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Alex Lemons Teen Killer Murders Father In Fire

Alex Lemons was a fourteen year old alleged teen killer from Tennessee who set fire to his home killing his father. According to police reports Alex Lemons has been charged with murder and arson in the death of his father who died in a fatal fire in December 2021. According to investigators an accelerant was used in the fire which caused it to spread quickly trapping Edward Lemons in the upper part of the house.

The community of DeKalb County Tennessee which had been fundraising trying to help out the student at DeKalb County High School who as reported by early newspapers lost everything in the fire. Now of course Alex Lemons is behind bars where he will face charges of aggravated arson and first-degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Edward Lemons

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A 15-year-old boy is accused of being responsible for a fire in December which claimed the life of his father.

Alex Lemons was taken into custody Thursday evening at the sheriff’s department. He has been named in a juvenile petition for aggravated arson and first-degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Edward Lemons. The fire occurred at Lemons’ home at 5056 Jacobs Pillar Road.

Although Sheriff Patrick Ray did not release the boy’s name on advice of the District Attorney General’s Office, the local media confirmed it independently. The teen is a student at DeKalb County High School.

“Today we took out petitions on a 15-year-old male. The petition is for first degree murder and aggravated arson,” said Sheriff Ray.

“On or about December 7, 2021, this juvenile did knowingly and intentionally set a residential fire located at 5056 Jacobs Pillar Road, Smithville which resulted in the death of his father, Edward Lemons,” said Sheriff Ray, reading from the petition.

“He was picked up this evening (Thursday) and we had a transport order that was signed by Juvenile Court Judge Bratten Cook, II. The boy is being housed in Cookeville at the detention center until his first court date on Monday,” added Sheriff Ray.

“We believe he intentionally set the fire with an accelerant. We, along with the Fire Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, gathered numerous items of evidence at the scene that were sent off to crime labs and those things support our case. Accelerant detecting dogs deployed at the scene were also helpful during the fire investigation,” added Sheriff Ray.

Sheriff Ray would not speculate on a motive for the fire. Whether or not the boy is to be prosecuted later as an adult has yet to be determined.

“This is a sad situation involving a family that is highly thought of by this community,” said Sheriff Ray.

E-911 dispatchers received a call at 8:02 p.m. on December 7 reporting a house fire at 5056 Jacobs Pillar Road. The Main Station, Blue Springs, Belk,, Cookeville Highway, and Liberty stations with the DeKalb County Volunteer Fire Department quickly responded, along with deputies with the DeKalb Sheriff’s Department and a unit with DeKalb EMS.

Upon arrival firefighters found the split-level home with fire engulfing the lower area of the structure. There was also a report that Edward Lemons, the resident, was trapped inside. Fire crews worked to contain the blaze, trying to keep the fire from spreading to the upper bedrooms, where Lemons was believed to be located. Despite firefighters’ best efforts, they were unable to reach Lemons in time. The home was destroyed in the blaze.

After the fire fundraisers were held in support of the Lemons family and a bank account was established which reportedly has amassed tens of thousands of dollars. Sheriff Ray said what happens to those funds might be decided later by a judge through civil court proceedings.

Teen charged in juvenile petition with aggravated arson and first-degree murder in death of his father

Noah Galle Arrested For Crash That Killed 6 People

Noah Galle is a teenager from Florida who was just arrested for a car crash that killed six people. According to police reports Noah Galle was driving a vehicle in excess of 150 miles per hour when he crashed into a Nissan Rogue SUV and killed six people inside of the vehicle. The crash that took place in late January 2022 and investigators would later learn that Noah Galle never hit the brakes before he struck the Nissan Rogue. Noah Galle would be arrested and charged with six counts of vehicular homicide causing death.

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An arrest has been made in a crash that killed six people in Delray Beach earlier this year.

The crash happened in January. Investigators said 17-year-old Noah Galle was driving 151 miles per hour in a BMW when he hit the back of a Nissan Rogue SUV on S. State Road 7.

The Rogue then rolled over before stopping upside down. Five of the people inside the Rogue were pronounced dead on the scene, while a sixth died after being transported to the hospital.

According to the crash report from Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, the names of the victims are as follows: 45-year-old Mirlaine I. Julceus, 46-year-old Filaine Dieu, 29-year-old Vanice Percina, 53-year-old Remize Michel, Marie M. Louis and Saint L. Michel.

Marie Michelle Louis was one of the victims in the Rogue. Her granddaughter, Britney Antoine of Wellington, said she was with friends in the car.

On Wednesday, crash investigators said they found no signs of any braking prior to the crash.

The sheriff’s office also said the toxicology report on Galle came back clean.

Galle is being held at the Juvenile Detention Center.

