death investigation

Friends of a Massachusetts woman was found dead on a mountain in Arizona are looking for answers. The body of 31-year-old Angela Tramonte of Saugus was found Friday on Camelback Mountain in Phoenix. Friends say Tramonte went to Arizona to spend time with someone she’d met on Instagram. Authorities in that state confirm the man she was with is...

The Boston Marriott Copley on Huntington Avenue was evacuated early Monday morning as authorities initiated a death investigation, police said.

A man’s body was pulled from a pond in Duxbury, and his 19-year-old son was charged in his death.

Police in Shrewsbury responded to a Spring Street home after receiving a 911 call shortly before 9 a.m.

A couple was killed Tuesday night in an apparent murder suicide that occurred while three children were inside their family home in Oxford, Massachusetts. All three children survived, according to authorities.

The death of a man who was found unresponsive at a Hampton Inn-Suites in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood in April has been ruled a homicide, according to authorities. Brendan Thomas Goguen, 23, died by mechanical asphyxia coupled with trauma by a sharp instrument, the office of the chief medical examiner determined last Wednesday, police said. Boston police found Goguen unresponsive around…

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said the 13-year-old found dead in the basement of a Manchester apartment complex was strangled and her death is being ruled a homicide. Family has identified the 13-year-old as Zaniya Wright. She was found in the apartment complex on Friday morning hours after her mother reported her missing, according to police. Officials with…

A 13-year-old was found dead in the basement of a Manchester apartment complex on Friday morning hours after her mother reported her missing, according to police. Family has identified the 13-year-old as Zaniya Wright. Her mother contacted police at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and reported her missing, police said. The 13-year-old was found dead at 8:30 a.m. Friday in the basement…

A woman’s body was found in a river in Central Massachusetts this week, and officials identified her Friday. She was identified as Julia Okrusko, a 37-year-old from Athol, according to the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office. Her body was found Wednesday morning in the Millers River in Athol, authorities said. The medical examiner’s office hasn’t confirmed what caused her death...

Nearly two months after the death of Mikayla Miller, 13 elected officials are calling for an independent investigation now that trust with the community has been broken.

A mother in Old Town, Maine, was charged in connection with the death of her 3-year-old daughter, officials said Monday. Hillary Goding, 28, was arrested in Lincoln and charged with manslaughter after her daughter was pronounced dead at Eastern Maine Medical Center on Sunday, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety.  Two days earlier, Goding had called 911 to…

The husband of Jessica Edwards, a South Windsor woman who was found dead in East Hartford Friday, admitted to police he and his wife got into a fight in their condo and at some point, he realized she was no longer alive, according to the arrest affidavit. Tahj Hutchinson, 22, was arrested Friday evening and charged with first-degree manslaughter in…

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday. Incriminating admissions Richard Lavigne made in a series of recent interviews while in a medical facility further implicated the longtime suspect in…

The body of missing South Windsor mother Jessica Edwards was found Friday in East Hartford, police said, and her husband has been arrested in connection with her death. Edwards, a 30-year-old South Windsor woman and mom to a 7-month-old baby boy, has been missing since Monday, May 10. State police spent much of the day in the area of Chipper…

The mother of Hopkinton teen Mikayla Miller has rejected a medical examiner’s recent determination that Mikayla died by suicide, calling it instead a homicide as she continues to push for an independent investigation.

The mother of Hopkinton teen Mikayla Miller has rejected a medical examiner’s recent determination that Mikayla died by suicide, calling it instead a homicide as she continues to push for an independent investigation.

The NBC10 Investigators have learned that Hopkinton teen Mikayla Miller’s death has been ruled a suicide, according to a death certificate filed by the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Hopkinton teen Mikayla Miller’s mother will be part of a virtual news conference Wednesday with attorney Ben Crump and other community leaders to demand further investigation after her death was ruled a suicide.

Two people died when their sailboat sank off Rhode Island, state officials said. Environmental police and the marine task force responded to Greenwich Bay off of Warwick just after 4 p.m. Tuesday, according to the state Department of Environmental Management. The victims were pulled unresponsive from the water and brought to shore at the Oakland Beach Boat Ramp where they…

Investigators probing the death of 16-year-old Mikayla Miller were unable to retrieve key video evidence in the case because cameras in her Massachusetts apartment building weren’t recording the night she died, according to the district attorney.