Woman killed in shark attack during vacation with husband in the Bahamas

LOWELL, MA – Lauren Erickson Van Wart, a 44-year-old woman from Lowell, Massachusetts, was fatally attacked by a shark. She was tragically killed while on a dream vacation in the Bahamas with her husband, according to an announcement by the Royal Bahamas Police Force. The incident took place on the shores of the Sandals resort beach, where Van Wart was paddleboarding three-quarters of a mile from the coast. Her husband, who was accompanying her at …

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Fugitive with fake alias and family captured after 17 years on the run

Antran Hall, who had been evading authorities for 17 years, was arrested in Detroit on Monday. His family was unaware of his true identity and only knew him by a fake name. The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office commended the dedication and teamwork of the agencies involved in capturing one of their “Most Wanted” fugitives. U.S. Marshal Chrissie Latimore expressed satisfaction with the successful outcome. Hall’s arrest was the result of months of investigative work. Earlier …

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Man charged for shooting 3-year-old daughter with cross bow after fight with wife

A New York man has been charged with second-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and first-degree criminal contempt for violating an order of protection after allegedly killing his 3-week-old daughter during an argument with his wife. According to the Broome County Sheriff’s Office, Patrick Proefriedt, 26, fired a broadhead crossbow bolt at his wife during the argument, but instead hit the infant, Eleanor Carey, in the upper torso before hitting the woman in her chest. Proefriedt …

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Man stabs wife to death and tries to hide her body from their kids

A man from South Florida has been taken into custody after being accused of murdering his wife. According to the detectives, Johana Aristizabal had arrived home from work around midnight on Saturday. Law enforcement reported that on Saturday evening, Aristizabal came back from her job and had a heated discussion with her husband, 40-year-old Eder Espinoza, concerning their troubled marriage. The conversation got out of hand and turned into a physical confrontation, and Espinoza allegedly …

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Man kills and decapitates his newlywed wife

According to Houston’s Fox station, shocking video footage shows a man who just decapitated his wife calmly strolling into the store where she worked, stealing a beer, and then chugging it outside. Soon after police attended the gruesome scene Wednesday, 21-year-old Jared Dicus confessed to killing Anggy Diaz. Anggy was his wife of less than four months. According to Waller County Sheriff Troy Guidry, Anggy Diaz’s mutilated body was discovered near Magnolia, northwest of Houston. …

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North Carolina Man Kills Wife And Three Children

Police say a mentally ill man opened fire inside his North Carolina home, killing his wife and three children before killing himself. Police said Robert J. Crayton Jr., 45, fatally shot Athalia A. Crayton, 46, Kasin Crayton, 18, and two other children, 16 and 10, on Saturday morning. We’ve never seen anything like this in our 27 years in this police department,” said Travis Stroud, High Point’s police chief. “Clearly a significant incident for us …

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Man fatally shoots wife, escapes murder scene

Ricardo Quinones was charged with murder after shooting his wife, Lindsey Whitman, to death. After the incident happened at Whitman’s Georgetown home, Quinones escaped the death scene, as per police reports. His arrest affidavit revealed that Quinones admitted to killing his wife by shooting her face. Before firing the gun, the 38-year-old man shackled his wife first with a rope to her own bed. According to police, Whitman, aged 31, was found dead with her …

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Man Kills Neighbors Over Cursing At His Wife

According to authorities, two people were shot and killed in a dispute over the laundry room by a Florida man. The 75-year-old Hootman told police in Stuart, Florida, that he shot his downstairs neighbors after they yelled at his wife days earlier for leaving their shared laundry room door open. When Hootman asked his 81-year-old neighbor, Henry Wallace, to apologize for yelling and cursing at his wife, Wallace refused to apologize, and pushed past Hootman, …

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Man Kills Wife And Abandons Daughter In The Desert

In the Southern California desert, a 12-year-old girl was abandoned by her father after her mother was killed by him. The girls father allegedly beat her mother and threw her out of the car at a Shell station around 11:45 p.m. Friday. During the early morning hours of Saturday, deputies found Jesus Jaimes-Rosas’ abandoned vehicle near Barstow, according to a statement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The statement said Jaimes-Rosas, who was treated …

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Husband Kills His Wife And Dogs In Gruesome Murder-Suicide

Deputies found the bodies of Eric Pinkerton, 63, and Diane Albert, 65, at their residence. Evidence of the scene suggested that Pinkerton took his own life. Along with shooting his wife and himself, several of the couple’s pets were also found dead in the home. The husband left a troubling message before he turned the gun on himself, the sheriff’s office said. A friend of the couple contacted BCSO after receiving the odd message from …

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