Bail was set at $2 million June 25 for Tiffany LaToya Nowden who is charged with stabbing her wife to death while in bed in their San Carlos home. Nowden, 39, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Russina Vale, 38, whose body was found June 5 in their Mission Gorge Road apartment. San Diego…
dvd of the week The complete third season of AMC’s low-rated but brilliant murder mystery was an under-watched marvel. The first season of the show, following two damaged detectives investigating the murder of a teenage girl in rainy and moody Seattle, was a huge success, but after the show failed on its promise to reveal…
Once, it was the most natural question in the world: why? With a child’s usual curiosity, you asked it incessantly. Why are dogs black? Why’s the sun hot? Why do birds fly away? Why? You drove your mother nuts. But as you aged, answers came easier and “Why?” grew faint. You didn’t need to ask…
SAN DIEGO — After 14 hours of deliberations over three days, a jury April 24 convicted an employee of architect Graham Downes of second-degree murder in the beating death of Downes outside his Banker’s Hill home in 2013. The jury acquitted Higinio Salgado, 32, of first-degree murder. Sentencing was set for June 6 by San…
LONDON — In case that is sending shockwaves through the British legal system, a Jamaican national known only as ‘JR’ was spared deportation from England after a London Court of Appeals ruled that he was at risk of having his human rights abrogated should he be sent back to his home country, reports U.K.’s Daily…
A black lesbian couple have been murdered in Texas. The couple, Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson, both age 24, were found early Saturday outside the Fisherman’s Cove store in Port Bolivar. KHOU reports that “Detectives believe the women were killed somewhere else and dumped at the store.” The motive of the shooting remains unclear. Equality…
One year ago today, Marco McMillian, Mississippi’s first openly gay mayoral candidate, was murdered. His body was burned and abandoned at a levee. His family was left to mourn the loss of their only son. Lawrence Reed was indicted by a Grand Jury on February 12 for the murder. The press indicated that Reed planned to use McMillian’s…
For four months, 21-year-old Nelson Javier Avila-Lopez was brutally tortured in the infamous Comayagua prison in Honduras before perishing in a fire that killed 357 other prisoners. His body was so badly charred, officials were forced to use DNA testing to identify his remains. Now, his mother, Ana Lopez plans on suing the United States…
Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in Chinatown dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Friday, Dec. 13, 10 p.m. Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir film starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway is one of the greatest films ever made. Robert Towne’s Oscar-winning screenplay has Nicholson as a detective investigating murder among the early 20th century’s California water disputes….
DETROIT – A murder victim found discarded in a trash receptacle off Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Nov. 8 has not yet been identified, but is believed to be a member of the transgender community. Equality Michigan, a statewide anti-violence and advocacy organization, supports victims of anti-transgender crime and tracks violence against transgender people throughout Michigan. The…
