homicide

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

Friends are remembering a mother of three from Massachusetts who police say was brutally murdered Friday afternoon on a beach in Maine by her domestic partner. Rhonda Pattelena, 35, of Bedford, Massachusetts, was found dead on Short Sands Beach in York, Maine, after state and local police received multiple 911 calls about a man assaulting a woman behind a large…

Rhonda Pattelena, 35, of Bedford, Massachusetts, was found dead on Short Sands Beach after police received multiple 911 calls about a man assaulting a woman there.

The death of a woman allegedly beaten by her boyfriend at a beach in Maine was ruled a homicide, according to state authorities. The state medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy on Saturday and ruled Pattelena’s death a homicide caused by blunt force injury to the head. Maine State Police said the York Police Department received multiple 911 calls...

Authorities said Lannon was on the run and is connected to the murders of a man in East Greenwich, New Jersey, and of four people, including his ex-wife, in New Mexico.

Police are searching for a person of interest in the murders of five people in New Mexico and New Jersey, including his ex-wife.

A woman has been arrested in the killing of a 68-year-old woman in Central Massachusetts last week, authorities said. Brenda Mayhew, a 54-year-old from Palmer, faces a murder charge in the woman’s death after being arrested Tuesday, Palmer police said Wednesday. On the morning of Feb. 8, officers responding to a 911 call found a woman dead and two others…

A Massachusetts man accused of beating his father to death was ordered held without bail Tuesday after pleading not guilty. Stephen Walcott Jr., 42, of Brockton, is charged with murdering Stephen Walcott Sr., 70, in his East Bridgewater home on Monday. Police went to the father’s home on Cedar Street around 6:30 p.m. Monday for a well-being check and discovered…

Authorities are investigating after a 31-year-old woman was found dead at a Falmouth, Massachusetts resort Monday evening, the district attorney said. Falmouth Police responded to CapeWind Waterfront Resort around 6:40 p.m. Monday for a well-being check after receiving a call from a friend of the resident, the office of Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe said. Upon arrival,...

Authorities are investigating a homicide in Palmer, Massachusetts after a person was found dead and two others were injured inside a home. Palmer police responded to the home on Fox Street shortly after 8 p.m. Monday after receiving a 911 call. Officers found the body after arriving at the scene. Upon searching the home, officers found two other people. Both…

A suspect was taken into custody Tuesday morning after a man was found dead in East Bridgewater, according to authorities.

Police have identified the two men who were killed in separate shootings in Hartford on Friday night. The shootings took place minutes apart from each other. The first shooting happened shortly before 9:15 p.m. when police were called to Main Street after getting a report of a gunshot victim in the front of the building. When police arrived, they said…

A 23-year-old New Hampshire man has been charged with murdering his mother at her Wakefield, Massachusetts home earlier this week, prosecutors said Thursday. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a statement Thursday morning that Timothy Martin, of Manchester, had been arrested and charged with murdering his 61-year-old mother, Pamela Wood. Martin has also been charged with three counts of…

Police checking on a speech therapist’s wellbeing found her dead in the basement of her home in Wakefield, Massachusetts, where her son charged police officers investigating the home armed with a knife, prosecutors said Tuesday. The officers shot the 23-year-old man, who remains in intensive care after surgery at a local hospital, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at...

A 21-year-old Massachusetts man accused of stabbing his parents to death was ordered to be held without bail pending a 20-day mental health evaluation. During an arraignment in Wareham District Court on Friday, a judge ordered Ryan True to be evaluated at Bridgewater State Hospital, a day after authorities found his parents dead in the Middleboro home they shared. True…

A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder after authorities found his parents dead Thursday in the home where they live in Middleboro, Massachusetts, officials said. Ryan True was arrested without incident Thursday morning after police found the bodies of the two people in the home on Highland Street, Middleboro Police Chief Joseph Perkins said. The two slain people were…

An independent review cited “leadership failures” and said “the command climate at Fort Hood has been permissive of sexual harassment/sexual assault.”