# The Crime Ledger: September 29, 2026

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TDSH · CRIME LEDGER · ED. 49TDSH-CL-260929Daily true crime ledgerEdition 49Sept. 29, 202636 filesUpdated Sept. 30The Crime LedgerSeptember 29, 2026 · evening ET · Breaking News · Crime DossierPolice found petrol, not a bomb, in the RAF Fairford vans; five were jailed over Macon’s park shooting; bail was denied in a Kentucky trooper’s killing.Content & legal boundaryThis ledger follows the public record: arrested, charged, accused, pleaded not guilty, convicted, police say, prosecutors allege. An arrest or charge is an allegation, not a finding of guilt, and no active case is written as a closed fact pattern. Several files describe the killing of children, sexual violence and domestic abuse.Edition cover. TDSH original artwork, The Dark Side of Humanity.Tonight’s board · lead filesWhat happened in true crime on September 29, 2026?Counter-terrorism police said Tuesday that the three vans stopped near RAF Fairford held petrol and no explosive device, and defended bailing the five London men who remain under investigation. Macon’s sheriff has now jailed five people over the park shooting that wounded 12 teenagers. A Tennessee man was denied bail in Warren County, Kentucky, charged with murdering Trooper Hayden Phillips on I-65. Slovak police say a 13-year-old pupil stabbed a teacher to death at a primary school in Staškov. In Tembisa, the man accused of killing Ntombifuthu Nxumalo made his first court appearance. New South Wales detectives charged two men and a boy with murder in Marco Tapia’s mistaken-identity shooting in Glen Alpine. An Ohio jury in Tipp City convicted Caleb Flynn of murdering his wife, and in Nashville the Supreme Court refused to stop Christa Pike’s execution.The rest of the board is listed in §01 · jump to the case indexDocket sheetEdition record · counts drawn from the files belowEditionNo. 49 · TDSH-CL-260929As ofSept. 29, 2026 · evening ETCase files36 · lead files 01-08Countries21Source links84 · 74 outlets & agenciesWords of reporting7,168Follow-ups from Sept. 2810 filesUpdates added Sept. 308 filesVerdicts / sentences2 · files 07, 30Next editionThe Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026Case index36 files · edition order · tap to jump01RAF FairfordEngland, UK · UNDER INVESTIGATION02MaconGeorgia, USA · CHARGED03Warren County, Ky.Kentucky, USA · IN COURT04StaškovSlovakia · UNDER INVESTIGATION05TembisaSouth Africa · IN COURT06Glen AlpineNSW, Australia · CHARGED07Tipp CityOhio, USA · CONVICTED08NashvilleTennessee, USA · SEE SEPT. 30 UPDATE09Dublin, Calif.California, USA · ARRESTED10Mount EdgecombeSouth Africa · IN COURT11NairobiKenya · IN COURT12IgualaMexico · ARRESTED13DuxburyMassachusetts, USA · IN COURT14VaughanOntario, Canada · CHARGED15ToulouseFrance · CHARGED16LahorePakistan · ARRESTED17TibúColombia · ARRESTED18CourbevoieFrance · CHARGED19MarlGermany · ARRESTED20TeshieGhana · IN COURT21WichitaKansas, USA · ARRESTED22GurranangNSW, Australia · CHARGED23West HoxtonNSW, Australia · CHARGED24Blue DownsSouth Africa · IN COURT25Egbeda, LagosNigeria · ARRESTED26Dublin, IrelandIreland · CHARGED27Palavas-les-FlotsFrance · CHARGED28PellezzanoItaly · ARRESTED29La CampanaSpain · ARRESTED30Kingsport, N.S.Nova Scotia, Canada · SENTENCED31CalgaryAlberta, Canada · ON TRIAL32HyderabadIndia · ARRESTED33JaipurIndia · ARRESTED34NamyangjuSouth Korea · ARRESTED35Cáceres, BrazilBrazil · ARRESTED36Ota, JapanJapan · ARRESTEDLead filesEditionCL-260929FiledSept. 29 · eve. ETFiles 01-08 on the board01 · RAF Fairford02 · Macon03 · Warren County, Ky.04 · Staškov05 · Tembisa06 · Glen Alpine07 · Tipp City08 · NashvilleSRC: The Crime Ledger, Sept. 29, 2026Illustrative tag. Not a real evidence tag; entries are this edition’s lead files.Since publication · Sept. 30, 2026Illustrative stampEdition updated8 files · Sept. 30These files carry a dated “Update, Sept. 30” note from the next edition. Original text is unchanged above each note.03Warren County, Ky.04Staškov05Tembisa06Glen Alpine08Nashville11Nairobi22Gurranang29La CampanaFollow the story in The Crime Ledger: September 30, 202601TDSH-CL-260929 · §01Ledger SnapshotThe edition in numbers · the board as a strip · verbatim edition summary and scopeKey numbersCounted from this edition’s files and source lists36case files21countries84source links74outlets & agencies7,168words of reporting10follow-ups from Sept. 288files updated Sept. 302verdicts / sentencesFig. 1 · The board · 36 files · bar height = length of file · tap a bar to jumpOutlined = lead files 01-0805101520253036Charged · in court · on trial · convicted · sentencedUnder investigation · no arrest · see updateArrestedEdition summary · continuedFurther down the boardFurther down the board: new booking details for the in-laws held in Dublin, California, five men in court over the Mount Edgecombe ambush of two Crime Intelligence officers, not-guilty pleas in Nairobi’s Mutiso killing, new Ayotzinapa arrests in Iguala, the Duxbury case back before a judge, a year-old Vaughan killing charged, a 93-year-old’s rape and killing in Toulouse, a family arrested in Lahore, a dissident commander caught in Tibú, a charge in Courbevoie, arrests tied to Marl’s earlier shooting, a Teshie adjournment, the Wichita victims named, a double murder charge in Gurranang, a second plot charge against a teenager arrested in West Hoxton, a police officer charged in Blue Downs, a sergeant killed during a stop-and-search in Egbeda, Lagos, court appearances in Downend and Banbridge, arrests in Hogsthorpe and North Kensington, perjury charges in Dublin, Ireland, a murder charge in Palavas-les-Flots, a mother killed in Pellezzano, La Campana’s case formally counted, a sentence in Kingsport, Nova Scotia, a trial opening in Calgary, arrests in Hyderabad and Jaipur, a chauffeur jailed in Namyangju, a retired detective held in Cáceres, Brazil, a mother’s killing in Rosario, and the Ota suspect sent to prosecutors. That was Tuesday’s board.Edition headerScopeDaily Breaking True Crime Briefing As of: September 29, 2026 (evening ET) Scope: Tuesday’s board covers cases from Monday afternoon through Tuesday evening ET, plus a few Monday court appearances that landed overnight. The stories come from police, court and prosecutor statements, wire services and local newsrooms in the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan, India, South Korea, Japan and Australia.House ruleEditorial standardEvery file is written from police, court and prosecutor statements, wire services and local newsrooms, and every file lists its sources. Status stamps, case types and regions on this page are TDSH groupings of what each file says, including the dated Sept. 30 updates. They are not official case statuses. Where a source uses charged language, the ledger follows the public record.02TDSH-CL-260929 · §02Lead Cases: Files 01-08The principal same-day developments · docket slip and source tag beside each fileLead file 01 of 0801FileUNDER INVESTIGATIONEngland, UKFollow-up · Sept. 28RAF Fairford: Police Find Petrol, No Bomb, in VansAn aircraft on the flight line at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 1997. Photo: Colin Cooke Photo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0The vans stopped near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire early Sunday carried “a quantity of petrol” and no improvised explosive device, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, head of Counter Terrorism Policing, said in a statement at 6 p.m. BST Tuesday. The five London men arrested beside them, all British nationals aged 23 to 25, were released on police bail Monday and remain under investigation. None has been charged or named. The bail story ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.Taylor said searches of London properties are finished and he expects the investigative scenes around RAF Fairford to be closed down completely by Wednesday. He pushed back on the surprise over bail: “it was an investigative decision, and one which is grounded in experience and careful consideration of policing powers.” He also said Sunday’s armed response followed “a range of information received,” including a call from a member of the public about vehicles acting suspiciously near the base. The BBC understands that one of the five called 999 himself at 12:45 a.m. BST, almost an hour before a farmer dialled 999 after seeing men in balaclavas. The Times first reported the suspect’s call, and The Guardian understands police found several barrels in the vans, one holding petrol. President Donald Trump said he was “disappointed” by the bail decision, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a “foreign actor” was involved, without giving details. Iran’s embassy in London has rejected any link. Evacuated households in Whelford were going home Tuesday.