# The Crime Ledger: October 17, 2026

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- Published: 2026-10-17T19:00:00-04:00
- Author: Mandi Martyr

Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing As of: October 17, 2026 (afternoon ET) Scope: Saturday’s board covers cases reported from Friday, Oct. 16, through Saturday, Oct. 17, ET, from police, court and prosecutor statements and newsrooms in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. A judge in Ensenada sentenced three men to 158 years each on Friday for killing Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad on a 2024 surf trip in Baja California. In Ireland, Cian Stacey, 21, and Jessica Dalton, 31, appeared in court charged over the Waterford arson attack that killed Philip and Kim English and two of their sons, and in Manhattan, two teenagers were indicted after a Fashion Institute of Technology student died from fentanyl she was told was cocaine. French investigators charged a 32-year-old woman suspected of being a hired gun in a double murder at an Ivry-sur-Seine shisha bar, and Michoacán prosecutors said the CJNG killed Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo in revenge for a cartel boss’s arrest. Murder charges came four years on in a Burnaby double homicide, two Yellowknife Mounties were charged in a death in a police vehicle, and a Ghent jury convicted Dave De Kock in the death of 4-year-old Dean Verberckmoes. The rest of the board runs from death sentences in Mysuru and Malegaon to a Muzaffarnagar priest allegedly shot over a wrong birth prediction, a Pontalina murder-for-hire and a ransomware case that German police now tie to a London hospital death. Ensenada, Mexico: Robinson Killers Get 158 Years Each for Surf Trip Murders Ensenada Bay, Baja California. The three surfers were killed while camping on the coast south of the city in 2024. Photo: Gabriel Flores Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 A judge in Ensenada sentenced three men to 158 years and nine months in prison each on Friday for murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad on a surf trip in Baja California in 2024. Judge Raúl Hernández handed down the terms to Jesús Gerardo, known as “El Kekas,” Irineo Francisco and Ángel Jesús, Infobae reported. Their surnames have been withheld for legal reasons. Callum, 33, Jake, 30, and Rhoad, 30, were camping near Punta San José, in the Santo Tomás area south of Ensenada, in late April 2024. Investigators said the attackers wanted their belongings and parts of their pickup, and trial testimony showed the three resisted. All three were shot in the head. Their bodies were found on May 3, 2024, in a well near a clifftop, and the truck was found burned. The men were convicted on Oct. 9 after a trial that opened Sept. 7. Prosecutors had sought 210 years. According to Infobae, the judge imposed 45 years for each killing, plus 10 years and nine months for robbery and 13 years for the vehicle theft. He rejected a damages claim of 1.9 million pesos because the value of the stolen gear was not proven, leaving the families to sue in civil court. The families followed the hearing by video link, The Guardian reported. Ary Gisell Silva, a former partner of El Kekas who testified that Rhoad begged for his life, was sentenced to 20 years in November 2025 after pleading guilty in a separate proceeding. Sources: Infobae: Condenan a 158 años de prisión a ‘El Kekas’ y sus cómplices por asesinato de surfistas en Ensenada The Guardian: Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers CBS News: Mexican killers of U.S., Australian surfers sentenced to 158 years in prison Al Jazeera: Three Mexicans jailed for 158 years each for killing Australian, US surfers Waterford, Ireland: Cian Stacey and Jessica Dalton Charged Over English Family Arson Merchant’s Quay in Waterford city. Photo: Colin Park / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Cian Stacey, 21, of no fixed address, and Jessica Dalton, 31, of Waterford city, appeared before Judge Andrew Gubbins at a special sitting of Clonmel District Court in County Tipperary on Saturday, charged in connection with the arson attack that killed four members of the English family in Waterford on Tuesday, The Irish Times and BBC News reported. Each faces one count of criminal damage and two counts of assault causing serious harm against two people who cannot be named for legal reasons. Philip and Kim English and their sons Callum, 12, and Jayden, 9, died after their home in the Birchwood estate was set on fire in the early hours of Tuesday. Two other children were critically injured and taken to hospital in Crumlin, Dublin. Gardaí are treating the case as a multiple murder and arson attack. Detectives told the court that Dalton was charged at Waterford Garda Station at 2:45 p.m. Irish time on Saturday and Stacey at 2:44 p.m., and that neither made any reply. Their lawyer, Ciarán Murphy, made no bail application. Dalton, described in court as a lone parent who is not in employment, consented to being remanded in custody, and Stacey was remanded to appear by video link. Both are due back before Waterford District Court on Tuesday. The pair were arrested on Thursday and are suspected of facilitating the activities of an organised crime group, RTÉ reported. Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly said on Friday that he expects further arrests and that gardaí know the people who were involved. Seven searches have been carried out, and a vehicle and devices were seized. The funerals of the four are set for Monday. Both accused are presumed innocent. Sources: The Irish Times: Man and woman charged in connection with fatal Waterford house fire BBC News: Waterford arson: Man and woman appear in court Cork Beo: Man and woman named during special court sitting over Waterford arson fire RTÉ News: Two people due in court over fatal Waterford arson attack TheJournal.ie: Two people charged in connection with fatal house fire that killed four members of Waterford family Manhattan: Two Teens Indicted After FIT Student Dies From Fentanyl Sold as Cocaine The Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan, where prosecutors say the two students were given fentanyl in a dorm room. Photo: Kidfly182 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged two teenagers in the death of a Fashion Institute of Technology student who was given fentanyl in a campus dorm and then raped while unconscious. An indictment unsealed this week names Moises Freire, 19, and Brian Peralta Cabrera, 18, in a three-count drug conspiracy and rape case, NBC New York reported. Both pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors say Freire brought what he told two young women was pure cocaine to their FIT dorm room in March, even though he knew he had bought the drug from Peralta Cabrera, who had called it “fake” and “poison.” The women lost consciousness almost immediately. Freire did not take the drug, the indictment says. Prosecutors allege he raped one woman, texted photos of the two to friends and waited about 45 minutes before contacting campus security. The woman who was raped died in a hospital a few days later. The second woman nearly died and suffered serious injuries. ABC7 identified the student who died as Annabel Richter. In an email to students, FIT said it had lost “a beloved member” of its community earlier this year. Sources: NBC New York: Prosecutors: FIT student dead after being drugged, raped in dorm NBC News: New York City college student dead after being drugged with fentanyl and raped in her dorm room, prosecutors say ABC7 New York: FIT student dies after being drugged and raped on Manhattan campus: officials Ivry-sur-Seine, France: Alleged Hitwoman Charged Over Double Murder at Shisha Bar The town hall of Ivry-sur-Seine, south of Paris. Photo: Wilfredor / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 A 32-year-old woman suspected of working as a contract killer was charged and jailed in Paris on Friday over a shooting that killed two people at L’Atelier, a shisha bar in Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris Match reported. Identified as Zohra A., a mother of three previously known to police for cigarette trafficking, she told investigators in custody that she had been recruited to kill the bar’s manager and that she acted under