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The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026

Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing
As of: September 30, 2026 (evening ET)
Scope: Wednesday’s board covers cases from Tuesday evening through Wednesday afternoon ET, plus a few Tuesday court rulings and charges that surfaced overnight. The stories come from police, court and prosecutor statements, government releases, wire services and local newsrooms in the United States, Canada, Britain, the Channel Islands, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

A divided federal appeals court stopped Christa Pike’s execution in Nashville about an hour before Tennessee was set to begin it, and the state asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift the stay. A flydubai jet bound for Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after one pilot allegedly stabbed the other. Slovakia’s interior minister says the 13-year-old accused in the Staškov school stabbing is now in a psychological detention institution, and police inspectors are reviewing an earlier complaint from the school. President Cyril Ramaphosa said 11 women’s bodies have been found in Ekurhuleni since July. Abby Choi’s former husband and his father and brother went on trial for her murder in Hong Kong, and a former gang boss, 79, was arrested after two shootings in Kobe. Further down the board: Florida’s 16th execution of the year at Starke, murder charges in North Kensington, a state police account of the trooper killing in Warren County, Kentucky, a stalled plea deal for a British murder fugitive in Johannesburg, two more accused before a Nairobi judge, the Glen Alpine accused named in court, a neighbour named in the Gurranang deaths, a manslaughter charge in Napier, a first-degree murder charge in Laval, closing arguments in Oshawa, a mother and son arrested in Cutro, a husband jailed over a 1996 disappearance in Şavşat, a suspect jailed in Kütahya, a stabbing at a lawyer’s office in Alexandria, a life sentence in Gwangju, an indictment in Pattaya, a doctor arrested in Amagasaki, a police shootout after a killing in Middletown, a standoff arrest in Jackson, two convictions in Whistler, a new murder inquiry in Navan, two charges in Liskeard, a guilty plea in Leeds, a murder arrest on Alderney, an arrest after a body was found in Schmitten, a 30-year sentence in Colmar, three French cases in Le Havre, Saint-Chamond and Les Ponts-de-Cé, a jailing in La Campana, a murder-plot inquiry in Amsterdam, a 1985 cold case headed to trial in Ulm, a 2008 cold case charged in Piła, a death sentence in Karachi, appeals in Dhaka, arrests in Vijayawada, two men held over a political killing in Thane, four acquittals in Varkala, another preacher shot in Nabalawag, a student to be charged in Ipoh, robbery-killing arrests in Berastagi, a hired-killer plot alleged in Merangin, testimony in Abuja, a jailed suspect in Sincelejo, raids in Lima, two detained in Tehuacán, a fifth arrest in Dourados, a femicide prosecutor on the Maira Cabrera case in Catamarca, a detention in Resistencia, an arrest in Kalamazoo, a flea-market murder charge in Warren, Michigan, guilty pleas in Worcester and Lumberton, North Carolina, a murder warrant in a Corpus Christi highway crash, and charges in Ladson, St. Louis, Rabun County, Philadelphia and Gadsden. That was Wednesday’s board.

Nashville: Divided Appeals Court Stays Christa Pike’s Execution

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit stayed Christa Gail Pike’s execution Wednesday morning, 2–1. AP reports the order arrived about 9 a.m. Central, roughly an hour before Tennessee planned to begin the lethal injection at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, with witnesses already gathered. The order in In re Christa Gail Pike, No. 26-5864, reads: “it is ORDERED that execution of the sentence of death upon the movant is STAYED until further order of this court.” Judge Jane B. Stranch wrote it and Judge Moore concurred. Judge Griffin dissented. The case continues from The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026, when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the execution.

The dispute is procedural. A federal judge in Chattanooga treated Pike’s Rule 60(b)(6) motion to reopen her habeas case as a second or successive petition and sent it up to the Sixth Circuit. Pike wants it sent back. Her lawyers say the State has now conceded her history of child sexual abuse and rape, which they argue “erodes the foundation” of her state court proceedings. The majority said “a stay of Pike’s execution is necessary” to “properly analyze the parties’ fully briefed arguments and resolve the issues on the merits.” Griffin called the filing “another last-ditch meritless effort to delay a lawful execution.” Pike, now 50, was convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 with her then-boyfriend in the 1995 killing of Colleen Slemmer, 19, their classmate at a job-training facility in Knoxville, and sentenced to death. She retains appeal rights.

Tennessee’s attorney general went straight to the U.S. Supreme Court. The application to vacate the stay, filed in the warden’s name as Kenneth Nelsen, Warden v. Christa Gail Pike, No. 26A428, was docketed Wednesday and submitted to Justice Kavanaugh. “The Sixth Circuit granted a stay, that Pike did not even request, without determining that Pike is likely to succeed on the merits,” the state wrote, in an application the office gave to The Tennessean. Pike’s lawyers filed a response asking the Court to leave the stay in place; the warden filed a reply. AP reports witnesses and media stayed at the prison in case the justices let the execution go ahead. The Supreme Court docket showed no ruling on the application as of 5:41 p.m. ET Wednesday. If the stay is lifted today, execution could go ahead today. The Tennessee Supreme Court only resets the date (at least seven days out) if Sept. 30 passes with the stay still in place.

Update, Oct. 1: On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court granted Tennessee’s application and vacated the Sixth Circuit’s stay. Justice Sotomayor dissented, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson. Tennessee began the lethal injection that evening, but Pike was still alive after two doses of pentobarbital and was taken by ambulance to an off-site medical facility. On Thursday her lawyers said she was in critical condition and receiving lifesaving medical care. Gov. Bill Lee has ordered a third-party review and says “the remaining scheduled execution will not be carried out this year.” See The Crime Ledger: October 1, 2026.

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Tabuk: Pilot Allegedly Stabbed Co-Pilot on Tel Aviv Flight

A flydubai Boeing 737 Max 8 flying from Dubai to Ben Gurion Airport diverted to Tabuk, in northwestern Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday morning after what the airline called “an altercation” in the flight deck. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said one pilot stabbed the other and apparently tried to crash the aircraft, and that a passenger and a crew member forced their way into the cockpit. Other crew flew the jet down. Flightradar24 data cited by AP show it dropping from about 33,000 feet to 17,000 feet in roughly a minute. Tabuk airport said the distress call came at 8:44 a.m. and the plane landed at 9:45 a.m. local time. Both pilots were hurt and taken to hospital.

