Massachusetts State Policeman Jailed For Beating His State Policewoman Girlfriend, Many Years Of Abuse Alleged

Massachusetts State Trooper Robert Sundberg appears in Ayer District Court on charges of assault on a family member and strangulation or suffocation charges against his girlfriend. He is accompanied by his attorney Richard Rafferty. 

Staff photo by Faith Ninivaggi

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A state trooper was held pending a dangerousness hearing on Wednesday after he was accused of beating his girlfriend, who is also a state trooper, dragging her by the hair and choking her until she almost lost consciousness.
At a hearing today in Ayer District Court, Judge J. Elizabeth Cremens ordered Robert Sundberg, 45, to stay away from the alleged victim for one year. He had abused her for years, a prosecutor said.
Assistant District Attorney Brian Doxtader said Sundberg was intoxicated when he awoke the victim early Saturday at their Boxboro apartment, choking her until she managed to break loose and lock herself in the bathroom.
The defendant forced his way into the bathroom, held her down and choked her until she became dizzy and thought she would lose consciousness, Doxtader said.
She bit him, the prosecutor said, and he threw her into a closet, picked her up by the hair and forced her back into the bedroom, where he later demanded they have sex.
[. . .]
He began abusing the alleged victim, an 11-year veteran of the state police, about two years into their six-year relationship, Doxtader said.
Defense attorney Richard Rafferty said that the allegations were false and that she was angry because the couple was going to buy a house but Sundberg wanted to end the relationship.
“He’s sitting in jail on a false allegation,” he said.
Rafferty claimed that the victim pushed his client, and he fell into a closet.
They both went to work on Saturday, he said, and she went to a party that night.
There was no bite mark found on Sundberg, Rafferty said, and no sign of a struggle was found in the bathroom.
When she asked Cremens for a restraining order today, the alleged victim said Sundberg has a history of abuse that got progressively worse over time.
“Every time I confronted him, he said he didn’t remember anything,” she told the judge.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/04/prosecutor_state_trooper_had_abused_trooper_girlfriend_for_years

Prosecutor: State trooper had abused trooper girlfriend for years
Marie Szaniszlo

Monday, April 25, 2016

Boston Herald

California Police Save Woman Shot By Her Ex-Boyfriend

Kristin Bauer was in a critical condition in hospital on Thursday evening after being rescued by police, who shot dead her ex-boyfriend.

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This is the dramatic moment a SWAT team rescued a 28-year-old woman who was held hostage and shot at point-blank range by her ex-boyfriend.
Armed police shot dead Kristin Bauer's former partner Andrew Bermudez outside an Office Depot store in Redlands, California, where she worked.
Heart-stopping footage shot at the scene shows the tactical police unit dragging a motionless Miss Bauer across the road to safety.
Police said the woman was airlifted to Loma Linda University Medical Center in a critical condition, CBS News reported.
Bermudez, who was identified by Miss Bauer's father, died at the scene.
'He did fire at her. The officers fired at him to try to stop that threat and be able to try to save her life,' Redlands Police chief Mark Garcia said.
'He came to the store, looking for her. She tried to get away and he followed her out of the store. At one point, he did fire a round in the store.'
Garcia said the shooting came after a two-hour stand-off outside the store - from about 2.20pm to 4.30pm PST - which followed a domestic incident between the former couple.
The tense scene was captured on local television and Bermudez was seen stroking petrified Miss Bauer's hair as negotiations with police were underway.
[. . .]
Miss Bauer's father, Gregory Bauer told the Redlands Daily Facts that his daughter phoned him during the confrontation.
'It was like background noise. She kept telling him, "You gotta let me go. You gotta let me go," and he said, "I'm not afraid to die".'
He told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that the phone went dead moments later.
Mr Bauer added that his daughter had dated the man for several months but she had recently broken up with him.
The father said her daughter's ex-boyfriend was usually calm and that something must have 'triggered' him.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3508896/Dramatic-moment-SWAT-team-rescue-woman-28-kill-ex-boyfriend-held-hostage-shot-point-blank-range-outside-Office-Depot.html

Dramatic moment SWAT team rescue woman, 28, drag her to safety and kill her ex-boyfriend after he held her hostage and shot her at point-blank range outside an Office Depot
SWAT team dragged Kristin Bauer to safety after two-hour armed stand-off
She was being held by ex-boyfriend Andrew Bermudez by an Office Depot
Police killed Bermudez after he shot Miss Bauer, 28, at point-blank range
Store worker was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition, police said
Pair had dated for several months but she recently broke up with him
Miss Bauer's father said she called him during the confrontation in Redlands, California, on Thursday
By OLLIE GILLMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 22:27 EST, 24 March 2016 | UPDATED: 07:09 EST, 25 March 2016

Atlanta, GA Lawyer, 59, Arrested In Mexico, After Suspicious Death of Disabled Model Girlfriend, 36

Happy: Tamra Turpin's sister said the 36-year-old was happy with her new boyfriend. 'He has a property by the river and he invited us all there for a party last summer. 'We went boating and he seemed nice.'

