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Vandie Porter, 67, of Wayland, Massachusetts, was arrested yesterday morning for allegedly attempting to kill or maim after a fight broke out at a Sudbury gas station between him and another man and his son. Sudbury Police allege that Porter ambushed the unnamed victim after he exited the Valero Gas Station in Sudbury and immediately began assaulting him. Porter also…
Lawyers for John Odgren appealed to Middlesex Superior Court Judge S. Jane Haggerty earlier this week, appealing that his sentence be reduced from First Degree Murder to Second Degree Murder. Convicted of First Degree Murder for killing 15 year-old classmate James Alenson at Lincoln-Sudbury High School in 2007, Odgren was sentenced to serve a mandatory life sentence in state prison,…
Sherrod Bright, 26, was sentenced to 10 years in connection to the 2006 Murder of Corey Davis of Cambridge, Massachusetts. In a plea deal, Bright pled Guilty to Manslaughter, being sentenced to 10 years in state prison, followed by 10 years probation upon his release. According to the Cambridge Police Department and the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office, on March…
Roger Paron, Jr., was arraigned yesterday in the Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court on Murder Charges for killing his wife, Victoria Paron, 39. This past Saturday, Boston Police Officers responded to Victoria Paron’s home on Bicknell Street in Dorchester to conduct a well-being check. The following day, Boston Police Officers located Roger Paron near Talbot and Blue Hill…
This Labor Day Weekend saw an increase in Boston’s Murder rate in three separate incidents resulting in two deaths. On Sunday, Boston Police Officers responded to Bicknell Street in Dorchester for a ‘well-being’ check on Victoria Paron, 39, after they had received an anonymous call. Upon their arrival, Paron was pronounced dead and her husband has been charged in her…
The Boston Police Department reported this morning that they have arrested 3 persons in connection with the Murder of Richel Nova, 58, of Hyde Park, who was shot while delivering pizza to a vacant house on Hyde Park Avenue. According to the Boston Police Department, two men and one woman allegedly placed an order with Domino’s Pizza and gave the…
According to the Medford Police Department, Christopher Toppi, 28, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, turned himself into police last night in connection with an apparent homicide in Medford. The victim, Brian Fahy, of Weymouth, was pronounced dead at the scene. Shortly after the Medford Police Department had sought a warrant for Christopher Toppi on the charge of Murder, Toppi turned himself in.…
Sheila Barry, of Brockton, Massachusetts, was convicted in 2006 in Plymouth Superior Court for the Murder of Admilson Goncalves. Today, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reversed her conviction, citing she was mentally ill when she committed the assault. At her Murder trial, Plymouth County prosecutors alleged that Barry attacked Goncalves with a cinder block as he sat in his bicycle…
Phillip Markoff, dubbed the “Craigslist Killer” by the media who was held without bail pending his Murder trial, was found dead at the Suffolk County Jail on Nashua Street yesterday morning from what appears to have been a suicide. According to sources from the Boston Police Department and the Suffolk County Sherriff’s Department, Markoff was found alone in his cell…
After 7 years, Jesus Silva Santiago walked out of court a free man, a second jury acquitting him of Murder in connection with the shooting death of Eugene Monteiro, 25, of Boston, Massachusetts. The Murder allegations stemmed from an incident at Mike’s Lounge in Brockton. The Plymouth County District Attorney alleged that Santiago called the victim a racial slur as…