Netanyahu said the alleged attacker was arrested and is being questioned by Saudi authorities. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz called it an “attempted jihadist terror attack.” flydubai said all passengers and crew are safe and that the motive is “unknown” and “subject to a formal investigation.” Saudi authorities have not named the pilot or described any charge.

Update, Oct. 1: Indian and Israeli officials now identify the pilot who was stabbed as the captain, Smit Machchhar of Mumbai, who opened the cockpit door so passengers and crew could overpower his fellow pilot. Indian officials say he has had surgery and is stable. AP reports that a regional official said the detained co-pilot is an Omani citizen, and that Netanyahu claimed, without details, that the attacker underwent Islamist indoctrination. The co-pilot is held by Saudi investigators, and the UAE has opened its own inquiry. No charge has been announced. See The Crime Ledger: October 1, 2026.

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Staškov: Pupil Held in Detention Unit as Inspectors Review Police

Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok said Wednesday, before the Slovak government’s away session in Uhrovec, that the 13-year-old accused in Tuesday’s knife attack at the Staškov primary school has been placed in a psychological detention institution. The Police Inspection Service is examining how officers in the Turzovka district handled a criminal complaint the school filed five days before the attack, about an incident the week before. Inspection spokesperson Andrea Dobiášová confirmed the review. Investigators from the police Office for Combating Organised Crime searched the pupil’s home and questioned several witnesses. The case is being handled as premeditated murder. The attack was first reported in The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026.

Health Minister Kamil Šaško said the injured schoolgirl remains in intensive care in extremely serious condition. The teacher killed was 61. A second teacher, 44, survived. The cabinet agreed to fast-track a bill on protection against radicalization, and the interior minister raised a debate on the age of criminal responsibility. Slovakia’s crisis line is 0800 500 333. No one involved has been named.

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Ekurhuleni: Ramaphosa Counts 11 Women Found Dead Since July

In a televised address Tuesday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the body of another woman was found in Springs on Sunday, bringing to 11 the number of women’s bodies found in Ekurhuleni since July. Police “have not found evidence establishing that these killings were committed by a single perpetrator,” he said, and “all possibilities remain under investigation.” The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is helping with digital forensics. Detectives, Crime Intelligence, investigative psychologists and forensic specialists are on the case.

Ramaphosa said arrests have been made in some of the deaths, including the man charged in the killing of Ntombifuthu Nxumalo, whose case ran on The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026. Two suspects have appeared in court over Jabulile Ntimba’s death, and one is in custody over Busisiwe Mahlangu’s. He ordered a national case-recovery operation on unresolved murders, rapes and sexual offences against women and children, with an audit due in 60 days. People in South Africa can reach the GBV Command Centre at 0800 428 428.

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Hong Kong: Abby Choi’s Ex-Husband and In-Laws Go on Trial

Alex Kwong, his father, Kwong Kau, and his brother Anthony Kwong pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murdering model and influencer Abby Choi, 28, as their trial opened before Judge Brian Keith and a nine-person jury. Police found parts of Choi’s body at a suburban house in 2023. Alex and Anthony Kwong pleaded guilty to preventing the lawful burial of a body. The three face life in prison if convicted of murder.

Prosecutor Charlotte Draycott said the relationship soured in 2022 after Choi tried to sell a luxury flat she had bought for HK$60 million and registered in her former father-in-law’s name. Kwong Kau, 68, a retired police sergeant, became “extremely resentful and angry,” she said, and the prosecution alleges the three “decided they would do it together.” All three are presumed innocent of murder.

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Kobe: Former Gang Boss, 79, Arrested After Two Shootings

Masayuki Akata, 58, who ran a company and lived in Kobe’s Higashinada Ward, was shot in the abdomen at about 1:15 p.m. Wednesday on a street in Sakaguchi-dori, Chuo Ward, and died in hospital. Ten minutes later and about 4.5 kilometres southwest, in Arata-cho, Hyogo Ward, a 54-year-old man was shot from behind in the right side inside a car parked on private property. He was seriously injured. An acquaintance of Akata’s told the Kobe Shimbun the man worked for Akata’s company.

Hyogo Ward officers made an emergency arrest of Naoto Kametani, 79, unemployed, of Kumochi-cho in Chuo Ward, just after 2 p.m. about 20 metres from the second scene, on suspicion of the attempted murder of the 54-year-old. Investigative sources say he once led a group affiliated with the Yamaguchi-gumi. Police say he admits the allegation and has suggested he was involved in the Chuo Ward shooting. They believe he shot Akata, then rode to Hyogo Ward with the second man. A handgun was seized at the Hyogo Ward scene. The prefectural police’s organized-crime division says it has no information pointing to a gang conflict and believes he acted alone. Kametani hasn’t been charged, and the allegation is unproven.

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Starke: Florida Executes Curtis Beasley, 77

Florida executed Curtis Wilkie Beasley, 77, by lethal injection Tuesday at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. Beasley was convicted in 1998 of first-degree murder, robbery and grand theft of a motor vehicle in the 1995 hammer killing of Carolyn Monfort, 62, at her home in Dundee, Polk County. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene Tuesday. He had maintained his innocence, and his lawyers had argued cognitive decline.

It was Florida’s 16th execution this year and the 29th in the United States, AP reports. Florida has two more scheduled in October. William Lee Thompson, 74, is set for Oct. 13; after a doctor said he may have dementia, Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered three psychiatrists to examine him. William Reaves is set for Oct. 20.

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North Kensington: Two Teens Charged With E-Bike Rider’s Murder

The Metropolitan Police charged Charles Egonye, 19, of Wulfstan Street, East Acton, and a 17-year-old boy from Southall with the murder of Kariem Abdelhalim, 24. Abdelhalim was found seriously injured on North Pole Road at about 01:20 BST on Sept. 25 and was pronounced dead a short time later. The younger defendant can’t be named for legal reasons. MyLondon reports both appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

Police arrested them Monday, as first reported in The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026. Egonye and the boy are presumed innocent.

