Rory Atwood is a an accused killer from Florida who has been charged with murder after police find human remains on his property
According to police reports officers were investigating Rory Atwood property in Hudson Florida when they came upon human remains
Officials believe the human remains belong to a family who had been reported missing: 26-year-old Rain Mancini, 25-year-old Phillip Zilliot II, 6-year-old Karma Zilliot and 5-year-old Phillip Zilliot III went missing earlier this month. Officials have not confirmed the human remains are that of the Mancini Zilliot family as they have to await proper testing
Police have said that the last time the Mancini Zilliot family was seen was when they were headed to Rory Atwood home
Police believe that an argument broke out between the adults that led to the murders
Rory Atwood has been charged with murder
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A family of four that went missing last week, including two kids ages 5 and 6, is feared dead after law enforcement officials searched a property in Hudson, Florida, and found human remains, authorities said.
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office said the owner of the property, 25-year-old Rory Atwood, has been charged with first-degree murder.
Sheriff Chris Nocco said during a press conference on Saturday that the human remains found on Atwood’s property have not yet been identified, though investigators believe they could be those of the missing family. For now, the sheriff’s office is referring to the remains as belonging to John Doe.
Investigators said 26-year-old Rain Mancini, 25-year-old Phillip Zilliot II, 6-year-old Karma Zilliot and 5-year-old Phillip Zilliot III were last seen at about 12:30 a.m. on June 12 near Nottingham Trail in Hudson.
Authorities said that at about 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Mancini got picked up at her mother’s house by a friend who drove her to Atwood’s home on Nottingham Trail.
Nocco said that was the last time Mancini’s mother saw her daughter.
Mancini, her friend, Zilliot II, and Atwood were at the house with Mancini and Zilliot’s two children and Atwood’s daughter, officials said. During that time, the sheriff said, the adults were drinking.
Zilliot II and his mother spoke over the phone at around midnight that night.
“Per Rain’s friend, Rain, Phillip and Rory were all drinking alcohol, and they started arguing,” Nocco said. Investigators are still working to piece together what happened that night, but at about 2 a.m., Atwood allegedly frantically called a friend to say he had shot someone.
It took at least 12 hours for someone to contact the sheriff’s office, Nocco said, and by then, the information coming in was third- or fourth-hand.
On Thursday evening, deputies searched Atwood’s property with his permission. The property is about 10 acres of rural land, and authorities were unable to find anything out of the ordinary.
On Wednesday evening, investigators spoke with Mancini’s mother, who said she did not know where her daughter was and had not spoken with her since Wednesday.
Deputies returned to Atwood’s property on Friday night to search for the now-missing family, and human remains were discovered.
“This along with several admissions is what led to Rory Atwood being charged with first-degree homicide,” Nocco said.
Until the remains are identified, the missing-persons case remains active.
The sheriff’s office told Fox News Digital on Sunday that the investigation is ongoing and there was no new information to provide in terms of the identity of the remains.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of these individuals is asked to call the Pasco Sheriff’s nonemergency line at 727-847-8102, option 7, or report tips online at pascosheriff.com/tips.
Victor Martinez-Hernandez is an accused killer who has been charged with the murder of Rachel Morin in Maryland
According to police reports Rachel Morin, who was the mother of five would be reported missing by her boyfriend. Police would find her body near the Bel Air’s Ma and Pa hiking trail in Maryland.
DNA from the crime scene would point to a suspect who was involved in a home invasion and assault in Los Angeles months prior however officials did not know the identity of the suspect
Soon however authorities would figure out the suspect was Victor Martinez-Hernandez who had fled his country and illegally entered the USA after he committed a murder in his home country.
Martinez-Hernandez would be arrested and has been charged with the murder of Rachel Morin as well as a host of other charges
Victor Martinez-Hernandez
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Investigators announced Saturday afternoon the arrest of a 23-year-old El Salvadoran man for the murder of Rachel Morin in Maryland last August.
Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez was arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma, late Friday night after a 10-month investigation that included use of investigative genetic genealogy, local and federal investigators said at a press conference announcing the arrest.
Patricia Morin, Rachel’s mother, spoke briefly at the news conference, thanking law enforcement for working tirelessly to find her daughter’s killer.