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 01WhoFive London men, 23-25 (unnamed)WhenSun. vans stopped; Tue. updateCharge / basisNone, released on police bailCase type (TDSH grouping)OtherSources · 4Counter Terrorism PolicingUpdate on RAF Fairford investigation: 18:00 29 September 2026BBC NewsOne of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himselfThe GuardianSuspect in RAF Fairford case called police to report incidentBBC NewsHow did the RAF Fairford incident go from ‘suspected bomb plot’ to police bail?Lead file 02 of 0802FileCHARGEDGeorgia, USAFollow-up · Sept. 28Macon: Five Jailed Over Park Shooting That Wounded 12 TeensDowntown Macon, Georgia. Photo: Infrogmation / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office has made five arrests since Monday in the shooting that wounded 12 teenagers at Carolyn Crayton Park just after midnight Sunday. The case first ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026, when no one was in custody. David Pitts, 24, and Jaquez Bailey, 20, were arrested Monday. Bailey faces 12 counts of aggravated assault, and Pitts faces 12 counts as a party to a crime. On Tuesday the sheriff’s office announced charges against Justin Green, 19, who faces 12 counts of aggravated assault and a probation violation, and a 17-year-old charged with 12 counts.A fifth suspect, 15, was interviewed Tuesday, processed through the Bibb County Jail, charged as an adult with 12 counts of aggravated assault and moved to the Macon Regional Youth Detention Center. The other four are held without bond. Sheriff David Davis told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that some of the guns may have been modified to fire automatically, which could help explain how so many people were hit. The AJC reports that one of the accused was due to stand trial next month in a 2023 shooting. The U.S. Marshals’ Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the FBI helped serve the warrants. None of the five has been convicted.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 02Who12 teens wounded · 5 arrestedWhenJust after midnight Sun.Charge / basisAggravated assault (12 counts each)Case type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 341NBC / WMGTUPDATE: 15-year-old charged as adult in Carolyn Crayton Park shootingThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionGuns in shootings that wounded 12 may have been rigged to fire automaticallyFOX 5 Atlanta4 arrested in Macon park mass shooting that injured 12Lead file 03 of 0803FileIN COURTKentucky, USAUpdate · Sept. 30Warren County, Ky.: Bail Denied in Trooper Hayden Phillips’s KillingWarren County, Kentucky. Photo: Bedford at English Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainKentucky State Police Trooper Hayden Phillips, 28, was shot Monday afternoon during a traffic stop on a Honda Civic near mile marker 39 on northbound Interstate 65 in Warren County. Police say the driver fled. Emonnie Dion Branch, 51, of Portland, Tennessee, was arrested in Louisville after 5 p.m. Monday after an extensive manhunt, about 95 miles from the scene, and charged with murder of a first responder. Under Kentucky law that’s a capital offense, eligible for the death penalty or life without parole.Branch was wheeled into Warren District Court in Bowling Green on Tuesday morning. Judge Kim Geoghegan entered a not-guilty plea for him, noted that the criminal complaint says the stop was captured on video, denied bail and set a preliminary hearing for Friday. The Warren County commonwealth’s attorney told the court Branch is believed to have given a false name when stopped, and asked for a substantial cash bond, calling him a flight risk and a danger to the community. AP reports prosecutors called him a repeat offender who’s named in an August probation-violation warrant from Sumner County, Tennessee. Police say they aren’t sure why Phillips made the stop. Phillips, who would have turned 29 on Wednesday, had three years with KSP after serving with the Glasgow and Russell Springs police departments, and he leaves a wife and three children. Branch is presumed innocent.UpdateSept. 30, 2026Update, Sept. 30: Kentucky State Police’s first release puts the stop near mile marker 39 and says the vehicle was found in Louisville shortly after 5 p.m., where Louisville Metro officers stopped it with a grappler device. Branch was arrested in Phillips’s own handcuffs. The funeral is Sunday at noon Central at WKU’s Diddle Arena. See The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 03WhoTrooper Hayden Phillips, 28 · Emonnie Dion Branch, 51WhenMon. afternoonCharge / basisMurder of a first responder (capital)Case type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 3AP via News4JAXMan charged in the fatal shooting of Kentucky state trooper was wanted on a parole violationBowling Green Daily NewsBranch makes first court appearance in Trooper Phillips’s deathWLKYJudge denies bail for man charged in deadly shooting of KSP trooperLead file 04 of 0804FileUNDER INVESTIGATIONSlovakiaUpdate · Sept. 30Staškov: Teacher Killed in Primary School Knife AttackStaškov, in northern Slovakia. Photo: Hornokysučan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Slovak officials say an eighth-grade pupil attacked two teachers and a classmate with a knife after the first lesson Tuesday at the primary school in Staškov, a village of about 2,750 in Slovakia’s Čadca district near the Czech border. A 61-year-old teacher was killed. Another teacher, stabbed in the chest, is out of danger, Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok said, and a schoolgirl is in critical condition. Al Jazeera, citing AFP, reports the attacker is 13. Police arrived within minutes and apprehended the attacker, and the Office for Combating Organised Crime is handling the case as premeditated murder.Police Corps vice-president Rastislav Polakovič said the attacker “can’t be held criminally responsible,” and police said they’d release nothing more for now. Šutaj Eštok credited the head teacher with following the emergency manual “to the letter” and said the school’s CCTV wasn’t working because of a planned power cut. He wouldn’t discuss a motive. President Peter Pellegrini said he was shocked that “this is yet another case in which a student attacked teachers and a classmate.” Last year an 18-year-old killed a deputy principal and a student at a school in northern Slovakia. No one involved has been named.UpdateSept. 30, 2026Update, Sept. 30: Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok says the 13-year-old is now in a psychological detention institution, and the Police Inspection Service is reviewing how local officers handled a complaint the school filed five days before the attack. The injured schoolgirl remains in extremely serious condition. See The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 04WhoTeacher, 61, killed · pupil, 13, heldWhenTue., after first lessonCharge / basisHandled as premeditated murderCase type (TDSH grouping)StabbingSources · 3TASRSutaj Estok: Primary School Knife Attack Carried Out by Eighth-graderAP via ABC NewsA pupil fatally stabs a teacher at an elementary school in Slovakia, injuring 2 othersAl JazeeraSchoolboy kills teacher, injures two in Slovakia school stabbingLead file 05 of 0805FileIN COURTSouth AfricaFollow-up · Sept. 28Update · Sept. 30Tembisa: Man Accused in Cemetery Killing Makes First AppearanceTembisa, in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. Photo: Joperd / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Victor Matome Rampedi, 36, appeared in the Thembisa Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday charged with murdering Ntombifuthu Nxumalo, whose body was found at Mooifontein Cemetery in Tembisa’s Vusimusi section on Saturday morning. The case is listed under Schedule 5 of the Criminal Procedure Act, so Rampedi has to show why he should get bail. He told the court he’ll apply, the state said it will oppose, and the application was postponed to Oct. 6 for further investigation. He stays in custody. Police arrested him in Mohlabaneng village, near Tzaneen in Limpopo, on Sunday morning. The arrest ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026 before police had released his name.Police believe she was stoned to death. Outside court, her family was angry that Rampedi arrived without handcuffs. “He must rot in jail,” her uncle, Vincent Nxumalo, told TimesLIVE. Relatives say she was unemployed and had no funeral cover, and they’re raising money to bring her body from Johannesburg to Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal for burial. The case has added to concern over the number of women found dead in and around Ekurhuleni in recent months. Rampedi is presumed innocent.UpdateSept. 30, 2026Update, Sept. 30: In a national address Tuesday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa named Ntombifuthu Nxumalo among 11 women whose bodies have been found in Ekurhuleni since July, and said police have found no evidence that one person committed the killings. See The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 05WhoNtombifuthu Nxumalo · Victor Matome Rampedi, 36WhenBody found Sat. morningCharge / basisMurder (Schedule 5)Case type (TDSH grouping)Method not statedSources · 3TimesLIVEEkurhuleni murder accused to remain in custody as bail date postponedKempton ExpressMooifontein Cemetery murder accused appears in Thembisa courtNews24Suspect appears in court over woman’s Ekurhuleni cemetery murderLead file 06 of 0806FileCHARGEDNSW, AustraliaUpdate · Sept. 30Glen Alpine: Three More Charged in Marco Tapia’s MurderCampbelltown, the area of south-western Sydney that includes Glen Alpine. Photo: Commons contributor (see file page) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Homicide detectives drove to Junee, about 40 kilometres north of Wagga Wagga, on Tuesday and arrested two men, 22 and 23, and a 16-year-old boy over the Sept. 1 killing of Marco Tapia, 23, a biomedical engineering student shot in his bed at his family’s home on Mount Sugarloaf Drive, Glen Alpine, in Sydney’s southwest, at about 3:40 a.m. Each is charged with murder, two counts of special aggravated break and enter, a serious indictable weapons offence and possessing an unauthorised prohibited firearm. All three were remanded in custody to appear in court Wednesday.Police say the wrong house was targeted and Tapia had no link to crime. They’ll allege the three broke in and one carried a pistol. Detective Superintendent Joe Doueihi said the trio had already been extradited from Victoria over unrelated shootings at Turrella and Hurstville on Aug. 31, and alleged they were “contracted as hired guns by an organised crime group.” Two boys, 14 and 16, were charged with murder on Sept. 16. Police allege they helped with the preparation and clean-up, and they’re due in children’s court Nov. 13. Tapia’s parents and sister were home when he was shot. None of the five has entered a plea.UpdateSept. 