HOMICIDE popularity and HOMICIDE trends

Enrique Pena Nieto, says his top security priority will be on reducing homicide, kidnapping and extortion — the crimes that do the most damage to the greatest number of Mexicans.

Los Angeles Police Department detectives want to review some interviews between a Manson Family convicted murderer and his attorney to determine whether it might shed any more light on the infamous case. NBC4 reported on Thursday about the request for recordings between Manson Family member Tex Watson and his attorney.The station said police want to know if those recording could contain  unsolv...

It doesn't take social science research to prove that men are angry and depressed. One measure of this trend is the increase in the rates of homicide and suicide we see in males.

Das Projekt "Homicide Watch D.C." sammelt alle Daten zu Mordfällen in Washington D.C. Die Seite hilft Betroffenen, aber auch Journalisten und sogar der Polizei.

Human rights activists are most worried about Mr Chen’s nephew, who was detained on charges of intentional homicide after his uncle’s escape

Abraham Tovar, 73, was collared at his Alhambra home on Wednesday on an outstanding felony homicide warrant dating back to a murder in 1981.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The nephew of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has been denied his family's choice of lawyers to defend a charge of "intentional homicide" in what one said was an attempt to manipulate a case that has focused world attention on China's human rights.

Alexandrine Brugerolle de Fraissinette et son compagnon, tous deux écroués, sont poursuivis pour "homicide volontaire et infractions à la législation sur les stupéfiants" dans le cadre d'une enquête pour meurtre à Marseille en 2011.Articles en rapportAntonio Ferrara acquitté pour le braquage d'une poste en 1999École : Peillon pour le retour à la semaine de 5 joursNajat Vallaud-Belkacem renonce ...

Four months ago, an Iranian-born medical researcher was gunned down in her car just a few steps from her family’s home in Texas. The murder remains unsolved and the motive is still a mystery.Hoping to bring the investigation to a successful conclusion, the Crime Stoppers chapter of Houston announced the largest cash reward for any case in the organization's history, offering $200,000 for "infor...

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A former Mexican law enforcement official who worked closely with U.S. authorities in the drug war pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in San Diego to aiding members of a violent Tijuana-based cartel, including helping traffickers get away with a double homicide in 2010....

Le verdict est tombé. L'ex-beau-frère de Jennifer Hudson, William Balfour, a été déclaré couple de trois meurtres au premier degré remontant à...

Convicted Durban businessman Sifiso Zulu, reportedly arrived at the Westville prison to start a three-year sentence for culpable homicide.

Ciudad Juárez is still a violent city, but homicide rates have decreased significantly from their peak in 2010, and young people in particular are stepping out.

The harrowing search for the missing Tennessee sisters turns hopeful as new surveillance footage indicates that the man at large may still be in the Mississippi area. Adam Mayes, who is suspected of a double homicide and kidnapping of a Tennessee family, has turned up in surveillance footage three days after the family disappeared. In [...]

Met commissioner says new evidence will be examined and warns MI6 officers to co-operate with policeScotland Yard has ordered a review of forensic evidence as it renews its efforts to solve the death of MI6 officer Gareth Williams.The Scotland Yard commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, said MI6 employees would be expected to co-operate with police. "It's called the law,'' said Britain's top polic...

Police opened a homicide investigation in Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday after a man's body was found in a barn behind Churchill Downs, just hours after the Kentucky Derby was run at the track.

The body of 31-year-old Arlet Hernandez Contreras, who investigators suspected was killed along with her two sons at an Orange County apartment complex, was found at the Los Angeles county morgue on Friday. Homicide detectives contacted various coroner offices, asking if they had any unidentified female bodies, said Orange Police Sgt. Dan Adams. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office responded...

Astronomers gather most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close.

La mise en examen pour homicide volontaire la semaine dernière d'un...

Claude Guéant, ministre français de l'Intérieur, a dit vendredi "regretter" que le parquet ait rejeté sa demande d'appel contre la mise en examen pour homicide volontaire d'un policier qui a tué un malfaiteur présumé le week-end dernier. Le ministre a qualifié par ailleurs d'"extrêmement...

Trente ans de réclusion criminelle. C’est la peine de prison qu’encourt, pour homicide volontaire, le gardien de la paix qui a tué, fin avril en ­Seine-Saint-Denis, un détenu en état d’évasion, condamné onze fois pour vol avec arme. Comment ne...