[From article]
The family of a disabled woman allegedly murdered in Mexico by her much older lawyer boyfriend are demanding answers - and have pointed to a number of discrepancies in his story.
Tamra Turpin, 36, from Union, Missouri, was found dead on Wednesday in her hotel room in the luxury Playa del Carmen resort near Cancun. Her death first ascribed to an overdose of prescription medication.
After an initial autopsy revealed she had been strangled, 59-year-old John Loveless was arrested by Mexican police as he attempted to board a flight to Atlanta.
Loveless, an attorney specializing in personal injury, remains in custody in Mexico and is being questioned by authorities about Turpin's death.
Now Turpin's sister, Jodi Turpin Mills, 43, has told Daily Mail Online the facts she has just 'don't add up'.

[. . .]


Remembered: 'She was a very strong personality,' Jodi Turpin Mills said. 'She was fun-loving, she had a band that she liked to follow and go and see. Tamra loved summer time. Boating, floating and riding motorbikes.'

The family also raised concerns over reports that Turpin had overdosed on prescription medication, telling Daily Mail Online that although she had attempted suicide once before, she was 'very happy' in the run up to last week's events.
'She did attempt suicide once but she said afterwards that she would never do something like that again,' said Mills, of Mexico, Missouri.
'I can't say that she would never have tried something like that again but she had been so happy, so loved. I think she had more friends than she ever realized.'
Mills said the first inkling she had that something was wrong came the night before Turpin's death, when Loveless called to say she was acting erratically.[. . .]
'He told me they had been arguing, and that she had got very upset and had taken a lot of pills. I think they had been drinking.
'He told me he was taking her to hospital, so I told him to look after her and to tell me what happened.'
The next morning, Mills received a further call from Loveless, this time to say Turpin was 'acting funny' and had had a series of seizures.
'I said he should take her to hospital again and he said he would. I asked to talk to her as well but he said she didn't want to.
'Forty-five minutes later, he called me back and said she was OK and was lying in bed, resting comfortably.'

[. . .]
Loveless and Turpin are thought to have known each other for around four years before becoming romantically involved 12 months ago.
Turpin, who was left with chronic joint pain and migraines following a car accident at the age of 16, was unable to work full time but did pose nude for art classes at a local university and, says her sister, was 'proud of her body'.
'She was a very strong personality,' says Mills. 'She was fun-loving, she had a band that she liked to follow and go and see.
'Tamra loved summer time. Boating, floating and riding motorbikes. She went to a lot of fundraising events too and she loved her pets – they were like her babies.'
Now Mills says she has been left 'numb' by her sister's death but is angry at the lack of official information – and at the surprise development that Loveless was allowed to request a second autopsy on Turpin's body.
'Right now, we're waiting to hear the results,' she said. 'It was done at her boyfriend's request. I don't know why he was allowed to do that.'
Loveless, who is divorced with two adult sons, is currently being held in Cancun, where he briefly appeared before a judge on Friday.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3484581/Tell-happened-Tamra-Family-disabled-woman-murdered-holiday-Cancun-older-lawyer-boyfriend-beg-answers.html

EXCLUSIVE: Tell us what happened to Tamra! Family of disabled woman 'murdered' on holiday in Cancun by older lawyer boyfriend beg for answers
Tamra Turpin, 36, was found dead in her hotel room in Cancun, Mexico last Wednesday of a suspected overdose
But an autopsy found she was strangled and her boyfriend, John Loveless, 59, from her hometown of Union, Missouri, was arrested
Now her sister Jodi Turpin Mills tells Daily Mail Online she wants Loveless to come clean about what happened because the facts 'don't add up'
Loveless, a personal injury attorney, has been given permission from his prison cell to have second autopsy performed
Mills says he told her about her sister's death by text message hours after documents show she was found dead
'If it was an overdose, then I want to know. If it wasn't, then I want to know that too,' she says
By RUTH STYLES IN UNION, MISSOURI, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:52 EST, 9 March 2016 | UPDATED: 18:56 EST, 17 March 2016

Montana Gentleman Shoots Dead His Girlfriend, Then Sends TM To Her Ex-Husband

Fagiano, however, told officers he had been in a relationship with Buhmann (above) for about a year and that he had been thinking about killing her for several months.

[From article]

A Montana man gunned down his girlfriend and then sent a text message about the killing to her ex-husband and others, authorities said Wednesday.
Anthony Tobias Fagiano, 35, was charged with deliberate homicide hours after he turned himself in, telling officers he broke into Darcy Buhmann’s house and shot her, police in Bozeman said.
Buhmann’s ex-husband, Christopher Wood, called 911 to report he received a text from Fagiano that said he had shot Buhmann. The text added: “It’s best for you, she’ll never be faithful.”
[. . .]
When an officer asked if his girlfriend needed medical attention, he replied, “No, man, she’s dead. I popped her in the head,” court records said.
Fagiano told officers he had been in a relationship with Buhmann for about a year and had been thinking about killing her for several months. He said he recently stole a rifle, intending to use it to kill her. He told officers the gun was in a vehicle in the parking lot.

http://nypost.com/2016/03/09/itll-be-best-for-you-mans-texts-girlfriends-ex-after-he-killed-her/

Man kills his girlfriend, then texts her ex-husband
By Associated Press
March 9, 2016 | 3:50pm

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After the alleged killing, Fagiano texted Buhmann's (left) ex-husband, Christopher Wood (right), to tell him 'I just killed that w***e it's best for you, she'll never be faithful'. Wood then called 911 to report the message.