30, 2026Update, Sept. 30: The two men charged are Vaifaalie Tuafuti, 22, and Omar Mohamed, 23, AAP reports. Neither applied for bail on Wednesday, and both return to Wagga Wagga Local Court in November. See The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 06WhoMarco Tapia, 23 · Vaifaalie Tuafuti, 22, Omar Mohamed, 23 & boy, 16WhenSept. 1, ~3:40 a.m.Charge / basisMurder + special aggravated break and enter, weapons, firearmCase type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 3AAPAlleged gunman charged over mistaken identity murderNine.com.auMarco Tapia murder: Three charged including alleged shooterThe AgeMarco Tapia shooting: Alleged gunman among three more charged over student’s mistaken identity murder in Glen AlpineLead file 07 of 0807FileCONVICTEDOhio, USATipp City: Jury Convicts Caleb Flynn of Murdering His WifeInterstate 75 running past Tipp City, Ohio. Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0A Miami County jury took a little over two hours Tuesday to convict Caleb Flynn, 40, a former music pastor and “American Idol” contestant, on all nine counts in the death of his wife, Ashley Flynn, 37. That covers aggravated murder, three counts of murder, two of felonious assault and three of tampering with evidence, with gun specifications. She was shot twice in the head, apparently while she slept, early on Feb. 16 at the family’s home on Cunningham Court in Tipp City, north of Dayton.Common Pleas Judge Jeannine Pratt revoked his bond and set sentencing for Oct. 5. He faces life without parole on the aggravated-murder count. Prosecutors used activity on his iPhone and Apple Watch, police body-camera footage and more than 100,000 texts with Alleigha Botner, whom he met while she was an intern at his church. She testified that she now believes he murdered his wife. The defence called no witnesses and pressed the lead detective on missing physical evidence, including the gun, which was never recovered. Ashley Flynn taught middle school and coached volleyball. Flynn retains his appeal rights.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 07WhoAshley Flynn, 37 · Caleb Flynn, 40WhenFeb. 16 (verdict Tue.)Charge / basisAggravated murder · guilty on all nine countsCase type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 3Dayton Daily NewsCaleb Flynn murder trial updates: The verdict has been readWLWTFormer ‘American Idol’ contestant Caleb Flynn found guilty of killing his wifeBBC NewsFormer American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn found guilty of murdering wifeRelated on TDSHThe Crime Ledger: September 26, 2026Earlier ledger coverageThe Crime Ledger: September 25, 2026Earlier ledger coverageLead file 08 of 0808FileSEE SEPT. 30 UPDATETennessee, USAUpdate · Sept. 30Nashville: Supreme Court Won’t Halt Christa Pike’s ExecutionThe U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Christa Gail Pike’s application for a stay, less than a day before Tennessee plans to put her to death by lethal injection Wednesday morning. Gov. Bill Lee said Monday he’s “upholding the sentence” and won’t intervene. Pike, 50, is the only woman on Tennessee’s death row. She’d be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.She was 18 in 1995 when she and her then-boyfriend killed Colleen Slemmer, 19, a fellow Job Corps student, on the University of Tennessee Agriculture campus in Knoxville. A jury convicted her of first-degree murder in 1996. Her lawyers pointed to her documented childhood sexual abuse and argued that “an 18-year-old brain is not an adult brain.” Tennessee’s reply to the Supreme Court said that “after three decades of litigation, Pike seeks to further delay her execution.” Slemmer’s mother has said she wants the execution to go ahead so her daughter “finally can be resting.”UpdateSept. 30, 2026Update, Sept. 30: A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit stayed Pike’s execution Wednesday morning, about an hour before it was set to begin. The order says the execution is “STAYED until further order of this court.” Tennessee asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate the stay (No. 26A428, Nelsen v. Pike, Justice Kavanaugh); as of 5:41 p.m. ET Wednesday the Court had not ruled. If the stay is lifted today, execution could go ahead today. See The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026.Exhibit 08-AU.S. Supreme Court docket No. 26A414 (crop)The Sept. 29, 2026 entries: stay application referred to the Court and denied; certiorari denied. Rendered from the Court’s public docket page. U.S. government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105). Open docketCase index ↑Docket slipFile 08WhoColleen Slemmer, 19 (1995) · Christa Gail Pike, 50WhenU.S. Supreme Court stay denial Tue.Charge / basisFirst-degree murder (1996)Case type (TDSH grouping)OtherSources · 3WVLTU.S. Supreme Court denies Christa Gail Pike’s request to stop execution hours before she’s scheduledBBC NewsChrista Pike execution: Tennessee governor rejects clemency pleaDeath Penalty Information CenterGovernor Bill Lee Denies Clemency for Christa Pike, Refusing to Stop Tennessee’s First Execution of a Woman in More Than 200 YearsRelated on TDSHChrista Pike Case File: The Torture-Murder of Colleen SlemmerTDSH case fileInside the Twisted Mind of Christa PikeTDSH feature03TDSH-CL-260929 · §03Further Down the Board: Files 09-36In edition order · follow-ups and Sept. 30 updates are flagged on each file09FileARRESTEDCalifornia, USAFollow-up · Sept. 28Dublin, Calif.: In-Laws Booked on First-Degree Murder SuspicionInterstate 580 approaching Dublin, California. Photo: Dicklyon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Alameda County jail records now list Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen on suspicion of first-degree murder, negligent discharge of a firearm and child endangerment in Saturday’s killing of their son-in-law, Jonathan McKinsey, 40, at the Dublin Sports Grounds, Patch reports. Chen is also booked on suspicion of conspiracy to fraudulently obtain money. Both are held without bail at Santa Rita Jail. Arraignment is set for 9 a.m. Wednesday at the East County Hall of Justice. No formal charges have been announced, though NBC Bay Area reports both are expected to face murder charges. The first report ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.The New York Times confirmed that McKinsey headed engineering for New York Times Games. Witnesses told CBS News Bay Area that a masked man shot McKinsey and then handed the gun to a masked woman, who also fired. NBC Bay Area reports he was in a custody fight with his estranged wife, and The New York Times has reported on restraining-order filings in the dispute. Police say there are no other suspects and haven’t said whether the family dispute bears on the shooting. Both are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 09WhoJonathan McKinsey, 40 · Shouyong Zhang & Shili ChenWhenSat.Charge / basisBooked: suspicion of first-degree murderCase type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 3PatchNY Times Executive Killed At Dublin Sports Grounds; New Details Emerge: ReportsNBC Bay AreaElderly in-laws due in court for alleged killing of NYT ExecutiveThe IndependentFirst pictures of elderly couple accused of taking turns fatally shooting son-in-law10FileIN COURTSouth AfricaMount Edgecombe: Five in Court Over Crime Intelligence AmbushMount Edgecombe, north of Durban. Photo: N Chadwick / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0Five men made a first appearance in the Verulam Magistrate’s Court north of Durban on Monday over the April 30 ambush that killed two SAPS Crime Intelligence officers, Capt. Louis Nel and Sgt. Khuzwayo, on Flanders Drive in Mount Edgecombe. Nel died at the scene, and Khuzwayo died in hospital weeks later. Court documents say the officers had collected about R900,000 in Crime Intelligence secret-service funds and that the men took the cash and a pistol.The accused are Simangaliso Tembe, 39, Mduduzi Myeza, 46, Bongani Zulu, 61, Wandile Nyawo, 38, and Sibusiso Sibisi, 46. They face conspiracy to commit robbery with aggravating circumstances, robbery with aggravating circumstances, murder, and unlawful possession of automatic firearms and ammunition. The state alleges common purpose and planning from February to April. They were arrested Friday in Pinetown, Amanzimtoti, Mandeni and Newlands West. A sixth suspect was shot dead in Inanda after a three-hour standoff, police spokesperson Col. Robert Netshiunda said, and a Special Task Force officer was shot in the hand. Bail applications are set for Oct. 16, and the state will oppose them. All five are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 10WhoCapt. Louis Nel & Sgt. Khuzwayo · five accusedWhenApril 30Charge / basisMurder, aggravated robbery, conspiracy, firearmsCase type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 3African News AgencyKZN Crime Intelligence officers murdered: Five in court for R900,000 robbery from copsEast Coast RadioFive suspects linked to Durban crime intelligence murders to apply for bailTabloid NewspapersFive