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Warren County, Ky.: State Police Detail Trooper Phillips’s Last Stop

Kentucky State Police released their first account of Monday’s killing of Trooper Hayden Phillips. The agency’s Critical Incident Response Team says Phillips stopped a vehicle northbound on Interstate 65 near mile marker 39 in Warren County just after 2 p.m. Witness statements and dash-camera and body-camera video identified the vehicle. It was found in Louisville shortly after 5 p.m., where Louisville Metro police stopped it with a grappler device on Dixie Highway near Burwell Avenue and arrested Emonnie Branch without incident. KSP spokesperson Katan Parker said Phillips’s own handcuffs were used in the arrest.

Visitation is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central at Living Hope Baptist Church in Bowling Green. The funeral is at noon Central on Sunday at Western Kentucky University’s Diddle Arena. Gov. Andy Beshear ordered flags to half-staff Sunday. Branch was denied bail Tuesday, as reported in The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026, and is presumed innocent.

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Johannesburg: Tshuma’s Local Case Stalls on Plea Deal

Ndodana Tshuma, wanted in Britain on three murder charges over the deaths of his wife, Nothabo Zandile Tshuma, and their two daughters, appeared briefly in Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday. His South African case was postponed to Oct. 21 because the State and the defence haven’t finished a plea and sentence agreement. Magistrate Sindisiwe Malindi had earlier pointed to discrepancies in the draft and said it had to be properly prepared before the court would accept it.

The local charges cover illegal entry and an unlicensed firearm found when he was arrested in Kensington, Johannesburg, in July. Tshuma has admitted those charges, eNCA reports. Britain’s formal extradition request is a separate proceeding before the same court, and Jacaranda FM reports it was expected to resume Thursday. He is presumed innocent of the murder charges.

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Nairobi: Two More Mutiso Accused Held Pending Mental Assessment

Police Constable Collins Kiplangat Bett and Pius Muiru Mbugua, known as “Headboy,” appeared before Justice Alexander Muteti at the Milimani High Court on Wednesday over the July 29 killing of Dr Victoria Mutiso on Mawensi Road, Kilimani. They didn’t plead. The prosecution asked for more time for mental assessments. The judge turned down the longer detention and ordered both held at Nairobi Remand Prison, with a mention set for next Tuesday.

Bett and Mbugua were arrested Aug. 29. Five other accused pleaded not guilty in the same case on Tuesday, as reported in The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026. Capital FM says the charges are brought under sections 203 and 204 of the Penal Code. Neither has entered a plea, and both are presumed innocent.

Update, Oct. 1: A Nairobi court has allowed police to hold another suspect in the case, Samuel Karanja Gathoni, alias Wakili, for 14 more days while authorities consider admitting him to the Witness Protection Programme as a prosecution witness. See The Crime Ledger: October 1, 2026.

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Glen Alpine: Accused in Marco Tapia’s Killing Named in Court

The men charged with murdering Marco Tapia, 23, are Vaifaalie Tuafuti, 22, and Omar Mohamed, 23, AAP reports. Neither applied for bail on Wednesday afternoon, and both return to Wagga Wagga Local Court in November. The 16-year-old charged with them was due in a children’s court and stays in custody until Nov. 13. Tapia, a biomedical engineering student, was shot in his bed at his family’s Glen Alpine home on Sept. 1. The charges ran on The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026.

Homicide Squad commander Det. Supt. Joe Doueihi said the three came from Victoria and allegedly took up a criminal “contract,” possibly commissioned from overseas. “At this particular stage, we are not alleging any particular male pulled the trigger,” he said. Police believe Tapia was not the intended target. All three are presumed innocent.

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Gurranang: Accused Named as Police Link Both Deaths

Police allege Nicholas Scott, 32, a neighbour, killed a 79-year-old man found inside a home on a property at Gurranang, about 25 km north of Grafton, two weeks ago, and then “set upon” the 59-year-old man found in a shed there on Monday. Homicide Squad commander Det. Supt. Joe Doueihi said Wednesday that the two dead men were related, and 7NEWS reports they were father and son. The younger man had come to NSW to help police and to sort out the older man’s estate.

Scott is charged with two counts of murder and stealing a motor vehicle. He appeared briefly in court Wednesday and didn’t apply for bail. The charges first ran, before police had named him, on The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026. He is entitled to the presumption of innocence.

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Napier: Manslaughter Charge After Boy Drowned at Westshore

Rania Whare, 64, appeared in Napier District Court on Wednesday, New Zealand time, charged with manslaughter over the death of a 5-year-old boy at Westshore Beach in February, NZ Herald reports. Stuff describes her as the woman who was caring for him. Emergency services were called at about 8:30 p.m. after a body was seen in the water, and the boy was found early on Feb. 6 after a night search with the Coastguard and Surf Life Saving.

Det. Sgt. Kate Hyde said the decision to charge “wasn’t taken lightly” and followed an “extensive and careful investigation.” The court registry said name suppression wasn’t sought. She is presumed innocent.

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Laval: Man, 78, Charged With First-Degree Murder of His Wife

Ronald Thibault, 78, was formally charged Wednesday with the first-degree murder of his spouse, Monique Poirier-Thibault, 77. Laval police were called at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday to a home on rue Jean-Béraud, where two people were hurt. Police say the killing happened in a domestic-violence context.

Thibault was arrested at the scene with injuries that weren’t life-threatening, and he was due at the Laval courthouse Wednesday morning, Radio-Canada reports. La Presse says his injuries suggested he may have tried to take his own life, though police are still examining other possibilities. Thibault is presumed innocent. In Canada, the 9-8-8 line takes calls and texts around the clock.

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Oshawa: Jury Hears Closings in Jennifer Polak’s Killing

Kyle Severin, 37, of Ajax, concedes he caused the death of his girlfriend, Jennifer Polak, in his Hillman Drive basement apartment in March 2024. The question for the jury at his second-degree murder trial in Oshawa is intent. Defence lawyer Krystal Manitius argued in her closing Tuesday that he was too intoxicated on cocaine and a sleeping pill to form the intent for murder, and that he woke to find Polak covered in blood and called 911.

Assistant Crown Attorney Julie O’Connor told the jury he killed Polak because he was angry, not because he was intoxicated. She argued that the gap in his phone use between 7:30 and 11 p.m. was when the killing happened. Superior Court Justice Marcella Henschel will instruct the jury Thursday. Severin is presumed innocent of murder.