[From article]
A Montana man gunned down his estranged girlfriend and then sent a text message about the killing to her ex-husband and others, authorities said on Wednesday.
Anthony Tobias Fagiano, 35, was charged with deliberate homicide hours after he turned himself in, telling officers he broke into 37-year-old Darcy Buhmann's house and shot her, police in Bozeman said.
Buhmann's ex-husband, Christopher Wood, called 911 at about 5.23am on Wednesday to report that he received a text from Fagiano that said he had shot Buhmann.
'I just killed that w***e it's best for you, she'll never be faithful,' the text said, according to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
Police found broken glass near the back window of Buhmann's home and Buhmann's body in her bedroom closet. She was shot in the head and stomach. Public defender Mary Kramer did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Fagiano told investigators that he took Buhmann's car after the shooting and went to the woods, where he sent texts to several family members about the shooting.
A relative urged him to report what he had done to law enforcement, so he drove to the court and police facility in Bozeman, charging documents said.
When an officer asked if his girlfriend needed medical attention, he replied, 'No man, she's dead. I popped her in the head', court records said.
Fagiano told officers he had been in a relationship with Buhmann for about a year.
He said that he received two different restraining orders and had been thinking about killing her for several months.
He said he recently stole a rifle, intending to use it to kill her, and he told officers the gun was in a vehicle in the parking lot.
Fagiano told officials that he went to Buhmann's house about about 4.30am, broke a window to get in, and found Buhmann hiding in a closet upstairs.
[. . .]
His criminal history includes convictions of domestic battery in 1998, a DUI and disorderly conduct in 2011 and misdemeanor assault in July 2014.
[. . .]
Buhmann issued a restraining order against him on February 21, where she lists Fagiano as an ex-boyfriend.
'This case is an example of why domestic violence matters need to be taken so seriously,' Gallatin County Attorney Marty Lambert said, according to the Daily Chronicle.
'It took less than one month and we have a homicide case,' Lambert added, referring to the restraining order filed last month. 'He has violent tendencies. He's an extreme risk to the members of this community.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3484686/Man-broke-estranged-girlfriend-s-home-shot-dead-hid-closet-sending-text-message-killing-ex-husband.html

Man 'broke into estranged girlfriend's home and shot her dead as she hid in the closet' before texting confession to her ex-husband
Anthony Fagiano, 35, was charged with deliberate homicide on Wednesday
He told officers he broke into 37-year-old Darcy Buhmann's house and shot her on Wednesday morning
Buhmann's ex-husband, Christopher Wood, called 911 to report that he received a text from Fagiano that said he had shot Buhmann
Police say Fagiano sent text messages to several family members about the shooting
Buhmann issued a restraining order against him on February 21, where she lists Fagiano as an ex-boyfriend
Fagiano referred to Buhmann as his girlfriend when speaking to officials on Wendesday
Fagiano appeared in court via video, and his bail was set at $1million
By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 17:01 EST, 9 March 2016 | UPDATED: 17:48 EST, 9 March 2016

CT Gentleman, and Gentle Ladyfriend Charged With Killing His Parents

Break in the case: Police searching for missing couple Jeffrey Navin, 56, and his wife Jeanette, 55, on Thursday discovered human remains at a vacant home in Weston, Connecticut.


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The remains of a married couple missing since August were found in the back yard of a vacant Connecticut home — and cops issued an arrest warrant Friday charging their son with the murder.
The grisly discovery of Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin was made Thursday in upscale Weston, and cops later issued warrants for both their jailed son Kyle and his girlfriend Jennifer Valiante.
[. . .]
Kyle, 27, has been locked up on gun charges since September. When cops searched his home, they found heroin vials, oxycodone and Xanax.
He appeared in court for a hearing Friday and was ordered to remain behind bars.
Dayton, accusing Kyle of lying, said the suspect gave “completely different” versions of what happened when his parents vanished.
[. . .]
cellphones belonging to the victims had “magically” stopped working near Kyle’s home in Bridgeport.
Jeffrey, 56, was president of J&J Refuse in Westport. Jeannette, 55, was a school library aide.
They were last heard from on Aug. 4 and their pickup truck was found with a shattered window in a Westport parking lot on Aug. 9.
The day after his parents vanished, Kyle bought germicidal bleach, drain opener, stain remover and contractor-cleanup bags, police said.

http://nypost.com/2015/10/31/son-to-be-charged-with-murder-after-grisly-discovery/

Son to be charged with murder after grisly discovery
By Joe Tacopino
October 31, 2015 | 1:01am

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Kyle Navin, who is charged with two counts of murder and murder with special circumstances, wrote chilling text messages to his girlfriend about his 'perfect plan'.