accused appear in court over Mount Edgecombe police murders11FileIN COURTKenyaUpdate · Sept. 30Nairobi: Five Plead Not Guilty in Dr Victoria Mutiso’s MurderNairobi, Kenya. Photo: This Photo was taken by Timothy A. Gonsalves. Feel free to use my photos, but please mention me as the author. I would much appreciate if you send me an email tagooty@yahoo.com or write on my talk page, for my information. Please contact me before commercial use. Please do not upload an edited image here without consulting me. I would like to make corrections only at my own source to ensure that the changes improve the image and are preserved.Otherwise you may upload an edited image with a new name. Please use one of the templates derivative or extract. / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Five people charged with the July 29 murder of Dr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso pleaded not guilty Tuesday before Justice Alexander Muteti at the High Court in Nairobi. They are a woman, her son and daughter, a police constable and one other accused. The DCI and the ODPP oppose bail. An affidavit from a Homicide Investigations Bureau officer cites fears of witness interference, evidence tampering and flight, and says several alleged accomplices are still at large.Investigators tie the killing to a long dispute over a 20-acre parcel in Mlolongo involving Mutiso, her husband and the first three accused. They allege four months of surveillance and planning, backed by phone and other electronic records. Before bail could be argued, lawyers Danstan Omari and Cliff Ombeta withdrew from representing the first three accused, who didn’t object. The defence also raised claims of torture in custody. The state asked for more time to respond. Each of the five is presumed innocent.UpdateSept. 30, 2026Update, Sept. 30: Two more accused, Police Constable Collins Kiplangat Bett and Pius Muiru Mbugua, appeared before Justice Alexander Muteti on Wednesday without taking a plea. The judge declined the prosecution’s request for extended detention for mental assessments and remanded both to Nairobi Remand Prison, with a mention next Tuesday. See The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 11WhoDr Victoria Nthunya Mutiso · five accused (two more in court Sept. 30)WhenJuly 29Charge / basisMurder · pleaded not guiltyCase type (TDSH grouping)Method not statedSources · 2Capital FM KenyaState opposes bail for five suspects in Dr Victoria Mutiso murderThe Star (Kenya)Dr Mutiso murder case: Omari, Ombeta withdraw from representing three accusedRelated on TDSHThe Crime Ledger: September 25, 2026Earlier ledger coverageThe Crime Ledger: September 23, 2026Earlier ledger coverage12FileARRESTEDMexicoIguala: Funeral-Home Operators Arrested in Ayotzinapa CaseThe municipal cemetery in Iguala, Guerrero. Photo: Sol Tenorio Aranda / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Mexico’s special Ayotzinapa prosecutor, Mauricio Pazarán Álvarez, said Tuesday that investigators have tied the El Ángel funeral home and the Iguala forensic medical service to the disappearance of the 43 students of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School. The home’s concession holders, a father and son identified as Rodolfo “N,” have been arrested. At a joint news conference with Interior Ministry undersecretary Arturo Medina, officials said about 100 bone fragments were recovered from the funeral home and the morgue. Medina said none has yet been matched to any of the students.Officials said a new analysis of phone traffic from the night of Sept. 26-27, 2014, has flagged 17 people who hadn’t been identified before and are now under investigation. They said the evidence puts the students in the Iguala police lockup, and that Judge José Ulises Bernabé, whom Mexico wants extradited from the United States, hasn’t told the truth about the case. On the military side, 20 arrest warrants have been issued. Seventeen have been served, two are pending and one has been halted by an amparo. The two arrested men are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 12WhoThe 43 Ayotzinapa students · Rodolfo “N” (father & son)WhenSept. 2014 (arrests Tue.)Charge / basisArrested: funeral-home concession holdersCase type (TDSH grouping)OtherSources · 1El UniversalDetienen a más implicados en el caso Ayotzinapa13FileIN COURTMassachusetts, USADuxbury: Clancy Judge Weighs Not-Guilty Motion After MistrialDuxbury Town Offices, Massachusetts. Photo: T.S. Custadio aka ToddC4176 at en.wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Lindsay Clancy was back in court Tuesday for the first time since her murder trial ended in a mistrial more than three weeks ago. The jury couldn’t agree on whether she should be held criminally responsible for killing her three children in their Duxbury home in 2023. Defence lawyer Kevin Reddington, who ran an insanity defence at trial, argued under Rule 25 that prosecutors never proved she killed the children, let alone that she was fit to face first-degree murder charges, and asked Judge William Sullivan to enter not-guilty findings before any retrial. Prosecutors opposed it, citing “voluminous” evidence that she strangled the children in the basement. A second defence lawyer, Martin Weinberg, asked for the case to be dismissed on double-jeopardy grounds, arguing the mistrial shouldn’t have been declared.Sullivan took the motions under advisement. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said his office hasn’t decided whether to try her again. Prosecutors also want limits on the defence’s public comments, especially Reddington’s remarks about the juror said to have refused to join the other 11 in finding her not criminally responsible. Reddington said afterward that he does “not need any gag orders.” More arguments are set for Nov. 2. Clancy is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 13WhoThree Clancy children · Lindsay ClancyWhen2023 (hearing Tue.)Charge / basisFirst-degree murder: retrial undecidedCase type (TDSH grouping)StrangulationSources · 1WBURWith retrial still undecided, DA pushes to limit public statements in Clancy caseRelated on TDSHLindsay Clancy Trial: Postpartum Psychosis, Evidence & Verdict WatchTDSH case fileThe Crime Ledger: September 10, 2026Earlier ledger coverage14FileCHARGEDOntario, CanadaVaughan: Two Charged in 2025 Killing at Commercial UnitVaughan City Hall, Ontario. Photo: Mhsheikholeslami / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0York Regional Police announced Tuesday that Daniel Fearon, 40, and Sherrie Donovan, 41, both of Toronto, are each charged with first-degree murder in the death of Deuvane Donald Francis of Toronto. Officers called to a commercial property near Langstaff Road and Jane Street at about 2:36 p.m. on Aug. 27, 2025, found him dead inside a unit with obvious signs of trauma. Investigators determined he’d been killed the day before.One suspect was arrested Sept. 22 and the other a day later. A search warrant at a home in the Niagara Region turned up nine firearms and ammunition, more than 900 grams of suspected cocaine, more than 200 grams of ketamine and more than 20 grams of methamphetamine. Police say six of the guns are prohibited. Fearon also faces trafficking and firearms charges. York police believe at least two more suspects are still out there. Fearon and Donovan are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 14WhoDeuvane Donald Francis · Daniel Fearon, 40 & Sherrie Donovan, 41WhenAug. 27, 2025Charge / basisFirst-degree murderCase type (TDSH grouping)Method not statedSources · 2CityNews Toronto2 charged with 1st-degree murder in 2025 Vaughan homicideWinnipeg Free Press (The Canadian Press)Two charged in alleged 2025 murder of Toronto man, police search for more suspects15FileCHARGEDFranceToulouse: Autopsy Finds 93-Year-Old Was Raped and StrangledThe Capitole, Toulouse. Photo: Benh LIEU SONG / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0A 93-year-old woman found dead in her Toulouse home Saturday was raped and strangled, Toulouse prosecutor David Charmatz said Tuesday. The autopsy found signs of sexual violence, a rib fracture and a spinal fracture, bruising, and neck injuries consistent with asphyxia. A 34-year-old man was arrested at the scene. 