It was a pleasant South Florida night in December with temperatures hovering in the low seventies when two teenage Fort Lauderdale area brothers allegedly decided to carry out a robbery. Kobe and Rondrick McLemore are accused of the shooting death of Dwight Higgins Jr. which took place last month at…
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DNA Match from Genealogy Site Leads to Arrest in 2001 Murder of UCF Student
Over the past few decades or so, a vast amount of genealogy Websites have become popular to the public. For a moderate fee, these companies will send you a kit where a person can submit their DNA for testing which is analyzed in their labs. Most people that use these…
Excluded from Will, Fort Lauderdale Woman Allegedly Murders Her Mother
Lying to federal authorities such as the FBI is a crime that is punishable by up to five years in federal prison. Over the past year or so, many people have become aware of this crime due to recent highly publicized cases that have filled the headlines relating to the…
Revisiting Prior Unresolved Case Articles, Part 4
Main Suspect of Brutal Murder Apprehended in Spain In the May issue of this blog I posted an article relating to what has been called a vicious murder conspiracy that took place in close proximity to the Everglades in Northwest Miami-Dade County in 2011. The five men that were implicated…
State Seeks Death Penalty for Homestead Mother in Child Abuse Homicide
The mission of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) as specified on their Website “is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.” The Courts that oversee cases brought by DCF…
Four South Florida Men Charged in Brutal Murder
Alexis Vila Perdomo is a Cuban born two-time World Champion wrestler and 1996 Olympic bronze medal winner who defected to the United States via Puerto Rico in 1997. Perdomo and Manuel Marin were friends from their days living in Cuba and Marin assisted his friend with coming to the mainland,…
West Palm Beach Double Murder Suspect Apprehended by Marshal’s Service
As 2017 was coming to a close the last act performed by Marlin Joseph was allegedly murdering his 36-year-old girlfriend, Kaladaa Crowell and her 11-year-old daughter Kyra Inglett. After the double murder occurred, Joseph went on the run taking Cromwell’s gray 2012 Toyota Camry. The BOLO (Be on the lookout)…
Trials in Ambush Style Homicide Results in One Acquittal and One Life in Prison
The four boys were attending a party in Homestead when they apparently got bored and decided to leave. They drove around the area for a while in Quentin Vicks’ Ford Taurus stopping at a liquor store before moving on to the area of Mr. Vick’s neighborhood of Hidden Grove. At…
Ex-Husband Sentenced for Double Attempted Murder in Coral Springs
Retired Air Force Major Thomas Maffei’s attorney argued at trial that in addition to his client suffering from diagnosed PTSD, panic disorder, and major depression, he was recently tormented by severe insomnia and just returned from the VA clinic the day he shot his estranged wife and ex-father-in-law in front…
South Florida Woman Convicted of Contract Killing after Third Trial – Part Two
In last month’s blog post, I began the story of Dalia Dippolito, a Boynton Beach woman who was convicted of the attempted contract killing of her husband, and then sentenced to twenty years in prison for the charge of solicitation to commit first-degree murder with a firearm in 2011. The…