A prosecutor has brought charges against a married couple, a 29-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, for murder of the man's mother and aggravated grave desecration in Danderyd in June 2025. The man and woman have been detained since the end of June, and they are charged with together and in agreement depriving the woman of her life and then taking measures with the body after death. According to the prosecutor, the couple planned to kill the woman, which is why they invited her to the apartment.
Upon examination of the object, the body of a deceased person was found and identified as the missing woman, and the charge was changed to murder. The body was subjected to extensive violence and had injuries that could have caused death. The body was subjected to violence after the woman died, including parts being burned and the head being separated from the body.
The man made purchases of large storage bags and plastic gloves at times when he claimed to be sleeping, both alone and with his wife. The missing woman's mobile phone stopped emitting signals on June 13. A picture depicting a bundle lying in a lake was found in the woman's mobile phone.
The woman was deprived of her life on the night of June 13 in the suspected couple's residence. The man and woman moved the body from the residence to the location where it was later found. According to the prosecutor, the couple planned to kill the woman, which is why they invited her to the apartment, and they are also charged with incitement to murder another of the man's relatives.
The forensic autopsy could not determine exactly how the woman died. The case number in Attunda District Court is B 8571-25. The trial begins on Monday, March 16 and is expected to last about eight days.
Two Florida county employees, Stacie Mason (49) and Danny Ooley (56), were shot and killed in Vero Beach early Tuesday. The suspect in the Florida double killing is Jesse Ellis, Mason's estranged husband, who is at large. Mason and Ooley were having a workplace affair and were shot while in a car outside a public library.
The weapon used in the Florida killings was an AR-15-style rifle.
Jenna Strouble (30) is accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend Jacob Lambert (32), his mother Stacy Forde (54), and stepfather Patrick Forde (55) in Crete Township, Illinois. Strouble allegedly lured Lambert by offering a car massage, then shot him with a Glock-19 handgun. Strouble then drove to Lambert's parents' home and shot them at their front door.
Strouble was arrested in St John, Indiana, and charged with murder. Rico Barnes (36) and Alphonso Walker (39) are charged with murdering Syed Hammad Hussain (40) in his Washington DC condo. Hussain was found bound, beaten, strangled, and burned in his condo on February 11.
James Dolphs Elmore Jr. (61) has been indicted for manslaughter and evidence tampering in the 1986 deaths of Laura Miller (16) and Audrey Cook (30) in the 'Texas Killing Fields'. Clyde Hedrick, suspected in the deaths of four women in the Texas Killing Fields, died by suicide before indictment.
A young couple in Sweden is on trial for murdering the husband's mother, whose body was found dismembered. Antonella Di Ielsi (50) and Sara Di Vita (15) died after eating a meal on December 23 in Italy, with ricin poison found. Prosecutors have opened a double murder investigation into the poisoning.
Chee Kit 'Max' Chong and Angie Liaw are charged with keeping a 61-year-old woman as a slave in Melbourne, Australia, forcing her into unpaid domestic work. The woman died in 2024, but her evidence is being used in the trial. Eve Rogers (12) was found dead in her Enfield, Connecticut home, with stepfather Anthony Federline (39) charged with sexual assault in connection. Pills were found near Eve's body, but the cause of death is pending autopsy.
Lizzie Borden was accused of the double homicide of her father Andrew Borden and stepmother Abby Borden in 1892. Andrew Borden and Abby Borden were killed on August 4, 1892 at their family home at 92 Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. Abby Borden died first at approximately 9AM from 19 blows with a heavy bladed object in an upstairs bedroom. Andrew Borden was killed approximately two hours after Abby Borden by receiving 11 blows with a similar weapon.
No murder weapon was officially confirmed in the Borden case. A handleless hatchet discovered with cow's blood contributed to Lizzie Borden being labeled an ax murderess. Lizzie Borden was the only person arrested and tried for the Borden murders. Lizzie and her sister Emma lived in the house with their stepmother, father, and maid Bridget Sullivan. Andrew Borden was wealthy but chose to live in a less fashionable part of town to be near his business.
On August 6, 1892, Mayor John Coughlin announced Lizzie Borden was a suspect in the murders. Lizzie Borden was arrested after a two-day inquest from August 9-11, 1892. Lizzie Borden's trial took place at the Bristol County Courthouse in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Ritual murder includes acts attributed to practitioners of occult ideologies or to serial killers and sexual sadists. There have been no serious empirical studies of ritualistic crimes or classifications distinguishing sacred versus secular motivations. Law enforcement investigates ritual murder from a behavioral science perspective using psychology, criminology, and forensic science methodologies.
Law enforcement professionals cannot agree on the extent, types, or motives of ritualistic crimes due to lack of standardized categories. Ritual violence is often not recognized, reported, or investigated accurately. Academic research on occult religions is situated within new religious movements studies, which is controversial.
An Alabama woman faces charges for stealing handmade Decoration Day flowers from a gravesite. 69-year-old Martha Jane Bowes was caught on camera stealing 2 sets of handmade floral arrangements from a headstone. Investigators found dozens more stolen fake flowers when searching Bowes' home. Bowes was arrested on theft of property and grave desecration charges. The victim's floral arrangements were recovered and returned during a search of Bowes' home in Hammondville, Alabama. A large amount of other decoration-style floral arrangements was seized from Bowes' residence.
On the evening of December 12, a 21-year-old man was shot to death in a car in the Oxie district of Malmö. A week later, two women residing in Karlskrona were detained, suspected of aiding the fatal shooting. During the arrest, police conducted house searches at the women's homes and other addresses linked to them. In a villa, police found a rifle, and now one woman's father is charged with a weapons offense. A man in his 35s is facing trial in Ångermanland District Court, suspected of murder, arson, and grave desecration. According to the indictment, the man killed a 65-year-old man and set fire to the victim's house. According to the application for summons, the murder was particularly brutal, with the suspect hitting, kicking, and stamping or exerting other forceful violence against the victim's head and body. On January 2 this year, a cohabiting couple, a man in his 40s and a woman in her 30s, were found dead. It was suspected early on that the man killed the woman and then ended his own life. The prosecutor's office states that the investigation strongly suggests the woman died from her injuries and was killed by another person. Gerhardt Konig (47) is accused of attacking his wife Arielle Konig (37) on a Hawaiian trail, beating her with a rock and attempting to stab her with a syringe.