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Bryan Kohberger,

the 28-year-old criminology Ph.D. student

accused of killing four University of Idaho students

in November.

 

Photograph: Matt Rourke

AP

 

Investigators reveal new information

they say ties Idaho murders to Bryan Kohberger

NPR

Updated January 5, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/05/
1147112440/idaho-murders-suspect-charged-bryan-kohberger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A person attending a vigil for the four University of Idaho students

who were killed on Nov. 13, 2022,

cries as she listens to family members talk about the victims,

Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, in Moscow, Idaho.

 

Photograph: Ted S. Warren

AP

 

Victims' families urge love, kindness

as University of Idaho campus mourns

NPR

November 30, 2022    11:35 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/
1140034322/victims-families-urge-love-kindness-as-university-of-idaho-campus-mourns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How a Gang Hunted

and Killed a 15 Year Old in the Bronx

NYT    10 September 2018

 

 

 

 

How a Gang Hunted and Killed a 15 Year Old in the Bronx

Video    Visual Investigations    The New York Times    10 September 2018

 

The murder

of 15-year-old Lesandro Guzman-Feliz,

known as “Junior,”

drew outrage from across the city.

 

Our investigation retraces his last steps

— and reveals how a recent wave of violence in the Bronx

took the life of a boy just two blocks from his home

 

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stab

 

2023

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/25/
1215190487/derek-chauvin-stabbed-prison

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/
nyregion/stabbing-gas-station-brooklyn.html

 

 

 

 

2022

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/17/
nyregion/bronx-nyc-stabbing.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/04/
1103070911/attack-doctor-nurses-southern-california-hospital

 

 

 

 

2020

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/
nyregion/tessa-majors-barnard-arrest.html

 

 

 

 

2019

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/
us/stabbings-orange-county.html

 

 

 

 

2016

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/us/
jane-doe-59-reet-jurvetson-los-angeles-charles-manson.html

 

 

 

 

2014

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/us/
oklahoma-man-is-said-to-behead-co-worker.html

 

 

 

 

2012

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/nyregion/
pregnant-woman-is-killed-in-her-home-in-brooklyn.html

 

 

 

 

2011

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/nyregion/
12stab.html

 

 

 

 

2009

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/19/
sports/ncaafootball/19uconn.html

 

 

 

 

2008

 

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/
police-question-man-in-bus-stabbing/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

be stabbed / (be) stabbed

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/
nyregion/subway-station-stabbing.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/25/
1215190487/derek-chauvin-stabbed-prison

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/
1173614602/3-stabbings-2-of-them-fatal-
rattle-a-quiet-california-college-town

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/
1080745250/albuquerque-police-have-charged-a-man-
with-stabbing-11-people-in-random-attacks

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/
us/Virginia-Hannon-murder.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/02/
531218958/after-appeal-by-portland-survivor-
more-donations-for-the-girls-he-defended

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/us/
2-nuns-are-killed-in-mississippi-the-sweetest-people-to-ever-draw-a-breath.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stabbed

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/13/
nyregion/murder-chinatown-nyc.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/
opinion/sunday/kevin-cooper-death-row-innocent.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/us/massachusetts-
mall-stabbing.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/us/
2-targeted-sex-offender-to-be-killed-officials-say.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(be) stabbed to death

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/30/
1140034322/victims-families-urge-love-kindness-
as-university-of-idaho-campus-mourns

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/14/
1136440576/police-say-
4-university-of-idaho-students-were-found-dead-near-campus

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/
nyregion/lesandro-guzman-feliz-bronx-stabbing-video.html

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2lQAYj6ucg - NYT - 10 September 2018

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/
623900715/georgia-man-convicted-in-slaying-of-black-man-
in-decades-old-cold-case

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/
us/virginia-girl-13-was-probably-stabbed-the-day-she-vanished-officials-say.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/17/
nyregion/relative-of-morgan-freeman-is-stabbed-to-death-in-manhattan.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/26/
nyregion/connecticut-teenager-is-fatally-stabbed-by-fellow-student-police-say.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/
nyregion/pregnant-woman-is-killed-in-her-home-in-brooklyn.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stabbed to death

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/
opinion/sunday/kevin-cooper-death-row-innocent.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(be) fatally stabbed

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/
1168274237/cash-app-bob-lee-killed

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/
us/massachusetts-mall-stabbing.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stab wounds

