Subject:

Murder and Homicide

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Jason Smiddie Stabbed Grandma 100 Times and Shot Her With a Crossbow, Cops Say

    ​Police across Florida are looking for a 19-year-old accused of killing his own grandma as brutally as possible: By stabbing her more than 100 times, beating her in the face with a wrench and even shooting her in the head with a crossbow.Jason Aristotle Smiddie has been on the run since police in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Miami PD's Seven Fatal Shootings Last Year Now Being Probed by U.S. Justice Department UPDATED

    The fallout from ex-chief Miguel Exposito's reign hasn't ended yet.Miguel Exposito may be gone, but the blowback from his turbulent reign atop the Miami Police Department hasn't ended yet. Eight months after the last of seven fatal shootings of young black men by Exposito's force, the U.S. Just ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2011

    We Like to Party

    The fallout from ex-chief Miguel Exposito's reign hasn't ended yet.Miguel Exposito may be gone, but the blowback from his turbulent reign atop the Miami Police Department hasn't ended yet. Eight months after the last of seven fatal shootings of young black men by Exposito's force, the U.S. Just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Two Murder-Suicides in Miami Left Two Husbands and Wives Dead Last Night

    Two separate murder-suicides in Miami-Dade County last night left two husbands and wives dead. The first incident involved 69-year-old Luis Yrigoyen who shot his wife before shooting himself while the couple's adult children were in their home downstairs watching a football game. The seco ... More >>

  • Music

    September 22, 2011

    Slick Rick at Eve September 24

    Two separate murder-suicides in Miami-Dade County last night left two husbands and wives dead. The first incident involved 69-year-old Luis Yrigoyen who shot his wife before shooting himself while the couple's adult children were in their home downstairs watching a football game. The seco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Det. Ed Hill Accused Of Forging Documents After Sleeping With Murder Suspect's Wife

    ​Det. Ed Hill of North Miami Beach has already broken one giant police no-no: sleeping with the Russian mail-order bride of a man he'd just arrested for murder. Just for good measure, he went ahead and took over the jailed man's driveway-paving business, too.Now Hill is accused of forging a signat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Girlfriend of Coral Gables High Stabbing Defendant Puts Kink in Prosecutor's Case

    ​The murder trial for the fatal stabbing that claimed the life of 17-year-old Juan Carlos Rivera in the halls of Coral Gables Senior High School back in 2009 is underway. Prosecutors are eager to portray the defendant, Andy Rodriguez, as a jealous boyfriend who stabbed Rivera after his girlfriend, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Jay Stubbs Arrested in Murder of 16-Year-Old Girlfriend

    ​Eighteen-year-old Jay Stubbs is behind bars and facing charges that he fatally shot his 16-year-old girlfriend, Tracy Gabriel, in the face. Police booked Stubbs just a little more than 24 hours after the early Tuesday-morning murder.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Police Suspect Missing Mom Lilly Aramburo May Have Been Killed

    Miami-Dade Police​More than three years after she went missing, Miami-Dade Police investigators believe Lilly Aramburo was a victim of foul play. At least, that's what an updated missing persons flyer seems to indicate. New Times wrote a cover story about the young single mother's June 1, 2007 dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Maintenance Worker Shot on Ocean Drive While Evicting Tenant

    ​In today's senseless murder news, a maintenance worker was shot dead while helping police evict a tenant from an Ocean Drive apartment in South Beach this morning. The shooter and a police officer were also injured, though neither seriously.

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Top 10 Murdered Musicians You've Never Heard Of

    ​ Dead rock stars are a dime a dozen. They usually drink themselves to death, overdose on narcotics, crash cars, or get on faulty aircrafts with drunk pilots on drugs who crash cars. But murdered musicians? That's where it gets gruesome. Check out these 10 tales of death by murder.

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    87-Year-Old Man Kills 84-Year-Old Woman Then Tries to Kill Himself

    A bizarre murder-suicide attempt today has left one octogenarian dead, and another injured. Police are investigation and incident in which an 87-year-old man pulled a gun on an 84-year-old woman and then apparently turned it toward himself.