The 37-year-old mother of five was found dead in in a drainage ditch along Bel Air’s Ma and Pa hiking trail on August 6, a day after her boyfriend reported her missing, as CrimeOnline reported. Shortly afterward, DNA evidence linked the murder to a home invasion and assault in Los Angeles in March 2023. The suspect was seen on video leaving the residence where the crime took place, but investigators didn’t know his name.
Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said the breakthrough in the case came three weeks earlier when DNA evidence uncovered the suspect’s identity.
“Now we knew who he was, but we still didn’t know where he was,” the sheriff said.
That changed quickly over the past two weeks, Gahler said, as investigators tracked him to Oklahoma and obtained an arrest warrant Friday afternoon.
Gahler said that Martinez Hernandez crossed into the United States illegally in February 2023, a month after he allegedly killed a woman in his home country. While US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed a detainer on him, Gahler said that he will face charges in Maryland and California before he is deported.
The sheriff did not provide details about the arrest, but he said that the suspect faces a trespassing charge in Tulsa related to the arrest process.
Harford County State’s Attorney Alison Healey said her office has already initiated the extradition process to bring the suspect back to Maryland, adding that she would “personally be leading the prosecution of this case.”
Bill DelBogno, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore field office, said his team provided investigative genetic genealogy to identify family members of the suspect, and the agency’s legal attaches in El Salvador coordinated with Salvadoran authorities on the identification.
Gahler said that the suspect is believed to have some connection with Salvadoran gangs who helped him travel around the country, but he faces no charges related to gang activity either in the United States or El Salvador. He added that investigators have seen “nothing to indicate anyone other than him was involved” in Morin’s murder.
Maryland investigators have gone to Oklahoma to work on the case from there, he said. When he’s brought back to Maryland, Victor Martinez-Hernandez will face charges of first degree murder and first degree rape.
David Hosier was sentenced to death by the State of Missouri for a double murder that was committed in 2009. Now baring a last minute step in by the Missouri State Governor he will be put to death today, July 11 2024, by lethal injections
According to court documents David Hosier began dating Angela Gilpin in Jefferson City who was separated from her husband Rodney Gilpin. However when Hosier learned that Angela and Rodney were trying to rekindle their marriage he would react by going to her appointment and killing the pair
David Hosier would be arrested, convicted of both murders and sentenced to death
David Hosier Case
Death row inmate David Hosier is set to be executed in Missouri on Tuesday, which would make him the state’s second execution of the year and the nation’s seventh.
Hosier, 69, is set to be executed by lethal injection for 2009 murder of his former lover, Angela Gilpin, a mother of two sons who was working to repair her marriage and escape Hosier, according to court records.
Hosier has maintained his innocence since his conviction and recently told the Kansas City Star: “You cannot show remorse for something you did not do.”
Republican Missouri Gov. Michael Parson rejected Hosier’s last petition for clemency on Monday, saying that “he displays no remorse for his senseless violence.”
Here’s what you need to know.
Sometime between 2008 and 2009, Hosier got involved romantically with Angela Gilpin, who had separated from her husband. When Gilpin decided to end the affair and reconcile with her husband, Hosier got angry.
Two weeks before she was killed, Gilpin applied for a restraining order against Hosier and was looking to move apartments, writing to her landlord that she could no longer live next to Hosier.
“He scares me. I don’t know he will do next,” she wrote, according to court records.
The day before the killings, Hosier left a voicemail for a friend saying that he was going to “finish it” and called another friend to say that he was going to “eliminate his problems,” court records show.
The next morning, a neighbor found Gilpin’s and her husband Rodney’s bodies at the threshold of their Jefferson City apartment. They had been shot to death.
In Gilpin’s purse was an application for a protective order from Hosier that said “he knows everywhere I go, who I go with, who comes to my home,” adding that he was stalking and harassing her every day.
Hosier was arrested in Oklahoma later that day following a pursuit and a standoff, after which Hosier told police: “Shoot me and get it over with,” according to court documents.
Attorneys for Hosier have argued that the trial attorneys failed to call a medical professional to explain to jurors how a 2007 stroke had affected Hosier’s mental state. The attorneys have also argued that the judge that presided over the trial and sentencing had a conflict of interest, having prosecuted Hosier in 1998 for not paying child support.