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/
1219356189/detroit-synagogue-samantha-woll-killing-suspect-charged

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stabbing

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/
nyregion/stabbing-queens-nyc.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/
1173614602/3-stabbings-2-of-them-fatal-rattle-a-quiet-california-college-town

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/14/
1149273748/bus-stabbing-indiana-university-student-asian-hate-crimes

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/
1146271947/bryan-kohberger-university-of-idaho-stabbings-
arrest-pennsylvania

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/14/
1080745250/albuquerque-police-have-charged-a-man-
with-stabbing-11-people-in-random-attacks

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/
nyregion/tessa-majors-murder-teen-sentenced.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/
nyregion/rigoberto-lopez-nyc-subway-stabbings.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/
us/tennessee-truck-stop-stabbing.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/01/
625092299/9-people-stabbed-in-idaho-suspect-in-custody

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/
nyregion/bronx-fatal-stabbing-arrests.html

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/15/
611185321/nanny-gets-life-without-parole-in-2012-stabbing-deaths-of-2-children

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/02/
582618068/wisconsin-teen-sentenced-to-40-years-in-mental-hospital-
for-slender-man-stabbing

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/22/
572803757/teen-gets-25-years-in-mental-hospital-in-wisconsins-slender-man-stabbing

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/
nyregion/bronx-school-stabbing-abel-cedeno-bullying.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/
nyregion/at-wake-for-staten-island-stabbing-victims-tears-and-one-word-why.html

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/
nyregion/in-stamford-senseless-stabbing-outside-mcdonalds-
leaves-beloved-colleague-dead.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/
nyregion/man-is-accused-of-stabbing-3-inside-grand-central-station.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/
nyregion/daniel-st-hubert-served-prison-time-for-attacking-his-mother.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/
nyregion/girl-7-recovering-from-elevator-stabbing.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/
nyregion/brooklyn-stabbing-investigation-boulevard-houses.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/02/
nyregion/boy-6-dies-after-a-stabbing-in-brooklyn.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/10/
301419851/will-i-survive-or-will-i-die-stabbing-survivor-wondered

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/nyregion/
brooklyn-stabbing.html

 

 

 

 

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/
suspect-in-brooklyn-killings-captured-after-subway-stabbing/

 

 

 

 

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/
police-question-man-in-bus-stabbing/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/
nyregion/13doc.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the stabbing deaths of N

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/05/
1147112440/idaho-murders-suspect-charged-bryan-kohberger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stabbing spree

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/
nyregion/rigoberto-lopez-nyc-subway-stabbings.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/nyregion/
13stab.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

attack

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/
nyregion/stabbing-queens-nyc.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stabbing attack

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/
us/rockford-illinois-stabbing.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mass stabbing attack

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/18/
494455407/mass-stabbing-attack-in-minn-mall-injures-at-least-eight-people

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fatal stabbing

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/
1219356189/detroit-synagogue-samantha-woll-killing-suspect-charged

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/05/
757737213/texas-inmate-executed-for-killing-elderly-mother-daughter-in-2003

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/
nyregion/son-of-ex-aide-to-de-blasios-wife-is-arrested-in-fatal-stabbing.html 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/nyregion/
02slay.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

felony murder charge >

charge N with committing a felony murder

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/14/
1219356189/detroit-synagogue-samantha-woll-killing-suspect-charged

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

be fatally stabbed

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/
opinion/mr-trump-reopens-the-wounds-of-a-hate-crime.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/
nyregion/staten-island-hotel-stabbing.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

behead

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/us/
oklahoma-man-is-said-to-behead-co-worker.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

knife

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/nyregion/
motive-for-stabbings-a-mystery-as-a-portrait-of-a-troubled-nanny-emerges.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/nyregion/
fatal-stabbings-on-upper-west-side-nanny-is-arrested.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

knife attack

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/nyregion/
winston-moseley-81-killer-of-kitty-genovese-dies-in-prison.html

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/09/
300872511/many-students-stabbed-cut-at-pennsylvania-high-school

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

machete attack

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/nyregion/
woman-59-is-killed-in-machete-attack-in-bronx.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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USA > Violence > Stabbing

 

 

 

George Whitmore Jr.,

Falsely Confessed

to 3 Murders in 1964,

Dies at 68

 

October 15, 2012

The New York Times

By PAUL VITELLO

 

George Whitmore Jr., an eighth-grade dropout who confessed in 1964 to three New York murders that he did not commit, and whose case became instrumental in establishing historic legal reforms — including the Supreme Court’s 1966 “Miranda” ruling, which protects criminal suspects, and the partial repeal of capital punishment in New York State — died on Oct. 8 in a Wildwood, N.J., nursing home. He was 68.

