Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing
As of: September 10, 2026 (evening ET)
Scope: Worldwide sweep, last ~24 hours preferred; major developments stretched to ~48. Duxbury, Scotland Neck / Chesterfield, Atizapán, Thomastown, Taunton, Canoga Park.
In Plymouth County, Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asked Judge William Sullivan to enter not-guilty findings for lack of criminal responsibility after last week’s hung jury. U.S. Marshals arrested Dennikia Boyce in Scotland Neck, N.C., over two VDOT contractors shot dead in Chesterfield. Mexico State prosecutors moved two men to formal process over the Atizapán killings of keyboardist Jonathan Meléndez and his family. Victoria Police charged brothers Marcus and Lucas Jajou with murdering plumber Daniel Hussein. Sienna Barboza was held without bail in Taunton, and Los Angeles prosecutors added murder counts for Adriana Jimenez and her unborn child.
Case 01 / 6United States
Clancy Asks Judge to End the Case
Attorney Kevin Reddington filed Thursday asking Plymouth County Superior Court Judge William Sullivan to enter findings of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility on every count against Lindsay Clancy, 36, and block a retrial. Last Friday’s jury deadlocked after a five-week trial (eleven jurors ready to clear her of criminal responsibility, one holdout) and Sullivan declared a mistrial.
Nobody at trial disputed that Clancy strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at the family’s Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023, then tried to kill herself and was left paralyzed from the waist down. The fight was always her mind. Reddington says the Commonwealth’s own experts conceded serious mental illness and never proved she kept the substantial capacity to know wrongfulness or conform her conduct. Plymouth County DA Timothy Cruz still hasn’t said whether he’ll retry her. Motion teed for the Sept. 29 conference. Clancy is presumed innocent.
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- Associated Press: Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer asks the judge to spare her a second trial
- ABC News: Lindsay Clancy’s attorney asks judge to force ‘not guilty’ finding
- The New Yorker: Why the Lindsay Clancy Trial Ended in a Deadlock
Case 02 / 6United Kingdom
Boyce Caught in Scotland Neck
Dennikia Rachelle Boyce, 37, of Emporia, was arrested Thursday morning in Scotland Neck, North Carolina, by the U.S. Marshals Service on a federal flight-to-avoid-prosecution charge. Virginia State Police say she’ll be extradited to face two second-degree murder counts for the July 24 shootings of VDOT contractors Rai’Shon Eugene Delarge, 30, and Philip Avery Wilson, 34, at a Chesterfield equipment yard near Routes 1 and 288.
Marshals and local affidavits place her on Walmart and Sunoco cameras in Ahoskie and Conway within days of the shootings; Northampton County found her blue Honda abandoned behind a Pendleton church on July 28. Scotland Neck police say marshals, Halifax County’s drug-and-gang task force, and local officers took her around 9 a.m. She’s held at Halifax County Jail. Investigators have called the case domestic-related and say she knew at least one victim. Boyce is presumed innocent.
The victims were VDOT contractors Rai’Shon Delarge and Phillip Wilson, killed July 24. Marshals say Boyce surrendered peacefully at a House Avenue home with help from Scotland Neck police and Halifax County agents, and was held in the Halifax County Jail awaiting extradition, WITN and WRAL report. She is presumed innocent.
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- U.S. Marshals Service: Marshals arrest suspect in double homicide of VDOT contractors
- WITN: Woman accused of killing 2 highway contractors arrested
- ABC News: Woman accused of double murder found, arrested after spending weeks on the run
- WRAL: Woman wanted for 2 Virginia murders arrested in Halifax County
- WWBT: Woman suspected of killing 2 VDOT contractors arrested in North Carolina
Case 03 / 6AtizapánMexico
Meléndez Killings Bound Over
Control Judge Iris Miranda bound Diego Sebastián N and Gerardo N to formal criminal process on the State of Mexico’s case for the Sept. 1 apartment killings in Atizapán de Zaragoza of Jonathan Samuel Meléndez Ochoa, keyboardist for Camilo Séptimo, his pregnant wife Ana Paula Barragán, their 3-year-old daughter, household worker Aleyda Romero, and the family dog. Counts include aggravated homicide of two or more people, violent interruption of pregnancy, and cruelty to animals.
