Anna Pehota’s Defense Takes Fresh Turn Down Memory Lapse in Husband’s Killing
An unexpected statement by Pehota, 76, who faces a 2nd degree murder charge, that she doesn't remember her interrogation opened the way for a defense on psychological grounds, and a request for a delay...
View ArticleCounting the Days, Anna Pehota, Who Killed Husband in Hammock, Welcomes Trial...
The trial of Anna Pehota, 76, who faces a second-degree murder charge for shooting her husband dead in October, goes on trial on July 18, a date Judge Matthew Foxman said is immovable. The post...
View ArticleRetired Palm Coast Nurse Accused of Suffocating Husband, a Cop, in Hospital Bed
Henry Soschalski, 64, and his wife Jan Sochalski, 61, had lived in their Palm Coast home 13 years. She faces a second-degree murder charge over his death in a hospital bed. He had been in a coma for...
View ArticleWho Shot Tiffany Norman? In Attempted Murder Trial, Her Ex Is Shown as...
Jonathan Canales, shown through body cam and interrogation videos, couldn’t keep his story straight or mask his misogynistic hatred of the victim as the trial entered its third day. The post Who Shot...
View Article“If I Was To Shoot Tiffany, Do You Think I Would Use a .22 When I Have an M-4...
Jonathan Canales, accused of attempting to murder his ex with a rifle shot to the neck, said he'd have used a more powerful weapon if he really wanted to kill Tiffany Norman, and left her dead. The...
View ArticleJury Finds Jonathan Canales Guilty of Attempted Murder of Ex; He Faces...
A jury believed the prosecution's argument that Jonathan Canales had attempted to kill his then-girlfriend and made up innumerable stories, claiming she had attempted suicide. The post Jury Finds...
View ArticlePhillip Haire Turns Down Plea Even His Attorney Recommended, Risking Life in...
Phillip Haire is accused of 10 charges, including 3 counts of attempted murder for allegedly shooting at a Flagler sheriff's sergeant and at his father in a drive-by shooting at his Palm Coast home in...
View ArticleRejecting Lesser Term, Judge Sentences Jonathan Canales to Life in Prison in...
Jonathan Canales, 31, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend Tiffany Norman in their Mondex home in 2014. The judge declined to exercise his...
View ArticleFPC’s Curtis Gray, 18, Is Shot and Killed Outside Coin Laundry in Palm Coast
Curtis Gray, 18, a Flagler Palm Coast High School senior, was shot and killed outside a smoke shop and coin laundry off Belle Terre Parkway at 12:36 this morning, the Flagler County Sheriff's Office...
View ArticleMarion Leo Gavins Jr. Turns Himself In, Ending 36-Hour Search After Killing...
Marion Leo Gavins Jr., the 17-year-old Palm Coast suspect wanted in the shooting of Curtis Gray, 18, early Saturday morning, turned himself in to Flagler County Sheriff's deputies this afternoon. The...
View ArticleMan Accused of Attempting to Kill His Wife By Electrocution Says Using a Gun...
Michael Scott Wilson, 33, is accused of rigging up the entry door to his Palm Coast home in the W Section with electric current to shock his wife to death around Christmas 2017 as the couple was having...
View Article‘I Do Hear Voices,’ Man Accused of Plotting Wife’s Electrocution Says, But...
Wilson faces an attempted first-degree murder charge, for rigging his own home's entry door in Palm Coast with a contraption intended to electrocute his wife around Christmas 2017. But he's barred from...
View ArticleMichael Wilson Acquitted of Attempted Murder of His Pregnant Wife, Jury...
Michael Wilson was acquitted of the most serious charge against him--attempting to electrocute his wife--but convicted on a grand theft charge and a battery charge, exposing him to up top five years in...
View ArticleBenjamin Allen, 16, Arrested In Shooting of Elijah Rizvan Over a $125-Drug Deal
Benjaim Allen, 16, was arrested and charged in the murder of Elijah Rizvan, 17, Friday night on Palm Coast's Westford Lane, the consequence of what had been planned as a deal for marijuana. The post...
View ArticleDespite Concerns and Strange Behavior, Joseph Bova Once Again Judged...
For six years Joseph Bova, accused of murdering Zuheily Roman Rosado at a Palm Coast gas station in 2013, has see-sawed between Flagler's jail and a psychiatric hospital. He appears finally headed for...
View ArticleBenjamin Allen, 16, Is Charged as an Adult in 1st Degree Murder of...
State Attorney R.J. Larizza opted to try Benjamin Allen as an adult for the July 12 incident. If convicted, he may face life in prison, but he is not eligible for the death penalty. The post Benjamin...
View ArticleTurning Down Plea Offer, Michael Cummings Will Be Tried Nov. 18 on Wife’s Murder
Michael Cummings is accused of murdering his ex-wife at the house they shared on Point Pleasant Drive in Palm Coast in November 2018. Faith Cummings, 44, was found bludgeoned and asphyxiated. The post...
View ArticleFor Jury in Double-Murderer Case, Snelgrove’s Mental Disability Is a Gray...
David Snelgrove's double-murder of an elderly couple in palm Coast 20 years ago is not in dispute, but whether he should be put to death for it is. A jury will have to contend with the brutality of the...
View ArticleEligible for Re-Trial, Dorothy Singer Pleads in 2017 Murder of Her Husband...
She was eligible for a new trial. But facing daunting evidence against her, Dorothy Singer, formerly of west Flagler, pleaded to second-degree murder in the shooting death of her husband Charles in...
View Article“I’m So Embarrassed,” Judge Perkins Says of Further Delays in 3 Murder Trials...
Nathaniel Shimmel has been waiting three years for his murder trial, Tammy Almond two, Benjamin Allen one, and all three must wait until at least November as Covid restrictions are hampering Circuit...
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