20 Minutes reports he’d been drinking. The prosecutor said he was “totally undressed and very agitated” when arrested and hurt one of the officers.He was brought before an investigating judge Tuesday. The parquet asked that he be placed under formal investigation for murder “preceded or followed by another crime, in this case the crime of rape,” and held in pretrial detention. The judge’s decision hadn’t been made public by Tuesday evening in France. Neither the woman nor the man has been named, and he is presumed innocent.According to the prosecutor’s statement, neighbours called police at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 27 because a man was shouting and swearing in the garden of the house in the Minimes district. The door was locked from inside, which the woman, bedridden after a stroke, could not have done. Officers climbed in through a window and found her body in a first-floor bathroom with the man, whom they subdued with difficulty. La Dépêche reports his breath alcohol reading was 0.92 milligrams per litre, that he is a Sudanese refugee living legally in France with no criminal record, and that a psychiatric evaluation was ordered.Update, Oct. 11, 2026: He was placed under formal investigation on Sept. 29 for murder preceded or followed by rape and jailed pending trial, 100% Radio and Journal FR report. He is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 15WhoWoman, 93 · man, 34WhenFound Sat.Charge / basisMurder with another crime (requested)Case type (TDSH grouping)StrangulationSources · 4100% RadioLe trentenaire soupçonné a été mis en examenLa DépêcheL’autopsie révèle des traces de strangulation20 Minutes (with AFP)La nonagénaire retrouvée morte à Toulouse a été violée et étrangléeParis MatchUne femme de 93 ans violée et tuée à Toulouse, un suspect arrêté16FileARRESTEDPakistanLahore: Father and Three Siblings Arrested in 18-Year-Old’s DeathThe Lahore High Court. Photo: MariyamAftab / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Lahore police have arrested the father, two brothers and a sister of Maham, 18, who was brought to Ganga Ram Hospital in critical condition on Sept. 26 and later died. Police say the suspects left her at the hospital and fled. Police registered the murder case on their own complaint in the Sanda area. A spokesperson for the DIG Operations said a preliminary post-mortem found signs of sexual abuse and severe assault. Police allege she had been subjected to repeated violence with pipes, iron rods and other objects.Police say all four have confessed during questioning. Those statements haven’t been tested in court. Police say Maham was raised by a paternal aunt after her mother died when she was a baby. The investigation is continuing, and further legal action will follow the evidence, police said. The four arrested are presumed innocent.Police named the four as her father, Muhammad Anwar, her brothers Hammad and Hamza, and her sister Hina. A spokesperson for the DIG Operations said investigators also found burns to her genitals allegedly caused by a hot iron and a knife, and The Current reports police say the father and both brothers sexually abused her, beginning while she lived with her aunt, and that she was being tortured on the day she died. All four are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 16WhoMaham, 18 · father, two brothers, sisterWhenBrought to hospital Sept. 26Charge / basisMurder case registeredCase type (TDSH grouping)Method not statedSources · 4Aaj English TVFather, siblings arrested over 18-year-old’s death in LahoreThe CurrentLahore girl was also raped by father, brothers: probeAaj English TVFather, siblings arrested over 18-year-old’s death in LahoreDaily TimesFour of family held for killing sibling17FileARRESTEDColombiaTibú: Dissident Commander ‘Pollo’ Captured Over Recruited Girl’s KillingSunset over Tibú, Norte de Santander. Photo: User:Paola lopez04 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Colombian soldiers, air force and police captured a man known as “Pollo” in the Villa Paz neighbourhood of Tibú, Norte de Santander, on Monday. The government says he commands a unit of the Jorge Suárez Briceño substructure of the FARC dissidents and is linked to the killing of a girl the group forcibly recruited. Armed men took her from her home in rural Tibú on April 2. On Sept. 20 her family was told she had been killed. One account says she had tried to escape the armed group with other teenagers.He was handed to the Fiscalía to face a judge on illegal gun possession, conspiracy, forced recruitment and aggravated homicide of a protected person, El Tiempo reports. Troops seized a pistol and 12 rounds. The government says he was on its most-wanted list. The girl’s father had pleaded publicly for her return. The suspect hasn’t been named beyond his alias, and he’s presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 17WhoRecruited girl · “Pollo”WhenTaken April 2; death told Sept. 20Charge / basisHanded to FiscalíaCase type (TDSH grouping)Method not statedSources · 2Caracol RadioCapturan en Tibú a presunto responsable del reclutamiento y asesinato de la niña…El TiempoCapturan a alias Pollo en Tibú por el presunto reclutamiento y asesinato de la menor…18FileCHARGEDFranceFollow-up · Sept. 28Courbevoie: Cousin Charged With Murder and JailedThe Seine embankment at Courbevoie. Photo: Clicsouris / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5The 25-year-old cousin of the 37-year-old woman stabbed to death in a building lobby in Courbevoie overnight Saturday into Sunday has been placed under formal investigation (mis en examen) for murder and remanded in pretrial detention, the Nanterre parquet told actu.fr on Tuesday. Prosecutors had asked for both steps. The parquet said he wasn’t her partner. The first report ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.She had “several dozen” stab wounds. A second man, who had been putting the pair up, was also held in garde à vue. Nothing has been made public about any step against him. The département’s judicial police are investigating, and no motive has been given. Neither the woman nor the accused has been named. Mise en examen isn’t a verdict, and the cousin is presumed innocent.Le Nouveau Détective names her as Roberta. Neighbours told Le Parisien they heard screams at about 12:50 a.m., ran down a floor and saw her soaked in blood near a man holding a “very large knife”; she told them, “He says I poisoned him.” Police arrived about five minutes later and had to use a Taser to subdue him, Ouest-France reports. A source close to the case told Le Nouveau Détective the cousin claims he vomited after drinking tea she served, accused her of poisoning him, and that she threatened him with a knife before he turned it on her; that account has not been tested. The man who housed them was released without charge at this stage. The cousin is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 18WhoWoman, 37 · cousin, 25WhenOvernight Sat.-Sun.Charge / basisMurder (mis en examen)Case type (TDSH grouping)StabbingSources · 3Le Nouveau DétectiveMeurtre de Roberta à CourbevoieOuest-FranceLe principal suspect mis en examenactu.frFemme poignardée à mort dans un hall d’immeuble à Courbevoie : un homme mis en examen et incarcéré19FileARRESTEDGermanyFollow-up · Sept. 28Marl: August Shooting Arrests as Teahouse Gunmen Stay FreeMarl city hall, North Rhine-Westphalia. Photo: Daniel Ullrich (Threedots) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0The gunmen who killed a 39-year-old man from Recklinghausen at a teahouse on Karlstraße early Monday are still at large. He bled to death from a gunshot to the lung, a police spokeswoman said after the autopsy. The two wounded men, 35 and 40, didn’t need to stay long in hospital, dpa reports. The shooting ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.On Tuesday, Essen prosecutors and Recklinghausen police announced arrests in the Aug. 11 attempted murder nearby on Otto-Hue-Straße, where shots were fired at a car. A 16-year-old from Verden and a 21-year-old with no fixed address were arrested in Hannover and Wuppertal and are in pretrial custody. A 20-year-old was arrested abroad after a public appeal. The three are suspected of helping prepare the attack, including scouting the area. The alleged shooter is believed to be abroad and is being sought with photos. Police say the perpetrators of the two shootings are very likely not the same people, and whether the cases are linked is still open. Nobody has been named.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 19WhoMan, 39, killed · gunmen at largeWhenEarly Mon.; Aug. 11Charge / basisAug. 11 attempted murder: three arrestedCase type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 2Polizei Recklinghausen / Staatsanwaltschaft EssenMarl: Schüsse auf Auto: mehrere Männer in U-HaftDie Zeit (dpa)Tödliche Schüsse in Teestube: Täter weiter auf der Flucht20FileIN COURTGhanaFollow-up · Sept. 28Teshie: Three Remanded as Phone Dealer’s Murder Case Is AdjournedA neighbourhood in Teshie, Accra. Photo: Kwameghana / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Philip Dzifa Kofi Tefe, Sarah Osei Adams and Josiah Obodai appeared before the Teshie District Court in Accra on Monday over the kidnapping and killing of Nana Yaw Kyere, 33, a mobile phone dealer known as Dinero. The charge sheet was read, all three were remanded into police custody and the case was adjourned to Oct. 16. The arrests ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.Police allege Adams lured Kyere to Tefe’s house at Teshie Agbleza on Sept. 19, where Tefe allegedly struck him with a metallic object during a confrontation. Kyere was moved to another room, left unattended and later died, police say. Investigators say his body was driven in a Kia Morning to bush near the motorway on Sept. 20 and set alight. Obodai is accused over the disposal. A man who allegedly bought Kyere’s iPhone 12 for GH¢100 has been cautioned and detained. The three have not been tried and are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 20WhoNana Yaw Kyere, 33 · three accusedWhenSept. 19Charge / basisKidnapping & murder (charge sheet)Case type (TDSH grouping)Blunt force / assaultSources · 2MyJoyOnlinePhone dealer murder: 3 suspects remanded as court adjourns Teshie caseGBC Ghana OnlinePhone dealer murder: 3 suspects remanded as court adjourns Teshie case21FileARRESTEDKansas, USAFollow-up · Sept. 28Wichita: Police Name Parents and Sister Shot at HomeWichita, Kansas. Photo: Quintin Soloviev / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Wichita police have named the three people shot dead Saturday at a home in the 5000 block of East Blake Street: Juan Valenzuela-Ayala, 49, Brenda Silva-Cervantes, 40, and Daisy Valenzuela, 25. Police say they were the father, mother and sister of Juan Valenzuela-Silva, 21, who is booked on requested charges of capital murder. A 17-year-old boy, a 17-year-old girl and a 2-year-old girl were in the house and weren’t hurt. The arrest ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.