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Yankier Crespo Arrested For Shooting A Man In The Neck In West Miami

    via Miami Dade CorrectionsYankier Crespo faces a charge of second-degree attempted murder.​Just after 10 this morning, a 32-year-old Cuban immigrant named Yankier Crespo got into a fight with another man riding in his black Camry. The yelling turned into a fistfight, and the men spilled out onto S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Driver on Cell Phone Kills 73-Year-Old Man in Hit-and-Run on Eighth Street

    Ramon Loret Demola, age 73, was walking on the sidewalk along SW Eighth Street near 24th Avenue yesterday when he was struck by what's being described as a white or light silver or gray SUV. The driver, who witnesses say was talking on a cell phone, drove his car onto the sidewalk, hit Demola, and d ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2010

    A report from Juarez, the bleeding front line of the war on drugs

    Ramon Loret Demola, age 73, was walking on the sidewalk along SW Eighth Street near 24th Avenue yesterday when he was struck by what's being described as a white or light silver or gray SUV. The driver, who witnesses say was talking on a cell phone, drove his car onto the sidewalk, hit Demola, and d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Suspect Quentin Wyche to Murdered FIU Football Player: "That's what he gets... I told y'all"

    Wyche​Twenty-two-year-old Quentin Wyche has surrendered to police for the on-campus stabbing death of Florida International University football star Kendall Berry. Wyche had spent a few days on the football team as a walk-on before being let go. He also worked in Berry's dormitory. Repor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2010

    Joel Milburn and Seth Jedlicka, Maryland Murder Suspects, Captured in Miami

    via WSVN​U.S. Marshals Captured two men wanted for the murder of a Maryland woman late last year after they were tipped off the pair was in Miami.Joel Milburn, 20 and Seth Jedlicka, only 17, were arrested today at the Motel Blanco at 5255 Biscayne Blvd.They are two of four men believed to be invol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2010

    Murder Miami Style: Suspect in Lib City Murder Gunned Down in Fort Pierce

    Who executed a career criminal wanted in connection with a February slaying in Miami? via St. Lucie County Sheriff's Department Miami police were still looking for Travis John Lattimore when he was gunned down in Fort Pierce.​That's what the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Department is trying t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2010

    Next Up For Jonathan Henry Cobb: The First 48?

    Miami-Dade CorrectionsMiami Police are investigating Jonathan Henry Cobb in connection with a murder in Overtown. ​Don't be surprised if aggressive cop eluder Jonathan Henry Cobb ends up on a future episode of the First 48, A&E's cop reality drama that often features Miami's top homicide inves ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2010

    Deal or No Deal

    Miami-Dade CorrectionsMiami Police are investigating Jonathan Henry Cobb in connection with a murder in Overtown. ​Don't be surprised if aggressive cop eluder Jonathan Henry Cobb ends up on a future episode of the First 48, A&E's cop reality drama that often features Miami's top homicide inves ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Possible Murder-Suicide in Miami Beach

    ​Miami Beach Police were called this morning to Akoya, the luxury high-rise condo with the familiar crown-like structure on top in Mid-Beach, to face the possibility of a jumper. When they arrived at 7 a.m., they found the dead body of a man on the south side of the building.Inside an apartment in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Murder Miami Style: Arrest Made In Brutal Self-Storage Center Slaying

     Last Wednesday, the early contender for young 2010's most senseless murder of the year went down at the People's Self-Storage on NW 79th Street. via Miami Dade Corrections Police say Wesley Benard Henton shot and killed Joslin Augustin last Wednesday.​Just after 12:30 in the afternoon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    UPDATED: Restaurant Owner Arrested in Los Angeles, Accused of Slaying His Unborn Child

    Alex Izaguirre​ Two days ago, Los Angeles Police homicide detectives arrested Joshua Woodward, who teamed up with celebrity chef Govind Armstrong to bring their West Coast food offerings to South Beach via Table 8. The cops charged Woodward with the murder of his unborn child.According to an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    8 oz. Burger Owner Josh Woodward Accused of Murder in Los Angeles

    8 oz. Burger​ Two days ago, Los Angeles Police homicide detectives arrested Joshua Woodward, who teamed up with celebrity chef Govind Armstrong to bring their West Coast food offerings to South Beach with Table 8 and 8 oz. Burger Bar. The cops charged Woodward with the murder of his unborn child.A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2009

    Murder Was the Case

    8 oz. Burger​ Two days ago, Los Angeles Police homicide detectives arrested Joshua Woodward, who teamed up with celebrity chef Govind Armstrong to bring their West Coast food offerings to South Beach with Table 8 and 8 oz. Burger Bar. The cops charged Woodward with the murder of his unborn child.A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Murder Miami Style: Man Fatally Shot in Northwest Miami-Dade

    A man was found lying dead with gunshot wounds on a Northwest Miami-Dade street last night, according to Miami-Dade Police.Cops found the body of 22-year-old Israel Travis on the pavement in front of 9111 NW 29th Ct. after they responded to a call about gunshots fired at 10:25 p.m.In January 2007,&n ... More >>

  • News

    July 9, 2009

    Blood Badge

    Who is the Miami Beach cop who killed twice in one week?