The Missouri State Supreme Court rejected Hosier’s appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case in August 2023.
The Federal Public Defender’s office produced a video pleading for clemency for Hosier. In the video, multiple family members point to the death of Hosier’s father when he was 16 years old as the beginning of a downward spiral.
“He’s been angry with all the women in his life, including me and my mother and it was not like that for him before my dad died,” Hosier’s sister, Kay Schardien, says in the clemency video. “My dad’s death was just like a crater and David fell into that crater.”
In denying Hosier’s clemency petition on Monday, Parson said in a statement that Gilpin “had her life stolen by David Hosier because he could not accept it when she ended their romantic involvement.”
“For these heinous acts, Hosier earned maximum punishment under the law,” he said. “I cannot imagine the pain experienced by Angela’s and Rodney’s loved ones but hope that carrying out Hosier’s sentence according to the court’s order brings closure.”
Hosier is scheduled to be executed shortly after 6 p.m. CT on Tuesday, June 11. The window for the execution runs for 24 hours, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections.
The execution will be carried out at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, about an hour south of St. Louis
Missouri carried out its second execution this year on Tuesday after Gov. Mike Parson denied a request for clemency filed by inmate David Hosier.
Hosier was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. local time at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri, a corrections spokesperson said in a statement.
Hosier, 69, has maintained his innocence in the double murder for which he was sentenced to death. He submitted a clemency petition in the wake of multiple prior appeals, including one that the Missouri Supreme Court rejected five years ago when it unanimously upheld the state’s decision to execute him. But the authority to commute Hosier’s sentence or halt his execution — or not — ultimately rests with the governor, and some lawmakers have in recent days called on Parson to spare his life.
Hosier was placed on Missouri’s death row in 2013 after being convicted of capital murder in the 2009 deaths of Angela Gilpin and Rodney Gilpin at their home in Jefferson City. The governor, who has overseen 10 executions since beginning his term in office, said Hosier killed the couple “in a jealous rage,” echoing the prosecution’s argument during his criminal trial.
Hosier was convicted of fatally shooting the Gilpins during an armed burglary, after previously having a romantic relationship with Angela Gilpin. She and her husband were murdered around one month after Angela Gilpin ended the affair with Hosier, according to court documents.
“Ms. Angela Gilpin had her life stolen by David Hosier because he could not accept it when she ended their romantic involvement. He displays no remorse for his senseless violence,” Parson said in a statement Monday, announcing that Hosier’s clemency petition was denied. “For these heinous acts, Hosier earned maximum punishment under the law. I cannot imagine the pain experienced by Angela’s and Rodney’s loved ones but hope that carrying out Hosier’s sentence according to the Court’s order brings closure.”
Hosier already had a criminal record and owned firearms when the Gilpins were killed, and in the aftermath of the murders, Angela Gilpin’s purse was found to contain an application for a protective order against him as well as a statement saying she feared Hosier may shoot her and Rodney, documents show.
Parson’s office said Tuesday that “Hosier, with a decades-long history of violence against women, would not let Angela reconcile with Rodney, stalking and harassing her for weeks before murdering her and her husband.”
Before the Gilpins’ case, Hosier was convicted and sentenced to prison for assaulting and seriously injuring another woman.
Hosier’s defense attorneys have over the years tried to appeal the death sentence on the grounds that no physical evidence linked Hosier to the murders. “No confession, no eyewitnesses, no fingerprints, and none of David’s DNA or other personal effects were found at the crime scene,” they wrote in his 2019 appeal. Attorneys also argued that Hosier’s prior conviction for assault should not have been admissible evidence in the Gilpin trial because it unfairly prejudiced the jury.
His recent clemency petition focused mainly on Hosier’s personal life. Much of the petition centered on a stroke Hosier suffered in 2007 that attorneys said left him with lasting brain damage, as well as the 1971 murder of his father, an Indiana State Police sergeant, which his defense characterized as a traumatic event that drove his mental health struggles in adulthood. Hosier went on to serve in the United States Navy and as an emergency medical technician and firefighter in Jefferson County. His health has declined in the last several months, with the petition citing heart issues that intensified in early May.
