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News, articles and information about the crime of taking another person's life, usually by a violent act such as shooting, strangling, beating, stabbing, drowning, assault or by poisoning.
News, articles and information about the crime of taking another person's life, usually by a violent act such as shooting, strangling, beating, stabbing, drowning, assault or by poisoning.
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Couple faces charges of attempted murder
A teenage couple was arraigned in a Newport Beach court Friday on charges that they conspired to murder a friend and left threatening messages on the friend's Facebook page, authorities said. Jessica Gascon, 18, of Santa Ana pleaded not guilty to...Tags: Sex Crimes, Firearms, Juvenile Delinquency, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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Transcripts: Costa Mesa man confesses to killings
A Costa Mesa murder defendant told police that he killed two people in 2010 to gain access to one of his victim's bank accounts, according to Orange County Grand Jury transcripts released Friday. Within a Costa Mesa police interview room Daniel Patrick...
Tags: Firearms, Prosecution, Shootings, Trials, Celebrities
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Man charged with strangling wife in Irvine apartment
SANTA ANA -- A man has been charged with strangling his wife to death in their Irvine apartment, then calling police himself to report the crime, KTLA reported Wednesday. Shalabh Rastogi, 39, of Irvine is charged with one felony count of murder and faces...
Tags: Prosecution, Punishment
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Woman who helped murder boyfriend gets life
SANTA ANA — A woman who plotted with a former NFL linebacker to kill her Newport Beach boyfriend received a life sentence without the possibility of parole on Friday. Nanette Packard, 46, sat stone faced in Orange County Superior Court as the...
Tags: Rentals, Eric Naposki, National Football League, Punishment, Orange County Superior Court
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Reel Critics: Two Film Festival favorites impress
I've been going to the Newport Beach Film Festival since its inception, and I have to say that this year's crop of films has been the best yet. I hope these two will find their way to more movie theaters soon: "Mariachi Gringo" – with this title, I...Tags: David Lyons, Movies, Shawn Ashmore, The Maltese Falcon (movie), Entertainment
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Actor accused of killing 2 faces trial
The trial of a Costa Mesa man accused in a double murder case has been fast-tracked, prosecutors said Thursday. Daniel Patrick Wozniak, 28, is scheduled to be arraigned in a Santa Ana courtroom Friday on charges that he killed his neighbor, Samuel Herr,...
Tags: Prosecution, Court Preliminary, Lawyers, Trials, Justice System
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Man pleads not guilty to double murder
SANTA ANA — A Costa Mesa man accused of killing two Orange Coast College students pleaded not guilty and denied sentencing enhancements during his arraignment Friday morning. Daniel Patrick Wozniak, 28, is scheduled to go back to court May 25 to...
Tags: Crimes, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bookmark: When kids kill
There is a hierarchy of personal catastrophe, an informal but definitive ranking of all the terrible things that can happen, moving through categories that might be labeled "Worst Thing" to "Next-Worst Thing" to "Next-to-Next Worst Thing" and on down...Tags: Philip Roth, Literature, Human Interest, Drama (genre), Paul Allen
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Accused killer to face jurors again
A Mission Hills man accused of killing two relatives of a UC Irvine student and attempting to kill a third will face jurors a second time, authorities said Tuesday. Opening statements begin Wednesday in the trial against Charles Anthony Murphy Jr. The...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Crimes, Prisons, Prosecution, Lawyers
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Gang members accused of killing one of their own
Four members of a Vietnamese street gang will be tried in court Thursday in connection with the 1995 cold case slaying of a fellow gang member in Costa Mesa, authorities said.
Anthony Paul Johnson Jr., 35, of Westminster, Giang Thuy Nguyen, 36, of...Tags: Gang Activity, Prosecution, Lawyers, Shootings, Trials
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Jury convicts man in 1988 rape, murder case
Closing a nearly 24-year-old cold case, an Orange County jury on Monday convicted a man of raping and killing a pregnant newlywed in Costa Mesa, prosecutors said. The jury found that Jason Michael Balcom, 41, sexually assaulted and then stabbed 22-year-...Tags: Sex Crimes, Prosecution, Lawyers, Rape, Trials
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Jury deadlocks on death penalty for killer
An Orange County Superior Court jury has deadlocked on whether a man found guilty of killing a woman in Costa Mesa should receive the death penalty or life in prison without parole, a court clerk said Tuesday. The jury deadlocked 10-2, causing Superior...Tags: Prosecution, Prisons, Lawyers, Punishment, Orange County Superior Court
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