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Brooklyn
fromBrownstoner
2 days ago

Daughter Looks for Answers 50 Years After Park Slope Murder

Thomas McAvoy, a Park Slope resident, was murdered by an unknown assailant in 1976, and his daughter continues searching for answers fifty years later.
fromBrooklyn Paper
2 days ago

50 years after her father's Park Slope murder, a daughter still seeks answers * Brooklyn Paper

At the time, crime in New York City was rampant. According to NYC's summary of vital statistics, there were 1,662 homicides in the city that year, with 459 murders in Brooklyn, and Park Slope was a far cry from the gentrified neighborhood with million-dollar brownstones it is now, particularly along 4th and 5th avenues.
Brooklyn
London politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 week ago

Police launch new appeal 30 years on from murder of Melanie Hall

Police are launching a new public appeal for information about Melanie Hall's murder, a 25-year-old hospital worker who disappeared from a Bath nightclub in June 1996 and whose remains were found in 2009.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Oakland police ID man killed on couch inside phone repair store

Mullins' killing appeared to have been a targeted act by someone who knew exactly where to find him, police said. He drove to the store with a woman and the two were sitting inside when a man walked in, came right up to Mullins, and shot him multiple times in front of multiple eyewitnesses and security cameras, police said.
California
US news
fromBoston.com
1 week ago

New photo released in unsolved 1997 homicide of a N.H. woman

New Hampshire officials released a previously uncirculated photo of Rosalie Miller, murdered in 1996, seeking witnesses to solve the nearly 30-year-old cold case.
fromwww.cbc.ca
3 months ago

Daughter of Barry and Honey Sherman speaks on their deaths ahead of 8th anniversary | CBC News

The Shermans were found dead from strangulation in the basement pool area of their home on Old Colony Road in Toronto's North York neighbourhood on Dec. 15, 2017, and the case has remained unsolved. I'm encouraged, to a small degree, that the case is still active, that [the police] haven't since said. we can't solve this,' Krawczyk told CBC Radio's Metro Morning earlier this week. I honestly don't know where they're at, and I respect that, she said.
Canada news
Film
fromAnOther
4 months ago

Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was found brutally murdered in Ostia under ambiguous circumstances, prompting repeated investigations and enduring theories about motive and multiple perpetrators.
fromIndependent
4 months ago

Suspect in Mike Gaine murder withdraws complaint about his treatment by gardai

The chief suspect for the murder of Kerry farmer Michael Gaine has withdrawn a formal complaint he made to Fiosrú, the Office of the Police Ombudsman about how he was treated by gardai.
Miscellaneous
fromLos Angeles Times
4 months ago

A Palestinian American activist was killed in Santa Ana 40 years ago. The case remains unsolved

One fall morning in 1985 the prominent Palestinian activist arrived to work at the Santa Ana office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. When he opened the civil rights group's door, a rigged pipe bomb went off, mortally wounding him. "How can I forget that horrible day?" said Michel Shehadeh, whoreplaced Odeh as the West Coast regional director of the organization, which formed in 1980 to combat anti-Arab stereotypes in U.S. media.
World news
US news
fromLos Angeles Times
6 months ago

A Burning Man crazier than usual: A murder mystery, 'demonic' claims and a surprise birth

Severe winds at Burning Man damaged installations and injured attendees while an unexpected birth and a reported unsolved murder added to an already chaotic festival.
California
fromABC7 San Francisco
7 months ago

Family remains hopeful in finding Castro Valley teen Jenny Lin's killer 31 years after her murder

The unsolved murder of Jenny Lin continues to be honored through a music camp and community efforts to seek justice.
fromLos Angeles Times
8 months ago

New details released on mysterious fatal shooting of 13-year-old Pasadena boy

The investigation has revealed a gray Ford Fusion parked near the Moreno home, from which a passenger fired two shots, one fatally striking the boy.
SF parents
#true-crime
fromwww.cbc.ca
9 months ago
Canada news

'We know people know who the killer is,' Toronto police say about 15-year-old cold case | CBC News

fromwww.cbc.ca
9 months ago
Canada news

'We know people know who the killer is,' Toronto police say about 15-year-old cold case | CBC News

Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
10 months ago

'The street knows who did it': Authorities offer $10,000 reward in South L.A. killing

Authorities are seeking public assistance in the unsolved murder of Lanai Dees, a 21-year-old woman shot in South Los Angeles.
fromwww.newsshopper.co.uk
10 months ago

Sisters of 'innocent' man murdered in Peckham speak of painful' loss 10 years on

Ola's sisters reflect on a decade of loss, emphasizing their family's ongoing pain and the absence of their brother amidst the laughter and photographs.
London politics
fromPortlandTribune.com
10 months ago

Other suspects named in Michael Francke killing

In a shocking turn of events, the man convicted of killing Oregon Correction Director Michael Francke has been exonerated, prompting state legislative leaders to call for an FBI investigation into the unsolved murder.
SF politics
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