Tag Archives: Michigan Murder Charges

Martin Zale Faces up to Life in Prison Most people have experienced frustration when trying to get somewhere in a hurry, and the person in front of you drives 10 miles under the speed limit in a no passing zone. Few things are more annoying when you’re running late than getting stuck behind the world’s […]

Crockpot users are constantly espousing the many and varied uses of crockpots. And they are certainly versatile, doing everything from cooking soups and stews to melting wax for homemade candles and even dying yarn. But never mentioned in that list of uses is “murder weapon”. Which, let’s face it, is better for everyone.

It has taken three separate trials and more than three years, but Jeanne Hank’s family members feel that they finally have justice for the murdered 47-year-old woman. Lorenzo D. Relerford Jr. has been sentenced to serve life in prison.

Man Shoots Family and Burns the Bodies Murder horrifies people. Even more so if the victims are children. But what society in general really seems to struggle with is how the victim’s body is handled after the fact. Which is why Corey Lee LaValley who shot a family of three people and then burned their […]

Granddaughter, Missing 17 Years, Finally Declared Dead Om September 22, 1998, 14-year-old Coral Hall went missing. Her last known location was a payphone in the Flint area, from which she called a friend to tell them that she and her grandmother had been fighting again. Records show that shortly before her disappearance, Hall had spoken […]

Solving murders is very hard. But solving a murder that is old enough to be considered a “cold case” is even harder. So when it does happen, officials are usually overjoyed to bring long-denied justice to victims and families who have waited, sometimes decades, for answers. But in the case of 36-year-old Jason Ryan of […]

On January 6th, at 9 am, a number of angry and grieving people will gather in the Wayne County Circuit Court, where Judge Ulysses Boykin will sentence 23-year-old Darnell Cheatham for crimes of torture, murder, arson, child abuse, and mutilation of a dead body.

44-year-old Michael Darnell Williams, a resident of Saginaw with a long history of mental illness, has been charged with attempted murder. Police say Williams stabbed four people on an Amtrak train bound for Port Huron, but according to Williams, he was just fighting demons.

After less than even one full day of deliberations, a jury in the Washtenaw County Trial Court returned with a guilty verdict on all four counts. 32-year-old Willie Wimberly was found guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, witness intimidation and felony firearm.

On Monday, November 10th, 18-year-old Tyrel Bredernitz, who is one of the three teens involved in the murder of MSU student, Dustyn Frolka, was sentenced to spend decades in prison by Clinton County Circuit Judge Randy Tahvonen. During an emotional plea hearing on September 8th, Bredernitz pled guilty to second-degree murder. At his sentencing, Judge […]