homicide

The Seattle Police Department confirmed that it had responded to a call about her death on July 30 and said the case remained with its homicide unit, though it has been ruled accidental.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

David Stivers, was reprimanded two months before Nancy’s kidnapping for “poor judgment,” blamed for delays securing crime-scene evidence in a homicide case, personnel records from a public-records request show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

NBC Los Angeles reported that the warrant was served as part of the continuing homicide investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Still, the majority of the homicide spike took place before June 2020, when protests over Floyd’s death spread nationwide.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

None of the agencies I contacted for this story replied to my inquiries about the status of the investigations—which, as with all unsolved homicides, officially remain open.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

California’s crime rate dropped last year to historic lows in several major categories, including violent crimes like robbery and homicides, with property crimes and incidents of car thefts also down, state officials announced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

She also signaled openness to a change of venue from Colleton County, where the homicides occurred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Where Americans think of graphically violent procedurals as comfort watches, the British prefer their TV homicides to be much tidier: Serious violence occurs offscreen.

From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026

So even in a death penalty advocate’s best-case scenario, capital punishment could explain only one twenty-fifth of the drop in homicides in the 1990s.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt