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Washington (AFP) - A man wanted for the murder of a Maryland judge who ruled against him in a child custody case has been found dead, officials said Thursday. The body of Pedro Argote, 49, was found in a wooded area near where his vehicle was located last week, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The sheriff's office did not provide a cause of death. Law enforcement had been searching for Argote since Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, was shot dead in the driveway outside his home in Hagerstown, Maryland, on October 19. Just hours earlier, Wilkinson had presided at a divorce ...
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Washington (AFP) - A vast search was underway on Friday for a man suspected of shooting dead a judge in the eastern US state of Maryland who ruled against him just hours earlier in a child custody case, officials said. Judge Andrew Wilkinson, 52, was shot in the driveway outside his home in Hagerstown, Maryland, on Thursday evening, Washington County Sheriff Brian Albert said. "This was a targeted attack," Albert said at a press conference. The sheriff said local, state and federal law enforcement authorities were searching for Pedro Argote, 49, of Frederick, Maryland, in connection with the s...
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New York (AFP) - A New York architect was charged on Friday in connection with the long-unsolved murders of three women whose bodies were found near a beach on Long Island more than a decade ago. Rex Heuermann, 59, is facing murder charges for the 2009 and 2010 deaths of the three women and is the "prime suspect" in the murder of a fourth woman, officials said. "Rex Heuermann is a demon," Suffolk County police commissioner Rodney Harrison told reporters. "A predator that ruins families." Heuermann, who lived in Massapequa Park, a town near Gilgo Beach, where the bodies were found, was arrested...
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New York (AFP) - A suspect has been arrested in connection with the serial murders more than a decade ago of several women whose bodies were found wrapped in burlap on a beach on New York's Long Island. Police did not immediately identify the man taken into custody, but press reports on Friday said he was Rex Heuermann, a New York City architect. Suffolk County police commissioner Rodney Harrison told reporters the suspect had been arrested in Manhattan on Thursday evening. The New York Times said Heuermann lived in Massapequa Park, a town near Gilgo Beach, where the first bodies were found in...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A US woman who wrote a book on dealing with grief after the death of her husband has been charged with his murder. Kouri Richins penned "Are You With Me?" in the months after Eric Richins was found dead in their bedroom in Utah in March 2022. Richins told police she had mixed her husband a drink and taken it to him in bed. When she came back later she found he was "cold to the touch," Fox 13 reported Monday. An autopsy revealed he had died from an overdose of fentanyl, with five times the lethal dosage in his body. Investigators found Kouri Richins had asked an acquaintance...
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Washington (AFP) - A Maryland appeals court on Tuesday reinstated the conviction of the man at the center of the hit podcast "Serial, who had served more than 20 years in prison for his ex-girlfriend's murder. Adnan Syed, whose case received worldwide attention through the podcast, had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee, but was released in September of last year after Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn vacated his conviction. However in a 2-1 decision, the Maryland appellate court said Tuesday that the rights of Lee's brother, Young Lee, who lives in...
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Miami (AFP) - Dual Haitian-Chilean citizen Rodolphe Jaar, one of several men accused in the 2021 murder of Haitian president Jovenel Moise, pled guilty on Friday in the United States to charges related to the assassination, court documents show. Jaar, 50, admitted before a judge that he provided "material support and resources" knowing that they would be used to kidnap and kill the president, his plea statement says. Jaar, a businessman, is the first among 11 people charged by US prosecutors in south Florida with a role in planning the assassination. The 53-year-old Haitian leader was gunne...
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Washington (AFP) - The scion of an American family of lawyers went on trial Monday for murdering his wife and son in a bizarre crime saga that included him attempting to stage his own death. Alex Murdaugh, 54, was part of a multi-generation dynasty of wealthy, high-powered attorneys and prosecutors in the state of South Carolina when he plunged into financial problems and drug addiction. His wife and son were shot and killed on June 7, 2021 at the family's sprawling hunting estate in Islandton, South Carolina. As police struggled to pinpoint a suspect, three months later Murdaugh tried to fake...
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Washington (AFP) - Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will seek to have his conviction and sentence for the 2020 murder of George Floyd thrown out Wednesday on the grounds that his high-profile trial was tainted by adverse publicity. Chauvin's video-recorded killing of Floyd by pressing his knee to the detained African-American man's neck sparked nationwide demonstrations and riots over police mistreatment of Blacks. Chauvin, who is white, was convicted in a Minnesota state trial for murder, and sentenced in June last year to 22 and one-half years in prison. That is the case he is...
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Washington (AFP) - A US judge dismissed Tuesday a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his alleged role in the 2018 murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Washington federal judge John Bates accepted a US government's stance that Prince Mohammed, who was designated prime minister of Saudi Arabia in September, enjoys immunity in US courts as a foreign head of state. Bates said the civil suit filed by Khashoggi's widow Hatice Cengiz and his activist group DAWN made a "strong" and "meritorious" argument that Prince Mohammed was behind the murder. But he rul...
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