“This is an unimaginable tragedy for a family that lost three loved ones in a single act of violence,” Police Chief Joe Sullivan said. He said officers’ first priority was making sure the 2-year-old and the two teenagers were safe. Flock plate readers tracked the suspect’s 2014 Infiniti QX60 south, and deputies stopped it just south of Augusta in Butler County with a Kansas Highway Patrol aircraft overhead. The case goes to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office for formal charges this week. Valenzuela-Silva is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 21WhoThree family members · Juan Valenzuela-Silva, 21WhenSat.Charge / basisRequested: capital murderCase type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 2Hays Post (Wichita Police Department)Police release new details in triple-murder of Kansas familyKWCHMan arrested in Wichita triple homicide, victims identified as parents, sister22FileCHARGEDNSW, AustraliaUpdate · Sept. 30Gurranang: Double Murder Charge After Second Body Found in ShedThe Clarence River at Grafton, New South Wales, about 25 km south of Gurranang. Photo: Kgbo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0A 32-year-old man has been charged with two counts of murder and stealing a motor vehicle over two bodies found about two weeks apart on the same property on Summerland Way at Gurranang, north of Grafton in northern NSW. A 79-year-old man was found dead inside the house on Sept. 13. Officers went back Monday afternoon and found a 59-year-old man in a shed.Supt. Joanne Schultz said the 59-year-old wasn’t local and appeared to have died within the previous 24 to 48 hours. She alleged it was “evident those people have met with foul play” and said the scene hadn’t been held before the second discovery. Strike Force Faneel detectives arrested the man at Grafton Base Hospital around midday Tuesday. He didn’t apply for bail when he appeared in court Wednesday, Australian time, and is next due at Grafton Local Court on Dec. 8. Police haven’t named either dead man. The accused is presumed innocent.UpdateSept. 30, 2026Update, Sept. 30: Police now allege the accused is Nicholas Scott, 32, a neighbour. Det. Supt. Joe Doueihi said Wednesday the two dead men were related and that the 59-year-old had come to NSW to help police and sort out the older man’s estate. See The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 22WhoMen, 79 & 59 · Nicholas Scott, 32 (named Sept. 30)WhenSept. 13; Mon.Charge / basisTwo counts of murderCase type (TDSH grouping)Method not statedSources · 2ABC News (Australia)Man charged with murder over deaths of two men found at Gurranang homeThe Sydney Morning HeraldGurranang deaths: Man charged with double murder after two men found dead on property in northern NSW23FileCHARGEDNSW, AustraliaWest Hoxton: Teen Drone Pilot Charged Over Second Murder PlotA water board depot at West Hoxton, in Sydney’s south-west. Photo: Chris.sherlock2 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Jimmy Schulz, 18, already charged with murder over the Sept. 2 mistaken-identity shooting of Joshua Macdonald, 40, was charged Monday with conspiring to murder a man linked to the Haouchar crime family. Police allege he was running drone surveillance for that second plot on Sept. 11, the day he was arrested in a car at West Hoxton.The new counts also cover participating in a criminal group, possessing a dedicated encrypted criminal communication device and flying a drone beyond visual line of sight. He was refused bail Tuesday and is next due at Parramatta Local Court on Nov. 5. A stood-down PE teacher, Ashleigh Ann Seeney, 28, was charged last week over the same plot. Police allege she kept “constant contact” with the teenagers and relayed police movements. Det. Supt. Jason Box said the plot targeted a man living nearby. The SMH reports police had warned that man to fear for his life. Schulz and Seeney are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 23WhoJoshua Macdonald, 40 · Jimmy Schulz, 18WhenSept. 2; Sept. 11Charge / basisConspiracy to murder + murderCase type (TDSH grouping)OtherSources · 1The Sydney Morning HeraldTeen drone pilot Jimmy Schulz charged over second alleged gangland murder plot24FileIN COURTSouth AfricaBlue Downs: Off-Duty Police Officer Charged With Two MurdersBlue Downs and Mfuleni, Cape Town. Photo: Discott / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Keegan Petersen, an off-duty officer believed to be stationed at Mfuleni SAPS, made his first appearance in the Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. He’s charged with two counts of murder, three of attempted murder and illegal possession of ammunition. “The State alleges that he fatally shot his girlfriend’s brother and the man he was with and attempted to kill three others, including his girlfriend,” said Eric Ntabazalila, the Western Cape NPA spokesperson. More charges may follow.The dead men are Leando Fortuin and Wesley Carolissen. A relative told IOL they had gone to the house on Velvet Crescent on Saturday evening to fetch the girlfriend during a domestic dispute. Police later found four shotgun rounds in a safe at Petersen’s home. He handed himself over at Kleinvlei police station on Sunday. The court refused his lawyer’s request to hold him in the Mfuleni cells and sent him to Pollsmoor Prison. Bail will be argued on Oct. 6, and the state will oppose it under Schedule 6. IPID is investigating. He is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 24WhoLeando Fortuin & Wesley Carolissen · Keegan PetersenWhenSat. eveningCharge / basisTwo murders, three attemptedCase type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 1IOL / Cape ArgusMfuleni officer remains in custody over double murder and attempted murders25FileARRESTEDNigeriaEgbeda, Lagos: Driver Paraded Over Sergeant Dragged Under LexusEgbeda junction, Lagos. Photo: Oludeleadewalephotography / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Lagos State Police Commissioner Fatai Tijani said Monday that Sgt. Johnson Okediji was on stop-and-search duty on Olugbede Street, Egbeda, at about 2:20 p.m. on Saturday when a Lexus ES 350 that had stopped suddenly sped off as he stepped to the driver’s side. Tijani said the car knocked him down and dragged him for several metres. Okediji suffered multiple fractures and head injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.The driver, Olumide Olushola, 21, was chased down and arrested. At his parade at police headquarters in Ikeja, he told reporters the brakes had failed and denied hitting the sergeant on purpose. Police recovered the car to the station, and the body is at the Mainland Hospital mortuary for autopsy. No court charge had been announced. Olushola is presumed innocent.Tijani said police officers and passers-by repeatedly tried to make the driver stop while the sergeant was being dragged. The Lexus, registration FKJ 223 KX, belonged to Olushola’s mother, TheNewsGiant reports, and he told reporters: “I did not kill the policeman intentionally, it was due to the vehicle’s brake failure.” Okediji’s body was taken to the Mainland Hospital mortuary for an autopsy. No charge had been announced in court by the time of publication, and Olushola is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 25WhoSgt. Johnson Okediji · Olumide Olushola, 21WhenSat., ~2:20 p.m.Charge / basisArrested, paraded by policeCase type (TDSH grouping)Vehicle / pursuitSources · 3PunchHow I killed Lagos cop during stop-and-search, suspectTheNewsGiantBrake failed, pleads man driving his mum’s carPunchHow I killed Lagos cop during stop-and-search: 21-year-old suspect26FileCHARGEDIrelandDublin, Ireland: Couple Charged With Perjury Over McGregor AppealThe Criminal Courts of Justice, Dublin. Photo: Metro Centric / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Gardaí arrested Samantha O’Reilly, 38, and Steven Cummins, 39, at their home in Cherry Orchard Green on Tuesday morning and charged them with making false statements in a judicial proceeding. The statements were evidence Conor McGregor tried to introduce in his failed appeal against a High Court civil jury’s finding that he raped Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in December 2018. O’Reilly faces two counts, for statements in January and May 2025. Cummins faces one count, for January 2025.At Dublin District Court, Judge Michele Finan was told the DPP has directed trial by jury in the Circuit Criminal Court. Both were remanded on bail. They must sign on weekly at Ballyfermot Garda Station, keep a phone number with gardaí and stay away from witnesses. They return Nov. 9 for service of the book of evidence. The Court of Appeal had referred the material to the DPP last year. Both are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 26WhoSamantha O’Reilly, 38 & Steven Cummins, 39WhenTue.Charge / basisFalse statements in judicial proceedingCase type (TDSH grouping)OtherSources · 1RTÉ NewsMan, woman charged with perjury over McGregor appeal27FileCHARGEDFrancePalavas-les-Flots: Murder Charge in Airbnb Knife KillingThe fisherman monument at Palavas-les-Flots. Photo: Anthony Levrot / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0A man was found dead on Sept. 9 in an Airbnb rental on rue du Ponant in Palavas-les-Flots, on the coast south of Montpellier, with multiple knife wounds, including a cut to the throat. Montpellier prosecutor Thierry Lescouarc’h said Tuesday that two people were arrested together in a car at Roquemaure, in the Gard, on Sept. 26. DNA traces recovered at the scene helped investigators.Both went before an investigating magistrate on Sept. 28. One was placed under formal investigation for murder and jailed pending trial. The other, who was with that person at the arrest, was placed under investigation for shielding a criminal from arrest and released under judicial supervision. A judicial inquiry into aggravated homicide had been open since Sept. 11. Nobody has been named, and both are presumed innocent.Midi Libre reports the victim was a 32-year-old man from the Caen area, and that the killing was carried out with great violence. The gendarmerie’s section de recherches led the inquiry under a Montpellier investigating magistrate. The prosecutor gave no motive and no details about the two suspects. Both are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 27WhoMan found dead · two arrestedWhenSept. 9; Sept. 26Charge / basisMurder (formal investigation)Case type (TDSH grouping)StabbingSources · 3Midi LibreMeurtre à l’arme blanche à Palavas-les-Flotsactu.frMeurtre à Palavas : un suspect a été mis en examenTF1 InfoHérault : deux personnes interpellées après la découverte d’un corps sans vie dans un appartement de Palavas-les-Flots28FileARRESTEDItalyPellezzano: Son, 53, Held Over Mother’s KillingCapriglia, a hamlet of Pellezzano, near Salerno. Photo: . / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Carabinieri from Mercato San Severino detained a 53-year-old man in Pellezzano, near Salerno, on Monday on a Salerno prosecutors’ order that names him as a suspect in the aggravated homicide of his 85-year-old mother. Carabinieri say he killed her overnight in the home they shared, walked out, then called the 112 emergency line himself to report it. Officers found him on foot in the town’s streets minutes later.Il Mattino reports he’d been the sole carer for his mother and an older brother with psychiatric illness for four years, and that he told carabinieri, “I couldn’t take it anymore.” He’s being held at Salerno’s Fuorni prison. The carabinieri stress that the detention can be challenged and that the accusations will be tested in court. Neither has been officially named.Update, Oct. 11, 2026: Local press has since named him as Antonio Durante and his mother as Maria Barone. Salernonotizie reports that on Oct. 1 he repeated before the preliminary investigations judge, “I killed my mother.” Anteprima24 reports investigators believe she was strangled in her sleep, with the autopsy expected to confirm the cause. Several outlets report that before the killing he had arranged her funeral and decided who would look after his disabled brother. He is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 28WhoMother, 85 · son, 53WhenOvernight Sun.-Mon.Charge / basisSuspect, aggravated homicideCase type (TDSH grouping)Method not statedSources · 4SalernonotizieAntonio Durante confessa davanti al gipAnteprima24Pellezzano, Maria strangolata nel sonnoIl Giornale di SalernoUccide la madre, 53enne arrestatoIl Mattino«Ho ucciso mia madre»: 53enne di Pellezzano finisce in cella29FileARRESTEDSpainFollow-up · Sept. 28Update · Sept. 30La Campana: Spain Counts Stabbing as Gender-Violence KillingA street in La Campana, Seville province. Photo: CarlosVdeHabsburgo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Spain’s Government Delegation against Gender Violence, part of the Equality Ministry, has officially confirmed that the 47-year-old woman stabbed in the street in La Campana, Seville province, late Saturday was killed by gender violence. It has added her to the national count of women killed by partners or ex-partners. Her 56-year-old partner, detained by the Guardia Civil after about 12 hours barricaded at home, is the suspect. The standoff ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026.Francisco Toscano, the government’s sub-delegate in Seville, said she was registered in VioGén, Spain’s risk-monitoring system, because of an earlier relationship. The man wasn’t in the system and had no prior gender-violence complaints against him. Her son, a minor who was there, is in the care of neighbours until child-protection services take over. Neither she nor the man has been officially named. He is presumed innocent.UpdateSept. 30, 2026Update, Sept. 30: A violence-against-women court in Lora del Río ordered the man held in provisional prison without bail on Tuesday. See The Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 29WhoWoman, 47 · partner, 56WhenLate Sat.Charge / basisSuspect · held without bail (Sept. 30 update)Case type (TDSH grouping)StabbingSources · 1Diario de SevillaIgualdad confirma el asesinato de La Campana como crimen machista30FileSENTENCEDNova Scotia, CanadaKingsport, N.S.: Six Years for Wife’s ManslaughterAn archival photo from Kentville, the Kings County town near Kingsport, Nova Scotia. Photo: A. L. Hardy / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainDouglas Smith, 75, was sentenced Tuesday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Kentville to six years in prison for the manslaughter of his wife, Iris Dodd, 72, at their home in Kingsport on April 30, 2022. He pleaded guilty in April, days before his second-degree murder trial was due to start. According to the agreed statement of facts, the couple had been married 33 years and were to be evicted the next day with nowhere to go. Dodd used a wheelchair, was losing her eyesight and lived with chronic pain, and her health had been failing since a 2018 stroke.The court heard that she told him that night she didn’t want to spend her last years in care, planned to take all her medication, and made him promise to help her end her life. He smothered her. Smith retains his appeal rights. In Canada, the 9-8-8 suicide crisis line answers calls and texts around the clock.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 30WhoIris Dodd, 72 · Douglas Smith, 75WhenApril 30, 2022Charge / basisManslaughter: six yearsCase type (TDSH grouping)Method not statedSources · 1CBC NewsN.S. senior killed ailing wife after promising to help her take her own life, court hears31FileON TRIALAlberta, CanadaCalgary: Crown Says Victim Was Beaten and Injected With FentanylThe Calgary Courts Centre. Photo: Qyd / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5A four-week jury trial opened in Calgary on Monday for Shaun Folk, charged with second-degree murder in the death of Christopher Stevenson, and Ali El-Sayed, charged with being an accessory after the fact. In her opening, prosecutor Donna Spaner said Folk believed Stevenson owed him money and arranged a meeting with him at Folk’s apartment on Aug. 24, 2023. CCTV footage shows Stevenson entering the building but not leaving.The Crown alleges Stevenson was assaulted in apartment 907, and that “his death was caused by the injection of fentanyl into his body” as he lay badly hurt. Prosecutors say his body was then taken to a rural area and burned in a barrel. Spaner said jurors will hear from Kenedee Taylor, who was in the apartment and saw the killing. Spaner said the Crown’s theory is that Folk “directed and participated” in the events that killed Stevenson. Both men are presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 31WhoChristopher Stevenson · Shaun Folk; Ali El-SayedWhenAug. 24, 2023Charge / basisSecond-degree murder; accessoryCase type (TDSH grouping)Blunt force / assaultSources · 1CBC NewsCalgary victim was beaten, killed with fentanyl before body burned, prosecutors allege in murder trial32FileARRESTEDIndiaHyderabad: Man Held Over Woman’s Death in Madhapur Hotel RoomCyber Towers in Madhapur, Hyderabad. Photo: Veera.sj / Wikimedia Commons, Public domainMadhapur police arrested Srinivasa Ravi Teja of Visakhapatnam on Tuesday over the death of Sharon Nikhita Topno, 29, a private-sector employee who had checked into room 304 of a hotel on Road No. 5, Siddiqui Nagar, with him on Sept. 21. The next morning he told staff she’d fallen unconscious. With their help he took her to a hospital in Kothaguda, where she was declared dead, and then he fled. Her body had injuries, and police registered a murder case under Section 103(1) of the BNS.Inspector K.V. Subba Rao said Ravi Teja was traced to Visakhapatnam, where he’d been hospitalized after drinking floor cleaner. He was brought to Hyderabad on a transit warrant after his discharge Monday. Police say he admitted a four-year relationship and told them he hit her head against a wall during an argument because he didn’t want to marry her. He was sent to judicial remand Tuesday. His account to police hasn’t been tested in court, and he is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 32WhoSharon Nikhita Topno, 29 · Srinivasa Ravi TejaWhenSept. 21-22Charge / basisMurder case, BNS 103(1)Case type (TDSH grouping)Method not statedSources · 1The Times of IndiaMan held for killing woman in Madhapur hotel33FileARRESTEDIndiaJaipur: Man Arrested After Pregnant Partner Found BuriedHawa Mahal, Jaipur. Photo: Chainwit. / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Jaipur police arrested Pravesh Kumar, 20, on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Tuesday on suspicion of strangling his pregnant partner, Kiran Rawat, on Sept. 23 and burying her in the courtyard of their rented house in Prestige Garden Colony, Bindayaka. DCP (West) Prashant Kiran said the landlord found her body on Sept. 27. Police say the two were related, had been living together as partners and had moved to Jaipur from their village about two months earlier.Police say Kumar suspected her of seeing another man and first claimed she had taken her own life and that he’d buried her in a panic. Investigators say he went back to work at a factory from Sept. 24 to 26, then collected Rs 500 in wages and fled on Sept. 27, suspecting the body had been found. CCTV and phone analysis tracked him. He is from Barabanki district in Uttar Pradesh and is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 33WhoKiran Rawat · Pravesh Kumar, 20WhenSept. 