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Businessman Jeffrey Navin, 56, and his wife, Jeanette, 55, have been missing since early August. Their son, 27-year-old Kyle Navin, was named a person of interest in the disappearance last month but was arrested on an unrelated gun possession charge.
[. . .]
The couple was officially reported missing the following day, on August 7, after failing to turn up to work at the waste disposal company Jeffrey and his brother William ran together and with relatives unable to contact them on their cell phones.
On September 10, Kyle Navin, of Bridgeport, was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm by a drug user – a crime that can carry a sentence of 10 years.
[. . .]
Navin was shown to have changed his account of his own and his parents' last known movements four times; his girlfriend lied about her whereabouts on the last day the Navins were seen alive; and chilling text messages reveal the bizarre last known communication between father and son in which Jeffrey Navin accuses his eldest son of trying to 'set him up' and 'frame him' for the murder of Jeanette.
To the outside world, the Navins seemed like a family who had it all. According to former neighbor Gail Berman, 60, who lived next to the family in Weston where both Kyle and brother Taylor, 23, attended Weston High School the family seemed 'exceptionally close.'
[. . .]
And the discovery of Jeffery's Dodge pickup on August 9, two days after they were reported missing, cast a sinister light on what fate may have befallen the Navins.
The vehicle was abandoned in a commuter lot off the Merritt Parkway, detectives have said that the passenger window was smashed in and 'physiological fluid' believed to be blood along with a bullet hole was discovered inside.
Similarly Kyle's rapidly changing version of his own movements and the last time he had any contact with his parents is difficult to reconcile with the innocent explanation that the couple abandoned their Connecticut lives of their own volition.
Interviewed on August 7 he told investigators he had last seen his parents on the morning of August 4 when they visited him and asked him to dinner that evening.
He claimed to have declined the invitation because he was in pain from a back injury that, he said, rendered him unable to work.
[. . .]
He claimed that the only communication between him and his father was work related – a claim subsequently blown out of the water by a series of chilling text messages revealed in the affidavit.
They chronicle a bizarre exchange between father and son in which, at one point, Jeffrey asks his son 'Did you hurt mom?' and states 'I'm not going home till I know mom is okay…I go home and get framed for murder.' In another he bluntly states, 'U R setting me up.'
Analysis of Jeanette and Jeffrey's cell phone activity places both in the vicinity of their son's Bridgeport home when their phones were last used before being switched off.
And security camera footage has revealed images of Kyle driving Jeffrey's truck to his parents' home in Easton, followed closely behind by his girlfriend, Jennifer Valiant. The couple then drove away in Valiant's car.
Valiant initially told investigators that she was at home until confronted with the video evidence.
Meanwhile searches of Kyle's home have revealed that the once star athlete was in the grips of drug addiction uncovering drug paraphernalia, baggies containing Oxycodone and Xanax and numerous hypodermic needles containing residues of heroin.
They also found Kyle's gun without which, according to one unnamed friend, he was rarely seen (according to girlfriend Valiant, Kyle 'really likes his gun') as well as a Home Depot receipt for germicidal bleach, hair and grease drain opener, Goo Gone stain remover and contractor cleanup bags.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3297030/Police-digging-vacant-property-discover-suspected-human-remains-search-missing-Connecticut-couple.html

Son and girlfriend are charged over double murder after the bodies of his parents who vanished without a trace three months ago are discovered at his friend's home in Connecticut
Kyle Navin, 27, and his girlfriend, 31-year-old Jennifer Valiante were arrested Friday night, state police said
Navin, who already was in federal custody on a weapon charge, was charged with two counts of murder and murder with special circumstances
Valiante was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and hindering prosecution
Navin's parents Jeffrey, 56, and Jeanette, 55, have been missing since August from their Connecticut home
Police found two bags of remains at a vacant home in Weston Thursday
The owner, Thomas Kerrigan, is reportedly a friend of the Navins' son, Kyle, who is a person of interest in the case
Medical examiner determined by Friday afternoon the remains were human
The Navins had financial troubles but neighbors say they were close and appeared loving
By Snejana Farberov and Laura Collins In Easton, Connecticut, For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:51 EST, 30 October 2015 | Updated: 01:39 EST, 31 October 2015


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Jennifer Valiante of Westport made her first court appearance Monday, four days after Jeanette and Jeffrey Navin's remains were found outside a vacant home in Weston.

[From article]

A Connecticut woman accused of conspiring with her boyfriend to kill his 'piece of crap' parents because they were considering leaving him out of their will says she had nothing to do with the slayings.
Jennifer Valiante, 31, of Westport made her first court appearance Monday, four days after the remains of Kyle Navin's parents, Jeanette and Jeffrey, were found in the yard of a vacant home almost two months after they vanished.
A Bridgeport Superior Court judge held Valiante on a $2 million bail and continued the case to November 24.
Police say Valiante conspired with Navin to kill his parents as they considered cutting him out of their will, but her lawyer insists she was not part of the plot and even led the search for them when they were reported missing.
He also says text messages between the pair supposedly indicating their plans to kill the parents, who Navin described as an 'infection', have been taken out of context.
[. . .]
In the build-up to the death of his parents, Navin reportedly wrote a chilling text message to Valiante saying he had the 'perfect plan' to get '$ for life'.
It was part of a string of sinister correspondences where Navin said he had an idea that would 'give us a wealthy amazing life'.
[. . .]
In one conversation in July, he said he had a plan to 'solve every single problem and give us a wealthy amazing life'.
She replied: 'I hear ya. It sounds very good I just don't know.'
He later wrote: 'Wipe out the infection and get $ for life. It's perfect plan.'
However Warren insists these messages are just a sampling of the hundreds the pair sent between each other on a daily basis and have been taken out of context.
Navin allegedly shot his mother at least once in the chest while she sat in her son's blue truck.
He also supposedly gunned down his father, Jeffrey Navin, possibly in the basement of his Bridgeport home his parents had helped him buy.
[. . .]
According to an arrest warrant affidavit for Valiante, Jeanette Navin was said to be distraught about the situation with her son in the days before she and her husband vanished.
She told a friend that her relationship with her son was 'very tempestuous' and that she thought he was taking drugs, the document said.
The parents had bought a home for their son but he was failing to pay the mortgage and taxes.
Mrs Navin is said to have the friend that they planned to cut their son out if their will, sell their trash-hauling business and leave him without any financial support from the family.
In the warrant obtained by state police charging Valiante, investigators described DNA evidence allegedly found in both Navin's truck and in the basement of his home.
Blood was found along with a bullet hole on the front passenger seat of Navin's truck which tested positive for Jeanette Navin's blood, according to the warrant obtained by The Hartford Courant.
Police also allegedly found blood stains that tested positive for both his blood and his father's blood in the basement of Kyle Navin's Bridgeport home.
They also found prescription pills and heroin inside the property.
Navin, who was already in federal custody on a weapon charge, was charged with two counts of murder and murder with special circumstances.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3300301/Woman-charged-slayings-Connecticut-couple-court.html

