3-year-old Child Murderer Released Form Jail

More than a dozen family members dissented in front of the Fresno County District Attorney's office Friday afternoon, chanting "We want justice" and carrying signs that read, "You released a murderer."

They are baffled that the only suspect in this 3-year-old Erianna Beltran's murder was freed from jail.

19-year-old Mack Lucas was apprehended for the murder of Beltran earlier this year, but the Fresno County District Attorney's office dismissed that charge Thursday.

"I just feel this is not right, I've seen the pictures, I've seen what the child looked like, she had over 250 wounds on her, burn marks, bite marks, and somebody needs to pay," said Margarita Plasencia, Beltran's aunt.

The demonstrators are the three-year-old 's paternal relatives. Mack Lucas was dating Erianna's mother at the time of the murder.

"If it's not Mack Lucas, the mother... they have enough evidence and enough pictures, that's too many unaccountable bruises that child had," said Plasencia.

"This was an innocent autistic child who cannot defend herself...and she needs people to stand up for her, and that's exactly why we're out here right now," said Leticia Beltran, another aunt.

The girl died at Children's Hospital Central California on January 27th.

Police say the cause of death was blunt force trauma.

The District Attorney says there's not enough evidence to prove Lucas inflicted the blows.

"I don't think that's fair, they should've went to trial and see what the jury says," said Virginia Beltran, Erianna's paternal grandmother.

All the family can do now, is wait, as the investigation continues.

"This is sad, we can't even cry no more, we can't even speak of it... I wish this person, whoever did, would turn themselves over to God and ask for forgiveness, there's going to be justice whether it's through the Lord or through the lens of the law," said the grieving grandmother.

In addition to Mack Lucas, the child's mother, Erin Skinner, was also arrested in connection to the murder, but was released shortly after.

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Anthony Morley, Who Ate Gay Lover’s Flesh Arrested for Murder

An erstwhile Mr. Gay UK was found guilty today of slaying a former boyfriend before carving flesh from his thigh, flavoring it with fresh herbs, frying it in olive oil and then feasting on it.

Anthony Morley, 36, cut Damian Oldfield’s throat before stabbing him several times after they went to bed jointly in April this year. He also left a Lloyds TSB bank card over a injury on his victim’s chest.

Morley, a chef, was apprehended after he walked into a takeaway food shop near his home in Leeds wearing a gory dressing gown and flip-flops and told staff that he had killed someone who had attempted to rape him.

As the jury returned a verdict of guilty, after debating for two hours and twenty minutes, members of the thronged public gallery cheered up and clapped. Morley clasped his hands and bowed his head and several jury members left the court in tears.

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Japanese Businessman Accused in Murder Kills Self

Kazuyoshi Miura is a 61-year-old Japanese businessman who was recently returned to the U.S. on charges that he murdered his wife. He was found hanging in his jail cell Friday evening.

"Miura apparently hanged himself sometime Friday night, said an officer at Parker Center police headquarters, where Miura was taken after arriving in the country early Friday.

Miura was arrested in the U.S. commonwealth of Saipan on Feb. 21 and has been in custody ever since. He was to remain in a city jail cell until his arraignment next week.

His wife, Kazumi Miura, was shot in the head near downtown L.A. in 1981, then moved to Japan where she died the next year. She was 28 when she died.

On Thursday, prosecutors with the District Attorney's Office filed papers, asking that a murder charge be reinstated against Miura.

"We fully support that request," police Capt. Denis Cremins said. "Detectives who have been involved in this investigation have no doubt that Mr. Miura is responsible for his wife's death."

Miura had been tried on that charge in Japan and acquitted. Because he was not found guilty of conspiracy, prosecutors were allowed to refile charges in his wife's murder.

In a statement released in May 1988 after the murder and conspiracy charges were filed in Los Angeles, prosecutors alleged Miura collected about $750,000 from life insurance policies on his wife.

Prosecutors also allege Miura "solicited five different people to murder his wife," including the person who actually shot her."

Source: CBS 2, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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19-Year-Old Girl Kills Mother, Stabs 50 Times with a Knife

Rachel Mullenix of Huntington Beach is a 19-year-old girl. She was convicted on Friday for gruesomely stabbing her mother to death and dumping her body in the ocean. She was sentenced to 25 years for life in prison.

Barbara Mullenix, her mother, whose body was pulled from Newport with a butter knife protruding from an eye in September 2006 had been stabbed 50 times by her.

During the hearing she told the judge that she made some "bad choices" but did not kill her mother.

"My mom was my world. She was my life," Rachel Mullenix told the judge in Orange County Superior Court. "And somebody saying that I would stab her really affects me because I didn't.

"I'm not saying I'm completely innocent. But planning and killing my mom I did not do, and I will never, ever take responsibility for it."

Her lawyer, David Cohn, said he will appeal his client's July 17 conviction. He said she should be eligible for parole when she is about 40 years old.

Her ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Ian Allen, was also convicted of first-degree murder in a separate trial. His sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 14.

Source: Sfgate.com

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