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'There's more evidence to this case' | Manassas Park Police Chief says they have a lot of evidence in the case against Mamta Kafle Bhatt's husband
MANASSAS PARK, Va. — So many questions continue to linger around the disappearance of Mamta Kafle Bhatt. The 28-year-old mother and nurse was reported missing by her husband, Naresh Bhatt, on Aug. 5, but is believed to have last been seen by anyone other than him on July 28.
NY software engineer convicted in 1994 Virginia murder, chilling confession read aloud in court: ‘I could be a serial killer’
A New York software engineer pleaded guilty on Friday to killing a Virginia mother 30 years ago as prosecutors read his chilling confession in which he ominously mused he “probably would be a serial killer” if he never got married. Stephen Smerk, 52, admitted to fatally stabbing 37-year-old Robin Lawrence, who he targeted at random in her Springfield home in November 1994 while her 2-year-old daughter was also inside. Smerk, then 22, was stationed at Fort Myer in Arlington for his first year in the Army when he drove from the base intent on killing anyone he came across. “It wouldn’t have...
6 Members of MS-13 Charged In ‘Brutal’ Slaying Of 21-Year-Old At Uniondale Park
The group is named in a 17-count superseding indictment that was unsealed in Central Islip federal court on Thursday, Oct. 3. It includes multiple racketeering offenses, including two murders, one attempted murder, and drug trafficking. Prosecutors laid out their case more than two years after Walter Ochoa, age 21, was...
Ex- Virginia cop who killed shoplifting suspect acquitted of manslaughter, guilty on firearm charge
A jury on Friday acquitted a former police officer in Virginia of involuntary manslaughter after he fatally shot a shoplifting suspect outside a busy shopping mall.But the jury did convict the former police sergeant, Wesley Shifflett, of reckless handling of a firearm in connection with the shooting. Prosecutors argued that Shifflett, then a sergeant with Fairfax County Police, acted recklessly when he shot and killed an unarmed man, Timothy McCree Johnson, after a short foot chase outside Tysons Corner Center in February 2023.Shifflett testified in his own defense and claimed self defense. He said he saw Johnson, 37,...