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Gentz Gets 17 Years In Murder Of Jane Bashara
DETROIT (WWJ) - Handyman Joseph Gentz has been sentenced to a minimum of 17 years in prison in the murder of a Grosse Pointe Park marketing executive and mother of two. Gentz pleaded guilty to second...
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Detroit Mom Ruled Unfit For Trial In Child’s Stabbing Death
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A Detroit mother charged in the death of her 8-year-old daughter has been ruled incompetent to stand trial. Semeria Greene, 27, was charged with murder and child abuse in the...
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Person In Custody In Harper Woods Man’s Shooting Death
HARPER WOODS (WWJ) - Harper Woods police say they have a person in custody in connection with the murder of a retired General Motors worker. No further information on the suspect has been released,...
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No-Parole Sentence Thrown Out In Deadly Knife Attack On Parents
PORT HURON (WWJ/AP) - The Michigan appeals court has overturned a no-parole sentence for Tia Skinner, the St. Clair County woman who was convicted of killing her father and attempting to murder her...
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Boyfriend To Be Charged In Farmington Woman’s Murder
FARMINGTON (WWJ) – The boyfriend of a missing Farmington woman is now a suspect in her murder. Police said 29-year-old Kaitlin Hehir was found dead Saturday night in the home she shared with her...
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Teen Charged In MSU Student Death
MASON (AP) – A teenager has been charged in the slaying of a Michigan State University student who was stabbed at an apartment complex near campus. Connor McCowan was arraigned Monday in Mason District...
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Guilty Verdict In Slaying Of K-Zoo Antiques Dealer
KALAMAZOO (WWJ/AP) - A jury has found a man guilty on all counts in the robbery and slaying of a 74-year-old Kalamazoo antiques dealer. A second suspect awaits trial. Deliberations began Friday and...
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Police: Farmington Man Confessed To Killing, Dismembering Girlfriend
BERKLEY (WWJ) - The boyfriend of a Farmington woman who was found strangled and dismembered in her home has pleaded not guilty in her death. William Dhonte, 28, appeared in court via video in District...
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Testimony: Man Killed Sister To Keep Incest Under Wraps
HOLLAND (WWJ/AP) - A West Michigan man charged with fatally shooting his sister and brother-in-law in 1987 has been ordered to stand trial. Ryan Wyngarden, 50, of Zeeland was charged with murder in the...
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Detroit Man Turns Self In In Wife’s Slaying
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – Authorities say a man walked into a Detroit Police Department on Friday and confessed to killing his wife. A police spokesperson told WWJ Newsradio 950 the suspect, accompanied by...
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Lansing Mom Convicted In Toddler’s Death
LANSING (AP) - A Lansing woman has been convicted of murder in the death of her 2-year-old son. An Ingham County Circuit Court jury of eight men and four women delivered guilty verdicts against...
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Detroit Police Search For 2011 Murder Suspect
DETTROIT (WWJ) - Detroit police are asking the public for help in locating a 25-year-old man wanted in the 2011 murder of a man whose body was found after a fire at a vacant garage. A warrant was...
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Wife Charged In Husband’s Shooting Death
FLINT (WWJ) - Charges have been filed against a 54-year-old Michigan woman who allegedly shot her husband to death in the basement of their rural home. Diane Arellano on Wednesday was charged with open...
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Woman Who Gunned Down Grandson Expected To Testify
PONTIAC (WWJ) – A West Bloomfield grandmother, accused of murder in the shooting death of her own grandson, is expected to take the witness stand this week in her own defense. Testimony will resume for...
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2011 Murder Suspect Turns Self In
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Detroit police say a 25-year-old man wanted in the 2011 murder of a man whose body was found after a fire at a vacant garage has turned himself in after a public appeal for...
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Life Sentence Overturned For Man In Sub Shop Abduction, Murder
EASTPOINTE (WWJ/AP) - A mandatory no-parole life sentence has been overturned in the case of a young man convicted in the August 2009 murder of Matt Landry. The Michigan appeals court ruled Ihab...
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Lansing Woman Gets 25-50 Years In Death Of Son
LANSING (WWJ/AP) - A 21-year-old Lansing woman convicted of murder in the beating death of her 2-year-old son has been sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison. In Ingham County Circuit Court on...
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Michigan Pastor Pleads Guilty In Sex-Slaying Of Neighbor
MOUNT PLEASANT (WWJ/AP) - A mid-Michigan minister charged with killing his fiancée’s 24-year-old daughter in her mobile home as part of a sexual fantasy has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in...
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October Murder Retrial For Brothers Held 25 Years
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - Two brothers who were freed after spending 25 years in prison on a now-overturned Detroit murder conviction face a retrial this fall. A retrial is scheduled to start Oct. 7, 2013 for...
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Deputy’s Son To Get New Sentence In Girl’s Slaying
TRAVERSE CITY (WWJ/AP) - A young man convicted of fatally stabbing a teenage girl in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula and burying her in a sand pile will get a new sentence, according to the state...
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