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Ex-Con In Custody After Elderly Novi Woman Found Dead In Condo
Police tape off the area around the Country Place Condos in Novi. (Credit: Chrystal Knight/WWJ Newsradio 950) NOVI (WWJ) - An ex-con who served time for murder has been taken into custody in connection...
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Elderly Detroit Man Pleads Guilty In Dismemberment Case
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – A 73-year-old Detroit man faces 10 years to 20 years in prison in the slaying of a woman whose dismembered body was found in his bathtub. Defense attorney Donald Cook says Tuesday...
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Paroled Killer Charged With Murdering Elderly Novi Woman
Peter Gerard Jones (Booking Photo) NOVI (WWJ/AP) - A paroled killer has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing of an 84-year-old Novi woman. Forty-six-year-old Peter G. Jones, an...
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Michigan Woman Takes Plea Deal, Admits Guilt In Husband’s Murder
PETOSKEY, Mich. (WWJ/AP) – A northern Michigan woman has pleaded guilty to murdering her husband, accepting a deal with prosecutors that spares her the possibility of life in prison without parole....
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Grosse Pointe Park Man Charged In Wife’s Murder Calls Her ‘Wonderful’
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – A metro Detroit man charged with murder in the strangulation of his 56-year-old wife called her “wonderful” at a pretrial hearing in the case. Bob Bashara, 55, made the comment...
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Jury Finds Men Guilty Of Killing 6-Year-Old During Revenge Attack
SAGINAW (WWJ/AP) - A jury has convicted two men of first-degree murder in the drive-by shooting of a 6-year-old girl during a revenge attack on a man. It took a Saginaw County jury about six hours to...
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Judge Reinstates Sentence For Deputy’s Son Who Killed Teen
Robert Schwander (Booking Photo) TRAVERSE CITY (WWJ/AP) - A 20-year-old man convicted of killing a Traverse City teenager has been sentenced again to at least 40 years in prison. Judge Philip Rodgers...
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Man Accused In Couple’s Slaying Ordered To Stand Trial
Manuel Gamez (Booking photo) PORT HURON (WWJ/AP) – A paroled ex-convict accused of rape, torture and murder in the deaths of a Michigan couple has been ordered to stand trial. The Times Herald of Port...
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Detroit Firefighter Charged In Fatal Bar Fight Shooting
DETROIT (WWJ) - A Detroit firefighter has been charged with second degree murder in connection with a shooting at a local bar. It happened Dec. 29, at around 12:30 a.m. According to prosecutors,...
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Elderly Detroit Man Sentenced To 10-20 Years For Dismemberment
Alphonso Jackson is arraigned via video. (credit: Beth Fisher/WWJ) DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A 73-year-old Detroit man has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison in the dismemberment of a...
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Mich. House OKs Sentencing Rules For Young Killers
LANSING (AP) - Young killers could no longer be sentenced to mandatory life without parole under legislation nearing final approval in Michigan, but those now incarcerated for crimes committed under...
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Man Gets Life For 1972 Murder Of 3 Men In Michigan
MONROE, Mich. (AP) – A southeastern Michigan judge has sentenced a man to life in prison for murder in the 1972 abduction-killings of two Ohio men and a Michigan man in Monroe County....
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Man Confesses He Killed Grand Rapids Neighbor In 1989
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A Grand Rapids man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after telling police that he killed an elderly neighbor in 1989. Michael Newkirk is in prison for another crime....
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Paroled Killer To Stand Trial In Novi Woman’s Murder
NOVI (WWJ/AP) - A paroled killer will stand trial in the slaying of his 84-year-old neighbor. Peter G. Jones, 46, was bound over Tuesday to Oakland County Circuit Court on first-degree premeditated...
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4 Charged In Attack That left 3 Dead In Detroit
DETROIT (AP) - Three men and one woman have been charged with murder in an attack at a Detroit home that left three people dead, including a father and his son. According to a release Tuesday from the...
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New Attorneys Assigned In Grosse Pointe Park Murder Case
DETROIT (WWJ) – Accused wife killer Bob Bashara won’t be going on trial in March. Instead, a Wayne County Judge has agreed to allow two new attorneys to be assigned to the case. WWJ Newsradio 950′s...
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Michigan Woman Sentenced To 18 To 35 Years For Husband’s Killing
PETOSKEY, Mich. (AP) - A Northern Michigan woman said Tuesday that she is ashamed of herself for shooting her husband to death. Carol Kopenkoskey, 60, was sentenced in a Petoskey courtroom to 18 to 35...
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Police Release Video Of Suspects In CVS Parking Lot Murder And Carjacking
DETROIT (WWJ) – The victim in the case is being hailed a hero. Detroit police have released subservience video in hope that the public can help them catch the culprits in a murder and carjacking....
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Life, No Parole For Man Who Killed 6-Year-Old In Revenge Attack
Michael Lawrence (Booking Photo) SAGINAW (WWJ/AP) - A 24-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing a 6-year-old girl in a drive-by shooting during a revenge attack on another...
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Cash Reward Offered For Tips In Security Guard’s Slaying
DETROIT (WWJ) - Crime Stoppers is putting up a cash reward for information that leads to arrests in the case of a 24-year-old security guard who was shot to death on the job in northwest Detroit....
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