# The Crime Ledger: September 26, 2026

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- Published: 2026-09-26T19:00:00-04:00
- Author: Mandi Martyr

Daily Breaking True Crime Briefing As of: September 26, 2026 (evening ET) Scope: Saturday’s board covers cases from Friday evening through Saturday evening ET, plus Friday court and police steps and a Thursday murder verdict that fed the weekend board. The stories come from police, court and prosecutor statements, wire services and local newsrooms in the United States, Poland, France, Britain, South Africa, Thailand, India, Italy and the Dominican Republic. Allegheny County police added rape, sexual assault and robbery charges Saturday against Elijah Hemingway, already accused of climbing through a back window on Linden Avenue in Edgewood and stabbing UPMC pediatric critical care physician Dr. Idris Evans to death in his bed while his wife fought and got their kids out. In Jarosław, the district court granted a three-month hospital detention for Ihor M., the Ukrainian whose formal murder charges still can’t be read while he’s in acute psychosis, and Polish reporting now names the dead priest as Stanisław Zbojnowicz. Jackson police booked a third murder defendant, Eric Clark, in Tasia Fortune’s staged hanging and said the autopsy backs the staging. Smyrna police charged Kingston Bradley with malice murder after finding DoorDash driver Shanteria Mosley’s dismembered remains. A Paris court gave Loïk Le Priol 26 years for killing Argentine rugby international Federico Aramburu. Belfast Crown Court heard Zak Hughes’s attack on pregnant Sarah Montgomery described as one of the worst recent domestic-violence cases; the tariff isn’t set yet. Nashville’s Bobby Randall Conner Jr. faces a murder count after four-month-old Nevaeh Petty died. Gauteng police found a tenth woman’s body in a Tembisa cemetery Saturday morning. Phuket’s appeals court upheld Daniel Sancho’s life sentence. Turin held a validation hearing over Fabio Colapietro’s dismembered body. The Flynn murder trial in Tipp City recessed for the weekend after an FBI tip went nowhere. Four men sit in Santo Domingo Este custody over the killing of Zeneida Socorro Castillo. And an Orange County jury locked in life for Adrian Echevarria in Vidor. That was Saturday’s board. Edgewood: Rape Charges After Doctor’s Bedside Stabbing The Harford County Courthouse in Bel Air, Maryland. Photo: Farragutful / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Elijah Hemingway, 32, already faces criminal homicide, aggravated assault, burglary and criminal trespass in the early-Thursday stabbing that killed Dr. Idris Evans, 46, a pediatric critical care physician at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and left Evans’s wife hospitalized. Allegheny County police said Saturday they have also charged Hemingway with rape, sexual assault and robbery over a Wilkinsburg attack the morning before. Court papers and police accounts put Hemingway entering the Linden Avenue house through a rear window around 12:30 a.m. Sept. 24, then stabbing the couple in their third-floor bed. Evans’s wife told their children, 8 and 12, to run to a neighbor; she made it out with stab wounds and is in stable condition. A K9 found Hemingway nearby with cuts on his hands. During the Edgewood investigation, Wilkinsburg police flagged a sexual assault on a path near West Street around 10:30 a.m. Sept. 23; detectives say they recovered the victim’s stolen phone and other items connecting Hemingway. He was out on nonmonetary bail from a July Allegheny burglary case and has Florida battery history. Motive in the Edgewood attack is still open. Hemingway is presumed innocent. Sources: CNN: Doctor Idris Evans fatally stabbed in bed by trespasser. What we know CBS Pittsburgh: Elijah Hemingway, man charged with killing of Pittsburgh doctor, now facing sexual assault charges WTAE: Suspect in UPMC doctor’s killing faces new charges WPXI: Man charged in double stabbing that left UPMC doctor dead, woman critically injured Jarosław: Court Orders Hospital Detention for Abbey Suspect Jarosław, south-east Poland. Photo: pl.wiki: Wp / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 The Jarosław District Court on Saturday granted prosecutors’ motion and ordered three months’ pretrial detention, through Dec. 23, for Ihor M., 31, the Ukrainian whose surname Polish privacy law withholds, accused of the Benedictine abbey stabbing that killed one priest and wounded four others. Because he’s in acute psychosis, the detention runs in a hospital with a high-security psychiatric ward; he didn’t appear. Przemyśl prosecutors drew up charges Friday of murder, attempted murder and causing bodily harm, but court psychiatrists said he was too psychotic for the charges to be formally read or for questioning. Polish reporting Saturday identifies the dead priest as Stanisław Zbojnowicz, 65. AFP and local accounts still put the attack around 9:30 a.m. Thursday on Benedyktyńska Street after Ihor M. was turned