Walter Logan, arrested in the murder of Alex Shipp, faces charges over

KOKOMO, Ind.--a man of central Indiana that prosecutors say he killed his friend and stuffed the body inside a freezer unplugged faces additional charges.

Deputy of the Howard County Prosecutor Jeremy Peelle presented additional murder charges when they tried to wrongdoing, reckless homicide and confinement last week against Walter Logan, 52, of Kokomo.

Logan was held without bond Saturday at the county jail in Kokomo, about 50 miles north of Indianapolis. A jail official told The Associated Press she didn't know the name of the Attorney of Logan.

Logan's trial had been scheduled to begin Wednesday, but the Kokomo Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/15myYG3) the defense attorney of new charges prompted Logan to request a continuity. A judge resets trial on October 7.

Prosecutors have not said if they will seek the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

Police looking for 29 years Alex Shipp at the beginning of December when his mother said he had not heard from her son in almost a month. Officers who went to the home of Logan found that Shipp decomposed badly but intact body in a freezer that was not plugged in.

Court documents say Logan told investigators that he and Shipp had known two years ago and had a sexual relationship. He said that one night about four weeks before, men got drunk, drugs and had sex. Later, Logan said Shipp made belligerent and wanted to fight, but Logan had bound feet and hands of Shipp and placed adhesive tape over his nose and mouth.

Logan said the researchers tried to commit suicide with pills and wrote a suicide note, but he fell asleep until he could finish writing it. When he woke up Logan, Shipp appears to be dead. Logan removed Shipp-sided tape before returning to sleep, court documents say.

Then he woke up again, Logan supposedly waited about six hours then Shipp and body to the basement, where he stuffed it inside the freezer, the documents say. When police arrived at Logan's House, they say documents, he led them through the House that stinks in the freezer.

The researchers said that although Logan does not intend to kill Shipp, he must have had made closing the mouth and nose so that he could not breathe that it would lead to his death.

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Information: Kokomo Tribune, http://www.ktonline.com

Aaron Hernandez arrives to prison after being charged with murder, denied bail (VIDEO)

Aaron Hernandez came to the House of corrections of Bristol County.

Aaron Hernandez was transferred to the Bristol County House of corrections after his indictment on Wednesday. The former New England Patriots tight end was charged with murder in connection with the shooting death of 27-year-old semi-pro Odin Lloyd footballer.

The 23-year-old NFL star was taken into custody at his home in North Attleborough, mass. on Wednesday morning. Between his arrest and his indictment in Attleboro District Court, Hernández was released by the New England Patriots.

At the arraignment, Hernandez refused bail and ordered held on a first-degree murder charge and five weapons counts. Prosecutor Bill McCauley said that Hernandez "had orchestrated the crime early on," by The Associated Press. Following the indictment, Hernandez was transferred to the corrections of Bristol County House.

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After the arrival of Hernandez in prison, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson spoke with Hernandez and had addressed to the media.

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Donald James Smith, Charged In Cherish Perrywinkle's Kidnapping, Murder, Has Long Criminal History

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The Florida man accused of kidnapping and murdering an 8-year-old has a criminal history of child abuse that goes back decades.

Donald James Smith, 56, allegedly abducted Cherish Perrywinkle from a Jacksonville Walmart Friday night. The girl's body was found the next day in a wooded area in the same city.

In 2009, Smith was convicted of attempting to take another young girl. On Sunday, Stephanie Thornton told Action News JAX about the incident, in which he tried to kidnap her own daughter.

Smith called the girl's grandmother, pretending to be a Department of Children and Families employee. He claimed that the 9-year-old had been raped and that he needed to meet her at McDonald's "to pick her up to take her to be checked," Thornton told the station.

Suspecting he was a fake, Thornton contacted police and Smith was arrested. In 2012, he pleaded guilty to attempted impersonation of a public employee and attempted child abuse. He was released from jail on May 31, just 21 days before he allegedly kidnapped Perrywinkle.

The morning of the day Perrywinkle vanished, Jacksonville deputies conducted a monthly address check at Smith's home, as is required for registered sex offenders, News 13 reported.

Thornton did not know Smith had been released, and is incensed that he had the opportunity to harm another child.