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Cutro: Mother and Son Arrested Two Years After Man Vanished

Carabinieri in Crotone arrested a 60-year-old woman who was married to Salvatore Giglio, and their 28-year-old son. Giglio, 69, disappeared from Cutro in September 2024. A preliminary-investigations judge ordered both jailed on suspicion of murder and concealing a corpse. Investigators believe Giglio was killed at home on Sept. 21, 2024, the day she gave as the date he went missing. She reported him missing about a week later. His body hasn’t been found. Carabinieri suspect it was thrown into the Tacina river, and RIS forensic officers and divers from Messina have searched for it.

A neighbour’s security camera was central, Sky TG24 reports. It recorded raised voices in the family courtyard at noon that day and, two days later, the two loading a car. Prosecutors led by Domenico Guarascio say mother and son reported the disappearance late and agreed on their accounts. An economic motive is the leading theory. Mother and son are presumed innocent, and neither has been tried.

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Şavşat: Husband Jailed as 1996 Disappearance Becomes Murder Case

Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi said Nigar Bilgin, missing from Şavşat, in Turkey’s Artvin province, since 1996, was murdered, and that her husband, identified only as Z.B., has been jailed pending trial. Gendarmerie investigators say he had been living alone in a cave outside the village. The case reopened after someone applied for a new identity card in her name.

During a site visit with a prosecutor, investigators found bone and clothing fragments believed to be hers. A court imposed a travel ban on one of the suspect’s siblings and house arrest on another over suspected complicity or evidence-tampering. None of the three has been tried, and all are presumed innocent.

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Kütahya: Suspect Jailed in Workplace Stabbing of Woman, 51

A court in Kütahya, western Turkey, on Wednesday ordered Salih T. jailed pending trial over the killing of Nalan Temelkıran, 51, a mother of two who was stabbed to death at her workplace on Tuesday. He fled after the attack and was caught by provincial police in the Gaybiefendi neighbourhood. After he gave a statement to prosecutors, a criminal judgeship of peace ordered his arrest.

Habertürk, citing IHA, reports that he told police his daughter had once dated Temelkıran’s son, and that he blamed her for having a spell cast on the girl. The two had argued about it before. Authorities have released only his first name and initial, and he is presumed innocent.

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Alexandria: Ex-Husband Held After Stabbing at Lawyer’s Office

Prosecutors in Alexandria, Egypt, ordered a man held for four days over the killing of his former wife, who was stabbed in the neck and hands inside a lawyer’s office on Al-Nasr Street in the Manshiya district. The pair had met there for a reconciliation session to settle their disputes, Masrawy reports. Investigators say the lawyer left them alone for a while and came back to find the man holding a knife beside her body. He then reported it to police.

Her family, who identified her only by the initials G.F., said she married her cousin, identified as K.M., young, had two daughters with him over 14 years, separated from him about a year ago and had recently been diagnosed with cancer. Manshiya prosecutors inspected the scene Wednesday and asked for a rush autopsy and forensic report. He is presumed innocent.

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Gwangju: Life Sentence for Killing a High School Girl

The Gwangju District Court sentenced Jang Yoon-gi, 23, to life in prison on Wednesday for killing a high school student in the early hours of May 5. The court convicted him on every count, including murder linked to attempted rape under the special act on sexual crimes and the attempted murder of a male student who came to help. Other counts cover a May 3 attack on a foreign woman. It also ordered 30 years of electronic monitoring.

Prosecutors had sought the death penalty. The court cited South Korea’s status as a de facto abolitionist country and the lack of a life-without-parole sentence, and the judges said it was their shared view that he should never be paroled. The girl’s parents had protested outside the court since Monday. Jang retains appeal rights.

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Pattaya: Two Indicted in Russian Siblings’ Deaths

Pattaya prosecutors indicted Thana Kerdthong, 43, and Thongchai Srinil on nine charges including murder. The Pattaya Provincial Court accepted the case for trial on Wednesday. The victims are Diana Nazimova, 22, and her 17-year-old brother, who left their home in Huai Yai on a motorcycle at about 4 a.m. on July 26. They were found buried near the homes of the suspect’s relatives in Bang Lamung district.

Both men have been in custody since their arrest in Sa Kaeo province. The Bangkok Post says police have also linked the case to a missing Thai family of three whose bodies were found buried nearby. Thana and Thongchai are presumed innocent.

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Amagasaki: Psychiatrist Arrested Over Wife’s Remains

Hyogo police arrested a 46-year-old doctor from Nishinomiya, who runs a psychiatric clinic in Amagasaki, on Wednesday on suspicion of dismembering and abandoning his wife’s body. Police allege that between Aug. 14 and late August last year, at the Amagasaki home the couple then shared, he cut up the body of his wife, then 41, and dumped it in the Kanzaki River. On Sept. 24 last year he had reported her missing, saying she left on Aug. 14 after an argument.

Police began questioning him voluntarily in August. Acting on his statements, they searched the river from Sept. 17 to Sept. 20. The Kobe Shimbun reports he admitted the allegation, telling investigators, “I did it alone.” Police are still working out how she died. He hasn’t been charged with killing her and is presumed innocent.

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Middletown, Conn.: Murder Suspect Shot in Exchange With Police

Middletown police were called at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday to the Northwoods Apartments on Town Colony Drive, in the city’s West Lake section, where a woman was found shot dead. Detectives identified Barrington Oneil Brown Jr., 43, of Middletown, as a suspect. A licence-plate reader flagged his vehicle on New Park Avenue in West Hartford. It fled, kept going after police laid tire-deflation devices, and stopped on Flatbush Avenue in Hartford, where police say Brown and West Hartford officers exchanged gunfire Tuesday night.

Brown and another person were hit and have non-life-threatening wounds. No officers were hurt. He is held pending arraignment on murder, stalking and unlawful discharge of a firearm. Her name wasn’t in the police account. The charges against Brown are untested.

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Jackson, Miss.: Standoff Suspect Charged in Gas Station Killing

Jackson police charged Christopher Sherod Walker, 44, with murder in the death of Keneesha Washington, 41, who was shot at about 7:22 p.m. Saturday in a gas station lot in the 3200 block of Medgar Evers Boulevard. He also faces auto theft and felon-in-possession counts.

