Yesterday, a jury found disbarred lawyer Carlos Perez-Olivo guilty of killing his wife. In 2006, Perez-Olivo claimed he was run off Route 100 in Westchester County and that a gunman shot his wife in the head and him in the stomach, but police arrested him late last year. Cops, who had called it "an unusual-sounding incident," connected him to the gun, found in a lake and prosecutors noted that the gun looked a lot like......

The police arrested Tiana Browne, 15, in connection with the murder of her 16-year-old cousin. On Tuesday afternoon, Browne's aunt Marva Braithwaite returned to her home in Crown Heights to find her daughter Shannon stabbed to death. Browne was found in her cousin's clothes and sneakers, apparently taken after she stabbed her 18 times. Browne also took Shannon's MP3 player, cell phone, and camera. The Daily News reports that "As a good Christian woman, Marva......

A Queens man is being monitored at Bellevue Hospital after confessing to murdering his 80-year-old mother with a crutch. Police found the crutch along with a bloody knife after receiving a call from Sergeui Mamontov, who uses the crutch because he only has one leg. Mamontov, who has a history of mental illness also tried to castrate himself, telling police he was "trying to remove the evil." Lyudmila Mamontova lived in the same Far Rockaway......

Prosecutor Ama Dwimoh told jurors what 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown's final words were, "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" "after being beaten, battered, broken and thrown naked onto a cold wooden floor." Brown's mother Nixzaliz Santiago is on trial for the girl's murder, as the Brooklyn DA's office contends Santiago did nothing to prevent her husband Cesar Rodriguez from delivering a fatal beating in January 2006. Dwimoh added, "She left her to die. Nixzaliz Santiago simply did not care."......

Former TV producer Julie Horner Lankamp was found dead in her Gold Street apartment Tuesday with "her crying young daughter clutching her legs," as the Daily News sensationally puts it. Relatives say they hadn't spoken with Lankamp since Sunday and police don't know how long the two-year-old had been stranded with her mother's body, which had begun to decompose. Lankamp had a broken jaw, bruises, and dried blood pooled near her nose and mouth, but......

Jurors were warned by prosecutors that the trial would be "emotional" as jury selection began in for a second trial related to 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown's death. This time, the child's mother Nixzaliz Santiago faces murder charges. Nixzmary was killed in January 2006, after being beaten by her stepfather Cesar Rodriguez for apparently taking some yogurt (or pudding) without permission. She spent her final hours beaten and having her head hit against the bathtub faucet and......

The police suspect 32-year-old Bronx resident, Julio Rolando Flores, has killed and dismembered his 28-year-old ex-girlfriend, The NY Times reports. The details get more gruesome, however, as her body parts were placed in tupperware containers and entombed in concrete at a construction site in Teaneck, New Jersey, where authorities found the man covered in cement yesterday. Earlier in the day the family of the girl, Jaritza Calderone, received a call from Flores saying they would......

Somehow, the NY Post has obtained police interviews with Claire Higgins, the best friend of John Jay College graduate student Imette St. Guillen, whose brutal 2006 murder shocked the city. Around 11 p.m. on the night of February 24, 2006, Higgins and St. Guillen headed from Higgins's Morningside Heights apartment to the Pioneer Bar. In the middle of their time there, Higgins recalled that St. Guillen had about four or five rum and Cokes: "We......

Last November, an underground poker club in the Flatiron district was robbed, and one of the masked gunmen "accidentally" fired his pistol and fatally shot a man. Yesterday, the Manhattan DA's office charged the robbery's alleged mastermind, saying Bronx resident William Delvalle "really took charge of the entire robbery." According to the NY Times, prosecutors claim Delvalle yelled to one of his partners, "Get me a victim." Though prosecutors say Delvalle's face is visible on......

The Health Department issued a report about "Intimate Partner Violence" in NYC, and, between 2003 and 2005, 44% of all women murdered were killed by intimate partners. The Health Department also noted that domestic violence also accounted for nearly 4,000 visits to the ER. Those most at risk appear to be women in their 20s, black women, and women in low-income areas. Additionally, ERs most commonly see women who have been punched or kicked, but......