duress. Shots rang out at the bar around 3 a.m. on Oct. 12. The manager died at the scene, and a second person died in hospital on Oct. 13, prosecutors said. A second alleged shooter was also charged and jailed. A third man, suspected of acting as the driver, was also charged and jailed, and a fourth person, a woman suspected of helping a suspect evade police, was charged and placed under judicial supervision, La Clé Publique reported, citing AFP information confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office. The charges include murder by an organised gang. The bar’s manager had survived an earlier shooting at L’Atelier in April 2024, the outlet said. Paris Match described the case as a first in France: a woman suspected of being the hired gun in a killing of this kind. Euronews reported that she goes by the nickname “Nikita.” All four are presumed innocent. Sources: Paris Match: Double meurtre à Ivry-sur-Seine : soupçonnée d’être une tueuse à gages, une femme de 32 ans mise en examen et écrouée Euronews: « Nikita », la tueuse à gages présumée assure avoir agi sous la contrainte La Clé Publique: Double meurtre à Ivry : trois suspects écroués Uruapan, Mexico: Prosecutors Say CJNG Killed Mayor Carlos Manzo Over El Rino Arrest The municipal palace of Uruapan, where Carlos Manzo served as mayor. Photo: Keyomall / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Michoacán prosecutors said Friday that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) killed Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo in revenge for his security crackdown, above all the arrest of René “N,” known as El Rino, an alleged local cartel boss. Israel Vega Rodríguez, who heads the state prosecutor’s office, called it the main line of the investigation and said there is so far no sign of a political motive, Norte Digital reported. Manzo was shot dead on Nov. 1, 2025, during a Day of the Dead celebration in Uruapan. El Rino had been captured on Aug. 27, 2025, a little over two months earlier. Vega said the investigation is about 90 percent complete. Among those detained are Ramón Ángel “N,” known as El R1 and described as a CJNG leader, and Jorge Armando “N,” known as El Lic, whom authorities identify as the alleged masterminds. Both are held in the Altiplano maximum-security prison. Record and Norte Digital put the total number of people detained in the case at 32 and 33. None has been convicted, and all are presumed innocent. Sources: Norte Digital: CJNG habría matado a Carlos Manzo por captura de El Rino: Fiscalía Récord: Caso Carlos Manzo: Fiscalía de Michoacán revela por qué el CJNG asesinó al alcalde de Uruapan Burnaby, British Columbia: Murder Charges Four Years After Couple Found Dead in Car Burnaby, British Columbia, where Kiesha Garie and Umair Kasim were found dead in a parked car in 2022. Photo: Zacharycmango / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Almost four years after Kiesha Garie, 31, and her fiance Umair Kasim, 30, were found dead in a parked car on a quiet Burnaby street, a 27-year-old man has been charged with their murders. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said Mohammed Arif Ansari faces two counts of second-degree murder and one count of indignity to human remains. The Coquitlam couple had been reported missing a few days before a passerby spotted their bodies in a car near Alpha Secondary School on Oct. 17, 2022. Police released few details over the years. Garie’s family started a Facebook group to keep pressure on the case, which became the subject of a true crime podcast, and her mother, Christine Angelis, protested outside RCMP headquarters in Surrey in February, saying she had been “kept in the dark,” the Vancouver Sun reported. “This was a complex investigation that demanded years of dedicated work,” IHIT Sgt. Freda Fong said. Ansari is presumed innocent. Sources: Vancouver Sun: Murder charges laid in 2022 double homicide of Coquitlam couple CBC News: Man charged with murder in 2022 Burnaby double homicide CityNews Vancouver: Murder charges laid in Burnaby double homicide from 2022 London: Former Student Gets Life for Airbnb Murder of Xiaoqing Ke The Old Bailey in London, where Deepak Sandhu was sentenced. Photo: David Hillas / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Deepak Sandhu, 24, a former Southampton Solent University student, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey with a minimum term of 28 years for murdering Xiaoqing Ke, 39, a mother of two, in a “sustained and brutal” knife attack in a rented flat in west London, BBC News reported. The two met in 2025 while Ke was working in a brothel in Southampton. Prosecutor Caroline Carberry KC said their “relationship of sorts” fell apart after Sandhu stole money from her, and described a “campaign of emotional manipulation” in which he took control of her finances, her phone and at one point her passport. By the time of her death, Ke wanted nothing more to do with him. Sandhu bought knives a few days before traveling to London, where Ke had rented an Airbnb, the court heard. After the killing he took her phones, destroyed his SIM card the next day and tried to leave the country. Judge Philip Katz passed sentence. Sources: BBC News: Failed Southampton student jailed for 28 years for London murder Manchester Evening News: Airbnb murderer who killed woman in ‘the most brutal and callous way’ jailed Birmingham Now: Man jailed for life after killing mother-of-two, who exposed his web of lies Yellowknife: Two Mounties Charged in Death of Lawrence Blackduck in Police Vehicle Downtown Yellowknife, where Lawrence Blackduck was taken into custody in March 2025. Photo: Daniel Case / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Two Yellowknife RCMP officers have been charged with causing death by criminal negligence and failing to provide the necessaries of life in the death of Lawrence Blackduck, 56, a Tłı̨chǫ man who died in a police vehicle in March 2025. Court documents obtained by CBC News identify them as Constables Nicholas Ash and Brent Young, both 32. Police said officers took Blackduck into custody on March 12, 2025, after a report of a man disturbing the peace at a business on 50 Street. He was placed in a police vehicle “for investigational purposes” while officers gathered information. When they returned, he was unresponsive. Officers and paramedics tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Alberta RCMP’s major crimes unit investigated and recommended charges. RCMP said a separate review led to changes in national policy and training on holding people in vehicles, without saying what went wrong. Both officers are suspended, and both are presumed innocent. They are due in court on Nov. 24. Sources: Cabin Radio: Yellowknife RCMP officers charged with causing death by criminal negligence APTN News: RCMP officers charged in death of Tlicho Nation man in Yellowknife CBC News via Yahoo: 2 N.W.T. RCMP officers charged in connection with 2025 death of man in custody Ghent, Belgium: Dave De Kock Convicted in Death of 4-Year-Old Dean Verberckmoes The Palace of Justice in Ghent, where the assize court reached its verdict. Photo: LaSensibilita / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 A jury at the Ghent assize court on Friday found Dave De Kock, 39, guilty of the manslaughter of 4-year-old Dean Verberckmoes in 2022, of kidnapping resulting in death and of possessing child sexual abuse images, DH reported. His former partner, Romy Wuytack, 29, a Dutch woman, was acquitted of kidnapping resulting in death and convicted only of possessing and sharing child abuse images. The jury deliberated for three hours. Dean had stayed before with the couple in their apartment in Sint-Gillis-Waas and spent the night there on Jan. 12, 2022, the last day he was seen. Investigators say De Kock crossed into the Netherlands during the night of Jan. 14 and left the boy’s body the next afternoon near Neeltje Jans in Zeeland. The body was found on Jan. 17, the same day De Kock was arrested in Meerkerk. De Kock had pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied kidnapping. Sources: DH: Procès du meurtre du petit Dean (4 ans): Dave De Kock reconnu coupable, son ex-compagne acquittée de l’enlèvement RTL Info: Mort du petit Dean, 4 ans : le verdict est tombé pour Dave De Kock et son ex-compagne Mysuru, India: Death Sentence for Rape and Murder of Girl, 9, at Dasara The Mysore Palace, centre of the city’s Dasara festival. Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim / Wikimedia Commons, GFDL 1.2 A fast-track court in Mysuru on Saturday sentenced Karthik, 32, to death for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl whose family had come to the city from Kalaburagi to sell balloons during the 2025 Dasara festival, the Times of India and Hindustan Times reported. He had been convicted on Oct. 15. On Oct. 9, 2025, Karthik abducted the girl as she slept with her family in a plastic tent on the footpath on Manasara Road, prosecutors said. She suffered 27 stab wounds. Special public prosecutor K.B. Jayanthi called it one of the “rarest of rare” cases. Nazarbad police arrested Karthik, a bus cleaner from Siddalingapura, within a day, and a charge sheet listing 83 witnesses was filed within three months. Sources: Times of India: Mysuru court awards ‘death penalty’ to man for brutal rape and murder of 9-year-old girl in 2025 Hindustan Times: Mysuru court sentences man to death for rape and murder of 9-year-old during 2025 Dasara festival Sacramento: Husband Arrested After Jasmine Aujla Gill’s Burned Remains Found The El Dorado County Courthouse in Placerville. Jasmine Aujla Gill’s remains were found in the county on Oct. 1. Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Gurinder Gill has been arrested on a murder charge after investigators identified burned remains found in El Dorado County as those of his wife, Jasmine Aujla Gill, who vanished from their Sacramento home at the end of September, The Tribune and Punjab Newsline reported, citing the sheriff’s investigation. Jasmine went missing on Sept. 30, and a woman’s burned remains were found in El Dorado County on Oct. 1. A cousin reported her missing on Oct. 4. Gurinder told investigators that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had taken her while she was checking the mail, according to the reports. ICE said no such operation took place at the address, and investigators found other inconsistencies in his account. The two had been in a dispute over divorce and custody of their children, the reports said. Gurinder was arrested on Oct. 14, and search warrants were served at two homes linked to him. Gurinder has not been convicted and is presumed innocent. Sources: The Tribune: Punjabi woman found murdered in California after burned remains discovered; husband arrested Punjab Newsline: Indian-Origin woman found burned to death in California; husband arrested for murder Aubagne, France: Second 13-Year-Old Charged as Accomplice in College Shooting The town centre of Aubagne, near Marseille. Photo: Ludo33 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 A second 13-year-old boy was placed under formal investigation on Friday on suspicion of helping prepare the armed attack at Lakanal middle school in Aubagne, Midi Libre reported, citing a judicial source. The boy, from northern France, faces charges of complicity in attempted murders linked to a terrorist enterprise and of terrorist criminal conspiracy. The judge placed him under judicial supervision that requires him to stay in a closed educational centre, the measures sought by France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office (PNAT). The attack took place on Oct. 12 at about 9:20 a.m., when a student dressed all in black and wearing gloves entered the school with a firearm hidden in a guitar case. The school’s senior education adviser disarmed him, according to the PNAT. The alleged shooter was charged and jailed on Wednesday. Neither boy has been named, and both are presumed innocent. Sources: Midi Libre: Fusillade dans un collège à Aubagne : le deuxième adolescent de 13 ans mis en examen pour complicité RTL: Fusillade dans un collège à Aubagne : un deuxième adolescent mis en examen pour complicité Rosario, Argentina: Former Police Officer Charged With Femicide of Bárbara Aragón Plaza Sarmiento in Rosario. Photo: Pablo D. Flores / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Eliel Gerónimo Noel Schiffo, a 37-year-old former police officer, was charged in Rosario with sexual abuse and femicide in the killing of Bárbara Camila Aragón, whose body was found in a suitcase, Seprin and Identidad Correntina reported. Judge Vallarella ordered him held in pretrial detention for two years. Prosecutors say Aragón arrived at a rooming house in northwest Rosario at 11:26 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10, for a paid sexual encounter Schiffo had arranged. When she realized he had no money, she tried to leave. She had asked the DiDi driver who dropped her off to come back in an hour, but minutes after arriving she texted him to return urgently. That message became key evidence. Schiffo had paid for her ride by bank transfer, which let investigators identify him and the address, according to the accusation. The driver also helped police. Schiffo is presumed innocent. Sources: Seprin: Revelaron los últimos minutos de Bárbara Aragón antes de ser asesinada por un expolicía: el mensaje que pudo salvarla Identidad Correntina: Identidad Correntina » Imputaron al expolicía acusado de matar a Bárbara Aragón Edmonton: Man Shot Dead in Pipe Trades College Parking Lot, Suspects Caught on Highway 16 The view from 170 Street and Yellowhead Trail, near the trade school where a man was shot on Friday. Photo: Kurt Bauschardt from Edmonton, Canada / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 A man was shot dead in the parking lot of the Alberta Pipe Trades College in west Edmonton on Friday morning, and several suspects were taken into custody after RCMP disabled their vehicle on Highway 16, police said. Edmonton police were called to the college and the Plumbers and Pipefitters UA Local 488 building near Yellowhead Trail and 170 Street at 8:27 a.m. Officers found an injured man, who died at the scene. A student told CTV News Edmonton she heard five or six shots from the parking lot below her third-floor classroom. Parkland RCMP said they spotted a vehicle matching the description heading east on Highway 16, disabled it and arrested the people inside, who were treated for minor injuries and handed to Edmonton police. The homicide unit is investigating. No charges had been announced, and the victim had not been named. Sources: CTV News Edmonton: 1 dead after shooting at Edmonton trade school CBC News: Man dead after reported shooting outside Edmonton trades school Dún Laoghaire, Ireland: Wicklow Man, 32, Charged With Murder of Mark Cullen Dún Laoghaire harbour in south County Dublin. Photo: Ian Stewart / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 A Wicklow man has been charged with the murder of Mark Cullen, a father of three who was shot in the leg and died at Patrician Park on Kill Avenue in Dún Laoghaire on Sunday, July 5. Edward Andrews, 32, of Radharc na Farraige, Wicklow town, appeared before Judge John Hughes at Dublin District Court on Saturday morning and was remanded in custody, TheJournal.ie reported. Cullen, from Shanganagh Cliffs in Shankill, died at the scene. Gardaí arrested Andrews earlier in the week for questioning and charged him with murder contrary to common law. The hearing was shaped by the dispute between solicitors and the government over legal aid payments. Edward Bradbury, who normally represents Andrews, told the court he could take no active role because of the industrial action, saying it put “every active participant in the court in an invidious position.” He is due back before Cloverhill District Court next Friday. Andrews is presumed innocent. Sources: TheJournal.ie: Man (32) charged with fatal shooting of Mark Cullen in Dún Laoghaire The Irish Times: Man (32) charged with murder of Mark Cullen in south Dublin in July RTÉ News: Man charged with murder of Mark Cullen in Dún Laoghaire Cleveland: Dojuan Nettles Guilty in 2011 Tremont Killing of Brandon Cartellone Auburn Avenue in Tremont, the Cleveland neighbourhood where Brandon Cartellone was killed in 2011. Photo: Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 A Cuyahoga County jury on Friday convicted Dojuan Nettles, 41, of murder and kidnapping in the 2011 strangling of Brandon Cartellone, 21, in his Tremont apartment, the county prosecutor’s office said. A