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Murder of Yingying Zhang. On June 9, 2017, Yingying Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was abducted by Brendt Allen Christensen, a Champaign resident and former physics graduate student at the university. Christensen, who investigators claimed aspired to be a serial killer, lured Zhang into his car ...
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
The murder of Karyn Hearn Slover occurred on September 27, 1996 in Decatur, Illinois, when Karyn Slover, a 23-year-old mother of one, disappeared shortly after leaving her job as an advertising sales representative. Two days later, authorities discovered Slover's dismembered remains, wrapped in plastic bags, in and near Lake Shelbyville.
A Florida woman found herself behind bars after a traffic stop yielded the discovery of several drugs stashed inside a bag labeled "Bag of Drugs," according to Florida Highway Patrol.
Jessica Marie Lunsford (October 6, 1995 – February 27, 2005) was an American nine-year-old girl from Homosassa, Florida, who was murdered in February 2005. Lunsford was abducted from her home in the early morning of February 24, 2005, by John Couey, a 46-year-old convicted sex offender who lived nearby. Couey held her captive over the weekend ...
A Florida mother and former Naval petty officer who reported her 5-year-old daughter missing in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the young girl’s murder.
Laurie Shaver, the Florida woman accused of killing her husband and burying his body beneath a firepit and concrete slab in 2015, testified in her own defense on Thursday.
Murder victim. In February 2009, Heather Strong (March 23, 1982 – February 15, 2009) was kidnapped and murdered in Marion County, Florida. Emilia Lily Carr, a rival for the affections of a man Strong was married to, came under suspicion. Carr denied any guilt and alleged her statements were coerced. Carr was nevertheless found guilty in ...