An Astoria man wanted for questioning regarding the vicious bludgeoning of his wife, special needs teacher Tara Hawes, was captured in Connecticut Sunday. Jordan Hawes had been on the lam since last week. Hawes, who has not been charged with any crime, is reportedly being held in a psychiatric ward in a Connecticut hospital. more ›

Surveillance video outside the Bronx home of Ramarley Graham shows police struggling to enter the residence and kicking in a door moments before an NYPD officer shot and killed the unarmed 18-year-old in his bathroom. While surveillance footage from a neighboring home showed Graham running down the street with police pursuing, this footage obtained by WPIX 11 shows Graham casually entering his house. Seconds later two NYPD officers with their guns drawn attempt to break down the door. more ›

After the discovery of slain special needs teacher Tara Hawes in her and her husband's Astoria home on Thursday night, police have been searching for husband Jordan Hawes and released a surveillance image of him using his wife's ATM card on Tuesday. more ›

Last night, the in-laws of Tara Hawes, a 33-year-old teacher who worked with special needs children at the Aaron School in Manhattan, made a grisly discovery. After not having heard from their son or daughter-in-law for two days they went to the Astoria apartment they shared and found Hawes lifeless body lying in bed. Initially there was so much blood pooled around her they thought her throat had been slashed. more ›

The boyfriend of a woman whose one-year-old was found dead this week has been arrested and charged with his murder. On Wednesday, baby Richard Fludd was discovered unresponsive in the living room floor of a third-floor apartment where he lived on East 232nd Street. Reginald Smith, 24, now faces charges of murder and assault after the Medical Examiner determined the cause of death to be homicide. more ›

The man whose violent spree inspired the Post's most famous headline, "Headless Body in Topless Bar," is trying to get released from prison. The Post reports, "Charles Dingle, 53, will ask a three-person parole panel this week to free him from the upstate Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo." more ›

Clearly, Maksim Gelman wants our attention. The Brooklyn man, currently in jail for killing four people last year and stabbing a man on a subway train in a violent spree, gave an interview to the Daily News, claiming to have killed six other people. Now he's talking to the Post, revealing how he wanted to kill another notorious murder suspect, Levi Aron, who allegedly dismembered and slaughtered a little boy in Brooklyn. more ›

A married Inwood couple were found dead of an apparent murder-suicide in their apartment yesterday. The bodies of Jesus Soto, 56, and Yanet Soto, 54, were found in their bedroom by the wife’s live-in daughter and her 12-year-old granddaughter about 11:20 a.m. in their apartment at 24 Arden Street. Police believe that Jesus murdered wife Yanet, then purposefully took an overdose of pills. According to the Post, Yanet was found with deep cuts on her face, which was nearly sliced from ear to ear. more ›

Police are investigating the death of a young girl, apparently stabbed in the head with strangulation marks around her neck, in Bed-Stuy this morning. The three-year-old toddler was attacked, apparently by her mother, inside a Putnam Avenue apartment a little after 4 a.m. this morning. more ›

The first homicide in Austin this year took place around 3 a.m. on New Year's Day, when a 29-year-old woman, Esme Barrera, was murdered upon her return home that night. The attack has been particularly terrifying to Austin residents due to its random nature, and the fact that two other non-fatal attacks happened nearby that same morning—the Austin Police Department is now being scrutinized, with many believing they could have prevented Barrera's murder since an attack 30 minutes earlier outside of her home had been reported. more ›

The 20-year-old woman who was charged with self-abortion for the death of her 24-week fetus arrived in court today to find out that the Manhattan DA's office was dropping the charges. DNAinfo reports the prosecutors said there was not enough evidence to charge Yaribely Almonte. more ›

The 2012 murder season in New York City started with a bang yesterday. After a violent New Year's Eve the NYPD says 45-year-old Andrew Brown, found dead in his Brooklyn apartment building's hallway before the new year saw its first noon, is the first murder victim of the new year. more ›

[Update Below] The family of the 73-year-old woman who died after she was set on fire in a Prospect Heights elevator earlier this month still haven't been able to bury her—and even the people who pledged to help them haven't done so. The family of Deloris Gillespie, who was allegedly killed by Jerome Isaac, spoke out yesterday about the hardships they've gone through since the horrific crime took place: "This family has been victimized twice. First by a madman and now by a gentleman who has shown depraved indifference to their plight," said Councilmember Letitia James, referring to a Manhattan hedge fund manager and his friend who had pledged to help pay for a memorial service today, but never gave the money. more ›