co-defendant, Dionte Davis, was acquitted on all charges. Prosecutors say Nettles went to Cartellone’s apartment near Professor Street and West 10th Street on July 26, 2011, tied him up with belts and duct tape, assaulted him and fled. Cartellone’s girlfriend found him around 1:30 the next morning. The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide by manual strangulation. The case stayed open for 14 years until the Cleveland Homicide Initiative, which includes Cleveland police, the FBI, the county forensic lab and the state’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, used advanced DNA testing to link Nettles to the scene. He was arrested in Florida on July 9, 2025. “After 15 long years, we are grateful to finally provide Brandon Cartellone’s family with answers,” Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley said. Sentencing is set for Nov. 4. Sources: Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office: Dojuan Nettles Found Guilty of Murder for the 15-Year-Old Cold-Case Homicide of 21-Year-Old Brandon Cartellone in Tremont Cleveland 19: Jury reaches verdict in trial for 2 men accused in 2011 murder of Cleveland college student Marseille: New Suspect Charged in Killing of Mehdi Kessaci The Old Port of Marseille. Photo: Clément Bardot / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 A new suspect has been arrested and charged in the investigation into the killing of Mehdi Kessaci, the 20-year-old younger brother of anti-drug-trafficking campaigner Amine Kessaci, Le Figaro reported, citing France’s national organised crime prosecutor’s office (PNACO). The suspect is accused of providing logistical help for the killing and has been placed in pretrial detention. Mehdi Kessaci was shot several times on a Marseille street in broad daylight on Nov. 13, 2025. He was unknown to police and had no link to the drug trade. His death drew a strong political response, with Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez calling it a crime of intimidation. The arrest comes weeks before the first anniversary of his death and days before the trial over the killing of Amine Kessaci’s half-brother, Brahim Chabane, Le Figaro reported. No name has been released, and the man is presumed innocent. Sources: Le Figaro: Marseille : un nouveau suspect mis en examen dans l’enquête sur la mort de Mehdi Kessaci France 3 Provence-Alpes: Mort de Mehdi Kessaci : un nouveau suspect mis en examen et placé en détention provisoire Santos, Brazil: Police Sergeant Gets 123 Years for Killing Wife in Clinic Santos, on the São Paulo coast. Photo: Diego Silvestre / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 A jury in Santos, São Paulo state, convicted military police sergeant Samir do Nascimento Rodrigues Carvalho of femicide and the attempted murder of his daughter, and he was sentenced to 123 years and four months in prison, g1 reported. The two-day trial ended Thursday night. Amanda Fernandes Carvalho, 42, was shot three times and stabbed 51 times inside a medical clinic in the Marapé neighbourhood in May 2025. The couple’s daughter, then 10, was shot and spent six days in hospital before recovering. Carvalho was arrested at the scene. On the stand, he said he did not remember the day. His lawyer, João Carlos Campanini, said he will appeal and seek a new trial, arguing his client was not in control of his mental faculties. The victim’s son, Davi, told TV Tribuna that Carvalho had been aggressive and had threatened the family many times. Sources: g1: PM condenado a 123 anos por matar esposa com 51 facadas em Santos Waterloo, Iowa: Minnesota Man Charged in 1995 Killing of Angela Renee Buck The Black Hawk County Courthouse in Waterloo, Iowa. Photo: RifeIdeas / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 A Minnesota man was arrested Friday on a first-degree murder charge in the 1995 shooting death of Angela Renee Buck, a 37-year-old Waterloo woman whose body was found by turtle hunters along a creek east of the city. The Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Office said Kelly Grant, 59, of Bertha, Minnesota, was taken into custody with help from the Todd County Sheriff’s Office and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Deputies found Buck’s body in the 900 block of Pilot Grove Road on Aug. 11, 1995. An autopsy showed she died of a gunshot wound. Buck was at a house on Cottage Street in Waterloo that night with several people, including Grant and another man, according to the complaint described by FOX 9. A witness saw someone resembling Grant and the second man force her into a vehicle and drive away. In January 1996, the complaint says, an associate told investigators Grant had suggested he and the other man killed Buck because they believed she had stolen from them, and that she “wouldn’t be doing this to anyone else again.” Grant is presumed innocent. Sources: FOX 9: Cold case arrest: Minnesota man charged in 1995 homicide in Iowa WCCO: Central Minnesota man charged in fatal 1995 shooting of woman in Iowa Radio Iowa: Minnesota man arrested in 1995 murder of Waterloo woman Clacton-on-Sea, England: Man Charged With Murder at Valley Farm Holiday Park Clacton Pier. The holiday park where the man was killed is in Clacton-on-Sea. Photo: Nigel Cox / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Essex Police have charged Daniel Fox, 39, of Hampden Crescent, Warley, with murder after a man in his 40s from Frinton-on-Sea was fatally assaulted at Valley Farm Holiday Park in Clacton-on-Sea on Wednesday evening, BBC News reported. The victim died at the scene. Fox also faces one count of burglary, two counts of making threats to kill and three counts of assaulting an emergency worker. He was due before Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Saturday. “I know this incident has caused a great deal of shock within the community around the holiday park,” said Det. Insp. Tim Coyles, who is leading the investigation. Specialist officers are supporting the man’s family. His name has not been released. Fox is presumed innocent. Sources: BBC News: Warley man charged with murder at Clacton caravan park Clacton and Frinton Gazette: Man charged with murder named after alleged assault at caravan park Pedro Canário, Brazil: Rape Suspect Confesses to Killing Pregnant Woman, Police Say Pedro Canário, in northern Espírito Santo. Photo: Jôbert Neves / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 A 21-year-old man arrested early Friday in Cristal do Norte, a district of Pedro Canário in Espírito Santo, on suspicion of breaking into a woman’s home, raping her and stabbing her twice in the neck, also told officers he killed Laydiane Lacerda da Silva, 33, who was four months pregnant, Folha Vitória and Tribuna Online reported, citing the Military Police. Her partner, 29, had been arrested in her death. Officers found the suspect hiding in a church. The woman survived. According to police, he said he went in to steal, found her asleep and attacked her, and that he did the same to Lacerda on Oct. 3. The Civil Police booked him for attempted robbery-murder and rape and sent him to a detention centre, and said his possible link to Lacerda’s death will be investigated. No charge has been filed in her killing, the man has not been named, and he is presumed innocent. Sources: Folha Vitória: Preso por estupro confessa morte de grávida em Pedro Canário Tribuna Online: Preso por estupro e tentativa de homicídio confessa morte de grávida no ES Lexington, Kentucky: Laken Snelling Sentenced to 10 Years in Newborn Son’s Death The Robert F. Stephens Courthouse in Lexington, home of Fayette Circuit Court. Photo: FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Laken Snelling, the former University of Kentucky student who admitted killing her newborn son, was sentenced Friday in Fayette Circuit Court to 10 years in prison, the term prosecutors recommended under her plea deal, LEX 18 reported. Snelling pleaded guilty on Aug. 21 to first-degree manslaughter, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant. “Instead of helping him, I ended his life,” she told the court at that hearing. Lexington police were called to a home in the 400 block of Park Avenue at about 10:30 a.m. on Aug. 27, 2025, and found the baby dead. Roommates had heard loud noises from her room around 4 a.m., according to search