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Over Memorial Day weekend, Winter Haven resident William Cornwell, a U.S. Navy veteran and security guard at Winter Haven Hospital, shot and killed 40-year-old Christopher Brian Deese. Polk County Sheriff’s deputies report that Deese broke into Cornwell’s home and challenged... [Read More]
The state attorney’s office for Manatee County has declined to charge 19-year-old Davell Kendricks with manslaughter for the New Year’s Day death of Rashawn Scott. According to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, Kendricks and Scott were playing cards with a... [Read More]
Seventeen-year-old Gerald Terrell Jones of Brandon was acquitted of attempted second-degree murder by a Hillsborough County jury earlier this month. Jones previously admitted to shooting his drug dealer in the face after a drug deal went bad. The trial judge... [Read More]
As reported in the Tampa Bay Times, a Pinellas-Pasco judge granted a hearing for Stephanie Spurgeon to determine if there is evidence to support a dismissal or new trial in a manslaughter case pending against her. Spurgeon, a Palm Harbor... [Read More]
Prosecutors in Polk County charged Christopher Whaley of Lake Wales with first-degree murder this weekend after he allegedly confessed to stabbing and killing his 69-year-old grandmother in the mobile home they shared. Authorities say Whaley told them he had an... [Read More]
Joshua Davis was denied bail by a Polk County judge this week. Davis faces two charges of first-degree murder, one charge of attempted murder and one charge of child abuse in the deaths of two Polk State College students and... [Read More]
A Hillsborough County jury took found Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. guilty Thursday in the 1986 stabbing death of Natalie Blanche Holley. A judge then sentenced him to life in prison. Bolin had previously been charged with first-degree murder in the... [Read More]
As reported by both the Tampa Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times, defense attorney Bjorn Brunvand represents accused murderer Oscar Ray Bolin in his retrial on murder charges this week. Bolin is charged in Hillsborough County with the 1986 murder... [Read More]
Nicholas Lindsey’s defense attorneys admit that their client shot and killed St. Petersburg police Officer David S. Crawford. The Tampa Bay Times looked at the teenager’s trial defense strategy this week, talking with several local defense attorneys including Bjorn Brunvand.... [Read More]
As reported in the Tampa Bay Times, Justin Ash of Zepherhills pleaded guilty last week in Pasco County to second-degree murder with a firearm, avoiding life in prison. The plea was part of an agreement negotiated by Ash’s defense attorney... [Read More]
Last week, a jury in Polk County, Florida recommended that 30-year-old Robert McCloud be executed for the first-degree murders of Tamiqa Taylor and Dustin Freeman. Law enforcement says the deaths occurred during a drug-related home invasion in Poinciana in October... [Read More]
As reported in the Tampa Bay Times last month, former Palm Harbor day care provider Stephanie Spurgeon was acquitted of first-degree murder and convicted of a lesser offense, manslaughter, subsequent to the death of 1-year-old Maria Harris in August 2008... [Read More]
Alan Osterhoudt Jr. called 911 last week and told the emergency dispatcher in Hernando County that he had shot his wife during an argument and that she was dead. Sheriff’s deputies responded to the couple’s home in Spring Hill where... [Read More]
An Alabama jury acquitted Gabe Watson of murdering his wife during an Australian honeymoon in 2003. Watson previously spent 18 months in an Australian jail for the drowning death of his new wife Tina during a diving trip, where he... [Read More]
Neha Patel of Lakeland was charged in Polk County this week with first-degree murder related to the death of her 1-year-old son, Ishan. Polk County Sheriff’s Office investigators say that Patel slapped the one-year old on Thursday and then purposefully... [Read More]
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