Homicide

Mississippi Highway Killer May Be Dressed As Cop, Ready To Strike Again

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Murder, Video, Mississippi, Homicide, Mississippi Highway Killer, Scott A. Bonn, Scott Bonn, Crime, Crime News, Highway Killer, Mississippi Crime, Fbi, Dennis Rader, Slideexpand, Serial Killers, BTK Killer, Crime News

The person who shot two people to death along Mississippi highways possibly while dressed as a police officer is likely a meticulous and organized kil...

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Baby Found In Road Leads Massachusetts Police To Gruesome Crime Scene

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Crime News, Crime, Massachusetts Crime, Yannetee Rivera, Worcester, Drugs, Murder, Video, Homicide, Javier Maldonado Murder, Javier Maldonado, Nestor Ramirez Murder, Massachusetts, Nestor Ramirez, Crime News

A baby found in a car seat in the middle of a Massachusetts street recently led police to a grisly crime scene. The events leading up to the shocki...

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Common Law Has Potential

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: The USA Network, Couples Counseling, Sonya Walger, Michael Ealy, Common Law Show, Homicide, Common Law, TV News

Common Law shows promise but it had better hit its stride and do it quickly. Chemistry is everything -- these people better get in the lab and start brewing it up.

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Fleeing Murder Suspect Dove In Front Of Train, Police Say

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Daniel Bennett, Crime News, Crime, Julie Cherubini, Suicide, New York, Murder, Video, John Livingood, Pennsylvania, Thomas W. Borden, Homicide, Thomas Borden, Crime News

Police say the prime suspect in the shooting death of a New York man killed himself by jumping in front of a train in southeast Pennsylvania. "It's...

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Murder Aside, China Inquiry Puts Couple’s Wealth on Trial

The New York Times | ANDREW JACOBS and MICHAEL WINES | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Corruption, Gu Wangning, Bo Xiyong, Chongqing, Homicide, Gu Wangjiang, Li Xueming, Gu Kailai, Bo Guangua, Bo Xilai, Steven Tsang, Neil Heywood, China Everbright Holdings, World News

What began as a scandal involving the mysterious death of Neil Heywood, the British businessman whose body was found in November in a Chongqing hotel ...

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World's Deadliest Wealthy Countries

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Murder, Homicide, Incarceration, Crime, Gun Control, United States, Oecd, Guns, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Trayvon Martin, Chile, Turkey, Estonia, Mexico, World News

America's homicide rates, incarceration rates and gun ownership rates are all much higher than other wealthy countries. While the data associated with crime is imperfect, these facts all point to the idea that America is more violent than many other wealthy countries.

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Why 2013 Budgets Won't Cut It and the Untapped Treasury in Violence

Michael Shank | Posted 04.02.2012

Politicians need to realize that in the pursuit of available funds, there are untapped dividends available where they may least suspect it. Increasing the peace not only improves quality of life but the economy as well.

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Bringing Florida to Justice, Not Just George Zimmerman

Michael Shank | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Florida, Institute for Economics and Peace, Louisiana, Violent Crime, Trayvon Martin, Inequality, US Peace Index, George Zimmerman, Nevada, Michael Shank, Incarceration, Racism, Policing, Homicide, George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Tennessee, Crime News

A bigger question that must also be asked is "Who is Florida?" We could ask a question about the direction America is headed on race and violence but let's stick to Florida for a moment.

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Accused Killer Of California Homeless Pleads Not Guilty

Reuters | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Video, Itzcoatl Ocampo, California Homeless, Itzcoatl-Ocampo-Homeless-Killer, California, Homicide, Homeless Killer, Reuters, Politics News

LOS ANGELES, Feb 21 (Reuters) - An Iraq war veteran accused in the "thrill" killings of four Orange County homeless men and the stabbing murders of ...

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What Nevada, Florida and South Carolina Have in Common & What Republican Candidates Ignored: A Credible Economic Cure

Michael Shank | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Institute for Economics and Peace, Mitt Romney, US Peace Index, 2012 Republican Primary, Newt Gingrich, Nevada, Michael Shank, Incarceration, Homicide, Florida Economy, GOP Candidates, Nevada Economy, South Carolina Economy, Election 2012, Politics News

As the Republican candidates leave Nevada, one topic seems to have escaped their attention entirely: a credible economic cure for what ails the states where they're waging their campaigns for president.

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Search For Body Ends Following Hollywood Severed Head Discovery

AP/Huffington Post | By JOHN ROGERS | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Dismemberment, Dismembered Body, Crime News, Hollywood Sign Dismembered Body, Hollywood Sign Head, Fbi, California Man Dismembered, Los Angeles, California Crime, Video, Profiler, Severed Head, Homicide, Missing Persons, Serial Killers, Mark Safarik, Hollywood, Crime News

LOS ANGELES -- A search for more human body parts in a secluded hiking spot within sight of the famed "Hollywood" sign has ended, but the mystery is f...

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Hollywood Severed Head Mystery: 'It Could Be A Need-Driven Behavior'

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Dismemberment, California, Dismembered Body, Hollywood Sign Dismembered Body, Hollywood Sign Head, Organized Crime, Fbi, California Man Dismembered, Los Angeles, California Crime, Video, Profiler, Homicide, Severed Head, Missing Persons, Serial Killers, Mark Safarik, Hollywood, Crime News

The hunt is on in the Hollywood Hills for the individual or individuals responsible for discarding severed human remains near the iconic Hollywood sig...