warrant records cited by LEX 18, and later went in and found the infant. The Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Office determined the boy was born alive and died of asphyxia by undetermined means, which led a grand jury to add the manslaughter charge. Sources: LEX 18: Laken Snelling sentenced to 10 years in infant death case Oxygen: University of Kentucky Cheerleader Laken Snelling Sentenced for Baby’s Death: What Happens Next? Mqabba, Malta: Son Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Mother With Screwdriver Mqabba, in southern Malta. Photo: Alan C. Bonnici / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 John Cassar, 47, of Siġġiewi, pleaded not guilty on Saturday to killing his mother, Mary Grace Cassar, 72, and attempting to kill his father, Ġanni Cassar, 74, at their home in Mqabba on Thursday, TVM News reported. Magistrate Nadia Helena Vella ordered him held in custody. Police Inspector Kurt Zahra testified that officers were called at about 3 p.m. and found Ġanni Cassar seriously hurt and his wife dead in the kitchen with head injuries, a shirt wrapped around her neck and wounds likely made by a sharp, pointed object. The father was found with a screwdriver in his chest and remains at Mater Dei Hospital. Cassar allegedly told police, “I killed my mother and father,” not knowing his father had survived, the court heard. He spent Thursday night in hospital after reportedly taking a large quantity of drugs, Lovin Malta reported. Cassar is presumed innocent. Sources: TVM News: LIVE: “I killed my mother and father”: John Cassar on the double murder in Imqabba Lovin Malta: Mqabba Murder Suspect John Cassar Expected To Be Arraigned In Court Today Malegaon, India: Man Sentenced to Death for Rape and Murder of Girl, 4 Malegaon, in Nashik district, Maharashtra. Photo: Zaki.anwar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 A special court in Malegaon, Nashik district, on Friday sentenced Vijay Sanjay Khairnar, 24, to death for raping and strangling a 4-year-old girl in a village in Malegaon taluka on Nov. 16, 2025, Deccan Chronicle reported. Judge K.G. Paldewar called it one of the “rarest of rare” crimes and ordered 10 lakh rupees paid to the family. Prosecutors said Khairnar, who lived in the same locality, lured the girl with a promise of chocolate while she played near her home with friends. The court said he betrayed the trust of a child who knew him, killed her to get rid of a witness and tried to hide the crime, the Times of India reported. He was convicted on Sept. 30. Senior lawyer Ujjwal Nikam led the prosecution after the case set off protests across Maharashtra. Sources: Deccan Chronicle: Nashik: Court Hands Death Penalty to Man For 2025 Rape-Murder of Minor Girl Times of India: ‘Rarest of rare’ crime: Court sentences 24-year-old man to death for rape & murder of 4-year-old girl in Malegaon Safety Harbor, Florida: Charge Upgraded to Murder After Jessica Antolini Dies Safety Harbor, Florida, where Jessica Antolini was shot outside a Main Street bar. Photo: Roman Eugeniusz / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Jessica Antolini, 30, died Thursday night, two days after deputies say her boyfriend shot her and ran her over outside a bar in Safety Harbor, with his 5-year-old daughter in his vehicle. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said the charge against Christopher “Dodge” Smith, 40, was upgraded from attempted first-degree murder to first-degree murder. He also faces a child abuse charge. Investigators say Smith went into Harbor Bar at 840 Main St. around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday with his daughter, leaving their dog in the parking lot. He walked out with Antolini, and the two began arguing. Deputies say he shot her near Ninth Avenue South and Main Street, then drove over her and left with the child and dog inside. Witnesses called 911 and described the vehicle, and deputies stopped Smith a short time later. The girl and dog were returned to family. Antolini was pronounced dead at 9:14 p.m. Thursday, FOX 13 reported. Friends built a memorial of flowers and candles near the corner and asked people to wear purple at Friday’s Third Friday street festival. Smith is presumed innocent. Sources: FOX 13 Tampa Bay: Woman dies days after being shot, run over by boyfriend outside Safety Harbor bar: PCSO ABC Action News: Safety Harbor man charged with murder after girlfriend dies from shooting injuries: PCSO Accrington, England: Driver Guilty of Murder After Dragging Matthew Weller Under His Car Blackburn Road in Accrington, where Matthew Weller was run over in April. Photo: Raymond Knapman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 A jury has convicted Muhammad Haarith, 23, of murdering Matthew Weller, 44, whom he ran over and dragged beneath his Volkswagen Passat in Accrington town centre in April, Lancashire Police said Friday. He will be sentenced on Monday. Police said Haarith had four teenage passengers in the car on Blackburn Road around 9:45 p.m. on April 22. Weller, whom police described as vulnerable, exchanged words with a back-seat passenger through an open window as he walked past. When the car pulled off, it slowed and stopped beside him, and Weller sat on the front wing. Moments later the Passat set off with him still on the bonnet. He fell, went under the front wheels and was dragged along the road. Haarith drove away. Members of the public and paramedics treated Weller, who was taken to Royal Blackburn Hospital and died of multiple injuries at 1:20 a.m. on April 23. Sources: Lancashire Police: News BBC News: Accrington man guilty of murdering Matthew Weller Lancashire Telegraph: Driver found GUILTY of murder after man hit and dragged along by car Mexico City: Arrest Warrant for Businessman in Killing of Stylist Micky Hair Avenida Presidente Masaryk in Polanco, where Miguel Ángel de la Mora was shot outside his salon. Photo: ProtoplasmaKid / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 A judge has issued an arrest warrant for Eduardo Ederly González, a 38-year-old businessman, as the alleged mastermind of the killing of celebrity stylist Miguel Ángel de la Mora, known as Micky Hair, in Polanco, Infobae reported. The warrant remains open, Telediario reported. Three men accused of carrying out the attack are already in custody. De la Mora was shot around 10 p.m. on Sept. 29, 2025, as he left his salon at Presidente Masaryk and Molière and stood talking with two people on the sidewalk, Telediario reported. Investigators concluded it was not a robbery but a targeted attack by a hired crew, with a gunman wearing a helmet. The two men met in 2021 and went into business together before falling out over money. Ederly has said publicly that De la Mora owed him 4 million pesos for a loan and 3.5 million for building the salon, claims Infobae noted were never proven in court. In 2024, De la Mora filed a criminal complaint accusing Ederly of fraud and harassment and obtained a protective order against him. Ederly is presumed innocent. Sources: Infobae: ¿Quién es Eduardo Ederly? Empresario señalado en el caso del asesinato de Micky Hair Telediario: Caso estilista Micky Hair: giran orden de aprehensión contra Eduardo Elsipogtog First Nation, New Brunswick: Hayven Francis Suspect Arrested Boarding Dubai Flight Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick, home of Hayven Francis. Photo: Verne Equinox / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 RCMP say a 27-year-old man wanted in the death of Hayven Francis, 21, of Elsipogtog First Nation, was arrested at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport as he was preparing to board a flight to Dubai, CBC News and CTV News reported. Police were called to a report of a man shot outside a home on Ball Park Street at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday and found Francis dead, CTV News reported. The shooting set off an Alert Ready warning in the area while police searched for a suspect. The RCMP release did not name the man arrested Friday morning. He remains in custody and was scheduled to appear in court in Montreal on Saturday. He is presumed innocent. Sources: CBC News: RCMP make arrest at Montréal airport in relation to Elsipogtog homicide case CTV News Atlantic: Man arrested for N.B. homicide while preparing to board