Lauren Pazienza is accused of shoving Barbara Gustern, 87, to the ground on a New York City street in March, causing the injuries that resulted in her death. The young woman is set to stand trial in October.
Michael Asman was suspected of killing his girlfriend, Julie Burns, in mid-July. His body was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound hundreds of miles away in Oregon.
“Vanessa did not deserve to sexually harrassed, to be murdered, to be cut up into pieces, to be burned, to be buried into cement,” Vanessa Guillén’s sister, Mayra Guillén, wrote in court papers.
Larry Rhodes and Bianca Blaise have been charged with murder in the death of their 6-year-old son, whom they allegedly beat to death after finding him trying to drink from the toilet.
Victor Huff’s decomposing body was found wrapped in a tarp less than two days after his wife reported him missing. Terrance Burnett, Harry Houston, Lavell Taylor and Tessa Ann Raczynski have been charged with his murder.
Raquel Wilkins’ boyfriend, Christopher Browning, said that his girlfriend was increasingly delusional when she clamored over a railing with her toddler, Denzel Browning-Wilkins, and fell from the Petco Park upper deck last September.
“I think it is too severe of a punishment,” said Joi Miskel, Kristie Evans’ defense attorney, who argued her client endured years of sexual servitude at the hands of her husband Pastor David Evans.