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Homicide Not As Deadly For Americans

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Top 15 Causes of Death, Death Rate, Mortality Rate, American Causes of Death, Cdc Causes of Death, Homicide, Cause of Death, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Life Expectancy, US Causes of Death, Crime News

ATLANTA — For the first time in almost half a century, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top 15 causes of death, bumped by a lung...

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New Study Ranks California Counties by Youth Homicide Victimization Rates

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Youth Violence, Black Youth, Youth Homicide, Hispanic Youth, California Counties, California, Homicide, Los Angeles News

A new study released today by my organization, the Violence Policy Center (VPC), ranks California counties by their youth homicide victimization rates...

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Repeat Rapist Caught, Suspected Of Third Woman's Murder

Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Steven Warren Arrested, Rapist, Rape, Homicide, Miami News, Overtown, Steven Warren Rapist, Miami-Dade Police, Miami Crime, Steven Warren, Miami News

Miami-Dade police say a repeat rapist is in custody after leads resulted in the arrest of Steven Warren on December 31. The 37-year-old is though...

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Missing Brooklyn Cafe Owner Found Dead in Pennsylvania

Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Whisk Cafe, South-Whitehall-Township, Homicide, Ditmas Park, Josh Rubin, Ny News, New York News, Missing Person, New York News

When Josh Rubin, a well-loved Brooklyn cafe owner, disappeared on Halloween night, friends and family mounted a massive search for the thirty year-old...

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Unemployment and the United States Homicide Rate

Tio Hardiman | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Unemployment, Homicide, Unemployment Rate, Violent Crime, Homicide Rates, Chicago News

High levels of violence have impacted the entire world over the last century. As a matter of fact, all you have to do is turn on the daily news and yo...

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Charges Filed In Unsolved Killings Of Taylor Paschal-Placker And Skyla Jade Whitaker

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Video, Homicide, Taylor Paschal-Placker, Unsolved Crime, Unsolved Murders, Oklahoma, Skyla Jade Whitaker, Kevin Sweat Charged, Kevin Sweat, Crime News

Authorities in Oklahoma have finally made an arrest in the homicides of Taylor Paschal-Placker and Skyla Jade Whitaker -- two girls gunned down in in ...

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No Time to Spare

John Harden | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Johnson County Texas, Homicide, 48 Hours, Cleburne-Texas, Crime News

The first 48 hours may only be a guideline but it's seen over and over that the first two days are most critical for collecting the information needed for any investigation.

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Ohio's Collective Bargaining Key to Becoming America's Heartland Again

Michael Shank | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Violence, Jared Bernstein, Institute for Economics and Peace, Income Inequality, Education, US Peace Index, Occupy Wall Street, Healthcare, Budget, Columbus, Collective Bargaining, Governor Kasich, Michael Shank, Unions, Ohio, Homicide, Global Peace Index, Poverty, Politics News

Thanks to the U.S. tax, trade and labor policies of the last 30 years, the American heartland has suffered tremendously. Only now is Washington realizing how those policies have made it very difficult for most of America to simply "get by".

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Machete Wielding Queens Landlord Kills Tenant And Himself

Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Murder, Jamaica Queens, Hettie Patterson, Homicide, Queens, Machete, NY Crime, Eulith 'Sonny' Reid, New York News

A landlord in South Jamaica Queens used a machete to kill one of his tenants, a 48-year old grandmother, before using the same weapon to kill himself ...

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WATCH: Courtroom Chaos After Judge Reveals Life Sentences

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Video, Child Abuse, Homicide, Courtroom Video, Courtroom, Serenity Richardson, Shanita Latrice Cunningham, Homicide by Child Abuse, Erica Mae Butts, Crime News

A wild scene unfolded in a South Carolina courtroom on Thursday when two former lovers became hysterical after receiving a pair of life sentences for ...

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Flight Attendant Found Dead In Mexico City

AP | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: US Airways Flight Attendant Dies, Video, Mexico City, Homicide, US Airways, US Airways Flight Attendant Dead, Mexico, Flight Attendant Dies, Airlines, Flight Attendant Dead, Nick Aaronson, Travel News

PHOENIX -- A US Airways flight attendant based in Phoenix was found dead in a Mexico City hotel room while on a layover, and authorities are investiga...

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What A Family Faces After A Murder - The First Week

The New York Times | MICHAEL WILSON | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Murder, Jay Rao, Yasmeen Rabbani, Homicide, Crime, Crime-Scene-Tape, Woodside Queens, Crime News

There is a house on 91st Avenue in Woodhaven, Queens, that, with Halloween approaching, has fake yellow crime-scene tape strung across its porch. It r...

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Gruesome Find Leads To Teen's Arrest

WAVY-TV | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Murder, Fred Williams, Homicide, Crime News, Crime, Frederick Scott Williams, North Carolina, Crime News

AHOSKIE, N.C. - Authorities arrested a 17-year-old Ahoskie man after a hunter found a body in the woods....

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