
SPOKANE -- An 18-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge in the death of a 65-year-old Spokane-area man who tried to break up an underage drinking party.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Northwest
Bellevue man charged with killing wife
BELLEVUE -- Prosecutors say a 71-year-old Bellevue man used a hatchet to kill his wife of 46 years before reporting her death to police two days later.James Schumacher was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder. He remains in King County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Northwest
Not guilty plea in Vancouver in 'mercy killing'
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A Vancouver man who says he shot his roommate in the head to put him out of his misery after an accidental shooting pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court to a first-degree murder charge.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Northwest
Tacoma murder suspect charged; victim dismembered
TACOMA -- The victim in a Tacoma homicide had been dismembered, and the head and legs were in separate bags when the body was discovered in the bedroom of a home.
Date: 03/26/2012 | Northwest
Iraqi woman severely beaten in Calif. home dies
EL CAJON, Calif. -- A 32-year-old woman from Iraq who was found severely beaten next to a threatening note saying "go back to your country" died on Saturday.
Date: 03/24/2012 | Nation & World
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