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Michael Lelko Buries Mother And Sister In Backyard

Michael Lelko has been arrested after police found the bodies of his mother and sister buried in his backyard. According to police reports Michael Lelko has been cashing in on his social security for years and when a welfare check was performed on the house the bodies of his mother and sister were found shoved into plastic tubs that were wrapped in duct tape.

Now Michael Lelko would tell police that his sister murdered their mother by pushing her down a flight of stairs and his sister would later die from COVID-19. The problem with the sister’s death is that she reportedly died of COVID-19 before any cases were reported in the United States. So far Michael Lelko has been charged with two felony counts of concealment of a death. Michael Lelko brother was also arrested however has not been charged with anything so far.

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One of two brothers from Lyons were released from custody Friday after a court hearing on charges alleging he buried his mother and their sister in Tupperware containers in their backyard.

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The motive? The brothers had been cashing their dead mother’s monthly $1,000 Social Security checks, police said Thursday.

“For the last six years they were cashing checks to their benefit … that they know would have stopped if the mother was reported dead,” Lyons Police Chief Thomas Herion told reporters.

The medical examiner’s office couldn’t determine a cause of death of the mother, Jean Lelko, 79, or the sister Jennifer Lelko, 44.

The older brother, Michael Lelko, 45, was charged with two felony counts of concealment of death. In a court hearing Friday, Cook County Judge Michael Kane released Lelko from custody until his next court date on May 5, court records show.

His younger brother was being questioned again by police to determine if he had participated in the burial. No charges have been announced.

Police said they were unable to prove the brothers had caused harm to the mother and sister when they died. “Drawing your own conclusions is always nice. But going by the facts, that’s where we stand today,” Herion said.

Surveillance video at a bank shows Michael Lelko had been cashing his mother’s Social Security checks, police said. An agent from the Social Security Administration will interview the brothers to determine if a federal fraud charge is warranted, Herion said.

The bodies were uncovered when police were called for a well-being check in the three-level home in the 3900 block of Center Avenue. The older brother allegedly told police they buried their mother in the yard in 2015 after their sister pushed her down a flight of stairs, causing a fatal head wound.

Herion said he interviewed the older brother himself and was skeptical of the claim, suspecting Michael Lelko was providing an excuse for a possible injury that would be found in the autopsy.

“To bring that up was suspicious to me,” Herion said.

The older brother also allegedly admitted he buried their sister after she had died. The younger brother first lied about his mother’s and sister’s whereabouts, saying they were out of town, but later admitted they were buried in the backyard, Herion said.

The older brother said the mother and sister were both ill and difficult to take care of, Herion said. “What was in their mind or what they did, it’s impossible to tell,” Herion said.

Their father died in a hospital in 2017, according to police.

The brothers were found in a dilapidated home with no working toilets and hundreds of bottles of urine and feces, but Herion dismissed that the brothers may have mental issues.

The men had been evaluated at a hospital shortly after police began digging for the bodies and released hours later, he said. “That’s not the pattern of someone who needs psychological care. That wasn’t a factor.”

The brothers were reclusive residents of Lyons, both born and raised there but never working a job, marrying or having children, Herion said. Their father had built the home and eventually divorced the mother.

Police are trying to take custody of the house, but it was still in possession of a bank because the family had a reverse mortgage, Herion said. Police have gutted the house, cleaned it, and took possession of piles of toys the brothers had accumulated.

“They had all kinds of toys, Star Wars toys and everything. It was piled up to the rafters. And we had to take all of these toys in because they were of value and inventory them. There was a small Star Wars statue worth $250 on eBay,” Herion said.

“They spent all this money on all these toys that sat in boxes they never even took out of shopping bags. It’s just bizarre,” he said.

When the bodies were discovered, police took the brothers into custody but released them without charges. Police had been awaiting autopsy results and DNA tests that were finally completed last month.

“We’re glad to see this over with. It took a long time but it was out of our hands,” Herion said.

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/lyons-brothers-face-charges-after-mother-sister-found-buried-in-backyard

David Biro Teen Killer Murders Next Door Neighbors

David Biro was a sixteen year old teen killer from Illinois when he murdered his next door neighbors. According to court documents David Biro would force his way into the home of Stephen and Nancy Langert in Winnetka, Illinois on April 7, 1990. David Biro would brutally murder Stephen and Nancy Langert before robbing the home. Nancy Langert was three months pregnant at the time of her murder. David Biro would be arrested and ultimately convicted of murder, intentional homicide of an unborn child, home invasion and burglary.and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Now in 2022 David Biro is trying to get his life sentence reduced so he has an opportunity of parole one day.

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Parent Institution:	PONTIAC CORRECTIONAL CENTER
Offender Status:	IN CUSTODY
Location:	PONTIAC

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David Biro, the Winnetka teen convicted last month of killing Richard and Nancy Langert in their townhouse in the North Shore suburb, was sentenced Friday to spend his life in prison for the murders.