The cause was a heart attack, his daughter Regina Whitmore said.

Mr. Whitmore was 19 in April 1964 when he was first picked up on a Brooklyn street, in Brownsville, for questioning about an attempted rape in the neighborhood the night before. A soft-spoken young man, he had grown up in a house in a junkyard that his father owned in Wildwood, N.J. He had tried hard in school but dropped out at 17, moved to Brooklyn and was waiting for a ride to work when the police pulled their car over and started asking him questions.

He would later tell interviewers that he had secretly been pleased at being asked for help in solving a crime, and at the prospect of having a good yarn to tell his friends.

But when his interrogation ended several days later, Mr. Whitmore had confessed to the attempted rape, and to the rape-murder a few weeks earlier of another woman in the neighborhood, Minnie Edmonds. He had also confessed to the double murder in Manhattan, on Aug. 28, 1963, of two women whose bodies were found bound and stabbed numerous times in the apartment they shared on East 88th Street.

Called “the Career Girl Murders” in newspaper headlines, the killings of Janice Wylie, 21, a researcher at Newsweek magazine, and Emily Hoffert, 23, a schoolteacher, had been the focus of an eight-month investigation.

Mr. Whitmore recanted his confession, and he consistently claimed afterward that the police had beaten him and that he had signed the confession without knowing what it was. He said he was innocent. And in the case of the Wylie-Hoffert slayings, he said, he could provide the names of a dozen people who saw him on that day and who would remember it, because it was the day of the civil rights march on Washington, when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech. He and everybody else in Wildwood had watched it on television and talked about it incessantly, all day, he said.

In 1964, Mr. Whitmore was convicted by a Brooklyn jury on the charges of attempted rape. Though the verdict was overturned because jurors were found to have been reading newspaper accounts of the case, which referred to Mr. Whitmore as the “prime suspect” in the Career Girl Murders, he was tried a second time. He was convicted again, but the verdict was again thrown out, on different grounds.

By 1965, Manhattan prosecutors had evidence that Mr. Whitmore was wrongly accused in the Wylie-Hoffert murders. They had linked the brutal slayings to Richard Robles, a recently released prisoner who would later be convicted of the crime, and who remains in prison.

Still, while Mr. Whitmore now faced a second trial, in the murder of Ms. Edmonds, his indictment in the Wylie-Hoffert case remained in place. News accounts said that by refusing to dismiss the indictment, prosecutors hoped to deny Mr. Whitmore’s defense lawyers an argument: that the dismissal of the double-murder indictment proved it had been coerced, and that Mr. Whitmore’s confession to the Edmonds murder, elicited in the same long interrogation, had therefore been coerced, too.

Selwyn Raab, a reporter then for The New York World-Telegram and Sun, and later for The New York Times, had found a dozen witnesses who remembered seeing Mr. Whitmore in Wildwood on the day of the double murder. They had bumped into him in the homes of friends and relatives while watching Dr. King’s speech, Mr. Raab wrote in a front-page story in The World-Telegram.

“Whitmore’s case showed how fragile the whole system was, and still is,” Mr. Raab said in an interview on Sunday. “Even now, police use the same techniques to manipulate suspects into giving false confessions. And 90 percent of convictions are still based on confessions.”

The police and prosecutors at the time denied any misconduct. Legal reformers asked Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, a Republican, to appoint a panel to investigate, but he declined.

Yet Mr. Whitmore’s legal troubles were far from over. With the Manhattan district attorney still refusing to clear him entirely in the Wylie-Hoffert case, Mr. Whitmore went to trial for the murder of Minnie Edmonds, solely on the evidence of his “confession.”

In the debate in the New York State Legislature over a proposal to abolish the death penalty, Mr. Whitmore’s case became a warning cry against the killing of innocents. “In Whitmore’s case,” said Assemblyman Bertram L. Podell of Brooklyn, “we have learned to our shock and horror that a 61-page statement of completely detailed confession was manufactured and force-fed to this accused.”

