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By Ann Tracy on December 16, 2009
His mental
state now stabilized through medication, Robert T. Hollister has been ruled
competent to stand trial in the stabbing death of his wife, Jeanie “Ellie”
Hollister.
What doctors haven’t determined is whether the Omaha man was
sane at the time of his wife’s death on Nov. 3, 2008.
In a recent court
document, Lincoln Regional Center doctors said they needed more time to make
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Amnesia, Antidepressant, Court Document, Death Of His Wife, Depressive Symptoms, Dr. Tracy, Ellie, Financial Stress, First Degree Murder, Frequent Side Effect, Hollister, Lincoln Regional Center, Man Stabs, Medical Professionals, Medications For Depression, Memory Loss, Murder Man, Nebraska, Physicians Desk Reference, Suicidal Ideation, Todd Cooper, Wife Jeanie, World Herald |
By Ann Tracy on December 16, 2009
A daughter who saw her father murder her mother
in a frenzied attack in their Penrith home lives with the brutal images every
day.
Twenty-three-year-old Collette Davidson suffers from nightmares and
sleep problems after witnessing the assault in which her mother was stabbed 50
times on August 21 last year.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged August 21, Battling Depression, Collette, Court Appearance, Cumbrian, England, Horrific Scenes, Judith Davidson, Knives, Man Stabs, Manslaughter, Medical Problems, Mental Hospital, Murder Man, Newsandstar, Nightmares, Paragraph 13, Paragraph 21, Slattery, Sleep Problems, Supt |
By Ann Tracy on December 16, 2009
Steven Foster, the man accused of the brutal slaying of gas station attendant Hegazy Sayed, had prescriptions for at least two anti-depressant drugs leading up to Sunday night’s shooting.
Marlene Aviles said that when she cleaned out the single-room, efficiency apartment that Foster had rented the three weeks prior to the execution-style killing, she retrieved “six or seven” containers left on top of the refrigerator all of them bearing Foster’s name and all nearly full of prescription pills.
Aviles, who helps out in the rental/ management office of Bristol Lodging Sober House a 15-unit rooming house at 68 Broadway where Foster had been living alone was able to identify two of the meds as Cymbalta and Trazodone.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Anti Depressant Drugs, Anti-depressants, Brutal Slaying, Chronic Pain, Cymbalta, Desyrel, Efficiency Apartment, Gas Station Attendant, Meds, Murder Man, Murder Suspect, Oct 31, Prescription Pills, Rare Neurological Disorder, Rental Management Office, Room Efficiency, Rooming House, Single Room, Taunton, Trazodone |
By Ann Tracy on December 16, 2009
A man accused of murdering his
Vodafone executive wife has told a court the pair traded swipes with knives
after she admitted having an affair.
Sally Sinclair, 40, was found
with more than 30 stab wounds at their home in Amport, Hampshire, in August
2008.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged 100 Cigarettes, Amport, Business Analysis, Crown Court, Defendant, England, Having An Affair, House Husband, Luxury Property, Man Stabs, Mobile Phone Firm, Murder Man, News Bbc Co Uk, News England, Paragraphs, Stab Wounds, Steve Humphrey, Vodafone, Winchester, Witness Box, World Headquarters |
By Ann Tracy on December 16, 2009
A man who bludgeoned his partner
to death with a lump hammer while in the grip of psychosis has been told he may
never be released from jail.
Paul Ford, aged 51, told police he thought
he had hit mother-of-five Debra Ford “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of
times in the face at the home they shared in Oldland Common.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Brother Steve, Crown Court, Defendant, Diminished Responsibility, Drug Use, England, History Of Depression, Life Behind Bars, Man Kills Wife With Hammer, Manslaughter, Mr Justice, Murder Charge, Murder Man, October 24, Parole Board, Paul Ford, psychosis, Stress Disorder, Thisisbristol, Tully, Uk Homepage |
By Ann Tracy on September 15, 2009
SANTA CRUZ – After four days on the witness stand, accused murderer Marshall Doud stepped down Tuesday afternoon and his attorney rested his case.
Doud was the only defense witness to testify during the jury trial, which began Aug. 4 and could send the 43-year-old to state prison for the rest of his life. He is accused of allegedly smothering his wife, Morgana, 42, early on Sept. 4, 2007.
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged Anti Depressant Medication, Blind Spot, Cal, Closing Arguments, Defense Witness, Dr James, Jury Trial, Marshall Doud, Medication For Anxiety, Memory, Memory Lapse, Murder Man, Murder Trial, Rebuttal, Rem Sleep Behavior Disorder, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco Bay Area, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Wilderness, Snow Camping, Squires, State Prison |
By Ann Tracy on August 17, 2009
Third paragraph from the end reads: “Donna Vanniekerk told Defense Attorney Lesley Kranenberg that her husband ‘used to be kind and loving but he turned mean and vindictive’ after his father died in 2004. She said he had been seeing a therapist and taking medication for depression.” Paragraph five reads: “Vanniekerk was found in a [...]
Posted in Recent Cases Blog | Tagged August 7, Battlecreekenquirer Com, Calhoun County, Death Of His Mother, Defense Attorney, District Court Judge, Enquirer, Fort Wayne, Granddaughter, John Holmes, Judge John, Lesley, Medication For Depression, Motel Room, Mother And Daughter, Murder Man, Open Murder, Pathologist, Preliminary Examination, Slayings |