This note was written on a balled-up piece of paper, sitting on the top of the trash pile in the home of a suspected killer. Detectives were in disbelief. This unburied treasure was a key piece of evidence that they needed to convict their prime suspect of murder.
Weaver believed he had a suspect, but there was not enough evidence at the crime scene to arrest Gregory Bender for murder. It was a tip from Bender's ex-wife, Daymara Sanchez, that gave Weaver what he needed to build a case against him.
Sanchez told Detective Weaver that she had seen a news report of De La Cerda's murder, and that it sounded very similar to some notes that she had found written in a spiral notebook that belonged to Bender. She told Weaver that when she had questioned Bender about his notebook, he had assured her that the disturbing notes were all just his "fantasy." But, to Detective Weaver, this "fantasy" Sanchez remembered sounded a lot like the very real murder of De La Cerda.
Weaver says Sanchez's tip gave police probable cause to search Bender's house. "Once she told us about the murder plan, that gave us what we needed to get into the house," said Weaver, but he was doubtful the possible killer would have kept this obvious piece of evidence.
The notes read in part, "... dispose of clothes, plate, tracker, gloves." It appeared Bender had accounted for the elimination of almost all evidence, but one oversight in his plan was neglecting to dispose of the notes.
On May 28, 2021, Gregory Bender was found guilty of first-degree murder. Bender's attorneys say the search of his home was illegal. He is now in prison serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole.
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Ok folks, if you're looking for the ultimate guide on how to commit murder and get away with it, I'm your guy! Before you begin your dastardly enterprise, you're going to need to choose a target. May I suggest someone you don't know very well (to eliminate any emotional ties) and who is generally disliked by society (to reduce any sympathy)? For example, the most hated person in your office or that one annoying neighbor who won't stop playing their music too loud. Once you've identified your target, you'll want to scout out their usual habits and whereabouts. To really make sure they're not onto you, check out their social media accounts or other online presence. You want to make sure you have a solid plan that will leave little to no evidence behind.
Today in the Southern District of New York, a superseding indictment was unsealed alleging murder-for-hire charges against Indian national Nikhil Gupta, aka Nick, 52, in connection with his participation in a foiled plot to assassinate a U.S. citizen in New York City. Czech authorities arrested and detained Gupta on June 30, 2023 pursuant to the bilateral extradition treaty between the United States and the Czech Republic.
Gupta is charged with murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire. Each count carries a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Let's say I've spent years setting up the perfect murder to kill person A. Then, when the time comes, I learn some information that makes me realize I'd rather person B died than person A. Thus, at the last minute, I swap out the murder victim, but use the otherwise detailed murder plan to kill B.
I know transferred intent applies if I was trying to kill A and killed B instead, which would make the murder premeditated. But in this scenario I explicitly changed plans to only target B. I'm not sure if the premeditation for killing A transfers when I never actually followed through with an attempt to kill A.
"Premeditation" doesn't require detailed planning or an extended period of time between the decision and the action; it just requires some amount of time in which you could have changed your mind after thinking that you want to kill a person -- in some cases, even as little as a few seconds between the act that provoked the murder and the murder itself.
So even if you are literally talking about a minute of time between the decision to kill B and the execution of that plan, the murder is sufficiently premeditated to support a conviction for first-degree murder.
The fact that you planned to murder someone at all is enough to convict on 1st degree Murder. The level of planning is not bound by time or revising your plans or recycling them. You shouldn't have killed someone in the first place and you shouldn't have planned to kill them and taken all the steps either.
Suppose that you set up your death trap to kill Alice, and then Bob, who you never intended to harm - or even knew for that matter -, springs the trap before Alice and is killed. The law says if you planned to kill someone and someone dies, your guilty. It doesn't have an exception because "you didn't plan to kill that guy." It doesn't say you have to kill the specific person you planned to kill... you just have to plan to kill someone and kill someone.
As discussed in the notes, Second degree murder requires no planning but because of how pre-meditation has been defined to a very narrow moment of time, the scenarios for murder with no premeditation are basically "A man comes home to find his wife sleeping with another man, flies into a rage, and kills the other man before calming down." It has to occur that quick. The fact that you switched targets doesn't mean you didn't plan the second target's murder. It just means you made a few drafts to kill someone. In many ways it's worse, because you have no reason to kill any target, you just wanted to kill someone.
It took the jury only 90 minutes to reach its unanimous verdict last week in the case of Kenneth Morgan Stancil III, 22, accused of the April 13, 2015, shotgun murder of his former boss, Ron Lane. Stancil, bearing various white supremacy tattoos, faces life in prison for the murder.
Police tipped off Mack McDaniel about the alleged hit. Working with authorities, Mack McDaniel agreed to pose for photos that would make it appear like he had been murdered in a carjacking gone wrong. A fake bullet wound was fashioned on his head and he was photographed slumped over the wheel of a car.
According to police, the two feigned shock over the news and Jacob offered up an alibi about their whereabouts -- even before officers asked them. Finally satisfied that they had all the evidence they needed, detectives arrested McDaniel and Jacob for solicitation of capital murder.Before Valerie McDaniel was taken into custody, officers allowed her to retrieve her daughter, who was asleep in her bedroom at the time, and hand her off to her ex-husband waiting in the hallway, who, she had just been told, was in fact very much alive.
This past Friday, a jury found Jacob guilty of both counts of solicitation of capital murder after deliberating for less than two hours. On Monday, he was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.Moments after the sentence was read, Verikas took the stand to deliver a final send-off to her former boyfriend.
By the summer of 1944, German authorities murder approximately 77,000 Jews from the Łódź ghetto in Chełmno. In total at least 167,000 Jews are murdered at Chełmno. The vast majority of them were Jews from the surrounding region, including Łódź.
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought.[1][2][3] This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter. Manslaughter is killing committed in the absence of malice,[note 1] brought about by reasonable provocation, or diminished capacity. Involuntary manslaughter, where it is recognized, is a killing that lacks all but the most attenuated guilty intent, recklessness.
Most societies consider murder to be an extremely serious crime, and thus that a person convicted of murder should receive harsh punishments for the purposes of retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, or incapacitation. In most countries, a person convicted of murder generally faces a long-term prison sentence, a life sentence, or capital punishment.[4]
Proto-Germanic in fact had two nouns derived from this word, later merging into the modern English noun: *murþrą "death, killing, murder" (directly from Proto-Indo-European*mŕ̥-trom), whence Old English morðor "secret or unlawful killing of a person, murder; mortal sin, crime; punishment, torment, misery";[6] and *murþrijô "murderer; homicide" (from the verb *murþrijaną "to murder"), giving Old English myrþra "homicide, murder; murderer". There was a third word for "murder" in Proto-Germanic, continuing Proto-Indo-European *mr̥tós "dead" (compare Latin mors), giving Proto-Germanic *murþą "death, killing, murder" and Old English morþ "death, crime, murder" (compare German Mord).
The -d- first attested in Middle English mordre, mourdre, murder, murdre could have been influenced by Old French murdre, itself derived from the Germanic noun via Frankish *murþra (compare Old High German murdreo, murdiro), though the same sound development can be seen with burden (from burthen). The alternative murther (attested up to the 19th century) springs directly from the Old English forms. Middle English mordre is a verb from Anglo-Saxon myrðrian from Proto-Germanic *murþrijaną, or, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, from the noun.[7]