Albert Cronkite

A dental comparison connected remains found at a Lundy Road home to missing teenager Ceasar Asbury. HOUSTON, Mo. — A forensic dental comparison has pushed a Texas County child abuse case into a murder prosecution after remains found at a rural home were identified as Ceasar Asbury, authorities said. The identification gave prosecutors the link they needed to add death-related charges against Chaun Asbury, 42, and Tamla Asbury, 45. The couple had already been arrested …

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A September emergency call led to May arrests after police said a multiagency investigation found evidence of homicide and torture. TREMONTON, Utah — More than seven months after an 11-year-old boy died at a Tremonton home, police arrested his parents and said the death was tied to child torture, not an accidental hanging. The gap between the Sept. 21, 2025, 911 call and the May arrests reflects the pace of a case police described as …

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Haleh Abghari was remembered as a performer, teacher and mentor after Ceasar Lorenzo Wilson received a 224-year sentence. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The killing of UCCS professor Haleh Abghari ended in a 224-year prison sentence for Ceasar Lorenzo Wilson, but the case continues to mark a campus arts community that lost a longtime voice teacher. Wilson, 54, was sentenced May 6 after a jury found him guilty in February of second-degree murder and other crimes …

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A central Phoenix apartment complex became the focus of a murder investigation after a man was struck by his SUV. PHOENIX, Ariz. — A Sunday afternoon at a central Phoenix apartment complex turned into a homicide investigation when a man was run over by his own SUV after a dating-app meeting, police said. The victim, 52-year-old Norris L. Taft, was found critically injured May 3 in a parking lot near 16th Street and Maryland Avenue. …

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A grand jury indictment, bond ruling and pending evidence questions now define the case against Amaya Dixon. RICHMOND, Va. — What began as a report of two injured children at a Southside apartment is now a felony murder case against a Richmond mother accused in her twin sons’ bathtub deaths. The case against Amaya Dixon, 21, has unfolded in stages: the April 17 emergency response, the deaths of 17-month-old Ksyn and Kcye Dixon, a weeks-long …

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A judge denied bond for Jamaal Jenkins after prosecutors argued that gunfire in a crowded restaurant endangered more than one victim. SNELLVILLE, Ga. — A Georgia judge rejected a bond request for a man accused of shooting a Chick-fil-A customer after defense counsel argued he acted in self-defense when the victim punched him first. Jamaal Jenkins, 44, appeared at a preliminary hearing on charges of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of …

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Investigators say the case moved from a reported home invasion to an accusation that the husband staged the scene. COVINGTON, Wash. — A 911 call reporting a violent home invasion began a murder investigation that ended with the caller charged in the stabbing death of his wife, court records say. The call came the morning of May 1 from a home on 186th Place Southeast in Covington. Kyle Wayland Cathcart, 41, told authorities that an …

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Investigators say the case began with a refused request to join a game and ended with two homicide charges. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A homicide investigation that began with reports of gunfire near a school led police to a nearby home, an 18-year-old suspect and charges in the deaths of two people at a playground. Grand Rapids police said the May 5 shooting outside Southwest Elementary School unfolded after a dispute over who could join …

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Ruger Boude’s case includes a police homicide notice, court charges, medical findings and an obituary remembering his life. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Public records and police statements show how a hospital call about an injured 9-year-old became a homicide case against the boy’s mother and her boyfriend. The records identify the child as Ruger Jay Andrew Boude and the defendants as Alicia Reanne Busey and Steven Dewayne Duty. Busey is Ruger’s mother, and Duty was …

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The case moved from an industrial site in Orange to a jury verdict nearly three years after Casie Lynn Graves was killed. ORANGE, Texas — What began with a body found near railroad tracks outside an Orange industrial facility ended with Derek Lennon Bradley sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering Casie Lynn Graves. The case followed a path through a worksite discovery, a medical examiner’s finding, a yearlong investigation, a grand jury indictment …

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