POLICE: Cases are not connected (Thatcher, Arizona) In what appears to be a bit of an eerie coincidence, a woman’s body has been found about a hundred yards away from what is arguably this rural town’s most high-profile unsolved murder: The 1995 murder of 29-year-old Mary Ann Holmes. Speaking from this latest scene by telephone […]
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Ice Cube video focuses on Jamiel Shaw murder
Why me? It’s a fitting title for a new song and video from rapper Ice Cube. The centerpiece of the video is the Jamiel Shaw Jr. murder case. It’s a story Beyond90Seconds.com has followed closely. Shaw was gunned down in March while walking home and speaking to his girlfriend on his cell phone. Police say the […]
Shaw murder named one of year’s top high school sports stories (VIDEO)
By Mark Horner on July 9, 2008 in Beyond 90 Seconds, border crossers, gangs, Horner, illegal immigrants, illegal immigration, Jamiel Shaw, Jamiel Shaw II, Jamiel Shaw Jr., LAPD, law enforcement, Los Angeles, Mark Horner, News, Pedro Espinoza, street gangs, true crime, video
Rise Magazine has included the murder of 17-year-old high school football star Jamiel Shaw II in its list of top high school sports stories of 2007-2008. The list was also published today on the magazine’s Web site, RiseMag.com. In beginning its overview of the Shaw case, Rise Magazine writes: It seems obvious to label the […]
Family of mother murdered during carjacking speaks-out
By Mark Horner on July 2, 2008 in Beyond 90 Seconds, border crossers, Houston, illegal immigrants, illegal immigration, Meredith Vieira, mug shots, murder, News, television, Timoteo Rios, Tina Davila, Today Show, true crime, TV, unsolved, video
UPDATE: August 11, 2009: Breaking News: Tina Davila murder suspect arrested *** (July 2, 2008) Heart-wrenching. That may best describe this morning’s Today Show live interview with two children and the ex-husband of Tina Davila (please see video below). Davila’s teenage children struggled to find the right words. At times, no words came out. But […]
A baby cut from a mother’s body…again
By Mark Horner on July 1, 2008 in AP, Araceli Camacho Gomez, Associated Press, Beyond 90 Seconds, crimes against children, fetus, Kennewick, law enforcement, murder, News, Pasco, Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong, police, television, Tri-Cities, true crime, video, Washington
(July 2) There is much yet to be learned about a recent murder in the Tri-Cities of south central Washington. But some people have already heard enough. The details are that gruesome. Kennewick police say a 23-year-old woman named Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong murdered a pregnant Pasco woman…and also removed a nearly full-term baby boy from […]
“American Justice” to feature Hossencofft case Thursday
By Mark Horner on June 30, 2008 in Albuquerque, American Justice, Beyond 90 Seconds, books, documentary, forensics, Hossencofft, Linda Henning, murder, mysteries, New Mexico, News, television, true crime, video
Journalist Bill Kurtis takes aim at a bizarre New Mexico murder case this week. Kurtis, host of A&E’s American Justice, tells the story of the Girly Chew Hossencofft murder in an hour-long episode titled, “Traces in Blood.” Because I covered this case for the better part of five years–and even wrote a book about it–I […]