plane bound for Dubai: RCMP Burgos, Spain: Two Teens Arrested After Woman, 83, Dies Bound and Gagged The Gamonal neighbourhood of Burgos, where the 83-year-old woman lived. Photo: Zarateman / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Spain’s National Police have arrested two boys, 16 and 17, on suspicion of killing an 83-year-old woman who was gagged and tied up during a robbery in her flat on Calle Vitoria in the Gamonal neighbourhood of Burgos, Burgos Conecta reported. The autopsy found she died of respiratory failure after being gagged and restrained, which kept her from reaching the oxygen machine she used every day. The robbery happened on Tuesday, Oct. 13, between 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. Police said the theft was the goal and her death a consequence of it. Officers recovered several pieces of gold jewelry taken from the home. The teenagers were arrested Friday night and handed to the juvenile prosecutor on Saturday, who must decide whether to hold them in a juvenile centre. They are not named, and both are presumed innocent. Sources: Burgos Conecta: Detenidos dos menores por la muerte de la mujer amordazada e inmovilizada en su casa de Burgos durante un robo El Confidencial: Dos menores detenidos por la muerte de una anciana hallada maniatada en su casa en Burgos laSexta: Detenidos dos menores por la muerte de una anciana de 83 años en Burgos: fue encontrada amordazada y maniatada en su vivienda San Luis, Argentina: “El Vaca” Caught in Mendoza After Gabriela Centeno Found Dismembered The city of San Luis, Argentina. Photo: Federico Gomez Aghetta / Wikimedia Commons, public domain Police in Las Heras, Mendoza, on Friday arrested Agustín Raúl Bullones Soria, 29, known as “El Vaca,” wanted for the femicide of his partner, Gabriela Centeno, 42, whose dismembered body was found buried on the lot where they lived beside the old Pescadores road in the city of San Luis, Infobae reported. Officers spotted him walking in the Santa Teresita neighbourhood shortly before 1 p.m. He tried to run, and he was caught after backup arrived. A San Luis prosecutor had issued a warrant for him on Oct. 14. Both were from Mendoza and had moved to San Luis this year. Neighbours told El Diario de la República that she had not been seen for about a month and a half, that the couple argued often and violently, and that when asked about her, he said she had gone home. According to the paper, she is believed to have been stabbed, wrapped in a blanket and buried in a pit beside the shack. Neighbours had burned the shack in anger over a string of thefts. Bullones will be transferred to San Luis and is presumed innocent. Sources: Infobae: Identificaron el cuerpo desmembrado hallado en San Luis: era de una mujer y detuvieron a su pareja por femicidio El Diario de la República: Cayó “El Vaca”, el presunto autor del femicidio en el barrio República Fort Worth, Texas: Security Guard Charged With Murder in La Gran Plaza Kiosk Shooting La Gran Plaza in Fort Worth, where a man was shot near a jewelry kiosk on Wednesday night. Photo: Glubin39 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 A security guard who shot a man accused of smashing a jewelry kiosk at La Gran Plaza in Fort Worth has been arrested and charged with murder, police said. Tyron Douglas Henton Jr., 31, faces the charge over the shooting on Wednesday night, CBS News Texas reported. Officers were called shortly after 8:30 p.m. to the shopping center on South Freeway near Seminary Drive, where a man was reportedly using a blunt object to break glass display cases at a jewelry kiosk. Police said Henton, who was working security there, opened fire and hit the man at least once. The wounded man ran across the parking lot and collapsed near Seminary Drive, where he was pronounced dead. Police have not released his name. Witnesses told CBS News Texas they heard four or five shots. Employees said the guard worked for a private company hired by the jewelry business rather than by the plaza, which the station said it had not confirmed. Texas law allows deadly force to protect property in some circumstances, and the case is likely to turn on that question. Henton is presumed innocent. Sources: CBS News Texas: Fort Worth security guard charged with murder in fatal shooting at La Gran Plaza, police say NBC 5 Dallas Fort Worth: What police say led to the La Gran Plaza shooting and the murder arrest FOX 4: Fort Worth security guard charged with murder after shooting, killing man smashing jewelry kiosk: police Limerick, Ireland: Man Pleads Guilty to 2010 Gangland Murder of Lee Slattery Patrick Street in Limerick city. Photo: Darrin Antrobus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Kurt Ryan, 33, pleaded guilty on Friday, partway through his trial, to the murder of Lee Slattery, a 25-year-old who was shot twice at close range and buried in a shallow grave at Delmege Estate in Limerick in 2010. Ryan, of Moylish Crescent, admitted murder in association with a criminal organisation and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life on May 28, 2010, RTÉ reported. He was 17 at the time. Prosecutor Michael O’Higgins told the Central Criminal Court, sitting in Cork, that Slattery was not a member of any gang, was “well liked” and had been “wrongly singled out,” and that there was “no basis for the killing.” Judge Eileen Creedon accepted the pleas. The case will be mentioned in Dublin on Oct. 27, when a sentencing date will be set, and Ryan was remanded in custody. Sources: RTÉ News: Guilty plea in Limerick murder trial The Irish Times: Man pleads guilty to commissioning murder of Lee Slattery in 2010 Irish Examiner: Limerick murder trial hears accused admit to ‘murder in association with a criminal organisation’ Istanbul: Life Sentence for Murder of Footballer Kubilay Kaan Kundakçı The Anatolian Justice Palace in Istanbul. Photo: Metuboy / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 An Istanbul court sentenced Alaattin Kadayıfçıoğlu to life in prison on Friday for the murder of footballer Kubilay Kaan Kundakçı, who was shot dead in Ümraniye on March 19, NTV reported. Aleyna Kalaycıoğlu, who had been accused of inciting the killing and failing to report a crime, was acquitted. The Anatolian 27th High Criminal Court also gave Kadayıfçıoğlu two years and six months for a firearms offence. Other defendants received shorter terms, including two years and one month for harbouring an offender for Engin Taşkıran. Kundakçı’s parents, Cemil and Ülker Kundakçı, were in the courtroom for the verdict. Sources: NTV: Futbolcu Kubilay Kaan Kundakçı cinayeti davasında karar TRT Haber: Kubilay Kaan Kundakçı cinayeti davasında karar açıklandı Sözcü: Kubilay Kaan Kundakçı cinayeti davasında karar çıktı: Kalaycıoğlu’na beraat, Kadayıfçıoğlu’na müebbet Muzaffarnagar, India: Father and Son Accused of Killing Priest Over Wrong Birth Prediction Muzaffarnagar railway station, Uttar Pradesh. Photo: Ravi Dwivedi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Uttar Pradesh police on Friday arrested a father and son accused of shooting dead Swami Devanand Bharti, an elderly priest at a Shiva temple in Bhaurakalan village, Muzaffarnagar, because his prediction that they would have a boy proved wrong, the Indian Express reported. Zeeshan, 22, and his father, Hashim, 54, both labourers, were arrested. Police say Zeeshan sought the priest’s help after his wife suffered miscarriages, and Bharti gave herbal remedies and predicted a son. A daughter was born recently, and a dispute followed. On the night of Oct. 13, police say, Hashim distracted the priest while Zeeshan shot him with a country-made pistol outside his room on the temple grounds. The pair then scattered photos of a neighbour they were feuding with around the scene to frame him, police said. Officers recovered two pistols, cartridges and a motorcycle, and said the two confessed. Reports gave the priest’s age differently. Both are presumed innocent. Sources: Indian Express: Father, son arrested for killing Uttar Pradesh priest over failed ‘boy birth’ prediction Times of India: Wrong birth prediction: Father-son shoot 81yo priest dead: Agra News Gulu, Uganda: Two Teens, 18, Arrested Over Killing of University Student The entrance to Gulu City in northern Uganda. Photo: Micheal Kaluba / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Ugandan