A day after revealing that he would be hit with a wrongful death suit, now it's believed that Rod Covlin may face murder charges from the Manhattan DA's office for the death of his estranged wife. Sources tell the Daily News "the Manhattan district attorney's office will seek murder charges against him before the spring." more ›

Police in two states are trying to piece together the last 12 hours of slain Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin's life, with Pennsylvania authorities working under the assumption that Rubin was killed elsewhere and dumped in an apple orchard outside of Allentown, while theories about Rubin's alleged money problems and drug ties continue to circulate. more ›

The estranged husband of an Upper West Side wealth manager who was found strangled to death on New Year's Eve 2009 has never been formally charged in her death—but he has now been hit with a wrongful-death suit by her estate. Roderick Covlin, a former trader who founded the U.S. Backgammon Federation, has been accused in the suit of murdering Shele Danishefsky Covlin. Public Administrator Ethel Griffin, who handles estate complications, alleges Covlin “intentionally, deliberately, willfully, wantonly, maliciously, brutally and without provocation or just cause did strangle, choke, strike, injure, assault, abuse, beat and murder” his wife. more ›

As authorities continue to investigate the death of Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin, the Post's sources suggest the 30-year-old may have been dealing weed: "[Rubin] had been pressing his friends to buy large weights of weed... Rubin’s friends told investigators that he’d get them as much as a pound of pot at time, according to the sources." And Rubin's money problems are also being looked at. more ›

The Brooklyn man who allegedly confessed to cops that he killed a 73-year-old woman by setting her on fire in a Prospect Heights elevator has been formally charged with murder. Jerome Isaac was indicted today on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Deloris Gillespie, the woman who he allegedly killed over a money dispute. more ›

A Queens man has been found guilty of beating a woman to death and ripping out her heart and lungs after she turned down his romantic advances and didn't find him a job. Huang Chen was sentenced to 29 years in jail for the death of 46-year-old Qian Wu. Wu had taken out six restraining orders against Chen, following repeated instances of harassment. “The victim was left at the mercy of a raging psychopath, a monster who had no business being in our state, in our county, in our country,” said Queens Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter. more ›

The man who confessed to killing and dismembering 8-year-old Hasidic boy Leiby Kletzky this past fall has already been found mentally competent to stand trial—but his lawyer is still arguing that he is insane. Lawyer Howard Greenberg laid out his case in defense of 35-year-old Levi Aron to reporters outside Brooklyn Supreme Court this morning: "He suffered a severe head injury as a young man. There's a history of schizophrenia," the lawyer said. "There's inbreeding in that community." more ›

The Brooklyn man who allegedly confessed to cops that he killed a 73-year-old neighbor by setting her on fire in a Prospect Heights elevator appeared in court yesterday. Jerome Isaac, 47, was seen with burns on the left side of his face more ›

Yesterday, police arrested Jerome Isaac for the stunningly brutal murder of Deloris Gillepsie. Police say that Isaac set the 73-year-old woman on fire in her Prospect Heights building's elevator on Saturday afternoon, and that he made incriminating statements to the cops: "I set the fire in the hallway, and I set the fire in the elevator." more ›

The police say a woman died after being set on fire in her Prospect Heights apartment building's elevator yesterday afternoon—and they say her killer was caught on video. According to the Post, the surveillance video shows "the suspect was waiting on the fifth floor and ambushed his victim as the elevator doors opened. He sprayed the woman with a flammable liquid and then set her aflame and ran off, leaving her to die in agony, police said." And a resident said, “She was screaming at the top of her lungs." more ›

Authorities have confirmed that the remains found earlier in the week in a dense thicket in Oak Beach were those of Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old prostitute from New Jersey who was last seen in May of 2010. Long Island police are also asserting the theory that Gilbert's death is unrelated to the other remains found on Gilgo State Beach. "There's a small sense of peace in that she's no longer suffering," Gilbert's aunt told Newsday. Gilbert's body was spotted around a quarter mile from where her belongings were found. more ›

Yesterday, five men were indicted for the killing of police officer Peter Figoski, who was shot in the face while responding to a Brooklyn home invasion on Monday. Lamont Pride, the alleged shooter, was charged with first-degree murder, while Michael Velez, Nelson Morales, Kevin Santos, and Ariel Tejada were charged with second-degree murder. more ›

On Saturday night, police found the body of NY State tax investigator Tracey Young in her Queens apartment. Young 42, had been shot ten times in the head and torso, and, hours later, her husband, former NYPD officer Clarence Cash, turned himself in at a Manhattan police station. According to the Post, Cash said, "I’m a retired cop. I tried to kill myself, but I couldn’t do it." The Daily News adds that Cash allegedly said, "She didn’t deserve that." more ›