Many Americans are no doubt living in a cloud of anxiety about the recent mass shootings of 2017. These include the shootings at a Las Vegas concert and the shootings at a South Texas church in which left 26 people dead and 20 wounded. On Sunday, November 5, 2017, 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley targeted members…
The Jeffrey Willis trial has been in the news a lot lately. If you’re not familiar with this case, Willis was convicted of first-degree for the 2014 murder of Rebekah Bletsch on November 2, 2017. Police believe Bletsch had been jogging on a country road when she was shot to death by Willis when he…
A supposed prank on October 18, 2017 in Flint, Michigan involving teenage boys that went horribly wrong has made national headlines. Prosecutors say 17-year-old Kyle Anger, 16-year-olds Mark Sekelsky and Mikadyn Payne, and 15-year-olds Alexander Miller and Trevor Gray hurled rocks, tires, and an engine piston onto I-75 from the Farrand Road overpass. They are…
In the summer of 2017, the former Detroit drug dealer nicknamed “White Boy Rick” was granted parole from prison. It took nearly 30 years, but the 10-member Michigan Parole Board voted unanimously to release him. Richard Wershe was arrested at the age of 17 during the 1980s crack epidemic.
A heartbreaking story appeared in the news in early September 2017. We may never know more details than what is provided in the police report. A toddler was accidentally run over by a car during a party at a private residence in after in Mason Township, Michigan.
In the summer of 2017, prosecutors released video of kidnapping victim Kala Brown being rescued by police from a metal storage container. She had been held against her will for two months by alleged serial killer Todd Kohlhepp in South Carolina. You can view footage of his confessions, which he gave as part of a…
For William Morva, 35, on July 6th, 2017, the law had the final word. It didn’t care that Morva had thought his life was in danger in 2006. Or that he’d been allegedly held and tortured for weeks when he killed a security guard and police deputy in an attempt to escape. It didn’t matter…
What happens if the chain of custody is broken? In the 2016 Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, one of the most electrifying and pivotal scenes for many viewers is the discovery, by Steven Avery’s defense attorney Jerry Buting, that a vial of Avery’s blood has what looks like a puncture hole in the seal….
In Michigan, 2nd-degree murder can be described as an unplanned or non-premeditated, intentional killing or a death caused by a reckless disregard for human life. Michigan has its fair share of criminals getting into the national news. Let’s take a look at a case that was sentenced in June 2017.
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