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Announcement Coming In Jane Bashara Murder Case
DETROIT (WWJ) - Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy will hold a press conference on Wednesday, making an announcement in the Jane Bashara murder case. WWJ Legal Analyst Charlie Langton, who has been...
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Grandmother Gets 22 Years In Prison In Teen’s Killing
PONTIAC (WWJ/AP) – A 75-year-old Detroit-area woman convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of her teen grandson was sentenced to at least 22 years in prison Thursday, despite her desperate plea to a...
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Michigan Pastor Gets 56-Year Prison Term For Murder
MOUNT PLEASANT (WWJ/AP) - The former minister of a small Michigan congregation was sentenced Thursday to at least 56 years in prison for killing his fiancée’s 24-year-old daughter, allegedly to fulfill...
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Police Say Detroit Woman Killed Her 71-Year-Old Benefactor
DETROIT (AP) – A woman’s kindness ended up getting her killed, Detroit police say. Margaret Theut was slain 17 years after she rescued an 8-year-old Teresa Alvarez and her brother from homelessness....
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5 Killed In Detroit In 24 Hours
DETROIT (WWJ) – A young woman murdered at the Corktown Inn was the first of five people who died in Detroit over a 24-hour period last week. Along with the 21-year-old woman who was shot and killed at...
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Police: Slain Saginaw Woman’s Car Found In Lansing
LANSING (WWJ/AP) - Police say a car belonging to a 23-year-old Saginaw woman who was found slain this month in her home has turned up in Lansing. Police didn’t say whether new clues in the death of...
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Battle Creek Man Charged With Killing Child In ’07
BATTLE CREEK (AP) - A Battle Creek man has been charged with killing a 4-year-old boy, five years after the case against him was dismissed. Adam Markos was arrested Tuesday and taken to the Calhoun...
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2 Teens To Be Tried As Adults In Couple’s Deaths
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (WWJ/AP) - A judge has decided that two teens accused of murdering a vacationing Michigan couple will be tried as adults. Seventeen-year-old Anthony Zarro, of Spring, Texas, and...
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Man Charged In Corktown Inn Slaying
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A 27-year-old man has been charged in the slaying of a woman in her Detroit motel room. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office said Monday that Dajuan Lee Ainsworth faces first-degree...
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Bob Bashara Arraigned In Wife’s Strangulation Death
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A Grosse Pointe Park man accused of arranging his wife’s murder has been arraigned on first-degree murder and other charges. Detroit District Court Magistrate Laura Echartea on...
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Renewed Call For Tips In Potter Park Zoo Murder Case
LANSING (WWJ) – Police are renewing a call for tips in connection with the 2001 murder of Bernita White, a 41-year-old mother gunned down as she entered the Potter Park Zoo in Lansing with her 5-year...
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Detroit High School Coach Killed
DETROIT (WWJ) – A recently retired Detroit Public Schools high school basketball coach has been fatally shot. Police said 54-year-old Charles Knott, who worked at Cody High School, was found dead in...
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2 Convicted In Grand Valley State University Student Adviser’s Death
GRAND RAPIDS (WWJ/AP) - Two Grand Rapids men have been convicted of murder in the fatal stabbing of a longtime Grand Valley State University student adviser at his home. Separate juries in Kent County...
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Man Convicted In Slaying Of Ex-Trooper, Wife
CHARLOTTE, Mich. (WWJ/AP) - A man who authorities say created a fake job to gain work release from jail and then killed a former Michigan state trooper and his wife has been convicted of murder and gun...
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Key Hearing Set For August In Bashara Murder Case
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – Prosecutors say he hired a handyman to kill his wife last year, and this week a hearing has been rescheduled for Bob Bashara, who is accused of arranging Jayne Bashara’s death in...
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State Police Seek Tips In 1970s Murder Case
EAST LANSING (AP) – State police are asking the public for tips in the ongoing homicide investigation into the 1970s death of a Michigan State University student. Thursday marks 40 years since the body...
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Bashara Home’s New Owner: ‘The House Didn’t Kill Anyone’
GROSSE POINTE PARK (WWJ) - Linked to a notorious murder, Bob Bashara’s Grosse Pointe Park home has been sold. Bashara, who’s charged in his wife’s, was given until May 15 to come up with $64,000 to...
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Man Sentenced In Mich. Woman’s Strangulation Death
ADRIAN (AP) - A Michigan man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the slaying of a 63-year-old woman has been sentenced to life in prison. The Jackson Citizen Patriot reports Steven Storm was...
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Death Of Grosse Pointe Park Woman Now Classified As Murder
DETROIT (WWJ) – Homicide. Death by strangulation is the determination by officials. That determination Friday from the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office in the now murder of a 35-year-old Grosse...
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Charge In Gun Club Shooting Changed To Open Murder
HOWELL (WWJ/AP) - Reported jailhouse conversations have led prosecutors to charge a man with open murder in the shooting death of a friend at a Livingston County gun club. Twenty-year-old Jessce Stearn...
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