Detectives found him Monday evening at his ex-wife’s home on Dianne Drive. He ran inside with three of his children, and the standoff lasted through the night. He let two go but kept his 14-year-old son, then jumped from a window Tuesday morning and was stopped with a Taser. The children weren’t hurt. Walker is presumed innocent.

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Whistler: Jury Convicts Two in 2022 Gang Shooting

A jury convicted Gursimran Sahota, 29, and Tanvir Khakh, 25, of first-degree murder in the death of Meninder Dhaliwal, 28, the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Tuesday. Sahota was also convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Satindera Gill, 36. The judge directed Khakh’s acquittal on the Gill count.

Dhaliwal and Gill were shot at about 12:19 p.m. on July 24, 2022, in the 4300 block of Sundial Crescent in Whistler Village. IHIT describes the shooting as gang-related. First-degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no parole eligibility for 25 years. The jury recommended 20 years’ parole ineligibility for Sahota on the second-degree count. Both retain appeal rights.

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Navan: Missing Man’s Case Reclassified as Murder

Gardaí have reclassified the disappearance of Mark Duffy, 43, as a murder investigation. He was last seen in Navan, Co. Meath, on Oct. 3, 2022. RTÉ reports he was at the Johnstown Shopping Centre post office at 10:50 a.m. that day and on CCTV at 2:45 p.m. on Commons Road, heading toward McDermotts Villas. A family member reported him missing 10 days later.

His phone hasn’t been used since, and he didn’t leave the country. Searches in Navan and along the River Boyne found nothing. Gardaí describe him as 5 ft 8, of broad build, with brown hair and blue eyes. He walked with a noticeable limp. No one has been arrested.

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Liskeard: Two Men Charged With Murder of Ian Davis

Devon and Cornwall Police charged Darrell Rowland, 49, of Trevarthian Road, St Austell, and Sukhvinder Singh Shokur, 58, of Liskeard, with the murder of Ian Davis, 56. Davis was found with multiple injuries at Baytree Hill on Sunday, Sept. 13. Four men were first arrested and bailed. The two were rearrested before being charged.

Both are remanded to appear at Truro Magistrates’ Court on Thursday. A Plymouth man in his 20s faces no further action. A Liskeard man in his 30s remains on bail. Rowland and Shokur are presumed innocent.

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Leeds: Man Admits Murdering Fiancée in Belle Isle Attack

Jack Johns, 52, of School Street, Tingley, pleaded guilty at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday to the murder of Malgorzata “Gosia” Wiktor, 51. West Yorkshire Police said her son called 999 on the morning of June 11 when she failed to arrive at work and he couldn’t get into her house in Foster Square, Belle Isle. Officers forced entry and found Johns unconscious on top of her, with a claw hammer and a knife on the floor nearby. She was pronounced dead a short time later.

The couple had been together about six months and had recently become engaged. Police said her family and friends described him as controlling. The Yorkshire Post reports the court heard of previous convictions tied to the domestic abuse of two former partners. He is remanded in custody for sentencing on Nov. 9 and retains appeal rights.

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Alderney: Man Held Over Death of Woman Found Below Cliffs

Guernsey Police have named the woman found dead in the sea at the base of cliffs known as The Guns, on the west end of Alderney, as Hannah Benfield, 34, née Cox. A search and rescue operation was launched, and Channel Islands Air Search reported the first sighting of a person in the water at about 4:28 a.m. Monday. A 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder after hospital treatment on the island and remains in custody.

Police say they aren’t looking for anyone else. They want dashcam footage from Rue de Longis and the west of the island between 7:30 and 11 p.m. Sunday. He hasn’t been named, and no charge has been announced.

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Schmitten: German Man Arrested After Senior Found Dead in Car

Graubünden cantonal police searching for a missing person on Sunday found a car at Under Bodma, in Schmitten, with a dead woman in the driver’s seat. She was a senior who lived in Falera. Police said the scene pointed to a homicide.

Officers arrested a 36-year-old German man at his home in Valbella on Tuesday evening, with a prosecutor present, and found the woman’s belongings when they searched the house. Graubünden prosecutors have opened a case for intentional homicide and will seek pretrial detention. The suspect, not yet charged, is presumed innocent.

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Colmar: 30 Years for Killing Woman, 70, in Mulhouse Residence

The Haut-Rhin assize court in Colmar on Wednesday sentenced Amin Mohamed Issam, 39, to 30 years in prison for robbery with violence resulting in death, over the June 2022 killing of Chantal Kempf, 70, in her room at a seniors’ residence in Mulhouse. She was found June 6, 2022, in her bathroom with at least a dozen stab wounds. The court followed the sentence sought by advocate general Alexia Marquis, who called the motive purely one of gain.

Two other men were sentenced to six months each for receiving stolen property. Le Figaro reports that Issam had Kempf’s bank and identity cards on him when the three were arrested that afternoon. His DNA was found on items in her room, and he denied the killing. Issam retains appeal rights.

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Le Havre: Man, 72, Charged After Saying He Killed Partner

A 72-year-old man in Le Havre was placed under formal investigation Tuesday for murder by a partner and jailed, prosecutor Soizic Guillaume said. He called police himself at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday and says he killed his partner, 70, with a dumbbell. He told investigators she had asked him to move out.

Under French law, a formal investigation means a judge has found serious evidence against him. He hasn’t been tried and is presumed innocent.

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Saint-Chamond: Man Jailed Over Stabbing of 19-Year-Old

A man in his 50s was placed under formal investigation for murder and jailed Tuesday after a 19-year-old was stabbed several times late Sunday in the Izieux district of Saint-Chamond, in the Loire. BFMTV, citing AFP, says a fight broke out over the sale of vaping devices. The Saint-Étienne prosecutor’s office has opened a judicial investigation.

His lawyer, André Buffard, says he denies striking any blow. A son in his 20s is being sought. The man is presumed innocent.

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Les Ponts-de-Cé: Man Held After Woman Shot on Her Land

A 63-year-old woman was found badly hurt at about 4 p.m. Monday on her property in Les Ponts-de-Cé, near Angers, and died. A 55-year-old man who called police himself is in police custody and blamed himself, 20 Minutes reports. A firearm was seized.