Prosecutors walked the judge through roughly 70 pieces of proof Wednesday, including video of Diego’s Kia entering the Grand Viure / Bosque Esmeralda complex on Bosque de Amates and a later stop in Tecámac with zip ties, gloves, and blood traces in the car. They say Diego, once Meléndez’s business partner, floated a bitcoin score and promised Gerardo two million pesos for help. Both stay in preventive prison at San Pedro Barrientos / Tlalnepantla while a four-month complementary investigation runs. They are presumed innocent.
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Case 04 / 6ThomastownAustralia
Two Charged With Hussein Murder
Marcus Jajou, 19, and Lucas Jajou, 20, both of Donnybrook, were charged with murder Thursday in the Sunday evening shooting of Daniel Hussein, 22, in the car park near HR Uren Reserve / Lalor United on Victoria Drive in Thomastown. Victoria Police had grabbed the pair and a 19-year-old Lalor woman in Deer Park about 5:50 p.m. Wednesday. The men were remanded in custody after a Melbourne Magistrates’ Court appearance Thursday evening; the woman was released without charge pending further inquiries.
Hussein, a plumber engaged to be married who’d just bought a house, was shot in front of friends about 7:30 p.m. Sunday and died at the scene. Police will allege the parties knew each other and that the attack was targeted. His uncle Abdallah called the loss “enormous.” Both accused are presumed innocent.
Hussein, 22, was a plumber shot in the car park on Sept. 6. The brothers were remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Feb. 1, 2027. Update, Oct. 11, 2026: A third man, 20, of Reservoir, was arrested at Melbourne Airport on Sept. 18 and charged with murder, Star Weekly reports. All are presumed innocent.
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- Star Weekly: Third man charged with murder
- AAP: Murder charges laid after plumber shot dead
- AAP / Canberra Times: Murder charges laid after plumber shot dead in car park
- ABC News: Three people arrested over fatal shooting of Daniel Hussein in Thomastown
Case 05 / 6TauntonUnited States
Barboza Held Without Bail
Sienna Barboza, 25, of New Bedford, was arraigned Thursday in Taunton District Court on murder and seven counts of armed assault with intent to murder and ordered held without bail. Prosecutors say she drove two gunmen in her 2017 Mercedes SUV to a Weir Street birthday party early Sunday, cell data and cameras putting her on scene after she first told police she’d been home with her kids.
About 50 to 60 people were in the yard when 14 spent 9mm casings were later recovered from the railroad tracks behind the fence: shots fired blind into the crowd, a prosecutor told the court. Zirovick Depina, 22, of Brockton, was hit in the abdomen and died in surgery; seven others were wounded, one left paralyzed. Barboza allegedly drove the pair back to New Bedford and was later seen dumping trash bags. Two shooters still unnamed. Next date Oct. 7. She is presumed innocent.
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Case 06 / 6Canoga ParkUnited States
Murder Counts for Mother and Unborn Child
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Wednesday amended the complaint against Walter Francisco Rodriguez Garcia, 32, of Gardena, adding two murder charges in the Aug. 23 alley shooting outside a Canoga Park apartment that left Adriana Jimenez, 22, 16 weeks pregnant and mother to a 6-year-old, brain-dead. Her family took her off life support Friday. Sister Maria Fernanda Jimenez, 24, was shot in the throat and shoulder and is expected to survive.
LAPD says the sisters were in a black Camry in the 8300 block of Northgate Avenue when a gunman walked up and opened fire. Garcia was already held on attempted-murder counts; he pleaded not guilty to those and has not answered the new murder counts in the reporting. Uncle Leonardo Ayala called the charges overdue. Garcia is presumed innocent.
Jimenez was declared brain dead and later taken off life support, the Los Angeles Times reports. Rodriguez Garcia originally faced three attempted-murder counts before prosecutors amended them. He is presumed innocent.
Citations & Sources (2)
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- Los Angeles Times: Man faces murder charges in death of woman and unborn child
- Los Angeles Times: Man faces murder charges in death of SoCal woman and her unborn child