23Charge / basisSuspicion of murderCase type (TDSH grouping)StrangulationSources · 1The Times of IndiaMan kills pregnant live-in partner, buries body; held34FileARRESTEDSouth KoreaNamyangju: Chauffeur Jailed Over Chuseok Stabbing at VillaNamyangju, Gyeonggi Province. Photo: Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0The Namyangju branch of the Uijeongbu District Court issued an arrest warrant on Monday for a chauffeur in his 50s, citing flight risk. He’s accused of stabbing a woman in her 70s repeatedly at a holiday villa in Sudong-myeon, Namyangju, at about 11 a.m. Saturday during the Chuseok break. The Hankyoreh reports that her husband heard her scream, came down from the second floor and called police, who arrested the driver at the scene. She died at about 4 p.m. Sunday, and police changed the charge from attempted murder to murder.The Hankyoreh reports he had driven for the couple for more than 10 years as an employee of a national sports body, was facing dismissal and told police he resented being made to work over the holiday. It says he brought the weapon from home. On his way into the warrant hearing he told reporters, “I committed an unforgivable crime,” and stayed silent when asked whether he’d prepared the weapon. Korean police haven’t released either name. He is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 34WhoWoman in her 70s · chauffeur in his 50sWhenSat., ~11 a.m.Charge / basisMurder (upgraded)Case type (TDSH grouping)StabbingSources · 2The Hankyoreh남양주 별장서 70대 여성 살해 혐의…50대 수행기사 구속CBS NoCut News50-something chauffeur arrested for killing woman at Namyangju villa: ‘Risk of flight’35FileARRESTEDBrazilCáceres, Brazil: Retired Detective Held in Ex-Wife’s Hotel ShootingThe Paraguay River at Cáceres, Mato Grosso. Photo: Edmarjr / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0A judge in Cáceres, Mato Grosso, about 220 kilometres from Cuiabá, on Tuesday converted the arrest of Ricardo de Souza Pessoa, 62, a retired Polícia Civil investigator, into preventive detention. He’s suspected of shooting his ex-wife, Noeli Simsen, 50, in a hotel room on Monday. Hotel staff and witnesses told military police they saw him arrive, go to her window and then heard about four shots. She was found dead with gunshot wounds to the chest.He left and later turned himself in at a police station in the city. The investigating delegado, Higo Rafael, said the couple had separated about five months earlier and that Pessoa didn’t accept the breakup. Police seized four guns from his home. The case is being investigated as feminicídio. Judge Antonio Carlos Pereira de Sousa Junior of the 2nd Criminal Court issued the order. Pessoa is presumed innocent.G1 reports the shooting happened at the Hotel Real, that Simsen, a businesswoman, had recently returned from France and was planning to sell a business in Mato Grosso, and that Pessoa had sent a message about a possible bomb in her car. The case is being investigated as femicide. He is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 35WhoNoeli Simsen, 50 · Ricardo de Souza Pessoa, 62WhenMon.Charge / basisPreventive detention: feminicídio probeCase type (TDSH grouping)ShootingSources · 2G1Policial aposentado preso por morte de ex enviou mensagem sobre bombaG1MT: policial aposentado investigado por morte de ex tem prisão mantida36FileARRESTEDJapanFollow-up · Sept. 28Ota, Japan: Suspect Sent to Prosecutors; Second Knife FoundŌta City Hall, Gunma Prefecture. Photo: Suikotei / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0Gunma police sent Riki Mihara, 30, to prosecutors Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to murder the 26-year-old son of Yuka Tezuka, 52, who was found dead with multiple stab wounds at her home in Ota on Friday. Mihara is the ex-husband of Tezuka’s daughter. The Takasaki arrest ran on The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026. Police believe he was also involved in her death, the Japan Times reports, but no charge over it has been announced.Investigative sources told Nippon TV that a second kitchen knife was found near the house, in addition to the one recovered at the scene. Mihara has said he brought that one himself. Shoes believed to be his were also found on the property. He fled the scene in his socks, and it isn’t clear when the shoes were left there. He is presumed innocent.Mihara was arrested on Sept. 27 at a pachinko parlour in Takasaki after police issued a public wanted notice, the Sankei Shimbun reports. The Asahi Shimbun reports he has told investigators he killed Tezuka, and the Hokkaido Shimbun reports he changed clothes while on the run; TV Asahi says clothes believed to have been worn in the attack were found. He is presumed innocent.Case index ↑Docket slipFile 36WhoYuka Tezuka, 52 · Riki Mihara, 30WhenFri.Charge / basisAttempted murder (son)Case type (TDSH grouping)StabbingSources · 4Asahi Shimbun「手塚さんを殺した」長女の元夫が関与認めるSankei Shimbun公開手配の元夫、三原理稀容疑者を逮捕Nippon TV (NNN)事件現場近くに“別の包丁”も　容疑者の知人「基本的には真面目でおとなしいタイプ」　群馬・親子殺傷事件The Japan TimesGunma police arrest man wanted after murder of ex-wife’s mother04TDSH-CL-260929 · §04Pattern MapStatus stamps · case types · region matrixBy status stamp36 filesBy case type36 filesMethod not stated9Shooting10Stabbing6Other5Strangulation3Blunt force / assault2Vehicle / pursuit1“Other” = terror probe, disappearance, plot, perjury, death-penalty appeal.Region matrixTile colour = status stamp · tap a tileNorth America · 1002030708091314213031UK & Ireland · 20126Europe · 704151819272829Africa · 6051011202425Asia · 51632333436Oceania · 3062223Latin America · 3121735Countries · 21: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, United States. Stage, type and region are editorial groupings drawn from the ledger text, not official case statuses.05TDSH-CL-260929 · §05Next WatchDates already on the calendar, quoted from the filesSept. 30Wed.File 08 · Nashvilleless than a day before Tennessee plans to put her to death by lethal injection Wednesday morningFile 09 · Dublin, Calif.Arraignment is set for 9 a.m. Wednesday at the East County Hall of Justice.File 06 · Glen AlpineAll three were remanded in custody to appear in court Wednesday.File 01 · RAF Fairfordhe expects the investigative scenes around RAF Fairford to be closed down completely by WednesdayOct. 2Fri.File 03 · Warren County, Ky.denied bail and set a preliminary hearing for FridayOct. 4Sun. · updateFile 03 · Warren County, Ky.The funeral is Sunday at noon Central at WKU’s Diddle Arena.Oct. 5Mon.File 07 · Tipp CityCommon Pleas Judge Jeannine Pratt revoked his bond and set sentencing for Oct. 5.Oct. 6Tue.File 05 · Tembisathe application was postponed to Oct. 6 for further investigationFile 24 · Blue DownsBail will be argued on Oct. 6, and the state will oppose it under Schedule 6.File 11 · Nairobiremanded both to Nairobi Remand Prison, with a mention next TuesdayOct. 16Fri.File 10 · Mount EdgecombeBail applications are set for Oct. 16, and the state will oppose them.File 20 · Teshiethe case was adjourned to Oct. 16OctoberDate TBCFile 02 · Maconone of the accused was due to stand trial next month in a 2023 shootingNov. 2Mon.File 13 · DuxburyMore arguments are set for Nov. 2.Nov. 5Thu.File 23 · West Hoxtonis next due at Parramatta Local Court on Nov. 5Nov. 9Mon.File 26 · Dublin, IrelandThey return Nov. 9 for service of the book of evidence.Nov. 13Fri.File 06 · Glen Alpinethey’re due in children’s court Nov. 13NovemberDate TBC · updateFile 06 · Glen Alpineboth return to Wagga Wagga Local Court in NovemberDec. 8Tue.File 22 · Gurranangis next due at Grafton Local Court on Dec. 8Quoted from the files. Weekdays are derived from the dates in the text; “next Tuesday” (File 11) is read as Oct. 6. Yellow tiles come from the Sept. 30 updates. Courts reschedule; check the next edition.06TDSH-CL-260929 · §06Source Ledger84 links · 74 outlets and agencies · image creditsOfficial statements & records4 sources · police, prosecutors, recordsUsed for charges, arrests, bail and official wording. Includes police releases carried by local outlets and the execution record kept by the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit.Counter Terrorism Policing011Death Penalty Information Center081Polizei Recklinghausen / Staatsanwaltschaft Essen191Hays Post (Wichita Police Department)211Reporting70 newsrooms & wires · 80 linksUsed for court appearances, quotes, background and detail. 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Location photos on each file are credited in their captions, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence shown.→TDSH-CL-260929 · RELATEDRelated Dark Side FilesKeep goingThe Crime Ledger: September 30, 2026Next edition · Sept. 30 updates to files 03, 04, 05, 06, 08, 11, 22, 26The Crime Ledger: September 28, 2026Previous edition · files 01, 02, 05, 09, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 36 follow onChrista Pike Case File: The Torture-Murder of Colleen SlemmerTDSH case file behind File 08Lindsay Clancy Trial: Postpartum Psychosis, Evidence & Verdict WatchBackground to File 13, DuxburyThe DocketCase files and court coverageBreaking News: every Crime Ledger editionDaily briefing archiveThe Crime Ledger · Edition 49 · September 29, 2026 (evening ET), with dated Sept. 30 updates. Case text is the published edition text; status stamps, docket slips, case types and regions are TDSH groupings, not official case statuses.