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On April 5, 2009, Ben's 87-year-old mother, Bernice (December 2, 1921 – April 4, 2009), was found dead in her Fort Lauderdale, Florida garage. Her husband Ben Novack Sr., who built the hotel and owned it until 1977, had died in 1985. [2]
The Flat-Tire murders were a series of unsolved murders in Broward and Dade (now Miami-Dade) County, Florida, occurring between February 1975 and January 1976.The name originated from the investigators' belief that, when the offender committed two of the murders, he had deflated the tires of the victims' cars.
Arthur St. Clair, an African-American community leader in Brooksville, Florida, was killed by a white mob in 1877 [51] after presiding over an interracial marriage. The papers relating to the case were incinerated when the county courthouse was destroyed in an arson attack, preventing the killers from being found.
Paul Michael Merhige waited three hours before opening fire at his family's Thanksgiving Day dinner, shooting multiple family members. [4] [5] His aunt, Raymonde Joseph, his twin sisters, Carla Merhige and Lisa Knight, as well as his 6-year-old cousin, Makayla, were killed in the shooting.
Police in Florida arrested a man Thursday who they say is responsible for the 1999 killing of a woman, closing the homicide case nearly 25 years ... dead body and assisted with the crime scene. ...
In response to the Deltona massacre, the Florida legislature proposed a bill that would add additional "risk-to-public" hearings for probation violators with violent histories. State law allowed, but did not require, probation officer Richard Burrow [ 23 ] to arrest Troy Victorino, a violent felon who was facing a battery charge and thus ...
He admitted to killing a dozen people in Florida in the 1970s and 1980s, spanning eight communities – Fort Myers, Plant City, Tampa, Homestead, Kendall, Miami, Gainesville, Ocala and Perry.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Four Florida men face life in prison after authorities arrested them for committing crimes dressed as police officers. Officials charged Reginald Roberts, 22, of Lakeland ...