A 36-year-old man headed to work at Merrill Lynch's Jersey City office was stabbed to death this morning. The victim was identified as Michael Fuccile, director of chief compliance, and a father of three. Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio told the Jersey Journal, "It appears to be a random act of violence and there is no indication there was any dispute or demand for property." WABC 7 reports that the suspect, Elgin Taylor Jr., may......

Yesterday, Jeromie Cancel, suspected of killing 19-year-old Kevin Pravia, was arraigned in court. Prosecutors offered some new details about the crime, saying Cancel originally simply stole Pravia's electronics and almost left the West 15th Street apartment but went back to smother the Pace University student in his sleep. Cancel, 22, met Pravia early Saturday morning in Union Square, and when they went back to Pravia's apartment, Pravia fell asleep. Cancel initially decided to only steal......

WNBC reports that 66-year-old Nick Nowillo died after a confrontation with an attacker on Crescent Avenue in Long Island City. The 43-year-old attacker, who was arrested but not identified, allegedly hit Nowillo several times, including punching him so hard that he died at Astoria General Hospital later. Nowillo, who had been escorting a woman home because she felt the suspect "was...acting strangely" in the street, was a beloved figure in the neighborhood, nicknamed the "Mayor......

Late last night a Queens man called police after discovering his parents, a couple in their 60s, who had both been fatally shot in the head inside their bedroom. Cops found no sign of forced entry and recovered a .38 at the apartment where Salvatore and Evelyn Rovino were murdered on 75th Street. Meanwhile over in Crown Heights, 63-year-old Katrina Anderer was found dead in her apartment after she had been murdered by blunt force......

Earlier this year, subway conductor Maurice Parks was coming off his shift when he was attacked by a group of men in Harlem. A skilled martial arts experts, Parks managed to defend himself and in the frenzy, stabbed someone he thought was an attacker--but it turned out to be a bystander who may have been trying to help. Now Parks has been arrested and charged with the bystander's murder. The NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said,......

John Gotti Jr., who was recently arrested by the feds on charges of murder and drug running, pleaded not guilty in a Florida court. Though the murders were allegedly in NY, he is being prosecuted in Florida because prosecutors say the Gambino crime family was "trying to gain a foothold" in Tampa. Which his lawyers are trying to change, saying, "The events happened in New York, and it's a disadvantage to transfer everything here." Prosecutors......

A man accused of stabbing his 21-year-old girlfriend to death over the weekend was arrested in Brownsville, Texas. U.S. Marshals had received information that 25-year-old Segundo Penafiel was on his way to Mexico, so they stopped and checked buses. Spokesman Deputy U.S. Marshal Alfredo Perez said, "Penafiel was the third person to walk off the bus, took one look at our Deputy U.S. Marshals and then tried to run away"--with Mexico just a few hundred......

A man who owned a video store Lott Avenue was shot to death in the store, The Whole Nine Yards, yesterday morning. El-Hajj Kareem Shabazz, described by the Daily News as someone "known for forgiving customers...if they were a few dollars short," was confronted by two robbers yesterday morning. An employee "walked in as Shabazz collapsed." One teen remember that Shabazz let youngsters look around, which many shop owners didn't allow, and one neighbor told......

The investigation into the double murders of Mark Schwartz and his wife Christina Petrowski-Schwartz is continuing, but some nonbinding wills were made public and were proclaimed "oddball...bizarre" by the Daily News and "weird...bitter" by the Post. Schwartz made it clear he didn't want to give anything to his estranged brother--"Robert, you have a choice, you can come to my grave site to say hello out of love or piss on me for not giving you......

Natavia Lowery, who is suspected of killing her boss, celebrity real estate broker (and former manager for the Ramones) Linda Stein, has announced she has a new lawyer. The Daily News reports, "Her notoriously talkative attorney Ron Kuby has been replaced by the taciturn Rick Jones." The NYPD said that Lowery, 26, bludgeoned Stein after the 62-year-old was rude to her and blew pot smoke in her face; investigators also point to Lowery's confession. However,......