Governor Rockefeller signed a bill in 1965 abolishing capital punishment, except in the killing of police officers. (The death penalty was reinstated in 1995, and declared unconstitutional in 2004.) The Supreme Court cited Mr. Whitmore’s case as “the most conspicuous example” of police coercion in the country when it issued its 1966 ruling establishing a set of protections for suspects, like the right to remain silent, in “Miranda v. Arizona.”

Mr. Whitmore was tried several times in the murder of Ms. Edmonds, with each trial ending in a hung jury.

As a result of the various cases in which he had become entangled, he was in and out of prison, for months and years at a time, until April 10, 1973, when the Brooklyn district attorney, Eugene Gold, dismissed the last case against him — a retrial of the attempted rape case — with new evidence exonerating Mr. Whitmore. On his release from custody that day, Mr. Whitmore said that what he felt was “just beyond expressing,” adding “I’m not bitter. I appreciate greatly what the D.A. did.”

His life after prison was marked by depression and alcoholism, said T. J. English, author of “The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge,” in which Mr. Whitmore’s life is chronicled.

Mr. Whitmore moved back to Wildwood, operated a commercial fishing boat for a time, and was later disabled in a boating accident. He was unemployed for long stretches.

Mr. Whitmore’s daughter Regina said he had children but never married.

Besides her, she said, his survivors include three other daughters, Aida, Sonya and Tonya, and two sons, George and James, all of whom have taken the name Whitmore, and more than 20 grandchildren.

“He told us about what happened to him,” she said. “But he said he never held it against anybody. He was always a very sweet man with us. He wanted us to grow up happy.”



This article has been revised

to reflect the following correction:

Correction: October 15, 2012

An earlier version of the headline with this article

incorrectly stated the number of murders

to which Mr. Whitmore confessed.

It was three, not two.

George Whitmore Jr.,
Falsely Confessed to 3 Murders in 1964, Dies at 68,
NYT,
15.10.2012,
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/
nyregion/george-whitmore-jr-68-dies-
falsely-confessed-to-3-murders-in-1964.html

 

 

 

 

 

Coroner Identifies Man

Whose Head Was Found

in Hollywood Park

 

January 19, 2012

The New York Times

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Coroner's officials on Friday identified a man whose dismembered head, hands and feet were found in a Hollywood park as a 66-year-old from Los Angeles, and police continued to hunt for his killer.

The victim's name is Hervey Medellin, coroner's Lt. David Smith said. Public directories show Medellin lived in a Hollywood apartment near the rugged, hillside park where his remains were found.

Investigators served a search warrant Thursday night on a Hollywood apartment in the area, but it wasn't immediately clear if it was Medellin's apartment.

"They did serve a search warrant last night. They are following clues, and the case is progressing. Guys are working around the clock to find out who did it and find the rest of the body," police Cmdr. Andrew Smith said Friday.

He did not elaborate on why the warrant was served or what, if anything, detectives found.

"We don't want to give out too much information because the investigation is ongoing," Smith said.

Medellin's head was found Tuesday by a dog walker at Bronson Canyon Park, and police searchers discovered the hands and feet during a two-day search that ended Thursday. The park, a brushy, wooded expanse of rolling hills just below the Hollywood sign, reopened Friday.

Although police have concluded no other body parts were dumped in the park, visitors who find anything they believe are related to the victim's death should contact authorities, Smith said.

More than 120 police officers, firefighters and Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies searched 7 acres of the park after the head was discovered in a plastic grocery bag. The hands and feet were found nearby.

Police have said they believe the victim was killed elsewhere and his remains dumped just inside the park, which attracts hundreds of hikers and dog walkers on most days.

Although rustic, it is located just a short distance from film studios and other Hollywood attractions.

Police believe the body parts were left there no more than a day or two before the head was found because they had barely decomposed and had not been attacked by coyotes that roam through the park at night.

Authorities don't believe the Los Angeles case is connected to a case in Tucson, Ariz., where police found a torso on Jan. 6. They say if the two were related, the remains would have been more badly decomposed.

Medellin's head was found after the dog walker let one of the animals she was shepherding through the park off its leash and it began playing with a plastic bag. When it shook the bag, the head fell out.

Smith said whoever dumped the head had gone to some effort to conceal it.

"If it had not been for the dog walker, we might never have found it," he said.

___

Associated Press writer Bob Christie in Phoenix

contributed to this report.

Coroner Identifies Man Whose Head Was Found in Hollywood Park,
NYT,
19.1.2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/01/19/us/
AP-US-Human-Head-Found.html - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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