Murder
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Brian Gaither pleads guilty in Latisha Frazier slaying
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Brian Gaither admitted in court Tuesday morning to killing 17-year-old Latisha Frazier, who disappeared in August of 2010. Her body has never been found.
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Ronald Jefferson Short accused of killing Reginald McNeill
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Prince George’s County Police arrested a 27-year-old D.C. man for allegedly shooting and killing another man in Mount Rainier.
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Olijawon Griffin: Mother Lunette Griffin pushes for teen suspects to be charged as adults
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The mother of a teenager killed over the weekend at a Metro station is furious that not all of his attackers are being tried as adults.
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Justin Wolfe retrial: Wolfe's attorneys ask for immediate release
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A former death row inmate in Virginia whose conviction was overturned on accusations of misconduct by prosecutors is petitioning a judge for his immediate release.
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Olijawon Griffin murder: Suspects in fatal Metro stabbing head to court
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It will be “several hours” before the nine suspects in the case of the stabbing death of an 18-year-old man at the Woodley Park Metro station in Washington over the weekend are arraigned Monday, ABC7 has learned.
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Joshua Mebane accused of killing woman in Waldorf, cab driver in D.C.
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A teen suspected of killing a cab driver in D.C. last week is now facing charges in the October slaying of a woman on a foot path in Waldorf.
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Joshua Mebane, Linda Bury accused of killing Quadar Muhammad.
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Court records accuse Joshua T. Mebane, of Waldorf, and Linda Bury, of Parkton, in the killing of Quadar Muhammad.
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Alexis Simpson: Bowie State murder trial starts with opening statements
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Opening statements are expected in the trial of a former Bowie State University student charged with killing her roommate.
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Jared Loughner sentenced to seven consecutive life terms in Gabrielle Giffords shooting
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"Her life has been forever changed. Plans she had for our family and her career have been immeasurably altered," Gabby Giffords' husband Mark Kelly said at Jared Loughner's sentencing. "Every day is a continuous struggle to do those things she once was so good at."
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Alexis Simpson: Bowie State murder trial begins with jury selection
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Alexis Simpson is charged with first-degree murder in the September 2011 death of Dominique Frazier. Prosecutors say Simpson killed Frazier over loud music being played on an iPod.
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Robert Carter pleads guilty in killing of Angel Morse
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Robert Carter, 41, pleaded guilty to first degree murder while armed and other charges for the Oct,. 29, 2010 slaying of Angel Morse, who he shot in the head at a residence in the 500 block of Madison Street NW, authorities say.
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Jessica Ridgeway sexually assaulted before death, prosecutors say
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Seventeen-year-old Austin Sigg was charged as an adult with 17 counts in both cases Tuesday. They include four murder charges.
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NYC nanny stabs kids to death, hurts self
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A mother returned home to her luxury apartment building near Central Park on Thursday to find two of her small children stabbed to death in a bathtub and their nanny, with self-inflicted stab wounds, lying near them, police said.
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Autumn Pasquale murder: Brothers to stay in juvenile detention center
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Assistant Gloucester County Prosecutor Michelle Jeneby said both boys were ordered to be detained until the next hearing, scheduled for Nov. 16. She would not give other details.
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Nicholas Mockford, ExxonMobil executive, killed in Belgium
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An executive for ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company, has been killed in front of his wife on a street in a suburb of the Belgian capital of Brussels.
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Autumn Pasquale 'treated like a piece of trash'
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Authorities found Autumn Pasquale's body Monday night while acting on a tip from the mother of the teenaged brothers accused of killing her. Their mother was alarmed by something she read on one of their Facebook pages.
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Jessica Ridgeway murder: 17-year-old turns himself in
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Sigg's Westminster home is about five miles from the home of Jessica Ridgeway, who disappeared Oct. 5. Her body was found five days later in a field at a park.
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Aniyah Batchelor murder: 13-year-old suspect to go to therapeutic foster care
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The 13-year-old boy accused in the beating death of a 2-year-old foster child living with his family will not go to a detention center. Instead, he will be sent to therapeutic foster care.
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