Support Swells For Vietnam Vet Exonerated Of 1975 Rape In Greenburgh Support Swells For Vietnam Vet Exonerated Of 1975 Rape In Greenburgh
Support Swells For Vietnam Vet Exonerated Of 1975 Rape In Greenburgh Nearly half a century after a 72-year-old Vietnam War veteran was wrongfully convicted of rape that he was found to have not committed, community members are coming together to help him rebuild his life.  South Carolina resident Leonard Mack, age 72, has been exonerated of a 1975 rape in Greenburgh that he was convicted of in 1976, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office announced on Tuesday, Sept. 5.  Earlier Report: New DNA Evidence Exonerates Man Of Rape In Greenburgh: DA Seeks To Vacate Conviction Following his wrongful conviction, Mack served a sentence of ove…
New DNA Evidence Exonerates Man Of Rape In Greenburgh: DA Seeks To Vacate Conviction New DNA Evidence Exonerates Man Of Rape In Greenburgh: DA Seeks To Vacate Conviction
New DNA Evidence Exonerates Man Of Rape In Greenburgh: DA Seeks To Vacate Conviction DA officials are asking the court to vacate the conviction of a 72-year-old man who served numerous years in prison for a 1975 rape in Westchester that he was found to have not committed thanks to new DNA evidence.  The Westchester County District Attorney's Office will ask the court to vacate the conviction of South Carolina resident Leonard Mack, age 72, who spent over seven years in prison for a 1975 rape in Greenburgh, DA officials announced on Tuesday, Sept. 5.  At the time of the rape, on May 23, 1975, Mack had been accused of forcing two high school students at gunpoint int…
Gilgo Beach Murders: Woman Who Worked For Accused Killer Shares Disturbing Details Gilgo Beach Murders: Woman Who Worked For Accused Killer Shares Disturbing Details
Gilgo Beach Murders: Woman Who Worked For Accused Killer Shares Disturbing Details A new account by a woman who worked for Gilgo Beach serial murders suspect Rex Heuermann details how he liked to hire petite women fitting the description of his alleged victims.In the New York magazine story headlined, "My Boss the Monster," Mary Shell, who reported to Heuermann at his architecture agency located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, also noted how he frequently boasted about his passion for hunting, but never mentioned his wife and two children who lived with him on Long Island, in Massapequa Park. "My former colleagues described how he gushed about his bear-hunting trip…
DNA On Coffee Cup Lid Matches Man To Child Sexual Assaults: PA State Police DNA On Coffee Cup Lid Matches Man To Child Sexual Assaults: PA State Police
DNA On Coffee Cup Lid Matches Man To Child Sexual Assaults: PA State Police A 54-year-old man is behind bars decades after he allegedly sexually assaulted two children— all thanks to a coffee cup, according to Pennsylvania State Police.  Eric Dorwart of Manheim was matched through DNA evidence to the sexual assault of two children under the age of 13, PSP on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023.  The young boy and girl had been playing near their home on West Newport Road on April 4th, 1997, when the man in light blue work van with a ladder of the back approached them and sexually assaulted them, the police detailed in charging documents. The man left semen on the c…
Ohio Man Convicted In Double-Fatal Shooting In Cumberland County: Prosecutor Ohio Man Convicted In Double-Fatal Shooting In Cumberland County: Prosecutor
Ohio Man Convicted In Double-Fatal Shooting In Cumberland County: Prosecutor A 28-year-old Ohio man has been convicted in connection with a double-fatal shooting in Cumberland County, authorities said. Michael R. Loftin, Jr., of Cincinnati, OH, was convicted after a 12-day jury trial of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder, according to Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae. Loftin was acquitted on Wednesday, Aug. 9 of two counts of first-degree murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses, she said.  On March 8, 2015, around 12:20 a.m., Vineland Police Officers were dispatched to the 100 block of West Grape Street for several …
Long Island Man Murdered Pregnant, Estranged Wife, Faces Life In Prison: DA Long Island Man Murdered Pregnant, Estranged Wife, Faces Life In Prison: DA
Long Island Man Murdered Pregnant, Estranged Wife, Faces Life In Prison: DA A Long Island man is facing life in prison after being convicted of strangling and murdering his estranged wife, officials announced. After only two hours of deliberating, a jury convicted 30-year-old Michael Owen for the murder of Kelly Owen on Thursday, July 27, the Nassau County District Attorney announced. The conviction comes over three years after Kelly’s death. Earlier Report: Estranged Husband ID'd As Suspect In Pregnant 27-Year-Old Woman's Murder On the morning of January 15, 2020, Kelly was in her Farmingdale apartment, located on First Avenue on property she shared wi…
Gilgo Beach Serial Murders: Key Tip From Witness 12 Years Ago Helps Crack Case Gilgo Beach Serial Murders: Key Tip From Witness 12 Years Ago Helps Crack Case
Gilgo Beach Serial Murders: Key Tip From Witness 12 Years Ago Helps Crack Case The man accused of killing several women and dumping their bodies on a New York beach in what became known as the Gilgo Beach murders was finally nabbed thanks in large part to a tip from one victim’s roommate that came over a decade ago. Dave Schaller met with Suffolk County Police detectives in December 2010, shortly after the skeletal remains of 27-year-old Amber Lynn Costello were found in an area off Ocean Parkway, near Gilgo Beach, according to CBS News. He told them that shortly before Costello disappeared, he had witnessed a large man threatening her inside their North Babylon home…
Long Island Serial Murders: New Reports Shed Light On How Suspect's Wife Became Key To Case Long Island Serial Murders: New Reports Shed Light On How Suspect's Wife Became Key To Case
Long Island Serial Murders: New Reports Shed Light On How Suspect's Wife Became Key To Case The wife of Rex Heuermann, the suspected Long Island Gilgo Beach killer, unknowingly helped investigators zero in on her husband when two of her hairs were found on the bodies of two of the victims, according to new reports. Heuermann, of the village of Massapequa Park in Nassau County, is charged with killing Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello and burying their bodies in a grassy area of Gilgo Beach, located in the town of Babylon in Suffolk County. He's also a suspect in the murder of Maureen Brainard-Barnes. Investigators said, those hairs helped link Heuermann but d…
NY Serial Murders: Pizza Crust Helped Nab Suspect Who Allegedly Taunted Victim's Family NY Serial Murders: Pizza Crust Helped Nab Suspect Who Allegedly Taunted Victim's Family
NY Serial Murders: Pizza Crust Helped Nab Suspect Who Allegedly Taunted Victim's Family New details are shedding light on just how police in New York tracked down an alleged serial killer who worked on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan suspected in the deaths of at least four women on Long Island more than a decade ago. Nassau County resident Rex Heuermann, age 59, of Massapequa Park, an architect and married father of two, was arraigned on murder charges in Suffolk County Court on Friday, July 14, in the killings of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman, and Amber Costello. The bodies of 10 people, nine of whom were women, are linked to the case. Earlier Report: Suspect In Gilgo Beac…
Man Who Raped, Murdered 85-Year-Old Relative Not Sex Offender Man Who Raped, Murdered 85-Year-Old Relative Not Sex Offender
Man Who Raped, Murdered 85-Year-Old Relative Not Sex Offender Nearly 35 years after then-24-year-old Christopher Joseph Larry Speelman raped and murdered his 85-year-old relative, he has finally been sentenced— but he's not a sex offender, according to the court.  Now, 59, Speelman has been sentenced to spend the next 25 to 50 years in prison by Judge Thomas Campbell after pleading guilty to murder in the third degree, burglary, and a no contest to rape, according to Adams County District Attorney Brian Sinnett. Speelman confessed raping and then smothering Edna Laughman with a pillow at her home in the 1500 block of Carlisle Pike, Oxford Townsh…
'Baby Doe Killing': Mass Woman Sentenced For 1985 Death Of Newborn Daughter 'Baby Doe Killing': Mass Woman Sentenced For 1985 Death Of Newborn Daughter
'Baby Doe Killing': Mass Woman Sentenced For 1985 Death Of Newborn Daughter A Massachusetts woman will be spending several years behind bars for leaving her newborn baby for dead in Maine nearly 38 years ago, according to published reports. Lee Ann Daigle, of Lowell, was sentenced to 16 years in prison in connection with the 1985 death of her newborn daughter on Tuesday, June 20, WMTW reports.  Daigle, formerly known as Lee Ann Guerette, was charged with her daughter's death after she was arrested at her Lowell home more than a year ago, as previously reported by Daily Voice.  After being born, "Baby Jane Doe" was found abandoned in below-zero temperatures in a g…
DNA Evidence Leads To Montco Car Thief, Police Say DNA Evidence Leads To Montco Car Thief, Police Say
DNA Evidence Leads To Montco Car Thief, Police Say Investigators in Montgomery County say they tracked down a carjacker a year after the fact using DNA evidence obtained from the scene.  Jason Patrick Colfer, 44, of Philadelphia, is charged with theft and related counts, said Lower Moreland police in a release.  Authorities say Colfer stole a 2021 Mazda MX5 from a parking lot on Tomlinson Road in Huntingdon Valley last year on March 26. At the time, police reviewed security footage that showed a white man walking into the parking lot and peering around before hopping in the car and speeding off.  Suspect in the March 2022 Lower Morelan…