Norweigian court will undoubtedly reject his own defence of justifiable homicide

A 24-year-old Indian student at Boston University has died after he was shot in the head and leg by an unidentified person. No arrests have been made in the case yet. Homicide detectives are awaiting the autopsy results to determine the cause and manner of death.

HOMICIDE detectives called in to investigate the death of performer Greg Ham, a key member of the chart-busting band Men At Work.

There is no reliable research to determine whether capital punishment has served as a deterrent to homicide, according to a recent review.

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Mr. Mitt Romney spoke this weekend at the National Rifle Association's (NRA) annual convention and kicked off his remarks applauding the gun-lovers group's defense of the 2nd amendment to the Constitution. "This fine organization is sometimes called a single-issue group," Romney said. "That's high praise when the single issue is freedom. I love my freedom as much as the n...

LOS ANGELES  - Police investigating the shooting deaths of two University of Southern California graduate students from China posted a $125,000 reward for info that would help detectives solve the dual murder. Two days after Ming Qu and classmate Ying Wu, both 23, were shot while sitting in Qu’s car in a residential area near the USC campus, homicide detectives were still piecing ...

Homicide investigating outside home on Taylor Drive

Gu Kailai, the wife ex-Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai, is being investigated for intentional homicide of British man Neil Heywood (pictured), who died in the city last November.

Democracy Now has a big update in the homicide of 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, a black Marine vet shot dead at his home by police in White Plains, New York, last November after he accidentally set off his wearable medical alert device. A previous BB post on the story is here. The victim's son and other [...]

While the overall U.S. homicide rate is declining, more civilians are killing each other and claiming self-defense—a trend that is most pronounced in states with new "stand your ground" laws. So-called justifiable homicides nearly doubled from 2000 to 2010.

Tourist killed in Mallorca after being knocked down by National Police Force officer's car

The "games" of the title here spotlight kid-on-kid homicide, so choosing this PG-13-rated film as a date with your youngster might not be the best parenting move.The "games" of the title here spotlight kid-on-kid homicide, so choosing this PG-13-rated film as a date with your youngster might not be the best parenting move.

The coroner has ruled the death a homicide, but Delta, B.C., police will not be laying charges for a September 2011 beating that left 80-year-old grandpa Gerald McDonald dead two weeks later

Homicide detectives have not ruled out that shooting of George Sa'ado was nationalistically motivated.

The FBI is asking for Facebook and Twitter users to help find a 22-year-old man who is wanted for stealing $2.3 million out of his employer…

Police believe the teen fell from a great height and there was no evidence of homicide or suspicious death

Awful. The body of Gemma McCluskie, who appeared in over 30 episodes of BBC soap EastEnders as Kerry Skinner in 2001, is thought to have been discovered in an east London canal. According to Scotland Yard, the actress has been missing since March 1st and was last seen at her home in Bethnal Green. [...]

ANDERS Behring Breivik has been charged with acts of terror and voluntary homicide following his rampage which killed 77 people.

A bus driver is charged with homicide after his double-decker crashed into a low overpass, killing four passengers.

The death of a 10-year-old California girl who fought with a classmate over a boy has been ruled a homicide, according to news reports.

ONE DAY this month four murders occurred in the space of 72 hours in Prince George’s County. Like most of the county’s 105 murders in 2011, they will add to the caseload of just a handful of homicide prosecutors in one of the most short-staffed, overworked and resource-starved state’s attorney’s offices in Maryland. Read full article >>

In the classic 1936 cult film Reefer Madness , well-adjusted high school students who try marijuana suddenly sink into a life of addiction, promiscuity, aggression, academic failure, homicide and mental illness. The movie concludes with the ominous warning that “The dread marijuana may be reaching forth next for your son or daughter ... or yours ... or YOURS!” Newspaper headlines of the day of...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Jamaica is developing a new policy to battle crime as gang violence drives the homicide rate higher, the country's top security official said Tuesday....

The fifth installment in Burdett’s Bangkok-based crime series begins with a triple homicide whose victims have had every salable body part removed. Among the suspects are identical-twin Chinese heiresses—gorgeous, of course—whose hobbies include playing Russian roulette and collecting embalmed male genitalia. Burdett . . . (Subscription required.)

Based on his prior scholarly and advocacy work, it's safe to say that Bob Pape has not been a huge fan of U.S. military interventions.  In Bombing to Win, he argued that the coercive effect of air power had been wildly overstated.  In Dying to Win, he argued that the presence of foreign troops and bases are most likely to inspire suicide terrorism.  Pape was a foreign policy ...