police have arrested two 18-year-olds in the killing of John Bosco Ngire, a Gulu University education student attacked in Agwee, Laroo-Pece Division, in the early hours of Oct. 10, the Daily Monitor reported. Police identified them as Gerald Omara, a student at Good Samaritan Technical School, and Ambrose Rom. Police say both confessed during questioning and led officers to the scene, where they recovered the student’s shoes and a hammer allegedly used to hit him on the head. The file will go to the Resident State Attorney before they are charged in court. The killing came five months after Christopher Nyeko, a lab technician at the university’s health centre, was killed by unknown attackers near campus on May 22. Both suspects are presumed innocent. Sources: Daily Monitor: Two arrested over killing of Gulu University student Nile Post: Two Suspects Confess to Murder of Gulu University Student as Police Make Breakthrough London: German Police Add Deadly Synnovis Hospital Hack to Case Against Russian St Thomas’ Hospital beside the Thames in London. Photo: Ввласенко / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 German police investigating a detained 28-year-old Russian man accused of being a core member of the Qilin ransomware gang are now including the 2024 hack of Synnovis, which disrupted London hospitals and contributed to a patient’s death, BBC News reported. The BBC said British police are also examining whether their own inquiry could lead to an unlawful killing case, which would be a world first in cybercrime. The man, named by German media as Vladimir K., was arrested by Japanese police when he arrived for a holiday in May. Germany wanted him over a September 2024 attack on a logistics company that was extorted for about $160,000 in cryptocurrency. His extradition was first reported in early October. Qilin hit Synnovis, a pathology provider, on June 3, 2024, disrupting blood transfusions, canceling operations and affecting more than 10,000 appointments. King’s College Hospital later said a patient “died unexpectedly,” with “a long wait for a blood test result” among the contributing factors. Vladimir K. has not been tried and is presumed innocent. Sources: BBC News: Russian man linked to deadly London hospitals hack arrested Alba, Texas: Man Charged With Murder After Girlfriend Shot Through Bathroom Wall The Wood County Courthouse in Quitman, Texas. Photo: Larry D. Moore / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 Ricardo Gonzalez-Aguirre, 40, was held Friday in the Wood County Jail on $1 million bond, charged with murder in the shooting of his girlfriend, Annalisa Lorraine Sandoval, 51, KLTV reported, citing an arrest affidavit. Deputies were called Tuesday to a reported suicide on County Road 1689. Gonzalez-Aguirre told a detective that Sandoval said she was “sick of things” and shot herself next to their bed. The detective noted the scene did not match: there was no blood where he said she shot herself, and she was found on the bathroom floor between the toilet and a wall, with a handgun under her body. The next day, according to the affidavit, he changed his story and admitted shooting her through a wall while she was in the bathroom, saying it was an accident. Sandoval died Wednesday. The murder charge is an accusation, and Gonzalez-Aguirre is presumed innocent. Sources: KLTV: Alba man accused of killing girlfriend after shooting through bathroom wall Botarell, Spain: Four More Arrested in Sinaloa-Linked Kidnap and Murder Botarell, in Tarragona’s Baix Camp, where the man’s body was found in 2024. Photo: Juan Emilio Prades Bel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 The National Police and the Mossos d’Esquadra have arrested four more men in the 2024 kidnapping and murder of a 46-year-old man who had traveled from Italy and was found dead in woodland in Botarell, Tarragona, La Vanguardia reported. A fifth suspect is serving a sentence for other crimes in a Madrid prison. The arrests took place on Sept. 22 in Barcelona, Sant Vicenç de Montalt and Sant Boi de Llobregat and were made public on Saturday. Police said they gathered new evidence of kidnapping, murder, drug trafficking, money laundering and membership in a criminal organisation. The man’s body was found in August 2024. In November that year, police broke up a Maresme and Barcelona drug-trafficking network with ties to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and arrested 14 people. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of 240,000 euros, according to La Vanguardia and Diari de Tarragona. All of those arrested are presumed innocent. Sources: La Vanguardia: Detenidas cuatro personas más por el secuestro y asesinato de un hombre en el 2024 Diari de Tarragona: Detenidos cuatro hombres más por el secuestro y asesinato de un hombre cuyo cuerpo apareció en Botarell Pontalina, Brazil: Three Arrested in Pará Over R$100,000 Murder of Ex-Mayor, 88 Praça Alfredo Nasser in Pontalina, where José Porto Andrade once served as mayor. Photo: Túllio F / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Goiás civil police arrested three people in Jacundá, Pará, on Friday, accused of supplying the gun and the motorcycle used to kill José Porto Andrade, 88, a former mayor of Pontalina, on Aug. 5, Mais Goiás reported. Police say the killing was ordered by his cousin, Clovis Guimarães Andrade, who confessed to paying R$100,000 for it. Officers served three temporary arrest warrants and six search warrants and seized 11 guns, including a 9 mm pistol of the same caliber as the murder weapon, which will be sent to Goiás for ballistic testing. The names of those arrested were not released. Clovis was jailed on Aug. 13 along with a man suspected of brokering the killing. The two cousins had argued earlier this year over a card game, according to investigators. The suspected gunman died on Aug. 14, and police in Pará are still investigating how. Those arrested are presumed innocent. Sources: Mais Goiás: Pistoleiros do Pará teriam sido contratados pelo próprio primo para matar ex-prefeito de Pontalina; pagamento foi de R$ 100 mil, segundo investigação Nalanda, India: Police Team Held After Constable’s Death Blamed on Smugglers The hills of Rajgir in Nalanda district, Bihar. Photo: Naveen Ranjan Giri Sulekha Ranjan Giri / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Seven people, including six members of a police team, have been arrested over the death of prohibition constable Ajeet Kumar, 30, in Nalanda, Bihar, after investigators concluded he was killed by a colleague’s bullet and that the team made up a story about an attack by liquor smugglers, the Times of India reported. During a chase on the night of Oct. 14, a home guard fired an old .303 rifle at the smugglers’ speeding vehicle, police said. The shot missed and hit a department vehicle ahead, killing Kumar. The team at first said smugglers had opened fire on them. A special investigation team found contradictions in their accounts, and the vehicle was sent to Patna instead of being handed over. Those arrested include prohibition sub-inspector Pushpa Kumari, three home guards, a constable and a private driver. Nalanda Superintendent of Police Hriday Kant said the charges are hiding evidence and concocting a false story. The rifle was seized. All are presumed innocent. Sources: Times of India: Six police team members among 7 held in Nalanda cop murder case; liquor smuggler attack story fabricated Ilobu, Nigeria: Lawyer Among Five Held Over Killing of Boy, 14, Before Osun Election The Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove in Osun State, Nigeria. Photo: Aduagba3687 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Osun State police have arrested a lawyer, Abdulrauf Ogunshola, and four other men over the shooting death of 14-year-old Olapade Ezekiel at a palm-wine shop in Ilobu in the run-up to the Aug. 15 governorship election, The Sun reported, citing a police statement issued Friday. Police said a group arrived in a Sienna bus at about 3:30 p.m. on June 1 and fired at random outside the shop on Council Road, next to the Irepodun local government headquarters, where the boy was with his parents. He was fatally shot, and another man was wounded. Police said all five confessed and that Salako Taofeek was named by the others as the