Ugh: The already distressing case of the murdered school teacher Leah Walsh (pictured) got a little more disturbing. Police, who believe that Walsh was killed by her husband who staged her disappearance to cover up the crime, apparently found the 29-year-old naked body with peanut butter slathered on it, according to the Post. The Post's sources suggest that suspect William Walsh used the peanut butter in hopes "that wild animals would get rid of the......

Yesterday, prosecutors said seven teens who attacked and stabbed Marcello Lucero (pictured) in Patchogue were specifically targeting Hispanics. ADA Nancy Clifford said, "In their own words, 'Let's go find some Mexicans to ---- up." Six of the teens were charged with gang assault as a hate crime, while one was charged with manslaughter as a hate crime and held without bail; they all pleaded not guilty. Newsday reports that Latino advocacy group Hispanics Across America......

According to the NY Post, police are investigating whether 14-year-old Sabrina Matthews "may have been killed by a boyfriend she recently met over the Internet." Matthews was found by her father in their Cambria Heights home on Sunday; her throat was slit and she was naked from the waist down. The Daily News reports that her father was arrested last year for punching an older daughter; neighbors say the police had come to the Matthews......

Police suspect that the fatal shooting of a Meals on Wheels deliveryman at Brooklyn's Brownsville Houses yesterday morning may have been prompted by a robbery attempt. The Daily News reports that Emanuel Aminov's "wallet was found empty near the body, leading investigators to believe that robbery was the motive for the lethal ambush." His wife told the NY Times, "He was delivering food to poor people, and they shot him down." Aminov, who immigrated from......

Yesterday afternoon, a 14-year-old girlwas discovered by her father in their Cambria Heights home in Queens. Sabrina Matthews was "naked from the waist down, with blood gushing from a wound to her throat," in her bedroom, according to the Daily News. The paramedics were unable to revive her. A neighbor, VIncent Oakley, told the NY Times the father, who went to his house after calling for help, was "crying and...totally out of it," after finding......

Yesterday, the father of Leah Walsh, the woman killed and dumped off a Long Island highway, was too upset to speak at her funeral; the Daily News reports that Howard Hirschel asked Rabbi Abraham Eckstein to read his words, "This is the ultimate pain a family can endure. We've all heard the expression, 'Live one day at a time.' I'm trying to live one minute at a time... Although I know my children knew that......

A Harlem woman was arrested yesterday after fatally stabbing the father of her 2-year-old son on Halloween. Adele Louis stabbed Darryl Taylor inside her apartment Friday afternoon. Taylor had come over to pick up his son, dressed as Batman, and take him trick-or-treating when the altercation broke out. Apparently Louis was set off by Taylor not purchasing a winter coat for their son, Daryl Jr. Earlier in the day, Taylor's mother says that Louis had......

There's something eerily similar about the cases of David Steeves and William Walsh, the two big murder stories that came out of Long Island this week. It should be a strange enough coincidence just in there being two high profile instances of men killing their wives in such close proximity. But add to that the fact that both men admitted their crimes to police only to then claim that the confessions were coerced and now......

The Nassau County police revealed details in how William Walsh's story fell apart during questioning. Walsh, who had emotionally pleaded for his missing wife's return on Monday, was arrested for her murder on Wednesday. Newsday reports that the "the chain of events that led to Leah Walsh's death began with an argument over whether he was cheating on her." Walsh, 29, confessed to police that he strangled his 29-year-old wife on Sunday morning. With her......

The police announced they arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with Monday's shootings at a Fulton Street hair salon where one person was killed and four people, including an off-duty police officer, were injured. Paul Wint, 22, faces second-degree murder and weapon possession charges, according to NY1. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly referred to reports of two men leaving an SUV to chase and kill Lethania Garcia and said, "We believe [Wint] was driver of the......

