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Document: Brother Of Slain Detroit Girl Re-Enacts Her Death
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A court document says the younger brother of an 8-year-old girl who told children’s advocacy workers that he watched his mother stab his sister to death in their Detroit home...
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Double-Jeopardy Claim Rejected In 2010 Murder Case
FLINT (AP) - A judge has rejected a defense lawyer’s double-jeopardy claim and has sentenced a Flint man to life in prison without parole for the robbery-slayings of a 15-year-old girl and a...
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Man Convicted In Stabbing Death Of Elderly Royal Oak Woman
PONTIAC (WWJ) – An Oakland County jury has found 49-year-old Alan Wood guilty of a murder that shocked a Royal Oak community. Prosecutors said 80-year-old Nancy Dailey was tied to a chair, beaten and...
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Man Sentenced In 2006 Slaying Of 86-Year-Old Woman
LAPEER (WWJ/AP) - A Michigan man convicted of felony murder and home invasion in the 2006 slaying of an 86-year-old Lapeer County woman has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Frank...
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Autopsy: Detroit Girl Was Stabbed In Heart, Had Bite Mark
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - An autopsy report says an 8-year-old Detroit girl who authorities say was killed by her mother was stabbed in the heart and had a bite mark on her body. The Wayne County Medical...
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Brother Charged With Couple’s 1987 Death
PARK TWP. (AP) - An Ottawa County man was charged Monday in the fatal shootings of his sister and her husband in 1987, one of the oldest unsolved murder cases in western Michigan. Ryan Wyngarden, 50,...
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Hearing On Whether To Try Man In Double Killing
CASSOPOLIS, Mich. (AP) - A hearing is under way to decide whether a man will stand trial on charges he murdered a couple at their southwestern Michigan home three years ago. Authorities say 28-year-old...
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Pastor Waives Hearing, Heads For Sex-Slaying Trial
MOUNT PLEASANT (WWJ/AP) - A central Michigan minister charged with killing his fiancée’s 24-year-old daughter in her mobile home as part of a sexual fantasy is heading for trial after waiving his right...
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City Council Member Faces Trial In Wife’s Drowning
HART, Mich. (WWJ/AP) - A city council member in a small Michigan community will stand trial in the bathtub drowning of his wife that was initially reported to authorities as an accident....
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Suspect Arrested In Eastpointe Woman’s Slaying
EASTPOINTE (AP) - A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 33-year-old business owner in her home north of Detroit. The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press report that a warrant request...
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Eastpointe Man Charged In Wife’s Shooting Death
EASTPOINTE (WWJ) – The husband of an Eastpointe woman, found shot to death over the weekend, has been changed with second degree murder. Anthony Webster, 46, pleaded not guilty in the death of...
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Mich. Teen Gets 51 Years In Murder Of Indiana Man
GOSHEN, Ind. (WWJ/AP) - An 18-year-old Michigan man has been sentenced to 51 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering an Elkhart man. The Elkhart Truth reports Brandon Johnston of Three...
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2 Teens Held In Deaths Of Michigan Couple In Missouri
GALENA, Mo. (WWJ/AP) - Authorities in Missouri are holding two male juveniles in the deaths of an elderly couple from Michigan. Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader says his deputies found 70-year-old Paul...
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Teens Face Charges In Murder Of Michigan Couple In Missouri
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (WWJ/AP) – The juvenile office in Stone County has announced its intention to charge two runaways suspected in the killing of a Michigan couple in southwest Missouri as adults. A judge...
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$12K Reward Offered For Tips In Sailor’s Murder
DETROIT (WWJ) - Crime Stoppers and the family of a murdered U.S. Navy sailor are asking for the public’s help in finding the man who gunned him down in early January. A $12,500 reward is now being...
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Monroe County Man Charged In Father’s Slaying
CARLETON (WWJ/AP) - A Monroe County man has been charged with murdering his 50-year-old father. David Killian III was arrested Sunday after his father’s body was found in the basement of Killian’s home...
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Police Searching For Murdered Man’s Missing Car
HARPER WOODS (WWJ) - Harper Woods police are looking for at least one suspect in the overnight murder of a 60-year-old man. Police Chief Jim Burke said Johnny Lee Buckner was found dead in his home on...
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June Trial Scheduled In Woman’s Bathtub Drowning
HART, Mich. (WWJ/AP) - A June trial has been set for a former city council member in a small western Michigan community charged in the bathtub drowning of his wife. Timothy Shannon, 34, of Hart, faces...
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Murdered Man’s Car Found Abandoned In Detroit
HARPER WOODS (WWJ) - Police have found a car belonging to a Harper Woods man who was found shot to death in his home. Officers spotted Johnny Lee Buckner’s vehicle on Friday, abandoned in Detroit....
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Judge Trims 2 Years Off Sentence In Girl’s Slaying
TRAVERSE CITY (AP) - A judge has trimmed two years off a sentence for a young man convicted of fatally stabbing a teenage girl in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula and burying her in a sand pile....
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