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 ›

So sad. Last night an apparent murder-suicide in Bayonne, New Jersey, left four people (including a baby) dead and a fifth being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. According to Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith the shooting, "a tragedy and a senseless loss of life for the family and the community as a whole," was performed by one man who shot the two adults, the baby and then himself. The baby, a boy, was 14 months old. more ›

Police discovered a mother and son dead in their Clifton, NJ home this weekend that they believe was a murder-suicide. Authorities say that 20-year-old Robert Regazzi shot his mother, 53-year-old Cheryl Regazzi, before he fatally overdosed on some type of narcotic. Police are unsure what prompted the shooting. more ›

Devi Silvia, the 34-year-old woman who threw her 19-month-old baby into the Hudson last year in a botched murder-suicide attempt, is being offered the chance to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, DNAinfo reports. Silvia had already been diagnosed as being bipolar after being taken into police custody. more ›

Patterson wasn't the only tenant he threatened yesterday, either. A teenage boy living in Reid's Jamaica, Queens, building heard the commotion from the second floor and came out in his boxers to find Reid "bloody blade in hand." The landlord reportedly "rushed at the teen, and the boy quickly hopped a fence and called 911 from a neighbor’s home," his mother said. more ›

An ongoing dispute between a 62-year-old Queens landlord and his 48-year-old tenant turned tragic today when Eulith "Sonny" Reid reportedly bludgeoned Hettie Patterson with a machete before turning the blade on himself. Both were transported to Jamaica Hospital where they were pronounced dead. According to neighbors, Patterson may not have paid her rent in a few months—or possibly Reid was refusing to accept it in an attempt to force her out. more ›

The father of the Westchester woman who was killed by her husband Sam Friedlander, who also fatally shot their two children before committing suicide himself, is fighting back at accusations that his daughter was emotionally abusive to Friedlander. Gary Perez told the Journal News that Friendlander made his daughter Amy get an abortion when she became pregnant with their third child, "He said he was too old to have more children. And when she got home, he not once did anything to help her. She was very upset, and she was having difficulty coming to terms with it. When she expressed this to her husband, he told her to 'deal with it.'" Perez also suggested that Friedlander was too interested in their 10-year-old daughter. more ›

A day after discovering a family of four dead in their Westchester County home, police say that Sam Friedlander, 50, beat his wife to death and fatally shot his two children in their beds before turning the gun on himself. Friedlander and wife Amy were in the process of divorcing, but they were still living in the same Cross River home: Amy in the master bedroom and Sam in a guest bedroom. Sam Friedlander's friends said his wife drove him to the senseless violence— one pal Michael Borg said, "I think it was just the constant berating. Everything he did she criticized. She belittled him in front of the kids," and that she treated him “like he was a piece of s--t, like he was worthless, totally emasculating him." more ›

Police have charged Khemchan Sulaiman, 45, an MTA bus maintainer from Jamaica, Queens, with second-degree attempted murder for allegedly poisoning his two-year-old daughter before trying to take his own life. But before Sulaiman can be arraigned he has to recover from his own apparent attempted suicide. He and his daughter have been in critical (now stable) condition since they were discovered barely breathing in Sulaiman's car on Monday morning. more ›

The young boy who escaped a sinking minivan that his mother drove into the Hudson River, drowning herself and his three siblings, received a help hand from the United Athletes Foundation, which held a fundraiser for 10-year-old Lashaun Armstrong. Over $20,000 was raised for him, and the little boy said, "I'm sad because I'm going through a tough time right now. I'm pulling through." more ›

Today, the funeral is being held for LaShanda Armstrong, the Newburgh woman who drove her minivan into the Hudson River, killing herself and three children (her 10-year-old son escaped). A joint funeral for Armstrong and 5-year-old Landon, 2-year-old Lance and 11-month old Lanaina was originally planned, but the father of the deceased children announced yesterday that the children would be buried apart from their mother. Armstrong's aunt was seething and told the Daily News, "I am very angry. This jackass just came in here and messed everything up. She should be buried with her children, regardless of what she did." more ›

The tragic drowning murder-suicide of a woman and her three children in the Hudson River grows as it turns out her 10-year-old son managed to open a window and climb out of the sinking minivan. But Lashanda Armstrong, 25, allegedly told little Lashaun and his young siblings, ages 11 months to 5 years old, "If I'm going to die, you're going to die with me." Lashaun Armstrong also told the authorities that she grabbed his pants leg, told him, "I made a mistake," and let him go. more ›

Last night, a woman drove her minivan with her four children—ages 11 months to 10 years old—to the Hudson River in Newburgh, NY. She let the 10-year-old boy out, but then she continued driving into the river, drowning herself and a 5-year-old boy, a 2-year-old boy, and an 11-month-old girl. Apparently the women fled her husband after a domestic dispute. more ›

A Bronx man gave his estranged wife a fatal dose of cyanide before drinking the poison and killing himself on Tuesday. Erlendy Flores had returned to their Bronx home to pack her things after having broken up with her husband, Falvio Godoy. The two had a complicated relationship according to neighbors: "He would paint the walls with her. You could hear the screaming. I called the cops myself. No man should hit any woman with anything but his lips," said neighbor Richard Santiago. more ›