Woman accused of helping boyfriend plan to murder his 'piece of crap' parents for cutting his inheritance denies plot and claims she was leading the search for them
Jennifer Valiante, 31, of Westport, Connecticut, denied involvement in plot
Comes four days after Jeanette and Jeffrey Navin's remains were found
Their son, Kyle Navin, 27, is behind bars facing murder charges
Allegedly killed them because they considered cutting him out of their will
He text Valiante saying he had the 'perfect plan' to get '$ for life'
Prosecutors say the pair both planned to kill the parents
Valiante was held on a $2million bail and will return to court in November
By Wills Robinson and Laura Collins In Easton, Connecticut, For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
Published: 13:17 EST, 2 November 2015 | Updated: 17:31 EST, 2 November 2015

Boston, MA Crime Boss' Girl Friend Ignored Murders of Her Brothers

Donald McGonagle



Bobby McGonagle


Paul McGonagle


[From article]
When Whitey Bulger’s moll Catherine Greig was married, her last name was McGonagle.
She had a brother-in-law named Donald McGonagle — Whitey murdered him in 1969.
She had another brother-in-law named Paulie McGonagle — Whitey murdered him in 1974.
Her husband’s name was Bobby McGonagle. He was a Boston firefighter. He died before Whitey got around to murdering him.
Then there was her younger brother, David. Whitey took a shine to the lad, wanted him in the gang, but David Greig kept nodding off at the sit-downs. Whitey diagnosed his malady as a “vitamin deficiency.” Vitamin P — for Percocets. Greig ended up with a bullet in his head down on Cape Cod. The gun was a little far away from the body, but it was the 1980s — the Bulger decade. Verdict: suicide.
So, you can see why Catherine Greig fell so hard for Whitey. She liked “the bad boys,” as she once told her hairdresser, and what could be badder than running around with the guy who wiped out almost your entire family?
[. . .]
Gone, everything gone. From prison, Whitey has claimed that Catherine was the love of his life, but he had barely arrived at the Tucson lockup before he was making goo-goo eyes at the local BOP skirts. Which is why he was put on the bus to Florida. Even in prison, he’s livin’ here, lovin’ there, lyin’ in between.
One last thing. At Whitey’s sentencing, Greig’s late husband’s nephew Sean McGonagle, Paulie’s son, delivered a victim-impact statement about the murder of his father, who Whitey buried on Tenean Beach. Calling Whitey “Satan,” McGonagle spoke directly to his father’s killer:
“You stooped to an all-time low when you called my house. I answered. You told me, ‘Your father’s not coming home for Christmas.’ When I asked, ‘Who is this?’ you answered, ‘Santa Claus.’ ”

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2015/09/carr_horrific_slays_couldn_t_sway_bulger_s_galpal

Carr: Horrific slays couldn’t sway Bulger’s galpal
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
By: Howie Carr
Boston Herald

Massachusetts State Police Capture Fugitive Wanted for Slashing His Cambridge Girlfriend

Arnold Gabbidon, 59

[From article]

The Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, Cambridge Police and the United States Marshals Service tracked Arnold Gabbidon, 59, to Jamaica, where he was living with a relative.
Gabbidon was arrested in Jamaica on Aug. 3. His extradition was processed and he was flown into Boston on Wednesday night. He will be arraigned in Middlesex County on charges of armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, mayhem, threats to commit a crime, armed burglary, stalking, and malicious destruction of property. His arraignment date has not yet been set.
In the early morning of Jan. 14, 1994, Gabbidon — who had been allegedly stalking an ex-girlfriend — broke down the door of the woman’s Cambridge residence, stabbed and slashed her as she slept, leaving her for dead, according to police. The victim was able to call Cambridge Police. She survived the attack, and Gabbidon fled the area.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150903/NEWS/150908612

Cambridge fugitive captured in Jamaica
Posted Sep. 3, 2015 at 8:57 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Updated: Gentle Woman On Trial For Shooting Lawyer Boyfriend Dead; Alleging He Called Her A Hillbilly.

Posted October 27, 2012 4:33 PM ET; Last updated August 4, 2015 8:36 PM ET


Troubled: Poston's family described his relationship with Hubers,
left, as tumultuous and said that the 29-year-old was trying to end it

Don't know enough about this young lady. But my reaction is that she may have felt humiliated by this young man. Maybe he did consider her a hillbilly, and beneath him. It may be the same class difference (real or imagined) as between Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias. Many people have poor or low self esteem. The testimony in the Arias trial showed that she was devoted to Travis and wanted to marry him. He seemed to be treating her as his sex slave which she was willing to be. She just wanted to marry the guy. When  he expressed his disdain for her, she lost it and killed him. 

