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The Crime Ledger: September 11, 2026

THE CRIME LEDGER cover for September 11, 2026. Distressed noir dossier with gothic skyline and evidence scraps for Milpitas, Belconnen, Blackburn, Taunton, Portland.

Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing
As of: September 11, 2026 (evening ET)
Scope: Worldwide sweep — last ~24 hours preferred; major developments stretched to ~48. Milpitas / San José, Belconnen, Blackburn, Taunton, Portland, Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, Kanpur, Antlers, Maidstone, Wilson, Lake City. LawAndCrime homepage scanned (thin on fresh homicide leads). People.com/crime fetch blocked (402). The New Yorker still carried the Clancy mistrial path in The Lede — no fresh crime Lede today. Tabloid tips confirmed through police, court, prosecutor, AP/wires, or independent locals.

Santa Clara prosecutors locked Anila Baby into two murder counts after linking an Aug. 28 San José strangling-stabbing to a Milpitas parking-lot hit that killed another friend roughly ninety minutes later. In Canberra, newly released court papers walk through DNA, CCTV, and a July undercover sting that allegedly caught Jack Henry Curtin talking through Kylee McHugh’s Belconnen killing and the fire meant to hide it. Blackburn magistrates remanded Yasin Leli on two murder counts for the stabbing deaths of his parents. Bristol County took a second New Bedford woman, Malkiah Cunningham, into the Taunton birthday-party case that already has Sienna Barboza held without bail. Oregon State Police grabbed Louis Chlumak on I-5 after Vernetta Fish was beaten to death in a Northwest Portland apartment. Mont-de-Marsan prosecutors put three young men into formal examination for the assassinat of a 68-year-old homeless man found in Lac de Christus. Kanpur police asked a court for fifteen days with Shalu Manocha over the hired stabbing of trader Vineet Manocha. U.S. Marshals found David Basham in Sheboygan County while OSBI still hunts for Christopher Carter’s body in Pushmataha County. Kent Police charged Bradley Patton in a Maidstone Knightrider Street stabbing; Wilson police booked Shannon Davis for Terrance Lucas’s Manchester Street killing; and Columbia County held Isaiah Campbell without bond after Nicole Lopez died of blunt-force and stab wounds on NW Moore Road.

Milpitas: Two Friends Killed Same Morning

Anila Baby, 32, of Milpitas, was arraigned Thursday in Santa Clara County and ordered held without bail on two murder counts. Prosecutors say on Aug. 28 she strangled and stabbed Ann Mary Mathew, 39, inside Mathew’s Linda Vista Street home in San José, then about ninety minutes later accelerated an SUV into Anjana Hari in the Mill Creek Apartments parking lot in Milpitas and drove off.

Milpitas officers found Baby minutes later in a Walgreens lot — injured, incoherent, blood on her arms and legs. San José detectives later tied her to Mathew’s house through cellphone location data, a sandal match on deleted surveillance clips, and a bloodstain on her pants that matched Mathew. Deputy DA Marisa McKeown told the court both women were mothers and friends of the accused. Next date Nov. 17. Baby is presumed innocent.

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Belconnen: Undercover Sting on McHugh Death

ACT court documents released Friday detail how text threats, DNA that couldn’t exclude Jack Henry Curtin, 27, CCTV placing him near Osborne Place around 3:30 and 4:30 a.m. on May 18, and a July undercover operation led to murder and arson charges in the death of Kylee McHugh, 46.

Firefighters pulled McHugh from her burning Wallcliffe Flats unit that morning. The pathologist found blunt-force injuries to the head and neck and no carbon monoxide — she was dead before the fire. Investigators say five fire seats included pour patterns of ignitable liquid. During the sting Curtin allegedly described how to “bash them and choke them.” Arrested Monday in Fyshwick, he made no admissions in the formal interview and has entered no plea. Remanded; back in October. He is presumed innocent.

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Blackburn: Son Charged in Parents’ Stabbing

Yasin Leli, 46, of Hardman Street, appeared at Blackburn Magistrates’ Court charged with two counts of murder after Lancashire Police found Ismail Ahmed Yeli, 80, and Fatma Leli, 78, dead from multiple stab wounds at their Hardman Street home Monday morning.

Officers were called just after 08:20 BST. The family called the couple “inseparable” and thanked police and the Masjid-e-Quwwatul mosque for support. Leli was told his next appearance is Preston Crown Court on Sept. 15. He is presumed innocent.

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Taunton: Second Woman Charged in Party Shooting

Bristol County DA Thomas Quinn III announced Malkiah Cunningham, 25, of New Bedford, was charged with murder and seven counts of armed assault with intent to murder in the Sept. 6 Weir Street birthday-party shooting that killed Zirovick Depina, 22, of Brockton, and wounded seven others. She was ordered held without bail Friday in Taunton District Court; next date Oct. 8.