A Craigslist hookup went tragically wrong for 24-year-old Daniel Brandt late Saturday night. Police say the Brooklyn man showed up at a Coney Island apartment expecting to rendezvous with a woman he met on Craigslist. Instead, he was fatally shot in the head by two men who robbed him and fled the scene. Brandt later died in Coney Island Hospital; his assailants are still on the loose but an NYPD source tells the Post that......

Following yesterday's news of Mark David Chapman's latest chance for parole coming up this week, The Daily News chimes in with some more from Yoko Ono. She has, naturally, long been against her husband's killer being released, for her family's safety, but has also stated that: "It's dangerous for him to come out. Not only for us, but for himself. There are so many people out there who dislike him. It's safer for him to......

A 21-year-old man has been arrested for fatally slashing his 32-year-old girlfriend in a Queens apartment. Veronica Rivera was pronounced dead at the scene, and police say she was killed in front of her 9-year-old and 6-month-old daughter after an argument with the baby's father, Pedro Ayala. Rivera's mother said her daughter had left Ayala twice and told the Post, "She was scared for his life. They moved into the basement together awhile ago, but......

Two Americans were stabbed in Beijing today by a crazed Chinese man who then immediately committed suicide. The victims were a man who was killed and a woman who was injured, both relatives of a U.S. Men's Volleyball Coach. The stabber, a 47-year-old man from Hangzhou, then threw himself from the second story of the site of the attack, the 13th-century Drum Tower three miles from the main Olympics site.......

Some details of 24-year-old Sayed Rahman's confession to the murder of Ingrid Rivera at Times Square karaoke club Spotlight Live have emerged. The victim's friend has spoken out about the events of the evening--she, too, was attacked by Rahman--though there seem to be conflicting reports about all of the details. The way the Daily News tells it, Rivera and Sasha Castillo had been invited to Lil' Kim's party by a member of the rapper's entourage,......

In the latest case against John Gotti Jr., federal prosecutors claim the Teflon Don's son orchestrated three mob hits in NYC and ran a huge coke ring in Florida. A U.S. Attorney said, "This indictment captures a lifetime of criminality." The Daily News has a timeline (time horizon?) of cases brought against the two John Gottis and also details crimes of the friend who ratted Junior out (the friend had once smuggled another mobster's sperm......

A Middle Village man was arrested on two counts of second-degree murder Friday after confessing to the killings of Joseph Odierno and Jairo Santos in a drug deal gone wrong. The Daily News reports that police raided the Queens home of 28 year-old Darren Lynch to discover "handguns, rifles, an AK-47 machine gun, a bulletproof vest, cocaine, heroin and marijuana, and books about serial killers." Lynch was upset that he paid Odierno and Santos $20,000......

Yesterday, the police arrested Rodlyn Petitbois (pictured), who they believe killed a Massachusetts woman who sheltered Petitbois's girlfriend and their four children. Petitbois was found walking down a street while the children and mother were found in Prospect Park. Petitbois allegedly stabbed Greenland Etienne, who had been trying to stop him from attacking girlfriend Louna Eveillard, early Wednesday in Lynn, MA. Petitbois had stabbed his girlfriend in the hand, and when Etienne tried to call......

The NY Post reports that one of the wrenches in solving the Linda Stein murder case has been removed; the blood found mixed with Stein's in her bathroom has been identified. Previously referred to as the blood of a mysterious "Male A," it turns out it was that of Officer Anthony Seguinot's, who "accidentally contaminated the crime scene by washing his hands before the final forensic examination of the bathroom sink." This puts a damper......

The body of John Fresca, who owned Fresca's on the Bay in Tottenville on Staten Island, was found after midnight, near the restaurant. He had been shot multiple times; workers had heard gunshots, but didn't see the shooter. Per 1010 WINS, "This isn't the first time someone tried to harm Fresca at his restaurant. In 2005, four men shot at and beat Fresca, leaving him with broken bones and a head injury," apparently because Fresca......