That is not to say she was justified in killing him. Nor was Jayna in this murder either. Just that it may explain why it happened, and that there is no method for bringing that into the trial. Classism is seldom discussed or mentioned when it comes to bias and discrimination. If these men had expressed their dislike for the women for being black or lesbians they might have been able to use that bias, hate speech, as justification for murder. "He insulted me. He called me a N-word." "He called me a hillbilly." and "He called me a cripple." do not work as easily.  

[From article]
The night that Ryan Poston was shot dead by his on-again, off-again girlfriend he was supposed to meet a former Miss Ohio 2012 beauty queen for a date, an Ohio court heard on Thursday.
Audrey Bolte, who also finished runner-up in Miss USA, told prosecutors she was looking forward to seeing Poston, 29, at a bar to play pool and drink on October 12, 2012, but he failed to arrive.
That was because Shayna Hubers had shot him six times at home - during which she allegedly 'cackled' with glee claimed a cellmate of the accused, who claims the 24-year-old confessed to her while behind bars.
[. . .]
Prosecutors allege that Hubers shot Poston because she was furious he was trying to break up with her.
Hubers, who was 21 at the time, denies murdering her lawyer boyfriend and claims she shot him in self-defense.
Her trial began on Monday and during that time, Hubers has been held at the Campbell County jail in Newport.
Her romer cellmate testified to the court that Hubers joked about the shooting and said she was going to get off all charges.
'Did she ever laugh?' Commonwealth's Attorney Michelle Snodgrass asked Cecily Miller according to Cincinnati.com.
'Oh, yes.'
'About what?'
'About shooting him in the face and giving him the nose job he always wanted,' said Miller. 'That's what bothered me – she cackled.'

 
Trial: Shayna Hubers attends her murder trail in Campbell, Ohio. Hubers is charged with murder in the shooting death of her boyfriend, Ryan Poston.

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Also on the stand was Vernon West, who lived in the condo below Poston with his wife Doris.
They testified they returned home at around 8.30pm and heard a woman crying on a balcony above.
West said that she returned inside the home at around 8.50pm and then he heard two pops that at first he thought were fireworks and then four more and then a thud.
'The first two shots, I thought might have been fireworks,' Vernon West testified according to Cincinnati.com.
'But a few seconds later, I heard four shots, and I knew that wasn't fireworks.'
Vernon West also said that they did not hear a physical fight or arguing before the shots.
Hubers, who was 21 at the time, claimed she was acting in self-defense because the young attorney was shoving and hitting her, but during an interview with police she was quoted as telling a detective she gave Posten 'the nose job he wanted.'
On the first day of testimony Tuesday, jurors were shown a video of the defendant's interview with police following the slaying.
'He was screaming at me at the top of his lungs after he had thrown me around the room,' the woman told a detective sitting across from her, reported Cincinnati.com.
'I shot him enough times to kill him,' she said, 'so that he wouldn't suffer... He was laying there, twitching and making noises, and I shot him in the head.
'I was watching him die. it was painful to watch him die and to know that I had done that,' reported WCPO.
Hubers then described her late boyfriend of one year as 'vain' about his looks.
'I shot him right here,' she said in the video as she pointed to her nose. 'I gave him his nose job he wanted.'

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'He said, 'You're just a hillbilly from Kentucky.' And I am. I guess the hillbilly came out in me, and I took up for myself,' she told police in the recording played in court.
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Hubers graduated from Lexington's Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in 2009.
In the fall of 2010, she made the Dean's List at the University of Kentucky as a sophomore psychology major. Zevely said she is close with her parents, and her mother spent the day with her in Northern Kentucky prior to the shooting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3044086/Woman-cackled-shot-lawyer-boyfriend-trying-dump-beauty-queen-voted-Miss-Ohio-2012-court-hears.html

Woman 'cackled' as she shot dead her lawyer boyfriend as he tried to dump her for Miss Ohio 2012 beauty queen
Ohio court hears that Ryan Poston was supposed to meet Audrey Bolte the night he was shot dead
Shayna Hubers, shot dead lawyer Ryan Poston in 2012
She claims it was in self-defense but the prosecution claims it was murder
Hubers, then 21, told police she shot Poston in the face and then fired again to put him out of his misery
By SNEJANA FARBEROV FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and JAMES NYE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:53 EST, 17 April 2015 | UPDATED: 07:30 EST, 18 April 2015



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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223787/Shayna-Hubers-Woman-shot-dead-lawyer-boyfriend-Ryan-Poston-giving-nose-job-wanted.html

'I gave him the nose job he always wanted': Woman 'shot lawyer
boyfriend twice in the head... then four more times to stop the
twitching'
Detective: Shayna Hubers 'said she gave him the nose job he wanted'
Ryan Poston, 29, was found shot dead in his Ohio condominium
Couple dated for at least a year, but Poston's family said their
relationship was rocky and he wanted to end it
Hubers told police she shot Poston in the face and then fired again to
put him out of his misery
Poston had his own law practice specializing in personal injury cases
Hubers' bond was raised to $5million after being lowered by another judge
By SNEJANA FARBEROV and NINA GOLGOWSKI
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:36 EST, 26 October 2012 | UPDATED: 16:13 EST, 26 October 2012

