The Crime Ledger: September 13, 2026

Yerolakkos: Second Femicide in Five Days

Turkish Cypriot police detained a 41-year-old man after his 35-year-old wife died Saturday afternoon near Yerolakkos (Gerolakkos) on the Morphou-Nicosia road: the second femicide recorded in the north within five days.

Reports say a roadside argument ended with the car leaving the road about 110 metres into a field, where the husband allegedly struck her head with an electric cutting tool kept in the vehicle. Police told a Nicosia district court he gave a handwritten statement admitting he hit her with his hands and the tool. The court ordered three days’ detention Sunday for investigation and autopsy. Five days earlier, a 61-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her 71-year-old ex-husband in Agios Georgios, Karpasia. The latest suspect is presumed innocent pending charges.

The victim was named as Rukiye Tuncer. Police told court the car left the road into a field after an argument on the way to Nicosia and that her husband allegedly struck her head repeatedly with a rotary power saw, Cyprus Mail reports. He was first remanded for three days, then for eight more while police examine CCTV and phone records. He is presumed innocent.

Barnegat: ME Rules Strangulation in Bus Driver Killing

Newly released court records and a medical examiner finding filled in the Sept. 7 death of Eileen Garvin, 69, the longtime Barnegat school-bus driver remembered for Bus 38.

Ocean County’s ME made a preliminary call of asphyxia by manual strangulation and smothering, ruled homicide. William Garvin, 67, already charged with murder, allegedly told officers after a 4:26 p.m. welfare check on Windward Drive that he had killed her around 11 a.m. over a drained fishpond, that “she deserved it,” and later asked on body-worn camera whether there was “a better penalty for killing your wife than dying.” Police say they found him in an armchair with a knife protruding from his chest. The couple were divorcing but still sharing the house. Funeral Mass is set for Tuesday at St. Mary’s. He is presumed innocent.

Update, Oct. 11, 2026: At a Sept. 22 detention hearing, Judge Pamela M. Snyder refused a request for strict home detention and ordered Garvin held in the Ocean County Jail pending trial, Patch reports. He is presumed innocent.

Ensenada: Well and Burned Remains in Surfer Trial

The Ensenada homicide trial of three men charged over the April 2024 Baja California killings of Perth brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and American friend Carter Rhoad heard Saturday from missing-persons and forensics officers who recovered burned human remains from a well near an abandoned oceanfront ranch at Punta San José.

Jesús Gerardo (“El Kekas”), Irineo Francisco, and Ángel Jesús face aggravated homicide, aggravated burglary, violent robbery, and grand theft auto. Court testimony described foul odour from the well, blood-stained burned clothes, a .45 casing, and a tooth; defence lawyers challenged timelines and whether some items were old. Ari Gisell, sentenced last year to 20 years in connection with the case, is expected next week. Verdict timing is unsettled after a late judge change. The accused are presumed innocent.

Update, Oct. 11, 2026: On Oct. 9 the judge convicted Jesús Gerardo García Cota, known as “El Kekas,” Irineo Francisco García Montaño and Ángel Jesús León Aguilera of aggravated homicide and robbery, and acquitted them of the disappearance charge, AP and the BBC report. Prosecutors are seeking up to 210 years for each man; sentencing is set for Oct. 16.

Accra: Remand in Amuah Asylum Down Double Killing

Adabraka District Court remanded Abraham Newton Awundok, 32, a private security guard, on two murder counts over the March 23 alleged killings of Dr Jesse Amuah, 80, and Elizabeth Esi Amuah, 64, at Asylum Down, with bodies later recovered from a septic tank.

Prosecution told the court a GH¢1,500 chore-payment dispute escalated; Awundok allegedly beat Mrs Amuah with a pestle, then attacked the doctor with a knife, pestle, and concrete before returning the next night to dump the bodies, seal the tank, and flee to Dubai. Ghana police brought him back Aug. 30. Plea not taken; adjourned to Sept. 21. He is presumed innocent.

Prosecutors say Awundok hid the bodies in a septic tank and fled to Dubai; he was arrested and returned to Ghana on Aug. 30, Prima News and Graphic Online report. His plea was not taken, and he was remanded again on Sept. 23. He is presumed innocent.

Lake City: Murder Charge After Moore Road Domestic Killing

Isaiah Devon Campbell, 19, is held without bond on a murder charge after Columbia County deputies found Nicole Xenia Lopez, 21, dead at 3881 NW Moore Road about 4:19 a.m. Thursday, less than twelve hours after pregnant 16-year-old Ashia La Shai Moore was shot dead in a separate Lake City apartment case.

Campbell called 911 and let deputies in, saying Lopez had fallen and hit her head during a fight. Detectives later said she had blunt-force and stab wounds from an altercation with him earlier that night. First appearance Friday kept him no-bond. LawAndCrime led its homepage with reporting that he dismissed her as “playing around” and wanting attention before checking on her. In the Moore case, 17-year-old Dominique Santonio Hill remains charged with tampering with evidence as a person of interest; no murder charge announced there yet. Campbell is presumed innocent.

Deputies say Campbell told the 911 dispatcher that Lopez fell and hit her head during a fight, but investigators found blunt-force injuries and stab wounds, CBS12 reports. He is presumed innocent.

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