back at Korczowa without mandatory insurance. Four wounded remain under care; prosecutors say none worsened overnight Friday. Sanity at the time of the attack is a later question. He is presumed innocent. Sources: Rzeczpospolita / PAP: Atak nożownika w klasztorze w Jarosławiu. Sąd zdecydował ws. aresztu tymczasowego dla Ihora M. LIGA.net, Attack at a monastery in Poland: court remands Ukrainian man in custody for three months The Straits Times / AFP: Ukrainian charged with murder over Polish abbey stabbing Jackson: Third Arrest in Tasia Fortune’s Staged Hanging Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: Kaotate / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Eric Clark, 45, surrendered Friday and was charged with murder in the death of Tasia Fortune, 29, a mother of four found hanging from a tree behind a vacant house on the 500 block of Road of Remembrance in west Jackson on Aug. 3. Jackson police said Friday an autopsy investigation concluded “the scene and the hanging were staged.” Clark’s first court date is Monday. Earnest Lloyd Jr., 25, and Jarques Ratliff, 51, were already charged with murder; both have pleaded not guilty and been denied bond. Local WLBT reporting, citing police, has accused Lloyd of hanging Fortune with a black cable cord after a physical altercation. Detectives say she was killed elsewhere and had been dead two to three days before her body was found. Fortune’s mother, Christy Spivey, has said she never believed her daughter killed herself. All three accused are presumed innocent. At Clark’s first appearance on Sept. 28, Det. Robert Taylor testified that Fortune left a house on Capitol Street with two men to sell drugs and never came back, and that her body was later found hanging by a black electrical cord, WLBT reports. Judge Jeffrey Reynolds set Clark’s bond at $5 million, saying the alleged attempt to make her death look like a racially motivated hanging had “shocked the community” because “it evoked the terrible history of the state.” Police Chief RaShall Brackney told reporters it appeared to be “a drug case gone very wrong,” called the hanging “a staged event” meant to derail the investigation, and said more arrests and conspiracy charges were expected. All three accused are presumed innocent. Sources: WLBT: $5M bond set for third suspect in Tasia Fortune murder case ABC News: Tasia Fortune’s hanging was staged in drug case gone very wrong: police chief The Guardian: Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged NBC News: Third suspect arrested in death of Mississippi woman found hanging at ‘staged’ crime scene Smyrna: Neighbor Charged in DoorDash Driver Dismemberment Smyrna, Georgia. Photo: Thomson200 / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 Smyrna police charged Kingston Lammar Bradley, 18, with malice murder and concealing a death after finding the dismembered remains of Shanteria Mosley, “KT” to family, at Park Valley Apartments. Lt. Meredith Holt called it a particularly gruesome case in 25 years of police work. Investigators responding to a missing-person report found body parts in garbage bags in a vehicle trunk; Mosley’s torso showed lacerations and stab wounds, and Bradley’s apartment had heavy blood consistent with a killing and dismemberment, according to warrant details reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Mosley worked DoorDash; police say she wasn’t on a delivery when she was killed. Bradley lives at the complex with his father. Connection between the two is still under investigation. He is presumed innocent. Court records and police timelines reported by FOX 5 Atlanta and CBS Atlanta say Mosley’s family called police after finding her phone and car at the complex on Sept. 23. Officers searched and left; about an hour later, at 8:16 p.m., they were called back after witnesses saw Bradley carrying a plastic tub from his apartment. When he realized he’d been seen, he dropped it on a dirt path and ran, and officers found her torso inside. A judge denied him bond on Sept. 24, and on Sept. 25 a search of a car turned up the bags of remains. An autopsy has since found she was shot in the head, and police believe she was killed between 10 a.m. and noon on Sept. 23. He also faces an aggravated assault charge. Bradley is presumed innocent. Sources: FOX 5 Atlanta: Autopsy reveals new details in Smyrna dismemberment case CBS Atlanta: Autopsy reveals woman was shot in the head NBC News: Neighbor charged with murder after Georgia DoorDash driver found dismembered The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Dismembered Smyrna victim identified; teen now charged with murder Paris: 26 Years for Killer of Rugby Star Aramburu The Paris courthouse. Photo: Carlos Delgado / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 A Paris court on Friday found Loïk Le Priol, 32, guilty of murdering former Argentina rugby international Federico Aramburu and sentenced him to 26 years. The judge said Le Priol was “animated by the will to kill” and that “narcissistic, intrusive and uncontrollable rage” ended in a gratuitous killing. Associate Romain Bouvier, 35, got 19 years for attempted murder. Both are former members of the banned far-right GUD group and already serving time on a separate aggravated-assault case. They have 10 days to appeal. Aramburu was drinking late with fellow former player Shaun Hegarty on the terrace of Café Mabillon on March 19, 2022, when an altercation with Le Priol’s table spilled onto Boulevard Saint-Germain. Bouvier fired; Le Priol fired; Aramburu died at the scene. Le Priol was later arrested in Hungary trying to cross into Ukraine. Lyson Rochemir, then Le Priol’s girlfriend, was convicted of lesser charges including obstructing justice. Aramburu won 22 caps for Argentina. Sources: Reuters: Former far-right group member found guilty of murdering Argentina rugby star Belfast: Court Hears Attack That Killed Sarah Montgomery Belfast. Photo: Ardfern / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Belfast Crown Court on Friday heard sentencing submissions for Zak Hughes, 29, of Ardglen Place, Ardoyne, who pleaded guilty in June to murdering Sarah Montgomery, 27, and to child destruction. She was 32 weeks pregnant. The unborn baby was a normally developed boy. Hughes faces a mandatory life sentence; Judge Denise McBride reserved the minimum tariff for a review next week. Prosecutors said Hughes beat her for about 19 minutes in June 2025 at her Donaghadee flat, using among other things a Father’s Day water bottle marked “Dad,” and that she suffered at least 59 blunt-force injuries, many to the head. Audio on her phone captured the start of the confrontation after she asked about his fiancée’s pregnancy; the last seconds are her screaming his name. He left, picked up their daughters, bought new clothes at Primark, dumped evidence, and the next day took the girls to his fiancée’s baby shower. Her grandfather found her body. The Crown called it one of the worst recent domestic-violence cases. Hughes is already convicted on his plea. Sources: BBC News NI, Sarah Montgomery: A ‘cold blooded, sustained and murderous’ attack The Irish Times: Pregnant mother-of-two’s murder ‘one of the worst cases of domestic violence’, Belfast court hears RTÉ: Mother’s murder ‘one of worst domestic violence cases’ Nashville: Murder Charge After Infant Nevaeh Petty Dies Nashville, Tennessee. Photo: Joel יוֹאֵל / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Bobby Randall Conner Jr., 32, faces a murder count in the death of four-month-old Nevaeh Petty after doctors at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt declared her brain-dead and she died following days on life support. Metro Nashville police had first charged him with aggravated child abuse. Officers answered a 24th Avenue North call just before 5 p.m. Sept. 19 for an unresponsive infant. Conner told them he’d been lying in bed with the child while her mother worked, got up for the bathroom, and found her unresponsive. Vanderbilt doctors reported serious internal head injuries including retinal hemorrhaging. Conner has prior convictions for child abuse (2020) and child neglect (from a March 2025 arrest; released August 2026). He’s held on $500,000 bond, not eligible for release on the jail site. He is presumed innocent. Nevaeh’s father, Eddie Wagner, who shared custody, told NewsChannel 5 he knew Conner’s record and repeatedly raised concerns with the Department of Children’s Services, which did a welfare check and found the baby unharmed. Her mother, Jessica Petty, said she believed DCS had cleared Conner to be around the child and left Nevaeh with him while she worked. She is not charged. Update, Oct. 11, 2026: After a preliminary hearing with three witnesses, a Davidson County judge found enough evidence to send the case to a grand jury, WKRN reports; prosecutors told the court the baby suffered brain swelling and injuries consistent with abusive head trauma. Conner is presumed innocent. Sources: NewsChannel 5: Mom of 4-month-old speaks out as boyfriend faces murder charge WKRN: Baby’s death case moves forward after testimony Metro Nashville Police Department: Nashville Man Arrested for Aggravated Child Abuse; Victim is Girlfriend’s 4-Month-Old Daughter NewsChannel 5: Mom of 4-month-old who died after alleged abuse speaks out as boyfriend faces murder charge Law&Crime: Mom blames child protective services after boyfriend, a convicted child abuser, allegedly killed her infant daughter while babysitting Tembisa: Tenth Woman’s Body Found as Police Probe Killings Tembisa, in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. Photo: Joperd / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 Gauteng police confirmed Saturday morning that another woman’s body had been found at Mooifontein Cemetery in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg: the tenth female body recovered in Ekurhuleni in recent months, eleven across Gauteng. A friend who had been with her at a bar the night before identified her by her