Saturday, July 22, 2017

Techie murder : Pune police arrest lovelorn accused from Bengaluru!

December 29, 2016

Pune : In what is appearing as the case of rejection in love, the murder of a female software engineer in Pune took a new turn on Wednesday when Pune police arrested her Bengaluru-based friend after he allegedly admitted to his role in the crime.
Police officials involved in the investigation said Santosh Kumar, who was picked up from Bengaluru and brought to Pune on Monday for further questioning, admitted his role in the crime on Wednesday.
“During the interrogation, Santosh Kumar gave us information related to the crime. We have now arrested him,” additional superintendent of police Rajkumar Shinde informed.
Antara Das, who was from Kolkata and worked with Capgemini in Talawade near Pune, was stabbed to death at KNB square at Talawade.
Sources said 24-year-old Kumar initially told the interrogators he was in Bengaluru when Das was attacked and that another person carried out the murder. This led to the police working on the other leads too.
Antara’s family, however, expressed suspicion about the possible role of Kumar in her murder. Based on the family’s suspicion, the police began their investigation and a team went to Bengaluru to grill him.
This is a shock as to me as a father. When I enquired with my younger daughter about Antara, she told me that she was being harassed by a boy and I suspect his involvement in this case,” her father Debananda Das said.
She had met Kumar during her training in Bengaluru. He had even come to Pune when she was scheduled to appear for an interview for Capgemini and allegedly threatened to kill her.
“As far as we know, the man had proposed to Antara in Bangalore which she turned down. He then came down to Pune with the same request. Although she had informed us about the man, we did not lodge a complaint because we did not think he can go to the extent of murder,” Panchanan Das, her uncle in Kolkata, said.
On the day when she was murdered, Antara did not avail the company’s bus service saying she would take an auto rickshaw to Nigadi where she lived as a paying guest. However, she did not take an auto rickshaw and was walking to a friend’s place nearby when she was attacked.
A motorcyclist Satyendra Sinha and another passerby took her to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead on arrival.
Sinha told the police that he could see the attacker, wearing a T-shirt with black and blue stripes, fleeing the spot.

Friday, March 24, 2017

UPDATE (2:52 p.m.): The victim has been identified as 23-year-old Kayla A. Bauske.
The 22-year-old male suspect arrested for the homicide remains in custody.
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Two people are in custody after a woman was found murdered on Milwaukee's east side, Monday evening.
Police were called to a home in the 1800 block of N. Arlington Place at around 10:22 p.m. and discovered the body of a woman in her early 20s.
Lt. Joseph McLin said someone called MPD and requested a welfare check at a residence there.
"We had reason to believe something may have occurred, that someone may have been injured at this location," McLin said.

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McLin says officers arrived at the residence in question and spoke to an occupant inside. He said that person let officers in and the body was discovered shortly afterward.
McLin said the person who spoke to officers was taken into custody for different charges, but did not specify if that person led police to the woman's body.
"There was also another occupant that was located later, about 1:30 a.m.and he's currently in custody as well," McLin said.
Charges are pending against both men, who are described as in their early 20s.
Police are still hoping to speak with at least one more person of interest in the case, which McLin called a murder investigation.
McLin said police do not believe the female victim lived at the home. He did not elaborate on how she was killed, just that it appeared to not be a shooting death.
"We're still determining the relationship between the occupants and the individual found," McLin said.

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Police remained on scene past 9 a.m. on Tuesday. He said they had to go though the process of obtaining a warrant to search the residence.
Neighbors in the area said they were frightened to see the crime scene.
"This has been happening way too often in Milwaukee lately," said David Bustamante. "I've noticed there's been an uptick in other crimes here in our neighborhood too."
Bustamante cited graffiti and carjackings as growing problems on the East Side.
He said he and neighbors in the Brady Street area are hoping to organize some type of neighborhood watch group.
"It's definitely a scary thing to happen right next door to you," said Peter Tishler, who also lives in the area. "We've lived here two years now, and I know there was another murder on our block recently too."
Shawn Ostrom, 32, was stabbed and killed outside a bar near Arlington and Pulaski in August.

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"I've generally felt pretty safe around here until the last few months," said neighbor Michaela Vite.
The medical examiner said an autopsy on the female victim discovered Monday night is scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Investigators also aren't sure what led to another homicide at 12:48 a.m. Tuesday in the 3800 block of N. 38th Street.
Police say a male in his 20s was shot inside a home and ran away from the residence to the intersection of 35th and Vienna where he collapsed and died.
Police aren't sure what led to the shooting and are attempting to identify the victim and a suspect in the case.

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Police in St. Joseph County believe they have solved a 25-year-old murder mystery.

In January 1988, 16-year-old Theresa Burns left Mishawaka High School to go to her Dillman St. home to change clothes. Police say Burns was released from school late that morning with the plans she would return to school, but she never returned to class. While she was home, a neighbor saw a young man enter her family's houseeveral hours later, a family member found Burns on the living room floor of the home, dead from multiple gunshot wounds.

The suspect in the cold case has been arrested and identified. He's 43-year-old Phillip Geans of Mishawaka.

At a Friday news conference held by the St. Joseph County Metro Homicide Unit,police said Geans was a friend of a friend to Theresa Burns, and he had talked with "a number of people" about the murder and .22 gun used.

Officers interviewed several hundred people.

Police say Burns' boyfriend told investigators he had been speaking to her on the phone between 11 and 11:30 a.m. Near the end of the conversation, he heard the doorbell to the home, and Burns told him someone was at the door. They then ended their talk.

Metro Homicide says after Burns' death, Geans' stepfather brought a .22 caliber revolver to the Mishawaka Police Department. The stepfather and Geans' mother eventually told police they had found the gun in Geans' bed. They told officers they did not want Geans to have a weapon, as all it could do would be to cause trouble.

After performing numerous tests, police determined the .22 caliber gun was the weapon used to shoot Burns.

Officers spoke with a stepsister of Geans, who said Geans had burned her with a hot curling iron, believing she had taken the gun. She denied that. According to a court affidavit, police were told Geans told his stepsister he would kill her if she did not return the handgun to him.

Geans was interviewed by police, telling them he knew Theresa Burns, who was a friend of his then girlfriend. He told police he had been at Burns' home in the past, but he denied killing her. Police say he later admitted having the .22 caliber gun his mother and stepfather turned over to detectives.

Police say Geans told detectives he began having "dreams" that he had killed Burns. They also say Geans tried to sell the handgun but told people it had a "major crime on it."

According to court documents, at another party, a Crime Stoppers commercial regarding Burns' death came on TV. Geans then supposedly said he killed her. Police say on two other occasions, he told people he should kill them "just like he killed Theresa Burns."

Geans was arrested around 1:30 p.m. Friday while he was walking near the corner of Ironwood and Lincolnway in Mishawaka.

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