California Gentleman, 19, Charged With Rape, Kidnapping, Torture of Girlfriend Who He Suspected of Cheating

Eddie Perez, 19, was taken into custody on Saturday night is facing a list of charges including false imprisonment, kidnapping, rape and torture.
[From article]
A 19-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 16-year-old girlfriend and beating her with a tire iron over five days.
Eddie Perez, 19, was taken into custody on Saturday night and is facing a list of charges including false imprisonment, kidnapping, rape and torture.
Sgt. Justin Vallin says the girl's family reported that she had run away about two weeks ago from Avenal.
Investigators believe she was with Perez, but the relationship turned violent when he accused her of cheating on him several days ago.
Police said that Perez held the girl in his car, and she was able to signal a passerby for help on Friday afternoon while he was away.
Witnesses say the victim was found screaming in a car, unable to move from being beaten so badly, reports ABC7.
[. . .]
'She was forced to have sex with him. She was bound at the hands. She was forced to stay inside the car and use the restroom inside the car for the last four to five days,' said Justin Vallin with the Hanford Police Department.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2935493/Man-kidnapped-19-year-old-girlfriend-raped-beat-tire-iron-five-days.html

Man 'kidnapped his 19-year-old girlfriend and raped and beat her with a tire iron for five days'
Eddie Perez, 19, was taken into custody on Saturday night is facing a list of charges including false imprisonment, kidnapping, rape and torture
Girl's family reported she had run away about two weeks ago from Avenal
Investigators believe he turned violent when he accused her of cheating
Perez held the girl in his car, and she was able to signal a passerby for help on Friday afternoon while he was away
By JILL REILLY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:22 EST, 1 February 2015 | UPDATED: 15:32 EST, 1 February 2015

Passionate Florida Lady Threatens Boyfriend When He Says It is Over After Two Weeks

Authorities say Brittney Klemka texted her ex when the relationship ended and told him she was going to come to his hgme and beat him up.

Everybody loves passion.

[From article]
A 21-year-old Florida woman was so wounded by the end of a two-week relationship that police say she threatened to hurt her now-former boyfriend.
Authorities say Brittney Klemka texted her ex when the relationship ended and told him she was going to come to his hgme and beat him up.
She even tried to recruit one more person into the planned assault, Daytona Beach cops said.
[. . .]
Dating back to 2011, she been arrested several times for DUI charges, drug possession, and battery.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2921187/Florida-woman-history-assault-drug-charges-arrested-threating-beat-boyfriend-ended-TWO-WEEK-relationship.html

Woman with history of assault and drug charges arrested for threatening to beat up boyfriend after he ended their TWO WEEK relationship
Authorities say Brittney Klemka texted her ex when the relationship ended and told him she was going to come to his home and beat him up
She even tried to recruit one more person into the planned assault, Daytona Beach police said
On Tuesday she was booked into the Volusia County Jail on charges of making threats to kill or do bodily harm
By MAIL ONLINE REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 00:36 EST, 22 January 2015 | UPDATED: 06:11 EST, 22 January 2015

IN Man Charged With Killing Mother of His Girlfriend

Victim: The body of flight attendant Decarol Deloney-Cain was found bound and wrapped in bags on Monday

[From article]An 18-year-old has been charged with murdering his girlfriend's mother after Indiana police found a GPS system pinpointing where the body was dumped.
Damarius Rashard Wren was charged on Friday with killing Decarol Deloney-Cain, whose body was found stabbed, bound and left in the trunk of her car on Monday.
The 54-year-old flight attendant's body had to be identified through the serial number in her breast implants.
When police searched the victim's home they found traces of blood, stains, and red duct tape similar to that used to bound the hands and feet of Deloney-Cain.
Police were allegedly contacted by the victim's teenage daughter, who said she had found a bloody wrench in the basement bedroom of her home.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2689443/Boyfriend-flight-attendants-daughter-charged-murdering-dumping-body.html

Boyfriend of flight attendant's daughter is charged with murdering her after police find GPS that pinpointed exactly where victim's body was dumped on remote track
Damarius Rashard Wren, 18, is accused of beating and stabbing Decarol Deloney-Cain
Body of 54-year-old was found bound and wrapped in bags in car trunk
By JESSICA JERREAT
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 19:38 EST, 11 July 2014 | UPDATED: 19:52 EST, 11 July 2014

Teen Girls Attack Third Teen in Wisconsin

Two girls 'lured fellow 12-year-old to the woods and stabbed her 19 times in unsuccessful murder plot they planned for months'

This is similar to a report (CBS News 48 Hours, and NBC News Dateline) of two high school girls in West Virginia who lured Skylar Neese, a classmate to the woods and killed her, because they did not want to be friends with her any more.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/06/03/wisconsin-girl-stabbed-1-times-in-woods-recovering/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Wisconsin girl stabbed 19 times in woods recovering
Published June 03, 2014

FoxNews.com

Muslim Man Charged With Homicide of Ex's Hindu Family

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2013 file photo, Iftekhar Murtaza listens during a hearing in Orange County Superior Court in Santa Ana, Calif. Murtaza, a murder suspect, has been admonished by a California judge for speaking out during the testimony of a witness about a 2007 attack she survived at her home during his trial. The incident occurred as Leela Dhanak testified in Murtaza’s trial on charges of attacking her and killing her husband and elder daughter. 