The Angers prosecutor’s office says nothing so far establishes that it was a femicide. No charge has been filed, and he is presumed innocent.

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La Campana: Man Jailed Without Bail in Partner’s Death

The violence-against-women court in Lora del Río, Seville province, on Tuesday ordered provisional prison without bail for the man arrested over the killing of his partner in La Campana, Europa Press reports, citing the Andalusian High Court of Justice. The court is investigating a presumed homicide.

He was brought to court after hospital treatment for self-inflicted injuries and declined to testify. The killing ran on The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026. He hasn’t been tried. In Spain, the 016 line for gender violence is free and leaves no trace on phone bills.

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Amsterdam: Hacking Suspect Investigated Over Two Planned Murders

Dutch police say a 24-year-old Amsterdam man arrested Sept. 15 as a suspected member of the ShinyHunters hacking group was remanded Tuesday for at least 90 days. Police say “a lot of information was found on his laptop, including about two murders that should be committed abroad,” and he is also under investigation for attempting to orchestrate them. They describe that inquiry as separate from the hacking case.

The FBI called him one of the group’s “alleged leaders.” Dutch police haven’t named him and haven’t said who the intended victims were. No charge in the murder-plot inquiry has been announced.

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Ulm: Trial Set in 1985 Deggingen Murder

The Ulm Regional Court said Wednesday that the murder trial of a 70-year-old man from Schwendi opens next Tuesday, more than 41 years after a 31-year-old woman was killed near Deggingen. Prosecutors allege he drove her to a forest track in 1985, raped her and beat her to death.

A DNA trace secured in 1985 was decisive, prosecutors say, along with items seized in a November 2025 search of his house and property. He was arrested in mid-April and has been in custody since. Six hearing days are scheduled, and a verdict could come Nov. 11. The 70-year-old is presumed innocent.

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Piła: Grandson Charged in 2008 Killing After DNA Retest

Poznań’s cold-case team, Archiwum X, has charged a 44-year-old man, identified as Damian B., with murdering his 73-year-old grandmother in her flat on Bydgoska Street in Piła in June 2008. Her daughter asked a neighbour to check on her on June 3 that year. She was found dead in an armchair, gagged, her hands taped to the armrests, with head injuries from repeated blows with a blunt object, probably a hammer.

The case was closed unsolved and reopened in late 2023 with the Poznań regional prosecutor’s office. Wielkopolska police spokesman Andrzej Borowiak said a DNA profile from the tape pointed to the grandson, who was 26 at the time. He denied the charge, and a district court ordered him held in pretrial custody. He faces a possible life term and is presumed innocent.

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Karachi: Death Sentence in Lawyer’s 2020 Ransom Killing

An anti-terrorism court in Karachi sentenced Awais Ali Hashmi to death on two counts on Tuesday for the 2020 kidnapping and murder of advocate Syed Farhat Ali Askari, 70. Askari’s wife got a ransom demand for Rs40 million. When it wasn’t paid, he was strangled. His body was recovered from a suitcase dumped in a drain in Surjani Town.

All four accused were convicted in 2023, but the Sindh High Court sent the case back for retrial. This time the court acquitted Muhammad Faizan, Muhammad Saeed and Iftikhar Ahmed Khatri. Hashmi retains appeal rights.

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Dhaka: Nusrat Case Principal Appeals Death Sentence

SM Siraj-Ud-Dowlah, former principal of the Sonagazi Islamia Fazil Madrasa, on Wednesday appealed to Bangladesh’s Appellate Division against the High Court verdict that upheld his death sentence for the 2019 murder of Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19. Three others serving life terms in the case, including Saifur Rahman Mohammad Zubayer, filed leave-to-appeal petitions.

Nusrat was set on fire on the madrasa roof in Feni on April 6, 2019, after refusing to withdraw a sexual-harassment complaint against Siraj. She died four days later. The High Court acquitted 10 of the 16 convicted at trial. Lawyer Shishir Manir says the four were tortured into confessing. All retain appeal rights.

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Vijayawada: Butcher Arrested After Tattoo Identifies Canal Victim

West Zone police in Vijayawada arrested Shafi, 45, a butcher from Bhavanipuram, on Tuesday over the killing of Kalyani, also known as Durga, 29, of Mangalagiri. Her body was found Sept. 18 in the cooling canal of the thermal power station at Ibrahimpatnam. A tattoo helped identify her.

Police allege she was killed Sept. 17 in a dispute over money. A helper was also detained. Shafi and the helper are presumed innocent.

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Thane: Shiv Sena (UBT) Official Shot Dead Outside Party Office

Pradeep Purnekar, Thane division head for the Shiv Sena (UBT), was shot twice and assaulted outside his party office in the Manpada area off Ghodbunder Road on Tuesday night and died in hospital. Kapurbawdi police are investigating and, per The Hindu, are looking at political rivalry and personal enmity among other angles. The Free Press Journal and Lokmat Times report that Thane police have arrested two men, and that officers are searching for others. His family has said it won’t hold his last rites until everyone involved is in custody. Both men are presumed innocent.

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Varkala: Four Acquitted in Leenamani’s 2023 Killing

A Thiruvananthapuram sessions court on Wednesday acquitted all four people charged with murdering Leenamani, 53, at her home in Ayiroor, near Varkala, on July 16, 2023. Judge R. Rekha found the prosecution hadn’t proved the charges beyond reasonable doubt. The defence had pointed to contradictions in witness statements.

Prosecutors alleged the accused, relatives of her late husband, attacked her with weapons including an iron rod to take over his property, after she had gone to court seeking protection from domestic violence. Her domestic helper, Sarasu, was injured and testified as the key eyewitness. The prosecution can appeal.

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Nabalawag: Another Muslim Preacher Shot Dead in Bangsamoro

Gunmen on a motorcycle shot Ustadz Ebrahim Madidis dead on Tuesday as he stood by a highway in Barangay Olandang, Nabalawag, in the Bangsamoro Special Geographic Area of the southern Philippines. His relative Ustadz Salindab M. Madidis, also a preacher, is in critical condition in hospital. Police Capt. Steffie Salanguit, spokesperson for the regional police, said officers and local officials are working to identify the attackers.

