homicide

A new analysis by the moderate Democratic group Third Way runs counter to popular perceptions of rising crime nationwide.

A father from Santa Barbara, California, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for taking his two young children to Rosarito, Mexico, and killing them with a fishing spear last month.

The body found at the edge of a parking lot in Leominster, Massachusetts, back in May has been identified as a 19-year-old Worcester man, the district attorney’s office said Wednesday. Franklin Mane was found dead on May 12 in an overgrown area at the edge of the parking lot at 46 Industrial Road. Mane died of multiple gunshot wounds, the…

A Pennsylvania man who claimed he stabbed a “cadaver doll” in his father’s bedroom is charged with homicide after the head in the freezer he showed police turned out to belong to a person.

A U.S. citizen has been arrested in connection with the death of his two children, ages 1 and 3, whose bodies were found on a ranch in Rosarito, Mexico, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday.

A second person was arrested Tuesday night in connection with the stabbing death of an 18-year-old New Bedford man early Tuesday morning. The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that a second person — a 16-year-old male — was arrested late Tuesday night in connection to the ongoing investigation into the death of 18-year-old Rayshard Normil-Jerome. Police had already…

A woman arrested on suspicion of murder after shooting her husband to death in their Lemon Grove backyard — San Diego deputies say the woman told 911 dispatchers she had shot her husband on accident — was released from custody Thursday after the District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges against her.

A 24-year-old Fall River man, charged in a deadly New Bedford shooting earlier this month, was found hiding in a closet in North Carolina and brought back to Massachusetts by authorities. Daquan Blanchard, 24, is accused of shooting and killing Adilson Neves, 36 of New Bedford, on June 2. Blanchard is due to be arraigned in New Bedford District Court…

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 man was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon in New Bedford, Massachusetts, according to authorities. Police responded around 3:15 p.m. after a shooting was reported on David Street, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said. A male victim, identified as 36-year-old Adilson Neves of New Bedford, was found suffering from a gunshot wound. Neves was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital,...

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Framingham Mayor Yvonne Spicer held a news conference Thursday morning to discuss the killing, which is being investigated as a homicide based on the nature of the woman’s injury.

Officials are asking for the public’s help with a homicide investigation for Jasmyn Beatty, 28, who was found dead in her Framingham, Massachusetts, apartment Tuesday. Police found Beatty with a significant slash to the back of her neck at the Halstead Apartments around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at a news conference with Framingham Mayor Yvonne…

Authorities have identified 28-year-old Jasmyn Beatty as the woman who was found dead in her apartment at the Halstead Apartments in Framingham, Massachusetts, on Tuesday morning. Right now, investigators say they still don’t know if this was an isolated incident.  “She was a nice person. We were like, ‘Why would someone do this — she seems so nice,’” said Lauren...

The death of a 28-year-old woman in Framingham, Massachusetts, is being investigated as an apparent homicide. Someone who knew the victim called 911 shortly after 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to report that the woman was dead in her apartment, located at the Halstead Apartments on Worcester Road, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office. Police responded and found the victim,…

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…

A mother of five found stabbed to death on Mother’s Day was the daughter of a woman who also was stabbed to death 16 years ago.

Two men and one woman have been indicted for their alleged role in the previously unsolved October 2019 homicide of a 17-year-old in New Bedford, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced.

Days after he allegedly shot and killed his estranged wife, a New Hampshire man has died, authorities said Friday.

A woman found dead after a fire in a New Hampshire home had been shot in the head, authorities said Tuesday, announcing that they believe her estranged husband killed her during a custody exchange of their adult child