"He needs to be electrocuted. He should never be able to get back out, never," she told Action News JAX.

The 2009 incident was not the first time Smith broke the law. Smith has been a registered sex offender since 1993, when he tried to lure three young girls into his pornography-filled van, Fox 30 WAWS reported. He spent five years in prison on an attempted kidnapping conviction.

Before that, Smith was convicted in 1977 for lewd and lascivious behavior on a child under 16.

Smith is currently being held without bail for Cherish Perrywinkle's abduction and murder. He allegedly befriended Perrywinkle's mother, Rayne Perrywinkle, Friday evening when she had trouble affording a new dress for Cherish at a Dollar General store.

The mother and her three children, including Cherish, went with Smith to the Jacksonville Walmart, where he said he would buy the family food and clothing. After spending a couple of hours at Walmart, Smith disappeared with Cherish. Her mother called police after realizing her daughter was missing.

Smith pleaded not guilty on Sunday. His next court date is July 16.

Kathleen Dorsett, Parents Sentenced For Murder Of Her Ex-husband

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FREEHOLD, N.J. — A former elementary school teacher and mother is a manipulative narcissist who convinced her own father to murder her ex-husband, a judge said Thursday in sentencing the New Jersey woman and both her parents to prison in what he called "an American family tragedy."

In a proceeding replete with gruesome pictures of Stephen Moore's body and sometimes rambling statements from the three defendants, Kathleen Dorsett and her parents were sentenced to a combined 110 years in prison for Moore's 2010 death.

She and parents Thomas and Lesley Dorsett had previously pleaded guilty to charges in Moore's death, and she and her mother also entered guilty pleas to conspiring to murder Moore's mother to keep her from testifying against them and to stop her from gaining custody of Kathleen Dorsett's daughter.

The plot grew out of the couple's failed marriage and an acrimonious divorce that led to a custody battle over their 20-month-old daughter Elizabeth, prosecutors say.

When Stephen Moore returned their daughter to her mother's house Aug. 16, 2010, authorities say, Kathleen Dorsett lured him to the back of the residence where her father leaped from behind bushes and smashed his head with a heavy metal object. He then choked Moore with a rope before dumping his body in the trunk of Moore's mother's car, prosecutors say.

Kathleen Dorsett was sentenced to a total of 58 years for convictions on charges of murder, disturbing human remains and attempted murder. Lesley Dorsett received a seven-year sentence for a conspiracy conviction; authorities say she paid $1,000 to a police informant to kill Evlyn Moore.

Thomas Dorsett was sentenced to 45 years, including 15 years for his arson-for-hire conviction. Prosecutors say Dorsett paid a man to burn Evlyn Moore's car with her dead son in the trunk but ended up doing it himself.

Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Marc LeMieux displayed pictures of Moore's charred body inside the car's trunk that drew gasps from the packed gallery. He also read a statement from Evlyn Moore in which she called the Dorsetts "cold-blooded killers" to whom she "has nothing to say." She wrote that Elizabeth, now 4, is a happy child but will never know her father and mother.

"How does she tell her friends? When she falls in love, how does she tell her future partner?" Moore wrote.

Outside court, she said she was pleased with the sentences, saying, "It couldn't have gone any better."

During the proceeding, Kathleen Dorsett directed a brief statement to state Superior Court Judge Anthony Mellaci Jr. and to the cameras in the courtroom.

"I'm so deeply sorry for all the pain I've caused to Stephen's family and all the lives I've destroyed," she said.

Though she denied the plot was over custody, Mellaci said "that's exactly what this was over – control."

"This is a narcissistic individual. Her crocodile tears get turned on and off seemingly at will," the judge said. "This is really an American family tragedy on so many levels, and the responsibility for it falls mainly on this defendant's feet."

Thomas Dorsett, who ran a refrigeration business, gave a nearly 30-minute statement in which his voice cracked frequently.

"I don't have the words to say how sorry I am," he said. "Maybe that's not even the right word. I know I lost my mind that day, and now I've lost my Elizabeth."

LeMieux poked holes in Dorsett's description of himself as a kind and caring man, pointing out that investigators interviewed co-workers and friends who said he referred to Moore as "the monkey" and vowed to kill him.

