Dismemberment

Prosecutor can't show accused cannibal criminally responsible

2013-04-17 15:54:36

Harford County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not have enough evidence to show that Alexander Kinyua is criminally responsible for killing a family friend and eating his organs last year. A state psychiatric hospital previously found that...

Woman receives life sentence in connection to 2009 murder of man in White Marsh apartment

2013-03-26 06:19:00

A Jamaican woman received a life sentence Friday for murder in connection with the 2009 death of a man in a White Marsh apartment – after which officials say she and her co-conspirators dismembered the body and disposed of pieces in the Loch Raven...

Kinyua guilty but not criminally responsible in Morgan beating

2012-12-19 19:08:53

Months before he allegedly killed a family friend in Harford County, eating his heart and parts of his brain, Alexander Kinyua was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and believed reptilian aliens were coming to destroy Earth, a judge said Wednesday....

Czech Embassy weighs in on Maryland drug case

2012-11-28 08:51:00

After a long drive from Arizona, prosecutors say, Dmytro Holovko pulled up to a meeting spot on Liberty Road and unloaded hundreds of pounds of marijuana — another successful shipment for a drug ring accused of using Baltimore as a hub in a...

Alleged violent drug ring focus of Baltimore court hearing

2013-01-04 18:38:42

Sitting in a federal courtroom Friday in a jail-issue jumpsuit, the diminutive Jean Brown stood accused of beating a member of an international drug ring, which she allegedly ran, so hard that one of his eyes was dislodged from its socket. Prosecutors...

Crisis consultants encourage Morgan State officials to speak up about alleged cannibal

2012-06-06 16:59:00

As Morgan State University has been splashed across the news because of a sensational homicide involving a student's alleged cannibalism, Stephanie Morgan worries about how the world will view her alma mater. In recent days, the East Baltimore woman has...

Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Thursday

2012-06-07 03:50:00

WEATHER Today's forecast calls for mostly sunny skies, a chance of showers and a high temperature near 80 degrees. Tonight is expected to be partly cloudy, with a low temperature around 66 degrees. TRAFFIC Check our traffic updates for this morning's...

Mystery of missing man solved after 13 years

2011-07-09 17:49:00

July 9, 2011 Henry Ackerman had plans — big, cross country, into-the-wild plans. It was 1998, and he was 48 years old, alone, sad and somewhat peculiar. He lived with threecats and a big, sandy-colored dog in an unkempt Baltimore County apartment...

Where to bury the truly awful

2013-05-21 00:00:00

If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of lifesaving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body

2013-05-17 00:00:00

If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...

Editorial: Abortion in a 'house of horrors'

2013-05-14 00:00:00

For anyone who thinks abortion should not be legal, Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Philadelphia clinic was a nightmare almost beyond imagination — dirty and vile-smelling, with bloodstained furniture, unsterilized equipment and containers filled with the body...

Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say

2013-05-01 13:47:00

The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown...

(Clockwise from top left)Adam Landerman, Alisa Massaro, Joshua Miner, and Bethany McKee are charged with first degree murder for allegedly strangling two men to death and attempting to dismember them on January 10, 2013, in Joliet, Ill. / CBS Chicago

2013-02-27 13:43:00