GERMANTOWN, Wisconsin - 37-year-old Charles Avey, Sr. walked into the sheriff’s department admitting that he had strangled his 14-year-old step-son to death. He was not lying. Police found Cody Reetz dead in a minivan parked in a Wal-mart parking lot. The motive? He was mad at his wife and wanted her to suffer like he says she has made him suffer. Police feel Avery’s actions were in response to domestic abuse charges his wife had filed on him stemming from a hammer attack. Court records show Avery has five felony counts pending against him, has a history of writing bad checks and a former wife filed a restraining order against him. Germantown police are recommending a first-degree intentional homicide charge and state the killing was premeditated. The sad thing about these types of stories is that Avery will get exactly what he wanted. If I were the mother of Cody, or the biological father, I would be technically insane at this point. [Read more...]

…The question is, was it self-defense?  Or was it murder?

Logan Suter

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Dunn, NC – SundaySunday reviews night  Logan Suter, 17, was having another rough night with his stepdad, Edward Christopher Lancaster.   An argument broke out.  Nobody’s sure what happened next, but by the time it was over,  the 33-year-old Lancasterlancaster was dead of a gunshot wound to the stomach and Logan Suter was being charged with second-degree murder.  Cut and dried, right?  Well… maybe. [Read more...]

UPDATE 12/05/08 – Both Chris Collings and David Spears were in court this week.On Wednesday, Collings’ trial in Phelps County was set for MarchMarch reviews 2010.On December 11, Collings will have a hair sample collected for DNA analysis whether he likes it or not (the defense objected, but the motion was sustained.) Collings’ first pretrial conference is set for July 24, 2009. Also Wednesday, David Spears was in court in Pulaski County.His trial has been set for July, 2010, and a similar motion was filed asking for hair samples.Both men remain in jail without bond pending trial.

Rowan Damia Ford ~ April 11, 1998 – NovemberNovember reviews 3, 2007

Stella, MO - One year ago today, on November 3, 2007, nine-year-old Rowan Damia Ford was brutally raped and murdered by her mother’s best friend, Chris Collings, and her stepfather, David Wesley Spears.One year ago today, Rowan was dumped in a sinkhole and left to rot while her mother looked for her and her stepfather said she’d gone over to a friend’s house.One year ago today, Rowan’s life ended – but her story had just begun. [Read more...]

Bedtime with a 2-year-old. It can be a real nightmare for caregivers as the little bastards just don’t want to stay in their beds sometimes. This seemed to be an issue Jessie Rodriguez, 27, was having with the child of his girlfriend, Tisa Hawes, 27. Her 2-year-old boy, Brian Hawes, was having problems falling asleep. So genius decided that he would simply tie the boy down to the bed with the boy’s fire engine blanket. On Sept 21st, after multiple times of the boy wriggling out of his restraints, Rodriguez tied the boy down real good. So good, in fact, that the next morning Brian Hawes was dead.

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OLD ORCHARD BEACH - Christopher and Carol Bolduc run the Blustery Day Flags store located at 39A and B Old Orchard Street. At around 2:15, Carol Bolduc left the store for the day and headed home to be with her younger son, JoshuaJoshua reviews. Carol called Christopher at the store and told him that she noticed Matthew Cushing’s vehicle parked at the dog park. Matthew was Carol’s son from a previous marriage. He was supposed to be in college at the University of Maine at Orono. At approximately 3:30 P.M., Christopher tried to contact his wife by telephone but was unsuccessful. Christopher then told Bill Huntington, an employee at the store and a family friend, that he was going home to check on them. Matthew Cushing had recent fallout with his parents over the fact that they would not finance a trip to Europe he wanted to take. He had been angry enough that Christopher got worried when the wife called about Matthew’s vehicle, and angry enough that Bill Huntington told Christopher that he would call police if he did not hear anything from him in an hour.

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