clothes; police have not publicly named her. Lt. Gen. Tommy Mthombeni said investigators could see she had been stoned, that a post-mortem will fix cause of death, and that it is too early to say whether this killing links to the others, though he would not rule out a serial offender given similar victimology elsewhere. A R400,000 reward is on offer. Three suspects were arrested this week over one of the earlier murders; two women have appeared in court. President Cyril Ramaphosa called the toll a shame on the men of South Africa. Update, Sept. 27: Police identified the woman as Ntombifuthu Nxumalo and said a suspect was arrested in Limpopo late Saturday; on Sunday a security patrol found an 11th woman’s body in Springs. See The Crime Ledger: September 27, 2026. Sources: BBC News: Tenth woman’s body found in Ekurhuleni as South Africa police probe killings IOL, Ekurhuleni’s 10th female body: Police reveal new details and offer R400,000 reward Phuket: Thai Court Upholds Life for Daniel Sancho Haad Rin, Koh Phangan, Thailand. Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zhaffsky/ / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Thailand’s Court of Appeals Region 8 on Friday rejected Daniel Sancho Bronchalo’s appeal and upheld his life sentence for the premeditated murder and dismemberment of Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta on Koh Pha Ngan in August 2023. Judges also declined a retrial and refused to raise the roughly 4.4 million baht compensation already ordered for Arrieta’s parents. Sancho, 32, son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho, followed the closed hearing by videoconference from Surat Thani Prison. His defense still argues self-defense and accident; Arrieta’s family had sought the death penalty. Premeditated murder can carry death in Thailand; the first-instance judge weighed Sancho’s early confession as mitigation down to life. Parties can still go to the Supreme Court. Life there offers no parole track. The ruling was read at Koh Samui Provincial Court in a session of about two hours. The appeal judges said Sancho had bought knives, a saw, garbage bags, rubber gloves and cleaning products and stored them in a hotel room before the day of the killing, which they found showed premeditation, Pattaya Mail and Thailand News report. They rejected the accident defense partly because he sought no medical help for Arrieta and instead stayed in the room before dismembering the body. The convictions for concealing and dismembering the body and destroying Arrieta’s passport also stand. Under a 1983 treaty, Spaniards serving final sentences in Thailand can ask to be transferred home, but for a life term the minimum time served in Thailand first is eight years, El País reports. Sources: Pattaya Mail: Thai appeals court upholds life sentence for Daniel Sancho El País English: Thailand rejects Daniel Sancho appeals EL PAÍS English / EFE: Thailand rejects Daniel Sancho appeals and upholds life sentence for murder of Colombian plastic surgeon Khaosod English: Thai court upholds life sentence for Spanish actor’s son over Colombian surgeon’s murder Turin: Validation Hearing in Colapietro Dismemberment Case The Mole Antonelliana, Turin. Photo: Abbrey82 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Three people were due before a Turin judge Saturday afternoon for a custody validation hearing after body parts of Fabio Colapietro, 39, of Chivasso, were found in black bags and quick-setting cement buckets in a rented flat on Via Gulli in the city’s northern outskirts. ANSA names Christian Matheus De Oliveira Morando, 26, as the main suspect for murder and corpse suppression, with teacher Nicole Formichetti, 47, and Keith Butig, 22, accused of aiding concealment. Parts turned up overnight Thursday into Friday. Morando’s mother called 112 saying her son had hurt someone. Early accounts describe a drug-fueled gathering and a claimed fight over a theft; reconstruction is incomplete. All three are presumed innocent pending the court’s decision on holding them. Update, Sept. 27: Judge Antonio Borretta declined to validate the three arrests, finding no concrete flight risk, but ordered all three held in pretrial custody. See The Crime Ledger: September 27, 2026. Sources: ANSA: Omicidio a Torino, nel pomeriggio l’udienza di convalida per i fermati Sky TG24, Cadavere fatto a pezzi a Torino, tre fermati: c’è l’ipotesi del festino Tipp City: FBI Tip Dead End as Flynn Trial Recesses Interstate 75 running past Tipp City, Ohio. Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Miami County Common Pleas recessed Friday just after 3 p.m. until Monday 8:45 a.m. in the murder trial of Caleb Flynn, 40, the former music pastor and American Idol contestant accused of shooting his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37, twice in the back of the head in their Tipp City home on Feb. 16 and staging a break-in. He has pleaded not guilty. Ohio BCI agent Joseph Wilhelm finished digital testimony showing Apple-device movement around the time of the 911 call. FBI Special Agent Andrea Kinzig told jurors a murder-for-hire tip collapsed, the purported source called it conjecture, and that Ashley’s phone showed no evidence of the affair Flynn claimed she’d had, while marital strain showed up in January texts. Last phone access logged for Ashley was just before 11:30 p.m. Feb. 15. Monday is expected to bring a lengthy prosecution video. Flynn is presumed innocent. Update, Oct. 11, 2026: The jury convicted Flynn of murdering his wife on Sept. 29. On Oct. 5 he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, after first serving 16 consecutive years on firearm specifications and evidence-tampering counts. “I did not kill my wife,” he told the court before sentence, the Dayton Daily News reports. Sources: WDTN: Caleb Flynn sentenced to life without parole Dayton Daily News: I did not kill my wife, Caleb Flynn says before life sentence WDTN, FBI witness: No evidence to support Caleb Flynn’s claim wife was unfaithful East Idaho News, Caleb Flynn Trial Day 6: FBI hit tip, affair investigation and revealing police interviews Santo Domingo: Four Held in Merengue Singer’s Wife Killing Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Photo: Максим Улитин / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 Prosecutors in Santo Domingo Este sought 18 months’ preventive detention Friday against four men accused in the Sept. 21 home attack that killed Zeneida Socorro Castillo, 60, and seriously injured merengue singer Gilberto Julián Sarante: Julián Oro Duro. The coercion hearing was later put over to Wednesday so defense counsel can review the file. Named in custody: Phillips Michael Tejeda Vásquez; Juan Carlos Hernández García (“Peña”); Kevin Dariel Germán Troncoso (“Yandel”), 23; and Lawrence Mark Liranzo Marcos (“Chiquito”), 18. Police say Tejeda did private air-conditioning work for the singer and allegedly brought the others in; Liranzo worked on a villa the artist was building in Guerra. Investigators allege Castillo was held and tortured for hours before she was killed. All four are presumed innocent. Update, Oct. 11, 2026: On Sept. 30 the court in Santo Domingo Este ordered all four held for 18 months in preventive detention at the Las Parras correction centre and declared the case complex, which gives prosecutors more time to investigate, Diario Libre reports. The singer attended the hearing with a visible blow to his head, accompanied by his daughters. Lawyers for Castillo’s family told the court that others may still be unidentified, and Listín Diario reports the family has asked investigators to look at a possible fifth suspect. All four are presumed innocent. Sources: Diario Libre: ¿Por qué el caso de Julián Oro Duro fue declarado complejo? Listín Diario: Familiares de Zeneida piden investigar un quinto sospechoso Euronews: Four suspects arrested over murder of Dominican merengue singer’s wife El Nacional: Solicitan 18 meses de prisión preventiva contra acusados muerte esposa de Julián Oro Duro y asalto Vidor: Life for Man Who Killed Woman From Dating App Orange County, Texas. Photo: Larry D. Moore / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 An Orange County jury on Thursday convicted Adrian Caesar Echevarria, 49, of murdering Bami Elizabeth Carmane, 61, of Rose City and sentenced him to life in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Punishment deliberations took about 15 minutes, Law&Crime reported from the courtroom. Investigators say Echevarria, from McAllen, used a contraband prison phone to build a dating profile, met Carmane online while in federal custody in Beaumont, and that she picked him up on his Aug. 20, 2025, release, bought him a truck, and put him in a cabin on her property. Within about 12 hours she was dead in that cabin. He tried to clean blood, then asked her niece in the main house for help; the niece found Carmane and called 911. First Assistant DA Bard Anderson and DA Krispen Winfree tried the case. Echevarria is convicted. Orange County DA Krispen Walker Winfree, who tried the case herself, told KFDM the jurors asked to stand together to announce both the verdict and the punishment, and that life is the maximum for non-capital murder. Investigators found Carmane in the cabin near Rose City with severe injuries; she had been sexually assaulted and had lost a great deal of blood. Echevarria had a prior conviction for impeding breath, or strangulation, and two of his former wives travelled from San Antonio and Edinburg to testify about his violence toward them. “He had every bit of it coming to him,” Winfree said. Her son, Brian Haney, called his mother a giver who believed people deserved a chance to change. Sources: KFDM: Life sentence handed down in Bami Carmane murder KOGT: Man Receives Life Sentence Law&Crime, ‘Gave it right to him’: Jurors take just 15 minutes to decide fate of man for killing woman who took him in KFDM: Man convicted of murder in killing of woman he met through dating app while in prison