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Ex-Con Stabbed Community Board Member to Death in Own Home, Prosecutors Say - Hell's Kitchen & Clinton - New York

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Manhattan Criminal Court on Oct. 17, 2014, after allegedly killing Khemraj Singh , 46, in his Hell's Kitchen home. Wong told investigators that he met Singh at a bar and went home with him to do cocaine, but that Singh tried to put the moves on him and then fell on his knife, prosecutors said." /> Jeffrey Wong, 41, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Oct. 17, 2014, after allegedly killing Khemraj Singh , 46, in his Hell's Kitchen home. Wong told investigators that he met Singh at a bar and went home with him to do cocaine, but that Singh tried to put the moves on him and then fell on his knife, prosecutors said. View Full Caption Jefferson Siegel/New York Daily News HELL'S KITCHEN —  A Community Board 4 member was murdered in his own apartment after inviting a violent ex-con to come home from a bar with him, prosecutors said. Khemraj Singh, 46, was found dead in his bathtub, covered in stab wounds and wrapped in a shower curtain, after meeting Jeffr...

Top 10 Murder Victims Who Solved Their Own Murders

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Crime Lyra Radford August 9, 2017 The criminal justice system can be a bit tricky. Even if investigators think they know who committed a crime, they still have to be able to link a suspect to the scene without a shadow of a doubt. This is great for those wrongfully accused, but it’s downright infuriating when it helps the guilty get away with murder. Between stalled police investigations , poorly collected evidence , and subpar autopsy performances , the incompetence of the living can be enough to make the dead roll over in their graves. Or perhaps rise right up to solve their murder cases themselves. 10 The Ghost Of Fred Fisher Had To Point Out Where His Body Was In 1826, Australian farmer Frederick Fisher vanished . His shady neighbor, George Worrall , waved a big red flag when he suddenly remembered that his pal Fred had signed his entire farm over to George before mysteriously skipping town . Four months passed before the ghost of Fred Fisher had had enough of the whole charade a...

Pathologist: McCaster’s dismemberment post-mortem - News - The State Journal-Register

Norman Raymel McCaster mostly likely died a few days before his body was found at the bottom of an embankment near Mechanicsburg in 2012. By Chris DettroStaff Writer Norman Raymel McCaster mostly likely died a few days before his body was found minus head , hands and lower legs at the bottom of an embankment near Mechanicsburg in 2012. Dr. Scott Denton of Bloomington, a forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on the then-unidentified torso on Oct. 31, 2012, testified Thursday in the first- degree murder trial of McCaster's wife, 24-year-old Juatasha Denton-McCaster. Denton described marks on the ends of McCaster's bones that he said were made by the back-and-forth motion of a saw and cuts through the skin made by a sharp knife. There also was evidence of a large animal biting on one of McCaster's lower legs. Denton said because of the lack of blood in the wounds, he believed the dismemberment occurred after McCaster was dead. There were no obvious...

Accused killer: Girlfriend shot herself in chest

MEDIA COURTHOUSE >> A 31-year-old Philadelphia man who claims his girlfriend accidentally shot herself in the chest was formally arraigned Thursday on criminal homicide and related charges for the May 19 shooting death of 26-year-old Crystalyn Thomas , of Darby. Edward Moses Jr . was also arraigned on charges of first- and third-degree murder, firearms not be carried without a license, possessing an instrument of crime and aggravated assault before Delaware County Common Pleas Court President Judge Kevin F. Kelly. Defense attorney Dave Iannucci entered a plea of not guilty on his client’s behalf. Darby Borough police were dispatched to the victim’s home in the 100 block of Spring Valley Road shortly after 7:30 a.m. May 19 for a report of a possible dead on arrival victim, according to an affidavit of probable cause written by Detective Brian Pitts . Thomas, a mother of two, had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest, according to authorities. Advertisement The vi...

Gena Chiodo's Body Still Missing, Donal Clark Charged With First-Degree Murder

A 42-year-old Illinois man is in custody on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend after police went to the couple's home and found signs of foul play, police said. Donal E. Clark was charged Saturday with first-degree murder for the killing of his girlfriend, Gena Chiodo. At Clark’s first appearance in Cook County criminal court Sunday , Assistant State Attorney Angela Carlisle said that at the time of Clark's arrest, he was asleep inside the blood-splattered home he shared with Chiodo. "They said he was arrested because of the crime scene inside the house. There was a massive amount of blood everywhere," Chiodo's close friend, Michelle Mack, told The Huffington Post. Police did not find Chiodo's body at the couple's Calumet City home . Outside the home, authorities said they found garbage cans with bloodied lingerie, a blood-stained rug and bath mat, broken furniture, and a plastic shower curtain covered in blood. Blood spatter was also allegedly foun...