The second trial of Former Harvard grad student Alexander Pring-Wilson began with opening statements on Wednesday. Pring-Wilson, now 29, was convicted of manslaughter three years ago for the 2003 stabbing death of 18-year-old Michael Colono. A judge, however, ordered a retrial after the Massachusetts Judicial Supreme Court ruled in a…
The man charged with beating 78-year-old Robert J. Moore Sr. to death with a bat-like object reportedly has been suffering from mental health problems, says a missing report that his wife filed with police in Norwood last August. 41-year-old William B. Dunn was working as a contractor and installing a…
Ex-Prison Break Star Lane Garrison will serve 3 years and 4 months in a California prison in the DUI car accident death of a California teenager. Garrison, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of vehicular manslaughter without gross negligence, a misdemeanor of providing alcohol to a minor, and one count…
A Massachusetts man was arrested in connection to yesterday’s deadly home invasion in Winchester that left one man dead and the other seriously injured in what is being called a “targeted” gun attack and robbery. Wally Jacques Simon, a 30-year-old Medford man, was arrested soon after in Boston. At his…
Anna Tang, a 20-year-old Wellesley College student is being held without bail following her arraignment today at Massachusetts’s Cambridge District Court in the stabbing of her ex-boyfriend, a 19-year-old student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tang is charged with home invasion and armed assault with intent to murder. The…
The life sentence of a dying convicted killer has been vacated in Massachusetts because the judge that oversaw the case had closed the courtroom to the public during jury selection for the trial. US District Court Judge Nancy Gertner issued her decision after recently finding out that the Dwayne Owens’…
In Suffolk Superior Court, the second murder trial of John Gomes, 30, began with opening statements. Gomes is charged with the first-degree murder of Ildobrando Correia, a Dorchester youth soccer coach that was shot to death at the age of 45 in August 2002. Correia was in his car, having…
The Barnstable County grand jury is refusing to indict Ann Gryboski, a 51-year-old Cape Cod doctor, in the shooting death of her husband Patrick Lancaster. The jury cited evidence of domestic violence (both psychological and physical) after hearing testimony from 27 witnesses. Prosecutors have decided to drop the case. Gryboski…
A 20-year-old homeless man says he is not guilty of the first degree murder of his 6-year-old cousin. The little girl, Joanna Mullin, was found naked and dead and wrapped in a blanket in the SUV that the man, Ryan Bois, was riding in when police apprehended him after a…
Authorities in Massachusetts are still looking for the person that murdered Danielle Grady, the Roxbury woman that was shot to death outside an apartment building on Saturday on Dunkeld Street in Dorchester. Earlier news reports had speculated that she was gunned down because she had witnessed an earlier murder, but…