A jury delivered a guilty verdict for Steven Armento, a Yonkers man accused of killing an off-duty police officer in 2005. Armento had been trying to break into a Bronx home for drugs with friend, actor Lillo Brancato, when police officer Daniel Enchautegui intervened. Prosecutors say Enchautegui, while in civilian clothing, shouted, "Don't move! Don't move!" However, Armento was armed, and he fired at Enchautegui, hitting in him near the heart. Enchautegui still managed to......

Police say that the body discovered yesterday morning in North Hills is that of teacher Leah Walsh, who had been missing since Monday morning. And her husband, Bill Walsh, was arrested and charged with her murder....

A hair stylist said he played dead as two men shot one person dead and wounded four others yesterday afternoon in Brooklyn. Glen, who works at De Lux Gallery hair salon, told the Post, "I thought [one of the shooters] was ... a madman killing people - I was basically waiting for my turn to be shot." The police believe the injured victims-- one of whom was an off-duty police officer getting her hair done--......

A woman was charged with murder in the fatal beating of her 11-year-old daughter, who had recently arrived from Mexico to live with her. The Daily News reports that Florencia Vazquez cried out in Spanish, "I didn't kill her!" when she was led from the 75th Precinct. The body of Alejandra Vazquez found on Sunday in a Brooklyn apartment. Her mother had allegedly confessed to police that she beat the girl on Thursday night, leaving......

Earlier this morning the body of a boy believed to be 7-year-old Julian King, Jennifer Hudson's nephew, was found in a vehicle now being identified as the 1994 white Chevrolet Suburban that was tied with the shooting of Hudson's mother and brother last week. The Chicago Tribune has more details--and while an official ID hasn't been made, TMZ notes that the Amber Alert for King has been called off. This weekend Hudson had offered up......

The discovery of a dead 11-year-old girl in a Brooklyn apartment led to the girl's mother to admit to killing her, according to police. WABC 7 reports that Florenzia Vazquez told police she beat daughter Alejandra "with a mop handle so hard, it broke in two." Vazquez is being held at the 75th precinct. The beating apparently took place on Thursday--according to the NY Times, it was "a thrashing so severe it left the girl......

A 9 months pregnant 25-year-old woman was found dead in a Queens house last night. Naisha Delaine was stabbed multiple times in the stomach (the unborn child also died) and slashed in the throat. According to the Daily News, Delaine's mother "had grown concerned when she could not reach her daughter for several days," so she went to her the Ozone Park apartment to check on her. Unable to get in, the mother contacted Delaine's......

Yesterday afternoon, a relative discovered the bodies of Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother in their Chicago home. Both died from gunshot wounds. The Chicago police have a suspect in custody--William Balfour, who is believed to be married to Hudson's older sister Julia--but have not charged him with any crime yet. And Hudson's 7-year-old nephew, son of Julia Hudson, is missing; authorities have issued an Amber alert for him. Balfour is currently......

Darryl Littlejohn, who will be on trial for the 2006 murder of graduate student Imette St. Guillen later this year, was found guilty in an unrelated kidnapping case. In October 2005, Littlejohn apparently "posed as a police officer and handcuffed [a] York College student," according to the NY Times. The victim, Shanai Woodward, was forced into a van but she escaped; she later testified that she was afraid he would kill her. Investigators revealed her......

The Post has detalis of the chilling confession made by Jeromie Cancel, the 22-year-old who killed a Pace student in late August. According to Cancel, he was smoking with one hand while "pulling tight on the electrical cord around his victim's neck with the other"--all while watching Saw on DVD. Cancel had met Kevin Pravia, 19, at Union Square; Pravia was reportedly looking for drugs. He went back to Pravia's apartment in Chelsea; after Pravia......

A homeless Bronx teenager charged with killing her newborn child, and the woman who took in the teen is devastated. The Daily News reports that Esther Pastrana, 17, had been kicked out of a friend's Manhattan home, where a neighbor, who saw Pastrana "weeping in the hallway," called Lysdell Ocasio. Ocasio (pictured), who readily agreed to house the teen, repeatedly asked Pastrana if she was pregnant, but she denied it. On Saturday, Ocasio's husband found......

Two psychiatrists have found David Tarloff, who killed an Upper East Side psychiatrist in February, unfit to stand trial. But the NY Times reports that his lawyer Bryan Konski wants a "more complete examination" by another court-appointed psychiatrist (two court-appointed psychiatrists made the unfit assessment), claiming that Tarloff "had been medicated before being examined." Konski is worried that his client, a schizophrenic who killed the office mate of the psychiatrist who diagnosed him with the......

Yesterday, a jury found disbarred lawyer Carlos Perez-Olivo guilty of killing his wife. In 2006, Perez-Olivo claimed he was run off Route 100 in Westchester County and that a gunman shot his wife in the head and him in the stomach, but police arrested him late last year. Cops, who had called it "an unusual-sounding incident," connected him to the gun, found in a lake and prosecutors noted that the gun looked a lot like......

The police arrested Tiana Browne, 15, in connection with the murder of her 16-year-old cousin. On Tuesday afternoon, Browne's aunt Marva Braithwaite returned to her home in Crown Heights to find her daughter Shannon stabbed to death. Browne was found in her cousin's clothes and sneakers, apparently taken after she stabbed her 18 times. Browne also took Shannon's MP3 player, cell phone, and camera. The Daily News reports that "As a good Christian woman, Marva......

A Queens man is being monitored at Bellevue Hospital after confessing to murdering his 80-year-old mother with a crutch. Police found the crutch along with a bloody knife after receiving a call from Sergeui Mamontov, who uses the crutch because he only has one leg. Mamontov, who has a history of mental illness also tried to castrate himself, telling police he was "trying to remove the evil." Lyudmila Mamontova lived in the same Far Rockaway......

Prosecutor Ama Dwimoh told jurors what 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown's final words were, "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" "after being beaten, battered, broken and thrown naked onto a cold wooden floor." Brown's mother Nixzaliz Santiago is on trial for the girl's murder, as the Brooklyn DA's office contends Santiago did nothing to prevent her husband Cesar Rodriguez from delivering a fatal beating in January 2006. Dwimoh added, "She left her to die. Nixzaliz Santiago simply did not care."......

Former TV producer Julie Horner Lankamp was found dead in her Gold Street apartment Tuesday with "her crying young daughter clutching her legs," as the Daily News sensationally puts it. Relatives say they hadn't spoken with Lankamp since Sunday and police don't know how long the two-year-old had been stranded with her mother's body, which had begun to decompose. Lankamp had a broken jaw, bruises, and dried blood pooled near her nose and mouth, but......

Jurors were warned by prosecutors that the trial would be "emotional" as jury selection began in for a second trial related to 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown's death. This time, the child's mother Nixzaliz Santiago faces murder charges. Nixzmary was killed in January 2006, after being beaten by her stepfather Cesar Rodriguez for apparently taking some yogurt (or pudding) without permission. She spent her final hours beaten and having her head hit against the bathtub faucet and......

The police suspect 32-year-old Bronx resident, Julio Rolando Flores, has killed and dismembered his 28-year-old ex-girlfriend, The NY Times reports. The details get more gruesome, however, as her body parts were placed in tupperware containers and entombed in concrete at a construction site in Teaneck, New Jersey, where authorities found the man covered in cement yesterday. Earlier in the day the family of the girl, Jaritza Calderone, received a call from Flores saying they would......

Somehow, the NY Post has obtained police interviews with Claire Higgins, the best friend of John Jay College graduate student Imette St. Guillen, whose brutal 2006 murder shocked the city. Around 11 p.m. on the night of February 24, 2006, Higgins and St. Guillen headed from Higgins's Morningside Heights apartment to the Pioneer Bar. In the middle of their time there, Higgins recalled that St. Guillen had about four or five rum and Cokes: "We......