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Utah father sentenced to life in prison for brutal murder of wife in front of their children

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A 43-year-old father in Utah has been sentenced to life in prison after admitting to the horrific murder of his wife in front of their two young children. John Weston Erickson Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree felony murder for stabbing and slitting the throat of his wife, Utahna Halona, in October 2020. The younger child was also injured while trying to save her mother from the brutal attack. The sentencing was handed down by Third …

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A Small Utah Town In Shock As Double Homicide Leaves Community Troubled

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Spanish Fork, Utah, a small town on the outskirts of Salt Lake City, is deeply shaken following the discovery of a double homicide. On Tuesday, March 14th, 2023, police responded to a welfare check at the residence of a 50-year-old woman and her 58-year-old husband. Their son, 26-year-old Tryston Robert Erickson, was missing along with their vehicle. Utilizing the location of the woman’s cell phone, detectives were able to find him in Colorado and tracked …

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Intoxicated driver charged with killing Tennessee parents after fatal Christmas crash

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Tennessee authorities have charged 42-year-old Patricke Conley with murdering Dustin and Brittany Dillard and fatally injuring their three boys after driving under the influence and violently crashing into the family’s truck on Christmas Day. The Cleveland man was incarcerated on Wednesday at the Bradley County Jail and charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and three counts of vehicular assault. Conley appeared in court for the first time since his arrest on Thursday afternoon and …

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American who faked his death to avoid a bunch of serious charges claiming he is Irish

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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND – A U.S. citizen, accused of faking his own death to evade rape charges in Utah, continues to challenge an extradition order, insisting that he is an Irish orphan who has never set foot in America. Judge Norman McFadyen of the Edinburgh Sheriff Court, in his ruling in August, approved the extradition of the man, Nicholas Alahverdian, whom he described as “dishonest, deceitful, evasive, and manipulative.” Alahverdian, who also used the alias Nicholas …

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Teen gets 25 years for execution of 16-year-old girlfriend

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Utah teen, Francisco Daniel Aguilar, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Monday for the murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Jacqueline “Jacky” Nunez. The judge, Marvin Bagley, expressed shock at Aguilar’s lack of remorse for the crime, according to the Deseret News. Aguilar, who was 17 at the time of the incident, shot Nunez in the head after injuring her on a remote road. He told the court that he had acted …

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