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Sword and Scale Daily

Sword and Scale

Daily true-crime news and coverage of high-profile criminal cases from around the country and around the globe, five days a week.

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14:23

Jan 2, 2020

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2020/01/02

The NYPD arrested an 18-year-old suspect in a fatal Christmas Eve robbery. Surveillance video showed six suspects attacking a 60-year-old victim, who died of his injuries three days later. The suspects got away with only $1.In Billings, Montana, an apparent car crash death turned into a homicide investigation, as officers suspect the victim died before the collision.Finally, in Texas, a 12-year-old boy is hailed a hero after saving his great-grandparents from a knife attack launched by his older

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13:27

Jan 1, 2020

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2020/01/01

A Texas man who went on the run on Christmas Eve, after allegedly murdering his girlfriend, was shot and killed by law enforcement officers in Houston.In Indiana, a mother was sentenced to seven years in prison for injecting fecal material into her son’s IV bag, while the teen was being treated for cancer.Finally, on Sunday, a man opened fire in a Texas church, killing two, before being killed by a member of the church’s security team. The suspect has since been identified as a semi-transient who

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13:50

Dec 31, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/31

In Brookside, Alabama, police arrested a kidnapping suspect and rescued his victim, after a car chase and an armed standoff. The suspect allegedly forced a female victim into his van, which had a cage in the back, blacked out windows, and chains securing the back door.In Boston, a mother allegedly threw her children off the roof of a parking garage, then jumped off herself, in a suspected murder-suicide on Christmas Day.Finally, Oregon authorities suspended the search for 20-year-old Allyson

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12:46

Dec 30, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/30

Five people were stabbed at an upstate New York Hanukkah candle lighting on Saturday night. A suspect has been apprehended and charged with five counts of attempted murder and one count of first degree burglary. Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York, has called the incident “an attack fueled by intolerance.”In Bellingham, Washington, a husband allegedly fatally shot his wife, a beloved elementary school principal, and killed their pets. He then posted a twitter ‘confession,’ before shooting

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14:11

Dec 27, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/27

Nashville police have arrested Michael Mosely, the suspect in the fatal stabbings of Clayton Beathard and Paul Trapeni III, who were killed outside a Nashville bar on December 21st. Clayton Beathard was the younger brother of San Francisco 49ers quarterback, C.J. Beathard.In New York, Asun Thomas has been charged with the murder of Luz Perez. Perez, a mother of five was beaten and strangled to death in her Bronx apartment in October. Her two young children were left alone with her body for more than

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14:11

Dec 26, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/26

A New Jersey man is charged with the murder of his wife, whose body was found in a partially burned car in Monroe Township. The alleged murder occurred while the suspect was awaiting trial for allegedly abusing the couple’s newborn daughter.Police in Birmingham, Alabama are searching for 29-year-old Paighton Laine Houston. Houston was last seen on the night of Friday, December 22nd, leaving a Lakeview area bar in the company of two men. The last communication from her was a text she sent to a friend

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14:12

Dec 25, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/25

A Texas teen is charged with capital murder after allegedly murdering his 8 months pregnant sister, and staging the death to seem like a suicide.In New Mexico, a teen pleaded guilty to second degree murder for fatally shooting a 25-year-old man during an attempted robbery, and was sentenced to a mere 30 days in jail.Finally, An Iowa woman is facing multiple charges after a December 9th Des Moines area crime spree. Over the course of the day the suspect allegedly intentionally hit a 14-year-old girl

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14:58

Dec 24, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/24

The body of missing Michigan woman, Adrienne Quintal, was discovered on Saturday not far from where she was last heard from. Quintal went missing on October 17th after calling a family friend to tell him she was involved in a shootout with two men at her family’s remote cabin.In Colorado, a suspected pedophile is arrest for the first degree murder of a 9-year-old girl, who died of Chloroform poisoning.Finally, police in Idaho request the public’s assistance in locating married couple, Lori Vallow

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15:25

Dec 23, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/23

A former Texas police officer has been charged with the murder of his wife of less than a year, who had a restraining order against him.In North Carolina, a paramedic was charged with the 2018 poisoning murder of his wife. He is alleged to have made his wife ingest eye drops, leading to cardiac arrest.Finally, the body of missing Texas mother, Heidi Broussard, has been discovered in the trunk of a car owned by her long-time friend, Magen Fieramusca. A baby, believed to be the missing Margot Carrey,

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16:49

Dec 20, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/20

An Indiana woman was sentenced to four years in prison for reckless homicide related to a 2018 car crash at a school bus stop, which killed three young children.Police in Cedar Park, Texas, believe that missing mother, Amanda Gordon, is no longer alive, based on evidence found in the house she shared with Samuel Byrd, her common law husband. Byrd has been charged with tampering with evidence by hiding a body.Finally, in California, Googie Rene Harris Jr. was arrested for the 1998 killing of Terry

