Tag Archives: Michigan Homicide Charges

  Terms like “First Degree Murder”, “Felony Murder” and “Premeditated Murder” get thrown around on police dramas (often incorrectly!), but for the people watching, they’re just words. Words that don’t carry much weight, because they don’t mean anything. After all, isn’t murder just murder, plain and simple? You either killed someone, or you didn’t.   […]

  In 2012, our United States Supreme Court ruled that sentencing a minor to life in prison without possible parole was unconstitutional. It was a revolutionary position to take. Then, four years later in 2016, they revisited the issue and ruled that all ‘juvenile lifers’ be resentenced. Any minors in the U.S. serving life sentences […]

29-year-old Josh Salyers has been accused of murdering his 22-year-old girlfriend, Barbie Dailey. Dailey in Muskegon. Dailey is, a mother of three young children and was found dead inside her house Sunday night, September 4th. A Plea of Desperation to Her Father According to Kevin Dailey, the victim’s father, the last contact he had with […]

Jason Brian Dalton, a 45-year-old resident of Kalamazoo, has recently been arrested for what police are saying was a shooting spree that took place in three separate locations around the county. Dalton, who is a former insurance claims adjuster and current Uber driver, is accused of shooting six people, four of whom are now dead.

34-year-old James VanCallis Jr. was found guilty of murder on Monday morning, by a jury of twelve people in the Macomb County Circuit Court. The person they believe he is guilty of murdering? 14-year-old April Millsap, who was found dead in a wooded area where she had been walking her dog, Penny.

Melissa Mitin, the 26-year-old Okemos woman accused of the death of one baby and the suspected death of another, was recently in court again. Appearing in the Ingham County Circuit Court, Mitin was present because the prosecution introduced what they believe is new evidence pointing to the death of Mitin’s second baby.

Felony Murder Reduced to Involuntary Manslaughter Robin Sanford, an Eaton County woman, has pled guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter following the death of her aged mother. Prosecutors offered Sanford a plea deal last week, where she agreed to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter in return for dismissal of the murder charge she was […]

Murder Charges Could Mean Life in Prison A shooting in Inkster has resulted in one man dead and another facing murder charges that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. Brandon Oscar Leroy Benson, a 22-year-old Detroit man, has been arraigned on murder charges in the Inkster District Court. He is […]

Returning to the Scene of the Crime Results in Murder Arrest The idea that criminals return to the scene of the crime is not a new one, and can be found in countless movies and tv dramas nowadays. But is it actually true? Do those who commit crimes return later to the place where it […]

Murder Suspect Rams Police Cars With Stolen Army Vehicle Gregory Allen Rose, the 46-year-old suspect in a Michigan murder, was recently arrested in Carlton County Minnesota. But he didn’t go down without a fight. And he may face even more charges as a result.