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Kermit Gosnell's Abortion Clinic Workers Plead Guilty To Murder

Sherry West, an abortion clinic worker, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder in two deaths at a Philadelphia clinic where seven babies were allegedly killed.

PHILADELPHIA -- In their own way, the four women being sentenced this week for working at a corrupt, grimy Philadelphia abortion clinic were just as desperate as their patients.

Lynda Williams, 44, was trying to raise four children after her husband was murdered.

Sherry West, 53, had been waiting more than a year for disability after contracting hepatitis C through her work as a medical assistant at a Veterans Administration Hospital, where she had spent 20 years.

Adrienne Moton, 36, was steered to the Women's Medical Society through a career school, where she was studying to be a medical assistant. And Elizabeth Hampton, 55, had been in foster care as a girl with the third wife of clinic owner Dr. Kermit Gosnell.

All but Hampton have pleaded guilty to murder in the deaths of babies born alive or an oversedated patient. Hampton was sentenced Tuesday to a year on probation after admitting she lied to a grand jury about a patient's overdose death in 2009.

Williams, West and Moton Wednesday face 20 to 40 years in prison for third-degree murder, but they are expected to get far less time after their testimony helped send Gosnell to prison for life for killing three babies born alive during abortions.

Also scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday is Gosnell's wife, Pearl, 51, who has spent two years on house arrest and could be sent to prison for racketeering and performing an illegal abortion. She feels she's left "holding the bag" after her husband shamed the family, turned down a plea deal that would have kept her out of prison, and refused to speak at his trial, her lawyer said Tuesday.

"You can tell from the arrogance that he displayed – turning down the deal, as well as refusing to speak – he's left her holding the bag in terms of talking to the public and apologizing," defense lawyer Michael Medway told The Associated Press.

"Her name is still Gosnell, unfortunately," he added. "I guess it's like being Mrs. Frankenstein."

West's lawyer described Gosnell as a controlling, charismatic figure who manipulated naive, poor and uneducated employees. She pleaded guilty to murder for helping give narcotics to the patient who died, although she was the only employee who also accompanied the dying woman to the hospital.

"He had a bit of Svengali control over these women," lawyer Michael Wallace said last week. "She was doing about 100 different things for this guy. It was such a hectic operation."

Gosnell, 72, was convicted this month of three counts of first-degree murder in the infant deaths, and involuntary manslaughter in the death of patient Karnamaya Mongar.

Gosnell had West and Williams – both medical assistants suffering from depression – and a teenager on duty delivering anesthesia the night Mongar came in, according to trial testimony.

"He preyed upon them, too, just as he did his patients," Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said last week. "They were used and abused."

Moton, a family friend, had moved in with the Gosnells in high school, then worked at the clinic from 2005 to 2008. She earned $8 to $10 an hour.

But she could make $120 on a busy Saturday, when Gosnell performed what he called "second trimester" cases and gave staff $20 per patient. Prosecutors charge that some of those procedures were illegal third-term abortions.

"I kept doing whatever I was told," Moton told the jury.

That included cutting the necks of at least 10 babies after they were born. Gosnell told her it was standard procedure, she said.

Gosnell agreed to serve a life term without parole rather than face a death-penalty hearing. In exchange, he has waived his right to appeal.

Gosnell, West and several others also face more time on federal drug charges involving the clinic's distribution of narcotics.

Later this year, an unlicensed doctor who often ran the clinic during Gosnell's frequent absences will be sentenced to two counts of third-degree murder.

Stephen Massof said he went to work when he needed "a fallback plan" after stints in laboratory research, medical school and bartending.

He ended up "snipping" babies in the back of the neck during unorthodox abortion techniques that Gosnell had taught him. Massof said he may have done it 100 times. But he's pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree murder.

Many of the Gosnell co-defendants have already been in prison for more than two years, since a 2011 grand jury report lifted the veil on what prosecutors called a "house of horrors."

They will be sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner, who handled pretrial pleas, but did not preside at the trial itself.

Lerner has more discretion than usual; the Gosnell co-defendants entered "open" pleas, rather than negotiate a proposed sentence with prosecutors.

"If it were up to me, she'd get probation," Wallace said of his client.

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