gunman. A man known as “Alaagba,” described as the group’s armourer, is being sought. All five are presumed innocent. Sources: The Sun Nigeria: Police arrest lawyer, 4 others over killing of 14-year-old boy prior Ostuni, Italy: Gabriele Sorada, 28, Held for Murder After Gardener Antonio Nisi Shot Dead Piazza della Libertà in Ostuni, near where Antonio Nisi was found dead. Photo: Bernard Gagnon / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Gabriele Sorada, 28, was placed under a prosecutor’s detention order and sent to prison on Saturday on suspicion of the voluntary homicide of Antonio Nisi, a 34-year-old gardener from Ostuni found dead near Piazza della Libertà in the centre of the town during the night of Oct. 16, BrindisiReport and Quotidiano di Puglia reported. The order was issued by Brindisi prosecutor Laura De Stradis. Carabinieri had been looking for Sorada to question him as someone with information about the killing but had not found him, Quotidiano di Puglia reported. He walked into the Ostuni station with his lawyer, Vito Cellie, and spent the day there. Questioned by De Stradis, he declined to answer questions and gave only his own account of what happened, BrindisiReport said. Passersby found Nisi’s body on the paving, and paramedics could only confirm his death. Forensic doctor Domenico Urso found a wound between the armpit and arm consistent with a 7.65-caliber pistol, which has not been recovered. An autopsy is expected early next week. Investigators are saying little about a motive; BrindisiReport said one line being examined involves drug use. Sorada has not been tried and is presumed innocent. Sources: BrindisiReport: Omicidio del giardiniere: un uomo sottoposto a fermo, ha fornito la sua versione dei fatti Quotidiano di Puglia: Ostuni, Antonio Nisi ucciso per strada: fermato un 28enne La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno: Ostuni, omicidio di Antonio Nisi: si costituisce il presunto killer del giardiniere 34enne RaiNews: Omicidio Nisi, si sarebbe costituito il presunto omicida Bhopal, India: Crowd Tries to Storm Police Station After Girl, 12, Found Dead The Upper Lake in Bhopal. Photo: Aman Gupta / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 An angry crowd tried to force its way into Bairagarh police station in Bhopal on Saturday, a day after a 12-year-old girl was found dead in an abandoned building behind Krishna Complex, demanding that the man arrested be handed over or hanged, Rediff and India Today reported. Police shut the gates, residents blocked traffic, and extra officers were deployed. Police have arrested Mobin Khan, a 23-year-old mechanic, and registered a murder case, India Today reported. The girl lived in a slum on Bairagarh Phatak Road and collected plastic waste for a living. She left home around 8 p.m. Thursday to watch a religious tableau and did not return, her family said, and they filed a missing person complaint that night. Her body was found Friday morning on the third floor of the building, reportedly wrapped in a blanket. Police found a piece of cloth in her mouth and fragments of an iron rod at the scene. Bhaskar English reported that preliminary findings pointed to sexual assault and strangulation, but police have not confirmed sexual assault and are awaiting the full postmortem, India Today said. A local report cited by India Today said Khan confessed during questioning. Additional Deputy Commissioner Sanjeev Pathak told the Press Trust of India that police would take further legal action once the postmortem report arrives. Khan is presumed innocent. Sources: Rediff: Outrage In Bhopal After Girl’s Murder, Crowd Tries To Storm Police Station India Today: Angry mob tries to storm Bhopal police station over 12-year-old girl’s murder Bhaskar English: Protests erupt over girl’s murder in Bhopal: Mob tries to storm police station, demands accused be handed over for punishment Thessaloniki, Greece: Jailed Man Identified as Suspect in Killing of Maria Kiose Evosmos, the Thessaloniki suburb where Maria Kiose was found dead. Photo: Georgios86 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 Seven months after Maria Kiose, 59, was found dead in her home in Evosmos, Thessaloniki, Greek police have identified a 47-year-old man as the alleged killer, Mega TV reported. He is already in prison: he was arrested two days after her death on an unrelated case and has been serving a sentence since. Investigators are examining robbery as a possible motive, and personal items belonging to Kiose played an important part in the inquiry, according to the reports. Her sister said she wanted justice and was relieved the investigation had moved forward. The man has not been named and is presumed innocent in her death. Sources: Mega TV: Εύοσμος: Ταυτοποιήθηκε 47χρονος για τη δολοφονία της Μαρίας Κιοσέ: Βρίσκεται ήδη υπό κράτηση για άλλη υπόθεση Maleviziotis: Επτά μήνες αναζητούσαν τον δράστη της Μαρίας Κιοσέ Pratapgarh, India: Wife and Alleged Lover Among Four Held Over Trader’s Killing The Belha Devi Temple in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh. Photo: Jeeteshroxx / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Police in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, have arrested four people, including the wife of trader Umashankar Kaushal, known as Guddu, and her alleged lover, after his body was found in a pit near the Shitalmau canal in Lalganj, India Today reported. Police say Kaushal was killed after he objected to his wife’s relationship. Additional Superintendent of Police Brijnandan Rai said the wife, Suman Devi, her alleged lover and two other men, Vishal Shukla and Avinash Tiwari, were arrested by Lalganj police and a special operations team. Call records, phone locations and a phone the lover allegedly gave her were key leads, The Statesman reported, citing IANS. The couple had three daughters, aged 10, 8 and 6, The Statesman reported. Reports differed on Kaushal’s age and trade. All four are presumed innocent. Sources: India Today: Woman, lover among 4 arrested for UP trader’s murder after he opposed their affair The Statesman: Wife, lover among four arrested for murder of jewellery trader in UP’s Pratapgarh Kasaragod, India: All 21 Acquitted in 2014 Murder of Zainul Abid Kasaragod town in northern Kerala. Photo: ARUNKUMAR P.R / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 A court in Kasaragod, Kerala, on Saturday acquitted all 21 BJP and RSS workers accused of murdering Zainul Abid, a 24-year-old supporter of the Social Democratic Party of India, in 2014, ruling that the prosecution had failed to prove its case, Deccan Herald reported. The court heard 81 witnesses and reviewed 20 material objects and 150 documents. Abid was helping his father, K.A. Muhammad Kunhi, close their mattress shop near the old bus stand at about 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 22, 2014, when a group armed with sharp weapons stormed in and attacked him, according to the prosecution. Shopkeepers ran to help after hearing his screams, but the attackers fled. He was moved from a hospital in Kasaragod to Mangaluru and died the next day. Sources: Deccan Herald: Court acquits 21 BJP-RSS workers in 2014 murder of SDPI activist in Keralam Muslim Mirror: Kerala court acquits 21 BJP-RSS workers in Zainul Abid murder case Tosya, Turkey: Suspect Jailed After Imam Killed With a Log in Forest Countryside in the Tosya district of Kastamonu province. Photo: Oltantr at Turkish Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, public domain A suspect identified by the initials K.Ç. was jailed pending trial after İrfan Vurucu, 50, the imam of Göl Mahallesi mosque in Tosya, Kastamonu province, was killed with a blow to the head from a log, Habertürk reported, carrying agency copy. Vurucu was working at a tree-felling site in a forest near Yağcılar village when K.Ç., with whom he reportedly had a dispute, came up behind him and struck him, according to the reports. He died at the scene. Gendarmes caught the suspect in the forest after a call to emergency services. K.Ç.’s father and brother-in-law were also detained and released under judicial supervision. K.Ç. is presumed innocent. Sources: Habertürk: Kastamonu’da imamı öldüren zanlı tutuklandı – Kastamonu Haberleri Saray Medya: Tosya’da imamı öldüren zanlı gözaltına alındı ve tutuklandı