Philstar counts four other Islamic clerics shot dead in the area and in nearby Maguindanao towns in the past nine months. No arrest has been reported.

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Ipoh: Foreign Student to Face Murder Charge

A foreign student at a private university will be charged with murdering a 53-year-old man in Kampung Kuchai, Ipoh, while two fellow students arrested with him on Sept. 23 were released Wednesday. Ipoh police chief Najib Hamzah confirmed the pair will testify for the prosecution. The man was found unconscious with facial injuries on Sept. 18 and died Sept. 22. An autopsy found blunt trauma to the head.

The charge has been put off until Nov. 2 so an interpreter can attend, Free Malaysia Today reports. The student hasn’t been named and is presumed innocent.

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Berastagi: Two Arrested in Lecturer’s Death During Robbery

Karo police in North Sumatra arrested two suspects, identified as AFR, 25, and MRS, 37, in Percut Sei Tuan, Deli Serdang, with the car of a 38-year-old lecturer at the Institute of Technology and Business in Kabanjahe. Her body was discovered in the bathroom of her locked house in Berastagi late last week, after people close to her couldn’t reach her by phone.

Police chief AKBP Pebriandi Haloho said the pair went to the house to steal, and one had worked in the housing estate. Police call it violent theft resulting in death and have seized cash, phones, jewellery and clothing matched to CCTV. Both are presumed innocent.

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Merangin: Wife and Mother-in-Law Accused of Hiring a Killer

Police in Merangin, Jambi province, say Budi Lestari, 38, of Bungo, was killed by a hired man paid by his wife and mother-in-law. Villagers dug up his body, hands bound, at a hut on his plantation last week, four months after he vanished. His wife had told relatives he’d gone away to work.

AKP Epy Koto, the Merangin criminal investigations chief, said Tuesday that the wife, MM, 34, and her mother, JM, 61, were detained soon after and admitted involvement. The alleged killer, MK, 28, was arrested in South Lampung on Sept. 26. Police allege the mother-in-law offered him Rp 85 million and that the plan dates to May. All three are presumed innocent.

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Abuja: Police Witness Says Anchor Was Pushed to Her Death

At the resumed trial of 11 defendants before Justice Mohammed Idris of the FCT High Court on Tuesday, exactly a year after the robbery at Unique Apartments in Katampe, ASP Douglas Ishaku of the police Scorpion Squad testified that the defendants confessed to pushing Arise News anchor Somtochukwu Maduagwu, 29, to her death from the apartment building. A security guard, Barnabas Danlami, was shot dead that night.

Ishaku, the fourth prosecution witness, told lead prosecutor Adama Musa that only eight of the 11 defendants took part in the robbery. He said the first defendant, Shamsu Hassan, shot the guard. The confessions haven’t been tested in cross-examination. All 11 are presumed innocent.

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Sincelejo: Suspect Jailed in Patrolman’s Shooting Death

A control-of-guarantees judge in Sincelejo, Colombia, ordered Jhon Jairo Parra Fuenmayor held in prison over the killing of police patrolman Ader Solórzano Martínez in the early hours of Sept. 23. Solórzano was shot while officers answered a call at a shop in the La María neighbourhood, near the city centre. He died after being taken to a clinic.

Police say Parra was arrested at the scene with a .32-calibre revolver. Prosecutors from the Fiscalía presented the evidence. Parra is presumed innocent.

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Lima: Preliminary Arrests in Textile Businessman’s Killing

Peruvian prosecutors led raids on five homes in San Martín de Porres and detained several people for seven days over the May killing of Jaime Sosa, 54, a textile businessman. He was stabbed near Avenida Germán Aguirre as he walked home from a social gathering. His sister said about five attackers tried to rob him.

Police identified the suspects from security-camera footage and witness statements, RPP reports. The number held and their names weren’t released, and none has been charged.

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Tehuacán: Two Detained in 15-Year-Old’s Femicide

The Puebla state attorney general’s office said Tuesday that two people, identified as Efraín N. and Brenda N., have been detained in the femicide of a 15-year-old Indigenous girl from Tehuacán. She was reported missing June 21. A body was found in a barrel near 9 Norte and 52 Oriente on July 10, and DNA tests confirmed her identity on Sept. 22.

Efraín N. and Brenda N. were detained after a Sept. 5 search that also turned up 15 bags of a substance resembling crystal meth, Milenio reports. Their legal status is still to be settled by the public prosecutor, and each is presumed innocent.

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Dourados: Fifth Arrest in Mistaken-Identity Killing

Federal highway police in Corumbá arrested Marcos Antônio Olmedo Vera, 23, on Monday. Mato Grosso do Sul’s civil police say he hired the gunmen who killed Vítor Orsini, 19, at his father’s car garage in Dourados on Aug. 7. Investigators say the intended target, a man owed about R$300,000, arrived late, and Orsini was shot in his place.

He is the fifth person held in the case. Police say a gym owner in Ponta Porã ordered the attack, and a 31-year-old suspect is still at large. The case is investigated as aggravated homicide. Everyone arrested is presumed innocent.

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Catamarca: Femicide Prosecutor Takes Over Maira Cabrera Case

The investigation into the disappearance of Maira Romina Cabrera has moved to the Family and Gender Violence Prosecutor’s Office led by Alejandra Antonino, El Ancasti reports. Her former partner, Eduardo del Jesús Cejas, is charged with threats and with aggravated homicide in the context of a relationship, and stays in preventive detention. Judge Cecilia Mas Saadi confirmed his detention on both counts.

Prosecutors allege Cejas threatened Cabrera during an argument at her home in Telaritos, in Capayán department, on Aug. 7, in front of her sister. They allege he killed her there on the night of Aug. 10 and then moved and hid her body. It hasn’t been found. Cejas is presumed innocent.

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Resistencia: Man Detained After Woman, 75, Found Dead at Home

Police in Resistencia, in Argentina’s Chaco province, detained a 28-year-old man after a 75-year-old woman was found dead in her home at Julio Tort and Fortín los Pozos. Officers went after a 911 call reporting a man shouting inside the house. He used to run errands for her in exchange for food, the gender prosecutor, Jorge Cáceres Olivera, said.

