Prosecutor: Man Confessed to N.Y. Slaying
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A prosecutor set to deliver her opening statement in the slaying of a multimillionaire investment banker instead stunned a packed courtroom Wednesday, alleging the defendant had threatened her children, tried to tamper with a juror and admitted committing the crime.
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A confessed serial killer was convicted of murder Wednesday in case brought by prosecutors in a desperate bid to keep him from getting out of prison in less than two years.
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A man suspected in the deaths of three people at a New Hampshire outdoors equipment store told reporters as he was led into a courtroom Thursday that he did it because he "needed the money."
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A man who police say killed his wife in their suburban Detroit home, then disposed of her remains in a park, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and dismemberment of a body.
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A homeless man accused of killing four other homeless men and placing their bodies in manholes in a dispute over scrap metal pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of murder.
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he Suffolk County district attorney disclosed yesterday that he had prior ties as a private lawyer to two prominent figures that have cropped up in the reopening of the 1988 murders of Seymour and Arlene Tankleff.
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A man accused of suffocating a family of three during a violent rampage entered into a last-minute plea agreement Tuesday that will spare him the death penalty.
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A teenager questioned in a shooting at a high school Wednesday confessed to killing his father and has been charged with murder, authorities said.
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Many people in this southern Illinois town thought Bruce Mendenhall was loud, hot-tempered and a little peculiar, but they were still stunned to hear police say he has confessed to killing six people.
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The man whose dramatic capture at the edge of a Pennsylvania field ended the largest manhunt in New York history pleaded guilty Wednesday to wounding a state trooper during a traffic stop in June.
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A man who had his death sentence commuted amid claims he was wrongly convicted of killing a teenage girl 31 years ago has been linked to the slaying by new DNA evidence.
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A man who confessed two decades ago to killing his girlfriend's toddler daughter, only to have the case thrown out because of lack of corroboration, was charged again Wednesday in her death.
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A New York police officer who shot to  death an unarmed African immigrant acted recklessly, the  prosecutor charged at the start of his manslaughter trial on  Monday, but the defense said the killing was self-defense.
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A teenager suspected in a shooting at a high school that injured two students Wednesday later confessed to killing his father and was charged with murder, authorities said.
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A man accused of killing his wife, cutting her up, and hiding some of her remains in their Detroit-area home has given a "lengthy confession" to police, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said today. Stephen Grant contacted police from a hospital to "clear his mind" after his attorney withdrew from the case, Hackel said.
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In what could be a breakthrough for prosecutors trying gangland suspects for the assassination of Serbia's prime minister, an indicted gang member confessed Friday that the group committed several murders.
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Prosecutors on Thursday charged a man with kidnapping and aggravated murder in the death of a 5-year-old girl, saying he confessed to smothering the girl, then sexually assaulting her &#151; a crime that could bring the death penalty.