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2009

    Murder Miami Style: Palm Coast Man Arrested for First Degree

    A Palm Coast man was arrested and charged with first degree murder of a Miami man, on Thursday. Courtesy of the Miami-Dade Police Department Antoin Lennard Eleby, 31, of Palm Coast is charged with murdering a Miami man. Antoin Lennard Eleby, 31, was apprehended by Daytona Beach police at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Republicans Call for Murder Charges in Botched Abortion

    Nearly two and half years ago, New Times covered the story of a botched abortion which resulted in a live birth. Belkis Gonzalez, the owner of the Hialeah clinic, cut the umbilical cord after staff started screaming that the child was alive, she then sealed the child in a bio-hazard bag and through ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2008

    After Five Years, New Year's Eve Murder Remains Unsolved

    Back in 2004, New Times wrote about the murder of R.J. Lockwood in the feature "Hardcore and Bleeding." The Virgina-native was found dead in a loft in Overtown on January 4, 2004, in what was first assumed by Miami police to be an apparent drug overdose, despite the objections from Lockwood's roomma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2008

    Breaking News: Opa Locka Rapper Toro Gunned Down

    Back in 2004, New Times wrote about the murder of R.J. Lockwood in the feature "Hardcore and Bleeding." The Virgina-native was found dead in a loft in Overtown on January 4, 2004, in what was first assumed by Miami police to be an apparent drug overdose, despite the objections from Lockwood's roomma ... More >>

  • News

    July 24, 2008

    Meet the Cocaine Queen

    Cocaine Cowboys sequel takes us to the web of the Black Widow.

  • News

    May 15, 2008

    Johnny Charles, Angel of Death

    Local accused of being the most prolific serial killer in Miami history.

  • News

    April 24, 2008

    Cop Killer Still at Large

    And the one man who saw the murderer is being deported to Jamaica.

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2007

    Ex-FBI Agent Back in Court

    And the one man who saw the murderer is being deported to Jamaica.

  • Music

    May 18, 2006

    StreetRunner feat. Smitty & Jae Millz

    "Ghetto Boy" (Counterflow Distribution)

  • News

    February 5, 2004

    The Calvo Case

    A recently released report suggests that investigators are trying to implicate Denise Calvo in the murder of her husband

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Blood in the Streets

    The murderous violence that has recently gripped Opa-locka may have died along with its most infamous victim

  • News

    January 6, 2000

    Pain & Gain, Part 3

    A wealthy couple disappears, the slumbering Metro-Dade Police Department awakens, and the ghastly deeds of Miami's Sun Gym gang at last come to an end.

  • News

    December 3, 1998

    The Scary Side of Paradise

    The Bahamas. A feast of sun, fun, and upscale resorts, right? Try adding murder to the mix, toss in a dubious justice system, and spread over a teeming underclass.

  • News

    June 25, 1998

    News of the Weird

    The Bahamas. A feast of sun, fun, and upscale resorts, right? Try adding murder to the mix, toss in a dubious justice system, and spread over a teeming underclass.

  • News

    September 21, 1995

    The Boulder Boys Must Die

    When federal prosecutors seek the death penalty in drug-related murders, the defendants are almost always black. Why should Miami's first "kingpin" case be any exception?

  • News

    September 21, 1994

    A Private Man

    MDCC English professor Wade Harris didn't share much about his life. But he might well have shared his murderer.

  • News

    April 14, 1993

    Save the Toursits! Save the Economy!

    And to hell with life in Miami's black ghettos

  • News

    August 12, 1992

    Letters

    And to hell with life in Miami's black ghettos

  • News

    July 22, 1992

    Justice Undone, Part 4

    Bjorn DiMaio and Anthony Vincent are going to jail for the murder of their friend Andrew Morello. Even though they didn't do it.

  • News

    May 20, 1992

    The Paragraphing Policeman

    Metro-Dade detective Ramesh Nyberg's novel approach features a hero addicted to hot peppers and a lot of local color

  • News

    April 15, 1992

    Death of Andrew Morello

    Metro-Dade detective Ramesh Nyberg's novel approach features a hero addicted to hot peppers and a lot of local color

  • News

    November 20, 1991

    Causes of Death Feature

    Metro-Dade detective Ramesh Nyberg's novel approach features a hero addicted to hot peppers and a lot of local color

  • News

    October 16, 1991

    Fire and Water

    Metro-Dade detective Ramesh Nyberg's novel approach features a hero addicted to hot peppers and a lot of local color

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