The cause of death isn’t yet established, and an autopsy is pending. The prosecutor is weighing two scenarios: that the man found her already dead and tried to steal from the home, or that she died during a robbery attempt. He said she may have been smothered with a pillow found at the scene. The man, identified only by initials, is presumed innocent.

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Kalamazoo: Arrest in Alleged Retaliation Killing of Woman, 18

Kalamazoo Public Safety officers arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of murder and felony firearm on Tuesday, after a search warrant on East Cork Street, where a gun was also recovered. The victim, Amaure’ Dora-Lee Lynniah Harris, 18, was shot at about 10 p.m. Monday on Fox Ridge Drive and died.

Investigators believe she was killed in retaliation for the Sunday shooting death of Latraysa Brown, 49, inside her home on Reed Street. The man hasn’t been named or charged and is presumed innocent.

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Warren, Mich.: First-Degree Murder Charge After Flea Market Dispute

Zarick Lamont Johnson, 41, of Detroit, was arraigned Tuesday in 37th District Court on first-degree murder and other charges over a Saturday dispute at a flea market in Warren. Macomb County prosecutors allege he argued with brothers Senad and Mirhad Cehic over a power washer, assaulted Senad Cehic, 53, and then drove his 2004 Chevrolet Express van into Mirhad Cehic, 59, twice.

Mirhad Cehic died at Henry Ford Hospital in Warren. Judge Faunce denied bond, and Johnson is held at the Macomb County Jail ahead of a probable cause conference on Oct. 13. Johnson is presumed innocent.

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Worcester: Guilty Plea in 2021 Hotel Killing of Erica Lara

Kyle Curley, 35, pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the 2021 killing of Erica Lara, 29, and was sentenced to life with parole eligibility after 20 years, the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday. He also pleaded guilty to assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and received a concurrent 2- to 3-year term.

Lara’s body was found June 29, 2021, inside the Hotel Vernon at Kelley Square after her family reported her missing. The medical examiner ruled she died of blunt-force head injuries. Curley was arrested in San Diego in July 2021 after contacting Worcester detectives to turn himself in on unrelated warrants. Curley retains appeal rights.

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Ladson, S.C.: Woman Charged With Two Counts of Homicide by Child Abuse

Justine Marie May, 31, is charged with two counts of homicide by child abuse after deputies found two people dead during a welfare check in the 3200 block of Pinewood Drive in Ladson at about 1:17 p.m. Tuesday, Charleston County court records show. The Post and Courier reports she owns the house. The coroner’s office hasn’t released the names or ages of the dead.

May was taken into custody Tuesday and waived her bond appearance Wednesday. She stays at the Al Cannon Detention Center until an initial court appearance on Nov. 20. The charge carries 20 years to life in South Carolina. The charges against her are unproven.

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Lumberton, N.C.: Stepmother Pleads Guilty in Sara Graham Killing

Connie Graham, 65, a former Robeson County sheriff’s deputy, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to second-degree murder in the death of her stepdaughter, Sara Graham, who was 18 when she vanished on Feb. 4, 2015. WPDE reports she admitted striking Sara in the head with a hammer after an argument inside their home that day. Court records cited by WMBF show the charge was amended down from first-degree murder, and prosecutors dismissed felony conspiracy and evidence-tampering counts under the plea.

A judge sentenced her to 20 to 25 years in prison. She was arrested in June, along with two adult sons. Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said investigators will keep working to recover Sara’s remains, which three searches near Fairmont haven’t found. Graham retains appeal rights.

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St. Louis: Third Man Charged in College Hill Robbery Killing

Wesley Rayford, 29, is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree attempted robbery and two counts of armed criminal action in the July 12 shooting death of Jobori Bell, 28, at his home on Obear Avenue in the College Hill neighbourhood. A probable cause statement says Rayford and four others went to the house, some went in with guns and demanded items, and the group shot Bell.

Leon Perry, 26, and Kaylo Allison, 28, face the same charges. All three are held without bond, and none has been tried.

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Rabun County, Ga.: Felony Murder Charge After Roadside Shooting

Rabun County deputies called to a shooting near Sutton Lane in Clayton on Tuesday found Matthew Scott Webb, 31, of Clayton, lying in the road with gunshot wounds. Coroner Sam Beck pronounced him dead at the scene. Casey Ramey, 34, also of Clayton, was detained there without incident and later arrested on felony murder and aggravated assault warrants.

The sheriff’s office says the two men knew each other and hasn’t said what led to the shooting. The case goes to the Mountain Judicial Circuit district attorney once the investigation is done. Ramey is presumed innocent.

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Corpus Christi: Murder Warrant in Deliberate Highway 361 Crash

Liam Shannon, 23, turned himself in on Tuesday after Corpus Christi police detectives obtained a murder warrant over an Aug. 10 crash that killed a male driver in the 7900 block of Highway 361, just after 7 p.m. Police say Shannon was southbound when he swerved into the northbound lane and struck the other vehicle, and witness interviews led detectives to conclude the crash was intentional.

Shannon was treated in hospital for his own injuries after the collision. Police say the two men didn’t know each other and alcohol wasn’t a factor. He is presumed innocent.

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Philadelphia: Man Charged in Partner’s Beating Death

Melvin Rivera, 46, is charged with murder in the death of his longtime partner, Maria Pagan, 48, who was found last Thursday dead of blunt-force trauma in her hospital bed at home in the 1200 block of West Erie Avenue in North Philadelphia. Officials say she had a disability.

Rivera was arrested over the weekend and denied bail. He’s held at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility ahead of a preliminary hearing on Oct. 15, and is presumed innocent.

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Gadsden: Mother Held Without Bond in Daughter’s Death

Leslie Denise Wilson, 35, of Gadsden, Alabama, is charged with felony murder in the death of her 12-year-old daughter. A court complaint alleges aggravated child abuse through ongoing, extreme medical and physical neglect. Gadsden police arrested her, and she was booked into the Etowah County jail on Sept. 28.

At an Aniah’s Law hearing on Tuesday, a pathologist testified to the autopsy findings, which included malnutrition and dehydration. The judge ordered Wilson held without bond. She is presumed innocent.

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