Yesterday, a Bronx fire claimed the lives of a baby, a man and a woman, and now it turns out the man, Vincent Cordero, had stabbed his wife before setting fire to the Morris Heights apartment. The fire then killed their one-year-old daughter Keity and Cordero later died of smoke inhalation. A neighbor, Erick Carpio, told the Post, "There were flames everywhere. I tried to grab the child out of the crib, but I couldn't." more ›

Yesterday, a funeral service was held in Brooklyn for the Staten Island mother and her four children who died last month. Leisa Jones killed her children, 14-year-old C.J., 10-year-old Brittnie, 7-year-old Melonie and 2-year-old Jermaine, and then herself. Their bodies were found after a fire in their Port Richmond apartment and it emerged that Jones had been struggling financially. Another funeral is being held in D.C. today, followed by a burial. The Brooklyn Funeral Home's owner Anthony Cassieri is paying for all the service; he told the Staten Island Advance, "This happened not far from where I live. No matter what happened, it’s still a tragedy. [The mother] was obviously in a very bad place." more ›

The NYC Medical Examiner's Office said that the Staten Island mother, whose body was found with her four children's bodies after a fire, killed herself and that her 14-year-old son was killed. Leisa Jones's autopsy showed that she died of smoke inhalation while her son C.J. Romoy's death was ruled a homicide—his throat was slashed. Initially police thought that C.J., who was having trouble in school and was seen setting small fires, slashed the throats of his two sisters, set fire to the apartment (killing his baby brother and mother), and then slashed his own throat. But then other evidence, such as a charred note that had the words "am sorry" and pills found in C.J.'s and Jones's stomaches, plus statements from the boy's father, suggested Jones, who was struggling financially, may have been behind the murder-suicide. more ›

Yesterday, a Bronx mother and her 12-year-old autistic son were found dead, side-by-side in a bed, in their Morris Heights apartment. Because there were no signs of a forced entry and a gun was found near Micaela Jackson's hand, it's believed that Jackson shot son Kenneth Holmes and then herself. A neighbor wondered to the Daily News, "She really looked stressed out. She was so tired of screaming at him. Maybe he pushed her to the extreme and it came to this?" more ›

After the police suggested that a 14-year-old boy was killed his three siblings and mother on Staten Island last week, evidence has emerged that cast suspicions on his mother. Police spokesman Paul Browne told the NY Times, "We may never know how this transpired." more ›

After initially suspecting that a 14-year-old had killed his siblings and his mother and then himself, police may now believe that the mother was behind the tragic deaths. The Post reports that an autopsy shows that C.J. Romoy, 14, died of from his throat being slashed, as did his 10- and 7-year-old sisters, while his mother Leisa Jones and 2-year-old brother died from smoke inhalation. Which means, per the Post, that Jones "slit three of her kids' throats before she killed herself and her baby" in the Port Richmond fire. more ›

As the investigation continues into the deaths of a Staten mother and her four children (their bodies were discovered after a three-alarm fire), sources say that the handwriting found on a note left in the ashes which said "am sorry" may match the mother's handwriting. The NY Post reports, "Investigators compared the badly burned note to writings in Leisa Jones' journal, which was found at the scene, and believed they found a match, according to two sources." more ›

The heartbreaking news that mother and her four children died after a fatal fire in their Staten Island home early Thursday morning turned haunting when authorities suggested the 14-year-old son slashed the throats of two siblings and then set fire to their apartment. Now, the tragic story seems to grow, as law enforcement says a charred note saying "am sorry" was found stuck to a butane lighter. more ›

The house fire that claimed the lives of a mother and her four children in Staten Island's Port Richmond section yesterday morning may have been arson—and police suspect it was a murder-suicide committed by the eldest child. The Staten Island Advance reports, "Police believe 14-year-old C.J. Jones slit the throats of his sisters, 7-year-old Melonie and 10-year-old Brittney, torched his family’s apartment on the second floor of 302 Nicholas Ave., then ran a razor across his own throat." more ›

The winner of today's crazy horrible tabloid story has to be this account of a murder-suicide in Flushing, Queens, courtesy of the Daily News. Claudia Montoya, the 31-year-old mother of a 1-year-old baby girl, was brutally stabbed to death in her home yesterday by her long-suffering jealous admirer, who then committed suicide by lying down on the 7 train tracks at the Hunters Point station. Montoya was found around 7:50 a.m. after neighbors became alarmed by a powerful odor of gas emanating from the apartment, which she shared with her boyfriend, the baby's father. Her two Yorkshire terriers were also found dead inside, presumably from the gas. more ›

Last month, a 33-year-old woman tossed her 19-month-old daughter into the cold Hudson River and then jumped in after her, in an apparent murder-suicide attempt. Now her lawyer is asking a judge to set Devi Silvia free and says she has been recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. more ›

Police have arrested a man who admitted to strangling a mother and her 8-year-old daughter and making it look like a murder-suicide. Shakeema Elliott and daughter Kaliya Williams were found dead in a bathtub surrounded by pills in their Brooklyn home on Sunday, but an autopsy revealed that they had both been strangled. Elliott's ex-boyfriend and the building's janitor, Amahal Lynch, admitted to killing both after sodomizing the little girl, and was charged with two counts of second-degree murder. more ›

Manhattan prosecutors painted a grim picture of why a 33-year-old woman threw her 19-month-old daughter into the Hudson River earlier this week. ADA Robert Hettleman explained that Devi Silvia "said she was sad and lonely and angry at her husband, and that she did this horrific act on purpose. She made clear that she threw her baby into the freezing river in order to get back at her husband." more ›