Ads
related to: pictures of victims in connecticut murder trial records
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
On October 19, 1997, 13-year-old Maryann Jeanine Measles [2] was abducted from the parking lot of a New Milford, Connecticut shopping center, while waiting for her mother. A group of eight former friends took part in planning and carrying out her murder. About nine months later, her body was discovered in nearby Lake Lillinonah. [3]
At the time, it was the worst mass murder in Connecticut history. [1] Two local men were convicted of the murders: Ronald F. "Tiny" Piskorski, a 25‐year‐old former bar bouncer and circus‐bear wrestler, and Gary B. Schrager, a 31‐year‐old drifter.
William Devin Howell (born February 11, 1970) is an American serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven women in 2003. He is one of the worst serial killers in Connecticut history.
Nearly 50 years after the skeletal remains of two homicide victims were found in a shallow grave, Linda Sue Childers was finally identified, Connecticut State Police said.
On July 23, 2007, two home intruders entered the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States.The perpetrators, Linda Hayes (known as Steven Hayes at the time) [b] and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky, initially planned only to burgle the house, but went on to murder Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.
After serving more than 11 years in prison, he was freed in 2013 on $1.2 million bail after a lower court judge overturned his conviction, saying his trial lawyer failed to adequately represent him.