U.S. Reps. Cori Bush and Emmanuel Cleaver, both of Missouri, urged Parson to grant Hosier’s clemency petition in a letter to the governor last week. They referenced the inmate’s medical issues and mental illness and suggested that his former attorneys’ choice to omit “vital medical information” during the criminal trial could amount to “a potential violation of Mr. Hosier’s Sixth Amendment rights.”
“Mr. Hosier’s debilitating condition further emphasizes the need for clemency in this case. He does not pose a threat to those around him and deserves humane treatment as he suffers from heart failure,” Bush and Cleaver wrote in that letter.
Hosier told The Associated Press he was unhappy with his current defense team’s approach to the clemency request, which he thought should have focused more on the lack of forensic evidence tying him to the Gilpins’ deaths and less on his childhood.
“They did exactly the opposite of what I wanted them to do,” Hosier said of the clemency petition, according to the AP. “I told them I didn’t want the ‘boo-hoo, woe is me.’ All that stuff happened 53 years ago, OK? It has nothing to do with why I’m sitting here right now.”
Bryanna Barozzini is an accused teen killer whose murder trial in the death of seventeen year old Hali Culbertson begins today, June 10 2024, in Ohio
According to police reports Bryanna Barozzini and Hali Culbertson would get into a fight and Bryanna would pull out a knife and stabbed the other teenager to death.
Bryanna Barozzini does not deny stabbing Hali Culbertson however her defense team is going to put forward a strategy that the murder was in self defense.
The interaction between Bryanna Barozzini and Hali Culbertson before the fatal fight has not been disclosed however text messages have shown Bryanna replying in a violent manner towards Hali where she tells her friends that “I’d sooner slice (Culbertson’s) throat if she comes near me again” and “I will cut that (expletive) on my whole family if she tries showing up to my family’s home again.”. Her defense team wants the text messages kept out of the trial while the prosecutors want them included
Bryanna Barozzini would b arrested and has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of voluntary manslaughter. IF convicted she faces life in prison
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Was a fight between two teenage girls that turned deadly deliberate or an act of self-defense?
That is the question a Franklin County jury will have to decide as Bryanna Barozzini, now 20, goes on trial this week.
Barozzini is charged with two counts of murder and one count of voluntary manslaughter in the March 26, 2023, fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Halia Culbertson.
Barozzini was 18 at the time of the stabbing and has been free since posting a $750,000 bond shortly after her March 2023 arrest.
Jury selection in the case is scheduled to begin Monday morning. How did Halia Culbertson die?
Around 11:45 p.m. on March 26, 2023, Columbus police received a call about a person being stabbed outside a convenience store on the 5600 block of Emporium Square in the Northland area.
Officers found Culbertson with a single stab wound. She died a short time later at a nearby hospital.
Witnesses told detectives that an argument inside the store escalated into a fight in the parking lot. Witnesses also identified Barozzini as the person who stabbed Culbertson. Barozzini was not at the scene when police arrived.
Barozzini told detectives in a later interview that she had a knife and had swung it during the fight. What is Bryanna Barozzini charged with?
Barozzini is facing three charges:
One count of murder, accusing Barozzini of purposefully killing Culbertson
One count of murder, accusing Barozzini of killing Culbertson while committing a felonious assault
One count of voluntary manslaughter, accusing Barozzini of killing Culbertson "while under the influence of a sudden passion or in a sudden fit of rage"
If convicted on all charges, Barozzini faces up to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 15 years. What does Byanna Barozzini say happened?
Barozzini intends to argue at her trial that she stabbed Culbertson in self-defense.
If a defendant says an assault or homicide was in self-defense, Ohio’s law requires prosecutors to prove the action was not in self-defense. Before the law changed in 2019, defendants were responsible for proving to a jury that it was self-defense.
According to a motion filed by Barozzini’s attorney on May 29, prosecutors are looking to present evidence of text messages Barozzini sent to another person. Barozzini’s attorney is asking Judge Mark Serrott to prevent the messages from being introduced because they were sent a week before the stabbing occurred.
The text messages include statements like “I’d sooner slice (Culbertson’s) throat if she comes near me again” and “I will cut that (expletive) on my whole family if she tries showing up to my family’s home again.”
