Subject: Murder and Homicide

• The Shoe Still Don't Fit, But...

  April 8, 2008

• THE THAI CONNECTION

  PROSECUTORS WILL SAY NARCOTICS PLAYED NO ROLE IN THE TEMPLE MURDERS. THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTS OTHERWISE.

  January 13, 1993

• DIARY OF A SCARED HOUSEWIFE

  August 4, 1993

• BROTHERS AND VICTIMS

  August 11, 1994

• ADDING INSULT TO FATALITYBEREAVED COUPLE CLAIM THEY WERE THREATENED BY THE BROTHER OF ACCUSED KILLER

  April 13, 1995

• THE MISSING PIECE

  A hotheaded Border Patrol agent is the only suspect in a double slaying. One of his guns has vanished, and he's still got his job.

  October 19, 1995

• The Lost Boys

  Metalhead murder trial exhumed in documentary Paradise Lost

  November 14, 1996

• The Suspect's Sidekick

  It was an arduous trail that led investigators in the Jeanne Tovrea murder case to accused killer James "Butch" Harrod. A common sight en route was Edward "Hap" Tovrea Jr.

  March 6, 1997

• A Hap-less Case

  Try as they might, Phoenix police have not been able to get the evidence they need to charge Jeanne Tovrea's stepson in her murder.

  March 13, 1997

• David v. the System

  Attorney casts himself as martyr in bizarre courtroom melodrama

  August 7, 1997

• Sin of a Preacher Man

  New evidence in unsolved Phoenix murder leads to a Tacoma man of God

  February 12, 1998

• Death Wish

  County prosecutors seeking capital punishment for Tovrea killer

  March 26, 1998

• A Killer Sleep Disorder

  Scott Falater, a mild-mannered Mormon family man, inexplicably stabbed his wife 44 times, then drowned her in the family pool while a neighbor watched. His defense? He was sleepwalking.

  November 19, 1998

• One Way Out

  March 11, 1999

• Wrong Place, Wrong Time

  December 16, 1999

• Murder Retried

  New twists in bizarre Rocky Point murder case

  February 8, 2001

• County Attorney Gets Stiff Sentence For One Child Killer; Indicts Another Man Suspected of Similar Crime

  Murdering little kids is one crime that everyone likes to get tough on. That's why it's so satisfying to see the  tough sentence in the case of Christopher Langin, (the loser pictured at left), who beat to death a three-year-old girl with disabilities. With natural life plus 27 years, he'll never see the outside world again. In another case that rips your heart open, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is charging Arturo Frank Delgado, 23, with first-degree murder follow

  December 11, 2008

• Joe Arpaio's Circus Comes to Buckeye: Assault Rifles, Body Armor, Ski Masks and Traffic Stops

  "Every life is precious," Joe kept saying of murder victims. Who is he tryin' to kid?The citizens of Buckeye and Avondale can rest easy tonight knowing that sheriff's deputies with assault rifles, body armor, and ski masks are busy pulling over old ladies and Hispanics with expired tags. This was all part of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's latest "crime suppression and human smuggling operation." Or in other words, his most recent dragnet for undocumented Hispanics.OK, maybe not all of MCSO's finest were o

  January 9, 2009

• Medical Examiner At Mormon Murder Trial: "I Have No Evidence To Support This Being A Homicide."

  The county pathologist who performed the autopsy on alleged murder victim Faylene Grant in 2001 told a rapt jury yesterday afternoon that he could find "no evidence to support this being a homicide."   Dr. Arch Mosley, a former Maricopa County assistant medical examiner now working in Coconino County, made the startling comment at the end of an hours-long cross-examination by Mel McDonald. The veteran barrister is representing

  January 28, 2009

• UPDATE: Doug Grant Murder Case Jury Deliberation Finally in Home Stretch?

  It's been exactly two weeks since the jury in the Doug Grant murder case began to deliberate his fate. The panel returned to work this morning, and some close to the case suspect that a verdict finally may be near. The basis for that belief are questions the jury has had in the past few days for Superior Court Judge Meg Mahoney, who presided over the months-long trial in downtown Phoenix. On the face of it, those questions may not bode well for Mr. Gr

  March 19, 2009

• THIS JUST IN: Mormon Murder Trial Ends With Manslaughter Conviction Against Doug Grant

  Sports nutritionist Doug Grant was convicted of manslaughter in the bathtub-drowning death of his wife, Faylene, by a Maricopa County Superior Court jury a few minutes ago. The so-called Mormon murder case (Doug and Faylene Grant, pictured, were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) went to the jury Thursday, March 5. Grant originally was indicted on one count of premeditated first-degree murder in the mysterious 2001 death of his wife, but prosecutor Juan Martinez threw

  March 24, 2009

• Doug Grant Did "Everything Wrong"

