Jessica Lunsford Killer Convicted
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A jury found a sex offender guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a crime that led to a crackdown around the country on sex offenders
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A jury found a former lab assistant guilty Thursday of murdering his boss's estranged husband by stuffing the man's body in a barrel of acid.
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John Evander Couey was sentenced to death Friday for abducting, raping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive. Couey, 48, is a previously convicted sex offender with a 30-year criminal history. Jessica was snatched from her bed in Homosassa, Florida. Her body was found three weeks later.
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An 18-year-old is convicted of manslaughter but cleared of murder after a six-year-old girl dies in a fire at her Birmingham home.
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An electrician was today convicted of murdering a wealthy Wall Street banker, following bombshell evidence from a British nanny. Daniel Pelosi was found guilty of bludgeoning
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Jurors on Tuesday convicted two men of murdering three young relatives whose bodies were nearly decapitated. Policarpio Espinoza, 24, and Adan Canela, 19, were found guilty of slashing the children's throats.
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Glenn McNeill is found guilty of the first murder on the remote Australian territory of Norfolk Island for 151 years.
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LETHBRIDGE, Alta. (CP) - Dar Heatherington, the former alderwoman convicted of fabricating lurid tales of being stalked, was found guilty Thursday of breaching her house arrest but will not do jail time.
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A biochemist who killed her husband by knocking him out and pouring hydrochloric acid on him was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder.
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A convicted sex offender committed a calculated, horrific crime when he murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive, and he deserves a death sentence despite evidence of his mental problems, a state prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.
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A US jury on Friday handed downa guilty verdict against double-murder suspect Scott Peterson for killing his pregnant wife to wrap up five months of a highlighted trial in California.
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Jurors convicted a teenage driver Thursday of misdemeanor manslaughter for causing a freeway crash that killed two members of Tonga's royal family and their driver. She was acquitted of more serious charges.
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The former acting mayor of a sleepy mill town on the Alabama-Georgia line was convicted Tuesday of murdering his wife while on a lunch break six years ago.
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SEATTLE -- A King County Superior Court jury on Thursday convicted a man of aggravated first-degree murder in the shooting death of a sheriff&#39;s deputy in June 2002.
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Australian Ian Previte has been found guilty by a Queensland jury of murdering 19-year-old British backpacker Caroline Stuttle in 2002, when he threw her from a bridge in a botched attempt to steal her handbag.
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A man is found guilty of the murder of special needs teacher Jane Longhurst in Sussex in 2003.
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A confessed serial killer due to be paroled from a Texas prison in April 2006 was convicted of murder on Wednesday for the stabbing death of a Michigan woman 25 years ago.