How the two girls knew each other, and the nature of their past interactions has not been made public.
Alyssa Venable is an accused killer from Virginia who has been charged with the triple murders of her roommates
According to police reports officers would go to a home in Spotsylvania Virginia where they would discover the bodies of Robert John McGuire, 77, Gregory Scott Powell, 60, and Carol Anne Reese, 65. According to initial police reports the three victims all suffered major trauma to their upper bodies.
Police would soon figure out that the missing roommate, Alyssa Venable, was believed to be responsible for the triple murder
After a two day manhunt Alyssa Venable was spotted in New York state and a brief police chase would take place ending with Venable being placed into police custody. Venable will be extradited back to Virginia where she will face three counts of murder among other charges
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A woman accused of killing her three roommates in Spotsylvania has been arrested after a two-day search.
Alyssa Jane Venable, 23, was captured after a vehicle pursuit on I-86 in Steuben County, New York, with help from the United States Marshals Service and the New York State Police.
Around 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, troopers with the New York State Police observed a gray 2009 Honda Civic matching what Vendable was known to drive and attempted to initiate a traffic stop
The driver refused to stop, and a high-speed chase ensued. At some point during the pursuit, a tire deflation device was used, causing the vehicle to crash.
Venable was taken into custody without further incident.
No citizens or law enforcement were injured during this incident.
New York State Police will be obtaining a fugitive warrant for Venable, and arrangements are being made now to bring her back to Virginia.
Deputies were called to a home on White Street Court on Tuesday, June 4, around 10 p.m. to check on the residents’ welfare.
“Upon arrival, deputies made entry into the residence to discover three adults (two men and one woman) deceased from upper body trauma. After further investigation and evidence collection, it was discovered that a roommate (Venable) had committed this heinous crime,” the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said.
On Thursday, the victims were identified:
Robert John McGuire, 77, of Spotsylvania, Va.
Gregory Scott Powell, 60, Spotsylvania, Va.
Carol Anne Reese, 65, Spotsylvania, Va.
Anyone with more information on this case is asked to call the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office at 540-582-7115.
The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office says a woman suspected of killing her three roommates may have shaved her head to evade detection.
Alyssa Jane Venable, 23, is accused of killing three people at a home on White Street Court on Tuesday.
Deputies were called to the home around 10 p.m. for a welfare check on the residents.
“Upon arrival, deputies made entry into the residence to discover three adults (two men and one woman) deceased from upper body trauma. After further investigation and evidence collection, it was discovered that a roommate (Venable) had committed this heinous crime,” the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said.
Bonnie Ennis lives nearby on Benchmark Road.
“My grandkids, they come out here usually every day. I didn’t want them to go outside by themselves because I never know if they’re still around,” Ennis said.
She said people there usually keep to themselves until Tuesday night when she saw police lights across the road.
“I didn’t even know what was going on,” Ennis said. “I was leaving for work around midnight, I see a lot of cop cars over there.”
Her house sits right across the street from where the crime happened.
“Makes you wonder how somebody could do something like that,” she said.
For this crime, Venable is now wanted on three counts of second-degree murder and a firearm charge.
We’ve also learned she was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery in May in a different case.
“That is terrible,” Ennis said. “I don’t know what the world’s coming to, but I hope they get her help.”
Ennis said their peaceful community is now shaken by this gruesome and violent crime.
“I just hope if she’s out there, she’s gone away from here,” she said.
On Thursday, the victims were identified:
Robert John McGuire, 77, of Spotsylvania, Va.
Gregory Scott Powell, 60, Spotsylvania, Va.
Carol Anne Reese, 65, Spotsylvania, Va.
Venable is now on the run and faces three counts of second-degree murder and a gun charge.
Venable may be driving a gray 2009 Honda Civic with a Virginia tag TRK-7451.
In an interview with FOX 5, her grandmother, Jane, begged her to call home.
“Please call home. Please call home,” Jane Venable said. “She is being accused of a heinous, heinous crime, and we don’t know the facts. We don’t know, but right now, my granddaughter is missing, and we don’t know if she’s at risk of taking her life. So we just say, please, AJ, call home.”
Anyone with information on Venable’s whereabouts is asked to call the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office at 540-582-7115.
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