Crime Time

Teens plead guilty to raping, killing, burning girl

Two Canadian teenagers have pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in a gruesome killing that was planned in detail and executed with the help of texting and online chats, the Vancouver Sun reported.

One of the teens had told a friend that he had thought about what it would be like to kill someone since he was a young boy.

The unidentified teens admitted to raping and killing 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor, whose badly burned body was discovered under a bridge, the Sun reported.

-- Lance Murray

Sex offender surrenders to TV reporter during live broadcast

Television viewers in Los Angeles on Thursday got to see something pretty unusual -- a wanted sex offender surrendering to a KTLA reporter during a live broadcast.

Authorities said that Valentino Rodriguez Jr., a conviced sex offender, had cut off his ankle monitor on Monday and gone missing. When he turned himself in to reporter Eric Spillman on live TV, Rodriguez said he wanted to "do the appropriate thing," KTLA reported.

Rodriguez said that he had become paranoid and cut the ankle monitor off for that reason, the station reported.

-- Lance Murray

2 charged with killing reluctant Russian roulette player

What was already a potentially deadly game actually turned murderous, police in Wilmington, Del., said when a man who refused to continue to play Russian roulette was fatally shot in the head by the remaining players.

Two men have been charged with murder in the case, according to news reports.

-- Lance Murray

Family funeral ends with brothers' murder-suicide

A family funeral turned deadly Tuesday in Bevil Oaks near Houston, when two brothers got into an argument and one fatally shot the other before killing himself.

Jefferson County Sheriff Mitch Woods said alcohol was a factor in the shooting at the home of the men's sister, according to the report on Channel 5's website.

The sister was on the phone talking with a 911 operator when shots rang out, according to the report.

-- Lance Murray

Report: Mom, kids killed dad and fed him to the dog

Authorities in Raleigh, N.C., apparently believe that a woman charged with killing her longtime boyfriend had help from their two teenage children and that they may have fed parts of his body to the family's pet pit bull.

Wendy Edmond Green, 41, is accused of killing David Reuben Green, 52, and putting his body in the freezer.

Two juveniles, their teenage children -- according to a relative -- also have been charged with murder in the case, according to newsobserver.com.

The man's body had been mutilated and quartered, the website reported.

-- Lance Murray

Prosecutors: Mom killed daughter, tried to dissolve body with acid

There's a trial under way in England, where a mother is accused of repeatedly stabbing her 3-year-old daughter to death and then attempting to dissolver her body with acid.

The mother, Iman Omar Yousef, 25, is a paranoid schizophrenic, and the court has ruled that she is unfit to face a murder charge. So, prosecutors are attempting simply to prove that she is guilty of unlawfully killing her daughter, a lesser charge.

She's accused of killing her daughter, Alia Ahmed Jama, whose body was found by police dissolved down to the bone, the Hampshire Chronicle reported.

-- Lance Murray

Bus massacre: 5 killed, 14 wounded on Juarez maquila transport

Breaking news from just outside Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

The El Paso Times is reporting that gunmen opened fire at about 2 a.m. Thursday on a company bus, killing five women and injuring 14 other people on their way home after working their shifts at a leather company factory in Ciudad Juarez.

The massacre occurred outside Caseta, which is a small town in the Valle de Juarez, across the Rio Grande from Tornillo, Texas.

The bus was taking workers to Eagle Ottawa Leather Co. factory, the Times reported.

According to its website, Eagle Ottawa is one of the world's largest and oldest suppliers of fine leather for automobile interiors.

-- Lance Murray

Another bloodbath: 15 gunned down at Mexican car wash

Massacres are becoming nearly daily news events in Mexico.

CNN reported that 15 people were killed Wednesday at a car wash in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The bloodbath occurred at the Gamboa car wash in the state capital of Tepic.

Officials believe the massacre was the work of drug cartels and that victims included clients and employees of the carwash, CNN reported.

In the past week, 14 people were killed by gunfire at a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez and 13 people were gunned down at a drug rehab center in Tijuana.

-- Lance Murray

3 Mexican feds slain at foot of bridge leading to the U.S.

Three off-duty Mexican federal police officers were slain Tuesday near an international bridge that spans the Rio Grande between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, the El Paso Times reported.

The men were shot to death at the foot of the Bridge of the Americas on the Mexican side, the paper reported.

"It is part of the reactions we have seen from criminal groups because of arrests," federal police spokesman José Ramon Salinas told the Times. "It is a way to counteract and intimidate our federal police corps."

The men were in a 2000 Ford Taurus near the Mexican customs building when they were killed, the paper reported. U.S. and Mexican authorities to stopped cross-border traffic on the bridge for 20 minutes, the Times reported.

Ciudad Juarez is a deadly place for police officers. The paper reported, citing Associated Press figures, that at least 115 police officers or investigators have been killed there in 2010. Of those, 32 of the slain officials were federal police, the Times reported.

-- Lance Murray

Young mom pleads guilty to killing baby for crying during game

A woman in Jacksonville, Fla., has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for fatally shaking her 3-month-old son because he was crying while she played Farmville on Facebook.

Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, could face up to life in prison when sentenced, but she likely will be sentenced to less time, The Florida Times-Union reported.

-- Lance Murray