Category: Crime
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Ill. man charged in murder in Vineland
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Tuesday, April 6, 2010.) An Illinois man faces murder charges for allegedly killing his co-worker in a Vineland hotel room while in town for a class on body piercings. Authorities charged Wade Featherston, 24, of Salem, Ill., with homicide Monday for allegedly killing his co-worker, 37-year-old Robert…
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Vineland neighbors mourn slain grandmother
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010.) Residents at the Regency East apartments were shocked and saddened Wednesday to learn the violence that erupted in the complex the day before took the life of “Miss Betty,” Betty Buxton, a 73-year-old woman who lived there for more than 20 years. Police…
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She’s neither a doctor nor a woman, now she’s under arrest
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009.) VINELAND Andrea Cappellucci had heard so many outlandish stories from the person she knew as veterinarian Danielle Smith that she knew something wasn’t right. It just didn’t seem believable that, in one six-month period, one person could see her mother and husband die,…
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Two deaths blamed on love triangle
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008.) UPPER DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP A Vineland restaurant owner fatally shot his former lover’s new boyfriend at her farm and then died minutes later inside a vehicle engulfed in flames, authorities said. Joe Martorana, of Upper Deerfield, died on the floor of his girlfriend’s farmhouse…
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Letters detail plans for state prison uprisings, murder
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Wednesday, June 21, 2006.) Letters found in a convicted killer’s prison cell indicate inmates have guns and cell phones available to coordinate uprisings at four state prisons and the subsequent attempt on the life of Newark Mayor-elect Cory Booker. The letters, found in the Rahway prison cell…
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Bridgeton prison increases security
(Published in The Press of Atlantic City on Tuesday, June 20, 2006.) Security was increased Monday at four state prisons as officers investigated a threat of simultaneous, armed prison uprisings and alleged attempts to organize the assassination of Newark Mayor-elect Cory Booker. The state Department of Corrections slashed inmate activities and movements as officers searched…
Daniel Walsh 