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Man Sentenced To Life In Prison In Murder Of Farmington Hills Party Store Owner
PONTIAC (WWJ) – A 44-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of a popular Farmington Hills party store owner. Convicted by an Oakland County Circuit Court jury on Sept....
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Second Teen Convicted In Gang Fight Death Of 13-Year-Old Boy
KALAMAZOO (AP) — A second teenager has been found guilty of murder in the fatal shooting of a Kalamazoo middle-schooler during a gang fight. A Kalamazoo County Circuit Court jury on Monday convicted...
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Focus Shifts To Friend’s Testimony, Cell Phone Records In Bob Bashara Murder...
DETROIT (WWJ) — A friend of Bob Bashara testified in the Grosse Pointe businessman’s murder trial on Monday, saying that he never even saw the two have a fight. Jim Wilson told the court that Bob...
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Man Charged In Armada Killing Pleads In Drug Case
PORT HURON (WWJ/AP) - A man charged with killing a 14-year-old girl as she walked her dog along a trail in Armada has pleaded guilty to a separate drug charge. James Donald VanCallis, 32, pleaded...
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2nd Mistress Testifies She Got A Thrashing During Sex With Bob Bashara,...
DETROIT (WWJ) – A second mistress testified Wednesday that Bob Bashara gave her a beating she didn’t expect. Thus far in the trial for Bashara, who stands accused of ordering his wife’s murder in 2012,...
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Woman Found Dead Inside Westland Home, Person Of Interest In Custody
WESTLAND (WWJ) - Police have a man in custody who might have been involved with the murder of a woman in Westland. The woman’s body was found late Wednesday night inside her home on Avondale Street, in...
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Westland Mother Of 4 Was Strangled; Person Of Interest Not Yet Charged
Rachel Watson (Family Photo) WESTLAND (WWJ) - Authorities in Westland are still determining if a man arrested in connection with the death of a 30-year-old single mother of four will face charges in...
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Boyfriend Charged In Westland Woman’s Slaying
WESTLAND (AP) — A 38-year-old man has been charged in the slaying of his girlfriend inside her suburban Detroit home. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office says Saturday that Jaime Pearson is expected...
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Mental Exam Ordered For Warren Man Charged In Young Girlfriend’s Murder
Scott Wobbe made a brief court appearance on Tuesday, Oct. 28. (credit: Charlie Langton/WWJ) WARREN (WWJ) – A 37-year-old Warren man charged with killing his girlfriend and concealing her body in a...
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Drug Dealer Testifies Bob Bashara Confessed To Role Wife’s Murder While High...
DETROIT (WWJ) – A drug dealer says Bob Bashara admitted to having his wife killed. Paul Monroe, a one-time tenant of the former Grosse Pointe businessman, testified Tuesday that Bashara routinely...
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Officials Suspect Prisoner Of Homicide After Cellmate Found Dead
TITTABAWASSEE TWP. Mich. (WWJ/AP) - Michigan officials say a 67-year-old inmate at the Saginaw Correctional Facility has been found dead in an apparent homicide. Theodore Dyer died Wednesday in...
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Reward Increased To $10,000 In Murder Of Wayne State Student
DETROIT (WWJ) — Crime Stoppers is raising its reward for information in the murder of Wayne State student Tiane Brown, who was found murdered in her vehicle at the old Packard Plant on Detroit’s east...
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Two Charged In Murder And Robbery Of 76-Year-Old Man
PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP (WWJ) — Authorities say they’ve arrested two people who are believed to have shot and killed a 76-year-old Plymouth Township man. Andrew Nutt, 22, of Westland and Mariah Pisarski, 19,...
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Man Who Strangled, Incinerated Friend Who Kissed His Girlfriend Gets Life In...
HOWELL, Mich. (WWJ/AP) – A man who bludgeoned and strangled a friend, then incinerated his body after the victim kissed the killer’s girlfriend has been sentenced to life in prison. Livingston County...
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Woman Sentenced To 28-55 Years For Killing Ex-Boyfriend Vows To Appeal Ruling
PORT HURON (WWJ/AP) - A 44-year-old Port Huron woman who was convicted of killing her former boyfriend has been sentenced to 28 to 55 years in prison. Judy Higley-Zuehlke on Thursday maintained her...
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Detroit Mother Makes Veterans Day Plea For Tips In Son’s Murder
DETROIT (WWJ) – A grieving mother is making an impassioned plea for help to find those responsible for the death of her son — a Naval officer who was gunned down nearly two years ago in Detroit. Petty...
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Murder At Downriver Cash Advance Store Remains Unsolved One Year Later
Chelsea Small is seen in a photo displayed as a Crime Stoppers news conference. (credit: Mike Campbell/WWJ) TAYLOR (WWJ/AP) – Police are still searching for the man who gunned down a young mother at a...
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Candlelight Vigil Held For Woman Who Was Fatally Shot At Cash Advance In 2013
TAYLOR (WWJ/AP) — It has been one year since a man walked into the Advance America Cash Advance in Taylor and shot and killed an employee during a robbery. A candlelight vigil was held Wednesday in...
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Police: Girls Tried To Hire Hitman For $2,000
WATERFORD TWP. (WWJ) - Two Oakland County teenagers are facing life in prison after they allegedly offered undercover agents $2,000 to kill a Flint man. Eighteen-year-old Mia Rae Buscemi and...
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Man Charged In Armada Teen’s Murder To Get Court-Appointed Lawyer
ROMEO (WWJ) – An attorney for the St. Clair county man accused in the beating death of an Armada teen is off the case. During a pre-conference hearing in District Court in Romeo, Dean Akouny told a...
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