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Murder of five, attempted murder and theft. Penalty. 6 consecutive life sentences. Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr. (March 27, 1939 – August 8, 2002) was the leader of one of the most notorious gangs in the history of Pennsylvania, U.S. The gang started in the 1960s and was rounded up in 1978 after his son, Bruce Jr., testified against him.
Citing new DNA evidence, a Pennsylvania judge on Thursday overturned the murder convictions of three men known as the “Chester Trio” who have been imprisoned for nearly 25 years for a crime ...
Letby, 33, was sentenced in August to a rare whole-life order for the murders of seven babies and the attempted murders of six others at the hospital’s neonatal unit between June 2015 and June ...
Cheshire murders. On July 23, 2007, two home intruders entered the home of the Petit family in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States. The perpetrators Linda Hayes (known as Steven Hayes at the time) [b] and Joshua Andrew Komisarjevsky initially planned only to burgle the house, but went on to murder Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, 17 ...
Kristen Pittman. Kristen Avery Pittman (born Christopher Frank Pittman, April 9, 1989), was convicted in 2005 of murdering her grandparents Joe and Joy Pittman, on November 28, 2001, when she was 12 years old. The case drew national attention due to both her age at the time of the crime and her defense that Zoloft had influenced her actions.
Caleb Fairley (born October 21, 1973) is an American murderer from Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania.In September 1995, Fairley murdered Lisa Marie Manderach, aged 29, and her 18-month-old daughter Devon, when the two visited Fairley's mother's Collegeville, Pennsylvania, children's clothing store in which he worked.
Chester has been hurt for decades by corrupt politicians and organized crime. [71] Chester's Republican Party political machine was one of the nation's oldest and most corrupt. [72] John J. McClure took over from his father, William McClure, in 1907 [72] and was the political boss for the machine until his death in 1965.
On March 15, 2019, The Philadelphia Inquirer released a front-page investigative report reviewing the suspicious circumstances surrounding Greenberg's death. [4] Pittsburgh forensic pathologist Cyril H. Wecht, who challenged the single-bullet theory of the John F. Kennedy assassination, reviewed the case, determined it was "strongly suspicious of homicide", and said he did not "know how they ...