>Heather Opel, 14, is sentenced to 22 years for role in murder
EVERETT -- Relatives of a man brutally murdered by five teens finally had their chance to confront one of the killers in court. "Heather Opel says she deserves a chance for the future. I ask why," said...
View Article>Heather Opel, 14, is sentenced to 22 years for role in murder
EVERETT -- Relatives of a man brutally murdered by five teens finally had their chance to confront one of the killers in court. "Heather Opel says she deserves a chance for the future. I ask why," said...
View Article>Heather Opel, 14, is sentenced to 22 years for role in murder
EVERETT -- Relatives of a man brutally murdered by five teens finally had their chance to confront one of the killers in court. "Heather Opel says she deserves a chance for the future. I ask why," said...
View ArticleInslee denies shorter sentence for Marriam Oliver
Gov. Jay Inslee has denied a recommendation from the state's clemency board to grant a shortened sentence to a woman who is in the midst of a...
View ArticleInslee denies shorter sentence for Marriam Oliver
Gov. Jay Inslee has denied a recommendation from the state's clemency board to grant a shortened sentence to a woman who is in the midst of a...
View Article>Heather Opel, 14, is sentenced to 22 years for role in murder
EVERETT -- Relatives of a man brutally murdered by five teens finally had their chance to confront one of the killers in court. "Heather Opel says she deserves a chance for the future. I ask why," said...
View Article>Girl tells about slaying by gang
EVERETT -- Marriam Oliver told the jury yesterday that when Barbara Opel was assigning roles to a gang of teenagers the night they killed her employer, she couldn't hear every word. She knew she was...
View ArticleConvicted Dunbar Village rapist sentenced to 60 years in prison
WEST PALM BEACH – By all accounts, Nathan Walker started out in life with little chance to make it. Raised in extreme poverty in a violent neighborhood, by the time he was 16 he became one of several...
View ArticleCop killer sentenced to death
If at first you don't succeed …. After only four hours of deliberation, jurors sentenced cop killer Ronell Wilson to death by lethal injection for the murders of undercover cops James Nemorin and...
View Article>Man gets 58-year sentence for pot-dispute killing
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A judge in Everett, Wash., has sentenced a Tulalip-area man to 58 years in prison for fatally shooting another man in a...
View ArticleMan gets 58-year sentence for pot-dispute killing
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A judge in Everett, Wash., has sentenced a Tulalip-area man to 58 years in prison for fatally shooting another man in a...
View ArticleMichigan Supreme Court: Not so fast on resentencing juvenile lifers
LANSING — A U.S. Supreme Court decision that makes mandatory life sentences without parole unconstitutional for juveniles should not be applied retroactively, a divided Michigan Supreme Court said...
View ArticleHeather Mack’s Boyfriend Gets 18 Years For Killing Her Mother
Mack claims that she didn’t take part in the actual murder of her mother, and maintains that she was in a panic when she helped her boyfriend stuff her body into a suitcase. Nonetheless, the horrific...
View ArticleDueling portraits of Massachusetts teen charged in teacher's murder
SALEM, Mass. - A Massachusetts prosecutor on Monday described a 16-year-old former high school student charged with murdering his math teacher as a remorseless killer, while his attorney portrayed him...
View ArticleTeen killers could walk
Horrified prosecutors said yesterday’s high court ruling making Bay State teen killers eligible for parole was a bombshell they dreaded broaching with the victims’ families at Christmastime. “I’m...
View ArticleWhy I didn't want my son's killer to spend his life in jail (guest column)
My only son, Ronald D. Simpson III, was murdered on Fathers Day 2001. He was 21 years old. His killer was a 14-year old boy who was under the mistaken impression that my son was physically abusing his...
View Article>Heather Opel, 14, is sentenced to 22 years for role in murder
EVERETT -- Relatives of a man brutally murdered by five teens finally had their chance to confront one of the killers in court. "Heather Opel says she deserves a chance for the future. I ask why," said...
View ArticleHeather Opel, 14, is sentenced to 22 years for role in murder
EVERETT -- Relatives of a man brutally murdered by five teens finally had their chance to confront one of the killers in court. "Heather Opel says she deserves a chance for the future. I ask why," said...
View ArticlePhilip Chism begins trial today for allegedly killing, raping teacher
Philip Chism, who allegedly told police that he “became the teacher” when he slashed the throat of Danvers High educator Colleen E. Ritzer, goes on trial today for the 2013 killing and could become the...
View ArticleRedmond 5 defendant gets resentencing hearing
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A defendant in the notorious "Redmond 5" murder case will seek a lighter sentence when he returns to court Tuesday after more than a decade behind bars. Justin Link, 31, was a...
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