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Diligent police work and scientific breakthroughs were credited in a Centerville man’s arrest in the death nearly 25 years ago of his girlfriend in Kettering; however, his attorney said Wednesday in court this scientific evidence does not point to his client.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillich is hosting a press conference Friday afternoon. Her office did not provide additional details.
Attorneys for the defense and prosecution made oral arguments Wednesday morning before the Ohio Supreme Court in the aggravated murder conviction of Lavontae Knight in the Dec. 30, 2018, killing of Trevice Harris and wounding of his girlfriend in Youngstown.
The Supreme Court of Ohio heard arguments on Wednesday morning on whether or not the conviction of a Youngstown murder suspect Lavontae Knight should remain overturned.
The case dates back nearly eight years after Dean, a 36-year-old mother of four, went missing in July of 2017 in Collins, which is located just outside of Norwalk.
Prosecutors are racing against a February deadline as they investigate whether De'Lawnte Hardy is actually taking medication to restore his competency to stand trial.
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Mother reacts to arrests made in son’s murder
More than four years after losing her son, a local woman is one step closer to justice. Two suspects have been arrested and charged in the 2021 murder of 29-year-old
Jones was convicted in the mid-1990s for the murder of 67-year-old Rhoda Nathan at a Blue Ash hotel. In 2022, a judge overturned his conviction, citing withheld evidence that could have exonerated him, and released him pending a new trial.
The nearly two-decade judicial odyssey of Travis Soto, a Napoleon man who served prison time for causing the death of his young son in Putnam County in 2006, appears destined to make its second stop before the Ohio Supreme Court.
Elwood Jones was convicted of aggravated murder, robbery and burglary in the 1994 beating death of 67-year-old Rhoda Nathan at a hotel in Blue Ash, a Cincinnati suburb