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According to authorities, Sesler was heavily inspired by mass murder events such as the Columbine High School massacre and the Virginia Tech shooting, and had researched both events extensively. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Investigators found a list that Sesler had created on his computer which studied and graded at least eight serial killers.
Richard Alexander Murdaugh was the trial of American former lawyer Alex Murdaugh for the murder of his wife, Maggie, and their 22-year-old son, Paul, on June 7, 2021. The trial in the fourteenth circuit of the South Carolina Circuit Court began on January 25, 2023, and ended on March 2 with a guilty verdict on all four counts. [ 1 ]
The murder trial is known by this name due to the defendant's former profession and in reference of 2010 film Black Swan. [1] The murder and subsequent trial received national media attention. [1] [2] [7] [8] On September 27, 2020, Doug was found shot twice in Ashley's mother's house, [1] [9] he died in a hospital approximately an hour later. [1]
The prosecution in the Delphi, Indiana, double murder trial showed the jury more than 40 crime scene photos, some of them graphic, on the third day of the proceedings.
The open murder charge allows a jury to decide the degree of murder, should the case go to trial. If convicted of first-degree murder, they would be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The double murder trial is far from Mr Murdaugh’s only legal problem. Besides the case, Mr Murdaugh is facing at least 100 other criminal charges over a string of financial fraud allegations ...
After delays, his trial began on May 2, 2019. [7] [15] In May 2019, actor Ashton Kutcher testified about the crimes. [15] [16] On August 15, 2019, Gargiulo was convicted on all counts. The penalty phase of his California trial started on October 7, 2019. He faced either a death sentence or life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A former California prison guard who pleaded no contest to solicitation of murder after hiring a hit man to kill his lover’s husband was sentenced Wednesday in Fresno County to six years in prison.