Sienna Barboza, also 25 and of New Bedford, was already held without bail on matching counts as the alleged driver. State Police and Taunton police say the shooters themselves are still unnamed. Cunningham is presumed innocent.

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Portland: Beating Death Arrest on I-5

Louis J. Chlumak, 51, was booked into Multnomah County Detention Center late Thursday on second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon after Oregon State Police stopped him on Interstate 5 near milepost 236 (Millersburg) and handed him to Portland homicide detectives.

Central Precinct had answered a possible assault call about 12:32 p.m. Wednesday at an apartment in the 600 block of Northwest 18th Avenue and found Vernetta G. Fish, 63, dead. The medical examiner ruled blunt-force homicide. LexisNexis records place Chlumak at the same complex. Case No. 26-264223. He is presumed innocent.

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Landes: Three Charged in Lac de Christus Killing

The Mont-de-Marsan parquet confirmed Friday that three young men — two aged 18, one 20, none previously known to justice — were mis en examen Thursday for assassinat and placed in provisional detention over the death of a 68-year-old homeless man found half-submerged in Lac de Christus at Saint-Paul-lès-Dax on Sept. 3.

Autopsy showed a major cranial trauma and facial lesions. Bayonne’s police judiciaire ran the inquiry. The prosecutor has not released motive; assassinat under French law implies premeditation. One of the three is also tied to an Aug. 24 assault on another homeless man in the same commune who was left comatose. They are presumed innocent.

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Kanpur: Remand Push on Hired Stabbing

Kanpur Commissioner Raghubir Lal told PTI Friday police will seek fifteen days’ custody of Shalu Manocha, daughter-in-law of pharmaceutical trader Vineet Manocha, 60, found stabbed more than two dozen times at his Ratan Orbit flat in Kalyanpur in the early hours of Sept. 5.

Police allege she hired former employee Vishal Gautam for ₹6 lakh and that Gautam and Raj Kishore carried out the attack; all three are under arrest. Investigators cite 309 calls and 49 deleted messages between Shalu and Vishal from May 1 through the killing, and note she and husband Subrat danced at a traders’ gathering until about 3 a.m. the night Manocha died. Subrat has not been cleared. Shalu’s family denies she masterminded anything. All accused are presumed innocent.

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Antlers: Murder Suspect Grabbed in Wisconsin

U.S. Marshals found David Basham, 29, in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, on Friday. Pushmataha County and OSBI say he’ll be extradited to Oklahoma on a first-degree murder charge tied to a Sept. 2 homicide call at a business in the 100 block of NW E Street in Antlers. Court papers identify the missing adult male victim as Christopher Carter; investigators are still searching for him.

Kolby Osterdock, 25, was charged with first-degree accessory to murder; Bonnie Wadkins, 28, faces accessory after the fact plus desertion and domestic-abuse counts after a McCurtain County arrest. Basham is presumed innocent.

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Maidstone: London Man Charged in Stabbing

Bradley Patton, 26, of Gordon Road, Greater London, was charged with murder and remanded Friday at Medway Magistrates’ Court after a man in his 40s died of stab wounds at a Knightrider Street property near Priory Road. Kent Police were called about 22:20 BST Monday; the victim died while paramedics worked.

A 22-year-old woman arrested the same night was released Sept. 8 with no further action. Patton’s plea and trial preparation hearing is set for Maidstone Crown Court on Oct. 9. He is presumed innocent.

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Wilson: First-Degree Charge After Manchester Street Shooting

Shannon Tashaun Davis, 40, of Wilson, was charged with first-degree murder and held without bond after Wilson police answered a Thursday-night shooting call near Manchester and Suggs Streets and found Terrance Lavon Lucas, 45, shot in the 500 block of Manchester Street. Lucas died at Wilson Medical Center.

Detectives made the arrest overnight into Friday. Davis had a first appearance Friday in Wilson County District Court. The shooting remains under investigation. He is presumed innocent.

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Lake City: Girlfriend Killed on NW Moore Road

Isaiah Devon Campbell, 19, was charged with murder and ordered held without bond Friday after Columbia County deputies answering a 4:19 a.m. Thursday 911 call at 3881 NW Moore Road found Nicole Xenia Lopez, 21, cold to the touch. Campbell — who let them in and told dispatchers she’d fallen and hit her head during a fight — was detained at the scene. Detectives say she had blunt-force injuries and stab wounds.

The killing came less than twelve hours after 16-year-old Ashia La Shai Moore was found shot dead in a Palm Villa apartment; 17-year-old Dominique Santonio Hill is held on evidence-tampering in that case. Campbell is presumed innocent.

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