Police in Portland, Oregon, investigate the murder of 27-year-old Andrew Hathaway (KOIN).

An Oregon jury convicted a man of stabbing a friend 55 times and then stuffing his body in the trunk of the victim’s own car and lighting it on fire.

Robert Thomas Colon, 44, was found guilty of the Sept. 5, 2018, murder of Andrew Hathaway, 27, in Portland, the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said last week in a press release. Before the trial began, Colon pleaded guilty to arson, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence. He’s slated to be sentenced on Wednesday. Colon faces a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

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According to prosecutors, Colon and Hathaway were visiting a home where two other men lived, and they all got high. At some point during the night, Colon and Hathaway began a fistfight. Colon was winning the fight and Hathaway began screaming for help. The two other men broke up the fight and things calmed down for a bit. But then the fight started up again with “Colon beating and stabbing Hathaway until he was dead,” prosecutors said.

Colon and one of the other men moved the body to the trunk of Hathaway’s car. They then drove to a vacant lot and lit it ablaze. Fire crews put out the blaze and discovered the remains. Hathaway’s body was unrecognizable as 80% of his remains were charred, prosecutors said.

Inset: Martin Garcia (Bexar County Jail). Background: Authorities at the home where Garcia killed his wife (KSAT).

A 66-year-old man in Texas will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing his ex-wife, stabbing her 95 times because she’d met someone new and planned to move out of the home they still shared despite their divorce. Bexar County Criminal District Judge Ron Rangel on Monday ordered Martin Garcia to serve 45 years in a state correctional facility for the 2023 slaying of 66-year-old Teresa Moreno Garcia, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Garcia reached a deal with the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office in which he agreed to plead no contest to one count of murder in exchange for a maximum sentence of 45 years. Rangel also credited Garcia with 454 days of time already served.

The sentencing hearing

During Monday’s sentencing hearing, Teresa Garcia’s sons both gave victim impact statements in which they described the victim as a loving mother who was the victim of domestic abuse at the hands of Garcia, San Antonio ABC affiliate KSAT reported.

“She did not know how to escape,” one of Teresa Garcias sons said, talking about her relationship with Martin Garcia.

“He would say things like, ‘If I can’t have her, nobody can,”” the victim’s other son said. He also implored those listening to listen to victims of domestic violence, saying that they had known Martin Garcia was abusive for decades.

Prosecutors said that while the couple had divorced several years earlier, they reportedly remained living together due to money struggles. It wasn’t until Teresa Garcia told her ex that she had met someone new and was going to be moving out that he “violently attacked her,” according to the San Antonio Express-News.

Martin Garcia also took the stand Monday, telling the court, “I loved her very much.”

“She was the only one I loved,” he said. “I did what I did, I am very sorry, but I loved her.”

The murder

As Law&Crime previously reported, officers with the San Antonio Police Department at about 11 p.m. on the night of Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, responded to an emergency call at a residence located in the 200 block of Channing Avenue regarding an adult female being stabbed. The caller identified himself as Martin Garcia before explaining to the dispatcher that he had just finished killing his wife by stabbing her to death.

Upon arriving at the address, first responders said they found the victim — later identified as Teresa Garcia — suffering from what appeared to be multiple stab wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The San Antonio Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services were also dispatched to the residence. Police said that when they found Martin Garcia at the scene he appeared to have intentionally cut one of his wrists. He was transported to a local hospital for a medical evaluation before being taken into custody without incident.

A copy of the arrest report obtained by the San Antonio Express-News provided additional information regarding the circumstances of the alleged domestic violence murder.

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According to the report, Martin Garcia told the 911 emergency dispatcher that he had used a knife to murder Teresa Garcia — whom he referred to as his wife — after the two had gotten into a heated argument before slitting his own wrist.

Garcia reportedly explained that they were arguing because he believed that his wife was cheating on him. He said that at some point during the argument, Teresa Garcia attempted to leave the house, which is when he attacked and repeatedly stabbed her.

When officers arrived at the couple’s home, Martin Garcia was waiting for them outside the residence. Teresa Garcia’s body was discovered lying on the floor inside the home.

The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office performed an autopsy on the victim and determined the manner of death was a homicide and the cause of death was multiple sharp force injuries.

This photo provided by the Bloomington Police Department shows Billie Davis (Bloomington Police Department via AP)

An Indiana woman has learned her fate for stabbing an 18-year-old Indiana University student with a folding knife between seven and 10 times in the head as the victim was riding a public bus to school, all because the victim was of Asian descent.

Billie Davis, 57, has been sentenced to six years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for committing a federal hate crime. Davis pleaded guilty in September to willfully causing bodily injury to a victim with a knife because the victim was of Chinese descent, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a press release.

Left inset: James Lindsey. Right inset: Kristen Stevens (Seminole County Sheriff’s Office). Background: Home in Chuluota, Florida, where Lindsey allegedly stabbed Stevens to death (WKMG/YouTube).

A Florida man died in a car crash after he allegedly broke into his estranged wife’s home and stabbed her up to 70 times, with the murder coming about a month after a judge — who was suspended last week for abusive language — declined to put an ankle monitor on him, according to cops.

James Lindsey, 42, assaulted his estranged wife, 40-year-old Kristin Stevens, a little under a month before killing her, according to police. He was arrested on Nov. 6 for domestic violence battery at her home, where he also allegedly took her life.

