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BIG PRAIRIE – Shannon Anderson had no idea what her 10-year-old neighbor wanted when he burst through the door of her mobile home Sunday evening. Moments later, he blurted out the shocking news: He had killed his mom

10-year-old Ohio boy was charged with murder today for allegedly shooting his mother with a .22 caliber rifle. The youth is currently at the Richland County Juvenile detention facility and is expected to appear at a 1:30 p.m. CT hearing, according to Brad Conn, baliff for the Holmes County Juvenile Court. Holmes County juvenile assistant prosecutor Sean Warner told ABC News that the boy has been charged with one count of murder. "I can't divulge any statements by witness or the alleged delinquent child. But as charged it does not appear to be accident," said Warner. "There is no indication...

A 52-year-old New Orleans man was arrested Saturday and booked with first degree murder after he confessed that he stabbed his mother to death earlier that day for money to buy narcotics, according to New Orleans Police Department spokesman Garry Flot. Tony Declues said he stabbed 73-year-old Louise Declues to death at their home in the 1300 block of Cambronne Street for drug money, Flot said. Second District officers responding to a call of a female down inside of a home found the victim with apparent multiple stab wounds about 3:15 p.m., Flot said. Emergency medical personnel arrived on the...

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A suburban teenager accused of stabbing his mother 111 times withdrew his guilty plea Monday after a judge rejected a plea deal that would have freed him within 34 years. Christopher Dankovich, 16, faces a March 27 preliminary examination on charges of murder and using a computer to commit a crime. "I feel a responsibility to society," Oakland County Circuit Court Judge John J. McDonald said in rejecting the deal prosecutors and defense attorneys had worked out. The judge said a prison term of 22 1/2 to 34 years was too light for the crime. Mitchell...

Teen accused of stabbing mother 111 times pleads guilty 2/10/2006, 2:41 p.m. ET The Associated Press PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy agreed Friday to serve 22 1/2 to 34 years for murder in the death of his mother, who was found with 111 stab wounds. Christopher Dankovich pleaded guilty as charged to open murder in Oakland County Circuit Court. "He didn't want to leave prison in a casket," said Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Lisa Ortlieb Gorcyca. Open murder includes first-degree and second-degree murder, and the sentence Dankovich agreed to corresponds to second-degree murder. If convicted of first-degree murder,...

JUNEAU -- Lauri Waterman heard her killer coming. Lying in bed alone in her Craig home, the 48-year-old mother heard the footsteps coming up the stairs long after midnight. Her husband and daughter were out of town for the weekend, and she had carefully locked the doors, but now she sensed somebody outside her bedroom. Waterman didn't call the police or confront the intruder. She got up and closed the bedroom door. In a Juneau courtroom Wednesday, Ketchikan District Attorney Stephen West offered jurors a riveting account of the night Waterman died, based largely on the confessions of her killers....

A statement that a 21-year-old Great Falls man made to police in March, describing how he stabbed his mother to death, cannot be used against him, a Fairfax County judge has ruled, because detectives started their interrogation with this question: "Do you know why we're here?" That inquiry, by Fairfax homicide Detective David W. Allen, elicited this answer from Jayant Kadian: "Yeah, because I stabbed my mom in the neck." Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Kathleen H. MacKay ruled last week that Kadian should have first been told of his rights to remain silent and have an attorney present. The detective's...

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) - A teenager charged with killing his mother by stabbing her 111 times waived his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday. Christopher Dankovich, 16, did not speak during his brief court appearance other than to acknowledge that he had agreed to waive the hearing. Judge Nancy Carniak did not set a date for arraignment, but it is expected to take place later this month. Lawyers for both sides said they were negotiating a possible plea deal.

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A teenager charged with killing his mother by stabbing her 111 times waived his right to a preliminary hearing Tuesday. Christopher Dankovich, 16, did not speak during his brief court appearance other than to acknowledge that he had agreed to waive the hearing. Judge Nancy Carniak did not set a date for arraignment, but it is expected to take place later this month. Lawyers for both sides said they were negotiating a possible plea deal. Dankovich has been charged as an adult with murder in the stabbing death of his mother, Diane Michele, 50, whose...

CONCORD, N.C. – Police have charged 17-year-old Ashley Kathleen Boyd with killing her mother and firing shots at her father Sunday morning at a home on Canter Court in Concord. Investigators believe the shooting was part of an attempt to rob her parents. Boyd now faces a number of charges including first-degree murder, attempted armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Authorities say Boyd shot her mother, 50-year-old Paula Faye Brooks, twice in the front yard before entering the home, where she then fired shots at her father, Joseph Richard Boyd. He survived the shooting...

SANTA ANA – A Riverside teenager testified that he helped dispose of the headless body of his mother and that his older half-brother later confessed to killing her. Matthew B. Montejo, 17, told jurors Thursday that he didn't see the actual killing of Jane Bautista or her body, but that he helped Jason V. Bautista lug a heavy sleeping bag to a trash bin. He also said Bautista told him not to look in the hall closet, where authorities later discovered the woman's head and hands in a duffel bag. The rest of her remains were found in an Orange...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - A college student who admitted he fatally shot his parents in their bedroom and broke a chain saw cutting up their bodies told investigators: "God told me to." Philip Badowski made the comment in a recorded interview with police following the Dec. 2 slayings of Chester "Chet" Badowski Jr., 47, and Christine Badowski, 46. Prosecutors played the recording at Badowski's preliminary hearing Friday. General Sessions Court Judge Bob Moon referred two murder and abuse of corpse charges to a grand jury and ordered Badowski held without bail. Lawyers for both sides declined to comment after the...

Officials: Man Says God Told Him To Kill Mother Psychiatric Evaluation Slated For Crouch Mesa Man UPDATED: 11:54 AM MST March 12, 2004 CROUCH MESA, N.M. -- A Crouch Mesa man accused in the horrific killing of his mother will soon be undergoing a psychiatric evaluation, officials said Friday. James Hsu reportedly told sheriff's detectives that God told him to kill his mother Caroline Hsu. Detectives said Hsu beat his mother with a baseball bat, slit her throat with a knife and mutilated her. Police found the 67-year-old woman dead the evening of March 5 in her bathtub, drenched...

Plymouth co-ed pleads guilty to reduced charge NORTHAMPTON, MA - In a voice that barely rose above a whisper, Jennifer Paluseo of Plymouth admitted to killing her newborn baby two years ago while she was a student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Paluseo, 21, pleaded guilty in Superior Court yesterday to involuntary manslaughter and disinterring a body. She had been charged with murder. She is scheduled to be sentenced March 31 in Franklin County Superior Court in Greenfield...

Teen says father berated him BUT WHY HE KILLED MOTHER IS A MYSTERY By Tom Lasseter HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER COLUMBIA - At the age of 16, Blake Walker shot his parents to death in their home last year, emptying the clip of a 9mm rifle, because he said he could no longer stand his father's constant criticisms about his life, friends and housework. In Adair Circuit Court yesterday, Walker, crying and shaking a little, apologized for the Dec. 8 murders. He loved his father, Walker said, but they never got along. In a statement he wrote for the court, Walker...

<p>COLUMBIA, Ky. – The sentencing of 17-year-old Blake Walker for killing his parents, scheduled for tomorrow, may bring closure to some, but others in this small college town say they have to know why it happened before they can get any peace.</p>