Homicide detectives have taken over the investigation of a Richmond Hill woman who has been missing for more than six weeks.

The army has recommended that several charges -- including negligent homicide -- be brought against one of eight soldiers charged in connection with the suicide of Pvt. Danny Chen.

Les bourgmestres non-nommés des communes à facilités de Linkebeek, Crainhem et Wezembeek-Oppem demandent au Conseil de l’Europe de procéder à un monitoring de la dé...lire la suitehistoires liées12:38 Mort de Gilles Jacquier : une enquête pour homicide volontaire a été ouverte12:37 L’inattention à l’origine de l’accident de la route sur la E4212:41 Le FC Bruges veut conserver son capitaine Carl...

Cops might not have been 100% honest when they said they turned up goose eggs in the Natalie Wood homicide investigation -- this according to a rep for the boat captain.As we previously reported, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department spokesman said… TMZNatalie Wood Case -- Boat Captain Suggests Cops Could Be Withholding Info

Police in Jiangsu province said the person they suspect shot and killed a man during a robbery on Friday is also believed to be responsible for a series of robberies and shootings.

A case of culpable homicide is being investigated after a police van hit and killed two cyclists who were riding on a tandem bicycle in Kliprivier.

L’auteur de l’accident mortel qui a eu lieu à Liège la nuit du réveillon a été inculpé d’homicide involontaire et de coups et blessures. Il fait l...lire la suite

Zimbabwean police have arrested the owner of the boat that capsized on Christmas Day, killing 11 children, on charges of culpable homicide.

The civil surgeon and staff of a pathology laboratory and blood bank in Gujarat’s Junagadh civil hospital were accused of an attempt to commit culpable homicide in a case involving 23 thalassaemic children who tested HIV-positive after a blood transfusion at the hospital.

The civil surgeon and staff of a pathology laboratory and blood bank in Gujarat’s Junagadh civil hospital were accused of an attempt to commit culpable homicide in a case involving 23 thalassaemic children who tested HIV-positive after a blood transfusion at the hospital.

Brick Squad Monopoly rapper Slim Dunkin may have been murdered over a dispute about stolen candy according to police in Atlanta "The information we're getting it's unconfirmed but witnesses are saying this whole thing started over a piece of candy" homicide detective David Quinn told WSB-TV yesterday According to witnesses...

The death of a Florida university marching band's drum major as a result of hazing was a homicide, says the state medical examiner.

Detective Superintendent Paul Taylor from West Yorkshire Police's homicide team confirms what caused the deaths of a family of four in Pudsey.

Six officials detained on charges of culpable homicide after at least 90 people die in Kolkata.

L’ancien médecin de Michael Jackson, le docteur Conrad Murray, va en appel de sa condamnation plus tôt dans la semaine à quatre ans de prison pour homicide involontaire. ...lire la suite

If Chicago were a company, it would be the classic big, successful incumbent that needs new management. Its finances are out of whack. Public education is awful; only 55% of ninth-graders graduate from high school. The homicide rate is much higher than in New York or Los Angeles. America's third-largest city, Chicago gained population in the '90s and then lost all those gains over the past deca...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Homicide detectives who have reopened an investigation into the death of Natalie Wood after three decades said on Friday that the film star's husband, actor Robert Wagner, was not considered a suspect.

James Arthur Ray, convicted of negligent homicide, tearfully apologizes

Thirty years after her drowning off the coast of California was ruled an accident, a homicide investigation has been opened in the death of actress Natalie Wood.

Homicide detectives have re-opened their investigation of Natalie Wood’s death nearly 30 years after the actress drowned in the waters off Southern California.

One of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries is about to get a second act. The Los Angeles Sheriff's homicide bureau is taking another look at the 1981 death of Rebel Without a...

LOS Angeles homicide detectives have re-opened their investigation into the 1981 drowning death of actress Natalie Wood.

IT WAS shocking that one child known to the Health Service Executive and public services died monthly from a drug overdose, suicide or homicide, United Left Alliance TD Richard Boyd Barrett told the Dáil. “It is a continuation of the State’s failure to look after our children.”

Prior to the 1984 passage of a uniform drinking-age limit of 21 years in the U.S., many states permitted the legal purchase of alcohol at age 18. These lower drinking ages have been associated with several adverse outcomes such as higher rates of suicide and homicide among youth. A new study of individuals who were legally permitted to drink before the age of 21 has found they remain at elevate...