Seated comfortably, his fingers laced together and smiling occasionally as he spoke to his defense attorneys as the hearing progressed, Biro, 18, kept secret any motive he might have had for taking their lives, a factor that bothered Nancy Langert`s family.

”I think we all wished that part of his sentence would be that he sit down with us and tell us why. How could you do this?” said Jeanne Bishop, Nancy Langert`s sister. That he did not, she said, ”is part of our life sentence, I suppose.”Biro was convicted of the murders by a Cook County Circuit Court jury that deliberated only two hours. He was not eligible for the death penalty because he was 16 at the time of the slayings.

His defense attorneys, Robert Gevirtz and Dennis Born, said David Biro had said nothing because he still maintains he is innocent. And although Biro outwardly received the sentence calmly, Gevirtz said, Biro was shaken by the prospect of never again being free.

”He`s devastated,” Gevirtz said. ”How would anyone feel if they were going to prison for life?”

The mysterious Langert killings knocked Winnetka, a tony suburb, back into headlines that it had last garnered when Laurie Dann, a mentally troubled woman, went on a shooting rampage at a grade school, eventually killing a child and injuring six other people in 1988.

Biro had kept news stories written about Dann in a scrapbook in his third-floor bedroom, according to prosecutors Patrick O`Brien and Scott Nelson.

Richard Langert had been shot once in the back of the head and Nancy Langert, who was three months` pregnant, was shot in the abdomen and in the back in the basement of their townhouse on April 7, 1990.

”It wasn`t a killing for profit. It wasn`t a killing because of any threatened action by the decedents,” said Judge Shelvin Singer as he tried to glean a motive for the killings before he announced his sentence.

”It was simply a cold-blooded killing. He wanted to kill apparently to achieve some sort of infamy from that killing-some sort of notoriety for that killing,” Singer said.

Biro was arrested on Oct. 5, 1990, after a New Trier High School classmate told Winnetka police that Biro had described killing the Langerts and had shown him the murder weapon.

Biro had told his friend, Phu Hoang, that he had cut glass panes out of the Langerts` patio doors, entered and waited in the townhouse for the couple to return home. When they did, Hoang testified that Biro said they begged for their lives and Nancy Langert had pleaded for the life of her baby.

Hoang testified that Biro told him he accidentally fired a shot when he was surprised by a dog`s barking. He said Biro told him he offered to lock the Langerts in the basement and leave. But as Nancy Langert went downstairs, she saw Biro`s face and Biro knew he had to kill them, Hoang testified.

Biro never said why he had chosen the Langerts, and no one ever proved they had met, although Biro`s parents and the Bishop family had been friends. Biro testified he attended Nancy Langert`s funeral.

In his own testimony, Biro admitted he had told Hoang and others details of the killing, but he said Hoang had been the only one who didn`t realize he was joking.

Police found the murder weapon, a pair of glass cutters and two sets of handcuffs, similar to those found on one of Richard Langert`s wrists, in Biro`s bedroom. Police also found a shoulder holster, ammunition and computer equipment Biro admitted he had stolen from New Trier High.

Several jurors said they based their verdict on the implausibility of Biro`s testimony of how the murder weapon came into his possession.

Although Biro admitted stealing the handgun from his former attorney`s office, he said he had given the gun to a classmate to sell. Instead, Biro testified, the classmate returned the gun to him the night of the killings and asked Biro to hide it because he had just used it to kill two people.

Biro`s defense attorneys said they will appeal the sentence.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-12-21-chi-911221winnetka-murders-story.html

Courtney Williams Charged With Killing 2 Children

Courtney Williams is a woman from Yuba County California who has been arrested for drowning her two children. According to police reports Courtney William’s husband had arrived home for lunch and was told by his wife that she had hurt their children. The two children who were aged two years old and five month olds old were drowned in the bathtub. The husband would call police and Courtney Williams would be arrested. At this time no motive is known for the double murder.

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Authorities arrested a mother in Linda who is suspected of drowning her infant and toddler children in the family’s bathtub, the Yuba County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

Courtney Williams, 25, was arrested at the family’s home on Sunshine Avenue just before noon Wednesday after the father of the children called 911 to report possible drownings.

Deputies who responded to the home found the unresponsive children — five-month-old Holden and 2-year-old Ronin — in the bathroom. Despite CPR attempts, the children were declared dead at the scene, authorities said.

“The tragic loss of five-month-old Holden and his two-and-a-half-year old brother Ronin reverberates throughout our department and into the community,” Yuba County Sheriff Wendell Anderson said Thursday. “There are no words to adequately describe the sadness we feel for the family at this time.”

Investigators said the children’s father arrived home from work for lunch just before noon when Williams allegedly told him she had hurt the children. He then reportedly found the two boys in a bathtub full of water.

Investigators said the drowning appears to be intentional at this time, but the investigation remains active in the very early stages.

Yuba County Mother Suspected Of Drowning Her 2 Young Children In Bathtub