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14:33

Dec 19, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/19

A shooting at a Grand Rapids casino left three dead, and the suspect was later killed in a shootout with police.In Connecticut, the search for missing one year old, Vanessa Morales, continues. Vanessa’s mother, Christine Holloway, was found deceased in her home on December 2nd, and the child was nowhere to be found. On Tuesday, police officially named Vanessa’s father, Jose Morales, a suspect in her murder.Finally, former Austin police officer, VonTrey Clark, has pleaded guilty to the 2015 murder of

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14:17

Dec 18, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/18

A California groom was allegedly beaten to death by wedding crashers during his wedding reception.In NYC, a 16-year-old girl, who was abducted off the street by four men, is safe and back with her family.Finally, in Colorado, police charge a Florida truck driver with the 1980 murder of a college student.

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14:38

Dec 17, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/17

Baltimore police have identified the dismembered body that was discovered at a recycling plant last Tuesday.A San Bernardino County Probation Officer and her two children were found shot in their home after a five hour standoff with police, in a possible murder-suicide.In West Virginia, a woman is found guilty of murdering and decapitating the 29 year old son of her former lover.Finally, in Mississippi, a judge grants Curtis Flowers bail. Flowers has been in prison for 23 years, having gone through

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17:16

Dec 16, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/16

Police in Austin, TX continue searching for missing mother, Heidi Broussard, and her two weeks old daughter, Margot, who were last seen on Thursday morning.In Birmingham, Alabama, police rescued a kidnapped woman from an apartment complex, and she leads them to the location of a female homicide victim.An Arizona father is sentenced to eight years for killing a man who allegedly tried to break into his daughter’s locked bathroom stall.Finally, we have updates on the fatal stabbing of Barnard student,

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18:06

Dec 13, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/13

A Texas man is charged with murdering his grandmother and great-grandmother because, “he was tired of them.”A Barnard college freshman was stabbed to death in Manhattan, in what police believe was a robbery gone wrong.In Texas, police capture a fugitive wanted for hitting an officer with his car, as he was being arrested, killing her.In Florida, Mark Sievers is sentenced to death for the 2015 murder of his wife, Teresa Sievers.Finally, updates in the Jersey City shootout, the murder of Abril

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16:24

Dec 12, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/12

A Las Vegas woman is charged with murdering her ex-girlfriend’s new partner, during an alleged home invasion.A 16-year-old girl from New Carlisle, Ohio, who is charged with aggravated murder, has her case transferred to adult court. In May, Natasha Ellis and a 13-year-old friend allegedly murdered the friend’s mother.Finally, new details about the kidnapping and murder of 3-year-old Kamille Cupcake McKinney were revealed in a preliminary hearing this Tuesday. Kamille McKinney disappeared from an

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18:35

Dec 11, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/11

Breaking news from Jersey City, where police officers were involved in a shootout that had multiple casualties, including one police officer, the suspects and civilians.A 5-year-old boy was shot and killed in Birmingham, Alabama, after two of his relatives fired at one another during an argument.An Iowan social media entrepreneur was sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison, after his plan to force a Cedar Rapids man to hand over a domain name backfired.Finally, a Chicago-area optometrist has

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12:12

Dec 10, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/10

A San Antonio man has been charged with aggravated assault after breaking his girlfriend’s jaw in three places, and carving his name into her forehead.Law enforcement have recaptured three out of the four teens who escaped a Tennessee juvenile detention facility on November 30th. Two of the escapees, 15 year old Calvin Howse and 16 year old Decorrius Wright, were apprehended last Tuesday. Two of the escapees are accused murderers.Finally, Alexandra Richardson, a 28-year-old Kentucky mother, has been

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18:21

Dec 9, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/09

JoAnn Cunningham, the mother of 5-year-old, AJ Freund, has pleaded guilty to his murder. AJ Freund was reported missing from his home in Crystal Lake, Illinois, on April 18th, 2019, and his body was found in a shallow grave 6 days later.Suspected robbers, fleeing a jewelry store in Coral Gables, Florida, hijacked a UPS van and led police on a high speed highway chase, which ended in a shootout that left four dead.Finally, a banker stabbed his wife and two young children to death, before turning the

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16:41

Dec 6, 2019

Sword and Scale Daily ·

2019/12/06

George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, is back in the news, this time for filing a $100 million dollar lawsuit against Trayvon Martin’s family.A shooting in the naval shipyard in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, left three dead, including the shooter, an active duty sailor on a submarine docked at the base.In Connecticut, two teenage siblings were shot and killed by their mother’s boyfriend, after an argument about indoor smoking.Finally, in Tennessee, a year-long neighbors’ feud about

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