  April 9, 2009

• Hate For Doug Grant: Despite Scant Evidence That Grant Killed His Wife, the Jury Convicted Him Anyhow

  April 9, 2009

• Bombshell: The explosive backstory in the Robert Ortloff murder trial may be more fascinating than the case itself

  February 14, 2008

• Twenty-three years after Kathleen Smith's storied Tempe murder, a footprint will loom large in her alleged killer's upcoming trial

  February 7, 2008

• Raggedy Annie

  Documenting a murder most foul

  November 1, 2007

• I Dunnit

  Here's how a Kentucky inmate conned Tempe cops and the County Attorney's Office into believing he'd killed a stripper, who really was a victim of the Baseline Killer

  September 21, 2006

• Fear Factor

  Two serial murderers loom among us. Inside the case of the Baseline Killer's first Phoenix victim

  July 27, 2006

• The Case of the Wily Coyote

  Getting smuggled into the U.S. is a dangerous game, even when the smuggler's just like family

  April 6, 2006

• The Case of the Fatal Femme

  Samantha Somegustava's boyfriend tells the homicide detective she has a "hard heart." By now, the cop knows what he means

  March 9, 2006

• The Case of the Jealous Lover Boy

  Despite all the sex toys, Tim Contreraz and Shawn Drake weren't exactly living together in bliss

  February 16, 2006

• The Case of the Grim Tweaker

  Officer Dave Uribe's murder made no sense, until detectives made the killer as a doper bent on shooting a cop

  February 2, 2006

• The Crying Game

  Despite a celebrated history, Native American transgenders struggle in the modern world

  December 22, 2005

• Meth Fatalities

  Methamphetamine is number-one with a bullet when it comes to violent death in Phoenix

  November 3, 2005

• Blood and Money

  Questions remain about whether a death row prisoner acted alone in the 1988 murder of heiress Jeanne Tovrea

  October 20, 2005

• Wake-Up Call

  That's what the jury gave Scott Falater, convicted of killing his wife in the Sleepwalker Murder Case

  July 1, 1999

• Hyde Out

  September 23, 2004

• Letters

  Letters from the issue of Thursday, July 21, 2005

  July 21, 2005

• Luck Out

  The state's mistake means a convicted killer goes free - at least for now

  January 22, 2004

• Ring of Fire

  Records in murder case reveal the casual violence of the skinhead subculture

  December 11, 2003

• Dying For Love

  The family of a murdered society matron says she took up with the wrong man

  September 25, 2003

• The Final Straw

  March 29, 2001

• The Fag Card

  Gay convict claims judge's homophobia put him on Death Row

  March 8, 2001

• 'Til Death Do Us Part

  The murder case against Brian Eftenoff crumbles under scrutiny. Part two of a New Times investigation

  November 30, 2000

• Targets Beyond The Turf

  Will you be next in the line of gang fire?

  December 16, 1999

• Pitt and the Pendulum

  The JonBenet case, shrink-wrapped by Valley forensic psychiatrist and sleuth Steven Pitt

  October 21, 1999

• Larry Jack's Second Shot

  He survived two bullets in the face from a man he claims killed five in South Phoenix last month

  March 25, 1999

• UPDATE: Jury To Announce Verdict in Phoenix Cop Killing Case

  Later this morning, a Maricopa County jury will announce its verdicts in the first-degree murder case of Donnie Delahanty, who stands accused of killing veteran Phoenix police officer David Uribe (in the photo) in May 2005.Authorities accused Delahanty, now 22, of shooting Officer Uribe to death during a routine traffic stop near 35th Avenue and West Cactus Road on May 10, 2005.Delahanty also is facing verdicts on charges that he conspired to kill onetime co-defendant Chris Wilson and Wilson's m

  May 5, 2009

• UPDATE: Donnie Delahanty Convicted on All Counts in Senseless Cop Killing

  A Maricopa County jury convicted Donnie Delahanty today of murdering veteran Phoenix police officer David Uribe in the first degree. Delahanty faces a minimum sentence of life without parole when the jury recovenes to consider his punishment. The 22-year-old California native also could be sentenced to death.  Delahanty stared straight ahead as the court clerk read the verdicts. The panel also found him guilty of conspiring to kill onetime co-defendant Chris Wilson (who earlier p

  May 5, 2009

• "Retarded" German Killer Rudi Apelt Sentenced (Again)

  Arizona Department of Corrections Michael Apelt (left) remains on death row, but Rudi Apelt can't be executedRudi Apelt, a German national whose brutal murder of a local woman led to a death sentence in 1989, got a reprieve from death row in May after his lawyers convinced a judge that he is mentally retarded.But Apelt won't be getting out of prison anytime soon. Yesterday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sylvia Arellano ruled that Apelt's sentences for murder and conspiracy should r

  July 22, 2009