(AP Photo/Orange County Register, Mackenzie Reiss,File) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

[From article]
Iftekhar Murtaza, now 29, took the witness stand Tuesday in his murder trial. He told jurors he was upset when his then-18-year-old girlfriend Shayona Dhanak told him in March 2007 that her parents had threatened to cut her off financially and stop paying her college tuition if she didn't split with him.
Murtaza testified that he went home, took Ecstasy and started chatting online with a friend about how the couple had broken up and he wished her parents were dead. He said Dhanak said her mother, who is Hindu, had told her that his Muslim family came from a line of "beggars and servants."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/13/man-charged-in-deadly-attack-on-ex-family-says-was-high-when-said-wanted-them/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29


Man charged in deadly attack on ex's family says he was high when he said he wanted them dead
Published November 13, 2013
Associated Press

Two Teen Girls Stab To Death Other Girl Becuase They Wanted To End Their Friendship

What went wrong?: the three girls were said to be inseparable friends before Ms Neese was stabbed to death because the two teens allegedly no longer liked her

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2413738/Skylar-Neese-murder-Second-teen-girl-Sheila-Eddy-suspected-slaying-best-friend-tried-adult.html

Pictured: Second teen girl suspected of slaying her best friend 'because she didn't like her anymore' is named, as court rules she'll be tried as an adult
Sheila Eddy, 16, was publicly identified Wednesday by prosecutors and will be tried as an adult
Prosecutors allege that Ms. Eddy and Rachel Shoaf,16, stabbed friend Skylar Neese, 16, to death last summer
Ms Shoaf has already confessed to the killing and is awaiting sentencing
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER, ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER and RYAN GORMAN
PUBLISHED: 07:16 EST, 6 September 2013 | UPDATED: 12:18 EST, 6 September 2013

Jealous Girlfriend Charged With Running Over Cheating Boyfriend, Killing Him

Dunasha Payne, The Jealous Woman

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/woman_busted_after_allegedly_running_bug7lvL69JYJ7br6H5XkCP

Woman charged with murder after allegedly running over boyfriend
By REBECCA HARSHBARGER, KEVIN SHEEHAN and CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:29 PM, April 16, 2013
Posted: 8:56 AM, April 16, 2013

Married Man Murders Veteran Girlfriend By Staging Fake Car Accident

This horrible story was broadcast on CBS's 48 Hours Saturday October 13, 2012. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218084/Brittney-Brashers-Female-Iraq-vet-22-strangled-death-Air-Force-boyfriend-staged-car-crash-cover-murder.html

Female Iraq vet, 22, strangled to death by Air Force boyfriend who staged car crash to cover up her murder Brittney Brashers died in car crash in 2009 but boyfriend survived
Robbie Walters claimed they had fallen to sleep during drunk drive
He had been discharged from Air Force and had violent past
Later admitted to his wife that he had punched and strangled Brittney in the car - while his wife secretly recorded him
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 12:34 EST, 15 October 2012 | UPDATED: 12:50 EST, 15 October 2012

Man Pleads Not Guilty in Killing of Girlfriend

Clayton Whittemore is accused of killing his College Freshman girfriend, eighteen-year-old Alexandra Kogut.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/boyfriend_mourns_court_funeral_dorm_io5xvehZKF9vCrtLzMr0rI

Boyfriend in court for dorm beating death charge as family mourns slain teen at funeral From ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:52 AM, October 4, 2012 Posted: 8:52 AM, October 4, 2012

Man Pleads Gullty To Brutal Killing of Ex Girlfriend

 
 Horror: Sarah Coit, 23, was sliced across the face with such force that the knife broke




Raul Barrera pleads guilty to killing beautiful rich girlfriend 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208162/Sarah-Coit-murder-Fashion-publicist-Raul-Barrera-guilty-killing-beautiful-rich-girlfriend.html


Fashion publicist found guilty of murdering and mutilating his beautiful rich girlfriend after she tried to break up with him
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 02:29 EST, 25 September 2012

Slow CT Justice System

Cold case: Matthew Pugh, left, has been charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend, in 2006




Alexandra Ducsay

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199352/Small-piece-tape-leads-arrest-ex-boyfriend-Connecticut-cold-case-murder-actress-years-ago.html

Tiny piece of tape leads to arrest of ex-boyfriend in Connecticut cold case murder of actress six years ago
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 12:01 EST, 6 September 2012 | UPDATED: 13:59 EST, 6 September 2012

Tampa FL Jilted Man Shoots Dead Ex-girlfriend, Then Self At Airport

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/article/271747/8/Couple-dead-after-apparent-murder-suicide

[Video embedded]
Tampa Police say Luis Rodriguez shot and killed Jamie Kimble before turning the gun on himself
10:41 AM, Sep 4, 2012


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2198311/Jilted-lover-shot-dead-ex-girlfriend-turning-gun-horrified-witnesses-looked-on.html

Jilted lover 'shot dead his ex-girlfriend at airport terminal before turning the gun on himself as horrified witnesses looked on'
Luis Rodriguez was picking up ex-girlfriend from Tampa International Airport
Jamie Kimble was visiting new boyfriend in London
Suspect then shot her dead in front of horrified witnesses
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 13:38 EST, 4 September 2012 | UPDATED: 14:52 EST, 4 September 2012