The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and Attorney’s Office of the 18th Judicial Circuit had asked a judge to place Lindsey on GPS monitoring. However, Seminole County Circuit Court Judge Wayne Culver denied the request and ordered Lindsey not to contact Stevens.

The sheriff’s office said it responded to a call around 1 a.m. Thursday for two people suffering from stab wounds at Stevens’ home in the 2600 block of Hibbard Trail in Chuluota, about 20 miles northeast of Orlando, cops say. Deputies found Stevens dead in the home from multiple stab wounds. Another victim — a man who has not been publicly identified — was stabbed and fled to a neighbor’s house to call 911. There also was a 16-year-old boy at home during the incident but he was not harmed.

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Deputies say Lindsey broke into the home and attacked the two victims before fleeing the scene. About four hours later, Lindsey died in a single-car crash.

Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said during a press conference that the surviving victim told deputies he found Lindsey on top of Stevens stabbing her in the bedroom. The man tried to fight Lindsey off and ended up stabbed in the leg. Lemma estimated Lindsey stabbed Stevens between 20 and 70 times.

“This is a heartbreaking and traumatic incident that will have a lasting impact on families and a community,” Lemma said in a statement. “I am proud of our deputies’ quick response to the scene and our detectives who have been working around the clock to put these cases together. Our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones during this incredibly difficult time. Our team will continue to work diligently to uncover the full details surrounding this case.”

Insets: New York Times and Penguin Random House buildings (YouTube/Fox News/Penguin Random House). Background:  President-elect Donald Trump speaks at an election night watch party, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon).

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly sent a $10 billion warning shot across the legal bows of Penguin Random House and the New York Times — threatening to sue the print giants for eleven figures — over allegedly “false and defamatory statements” that were published about him in articles before the election, the companies say.

“There was a time, long ago, when the New York Times was considered the ‘newspaper of record,’” a letter reads from Trump’s attorney, Edward Andrew Paltzik, to Penguin Random House and the Times, which was reviewed and first reported by Columbia Journalism Review on Thursday.

“Those halcyon days have passed,” the letter says, blasting the Times as a “full-throated mouthpiece of the Democratic Party” that employs “industrial-scale libel against political opponents,” per CJR.

The newspaper reportedly had “every intention of defaming and disparaging the world-renowned Trump brand that consumers have long associated with excellence, luxury, and success in entertainment, hospitality, and real estate, among many other industries, as well as falsely and maliciously defaming and disparaging him as a candidate for the highest office in the United States,” the letter asserts.

Wayne Chambers, right inset, was sentenced for the murder of Sandra McIntosh, left inset. (Crime scene and victim screenshots from New York CBS affiliate WCBS-TV/YouTube; Mug shot from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office)

A convicted robber in New York was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for stabbing his ex-girlfriend more than 25 times after a breakup.

Wayne Chambers, 51, learned his fate for the murder of Sandra McIntosh, 46, a nurse at Stony Brook University Hospital, in July 2021.

Djuan Eskridge (Milwaukee County Detention Center), William Eskridge and the home where he was allegedly gunned down by his son (WISN screenshot)

A 19-year-old in Wisconsin accused of killing his father by shooting him 31 times last October has been arrested after several months on the run. Djuan Eskridge was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with one count of first-degree reckless homicide and one count of using a dangerous weapon in the commission of a felony in the slaying of William J. Eskridge, court documents reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, officers with the Milwaukee Police Department on Oct. 9, 2023, responded to a report of a shooting at a residence in the 3800 block of N. 7th Street in Milwaukee. Upon arriving at the scene, first responders said they observed an adult male — later identified as William Eskridge — dead on the ground. The body was surrounded by spent shell casings and he was pronounced dead on the scene.

Authorities first spoke to Djuan Eskridge’s grandmother, who said that the victim was her adult son and that it was her grandson and the victim’s son who gunned him down, per the affidavit.

The grandmother said that Djuan Eskridge showed up at the house earlier that evening with his brother and two other individuals whom she did not know. Djuan’s brother and William Eskridge allegedly got into a physical confrontation during which Djuan Eskridge produced a firearm and shot his father multiple times. William Eskridge was not armed at any time, per the affidavit.

After the initial salvo from Djuan Eskridge, his grandmother said William Eskridge fell to the ground.

“(The grandmother) stated that after (William Eskridge) fell to the ground, the defendant walked closer to him and shot additional rounds at (William Eskridge,)” the affidavit states.

Trevor Thomas Bickford, seen in a body camera image on the bottom right, admitted to attacking U.S. officials with a machete in Times Square on Dec. 31, 2022. (Photos via DOJ)

A man radicalized by a fundamentalist vision of Islam admitted to an attack with a “machete-style” blade on NYPD officers as thousands gathered around Times Square to watch the ball drop during New Year’s Eve 2022, federal prosecutors said.

Trevor Thomas Bickford, 20, entered his guilty plea on Thursday to multiple counts of trying to kill three officers, federal prosecutors said in a news release.

“Last New Year’s Eve, Trevor Bickford attacked courageous NYPD officers protecting those celebrating in Times Square as part of his effort, as he later told law enforcement, to commit jihad in New York City,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland.