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Free Malaysia Today
27-05-2025
- Free Malaysia Today
Cop charged with wife's murder dies in custody
A warden discovered the man unconscious in his cell at 4.30pm and rushed him to the hospital. (Reuters pic) KANGAR : A policeman charged with murdering his wife in 2023 has died after being found unresponsive at the Perlis correctional centre in Guar Nangka, Arau. Arau police chief Ahmad Mohsin Rodi said the 28-year-old man from Terengganu was pronounced dead at Tuanku Fauziah Hospital at 5.10pm yesterday after being brought in by prison authorities. A warden discovered the man unconscious in his cell at 4.30pm and rushed him to the hospital. 'Initial investigations found no sign of foul play,' Mohsin said in a statement. The body was sent to Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital in Alor Setar for a post-mortem. The case has been classified as sudden death pending the results. The man had a history of psychiatric treatment and had been held on remand since March 17, 2023, under Section 302 of the Penal Code for murder. He was charged with fatally shooting his wife in Kampung Bendang Baru, Simpang Empat, near Kangar on March 5, 2023. The Kangar magistrates' court later ordered him to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
Washington Post
21-05-2025
- Washington Post
Nebraska man not guilty by reason of insanity in Creighton University baseball director's death
OMAHA, Neb. — A Nebraska man charged in the shooting death of the director of baseball operations at Creighton University has been ordered to remain at a psychiatric hospital after he was found not responsible by reason of insanity. A judge on Monday ordered Ladell Thornton to undergo an evaluation to determine a treatment plan, WOWT reported .
Associated Press
20-05-2025
- Associated Press
Nebraska man not guilty by reason of insanity in Creighton University baseball director's death
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man charged in the shooting death of the director of baseball operations at Creighton University has been ordered to remain at a psychiatric hospital after he was found not responsible by reason of insanity. A judge on Monday ordered Ladell Thornton to undergo an evaluation to determine a treatment plan, WOWT reported. Thornton waived his right to a jury trial on charges that included first-degree murder in the 2021 shooting death of Chris Gradoville, 37. The former baseball standout played for Creighton from 2004 to 2007 and then joined its baseball staff as its director of operations in the fall of 2020. Gradoville had just flipped an Omaha house and sold it to a realty company that was renting it to Thornton, officials said. Gradoville was shot after he arrived at the house to take care of a repair he had promised the realty company he would make. Annie Petersen with the Douglas County Public Defenders Office said signs that something might be wrong with Thornton went unnoticed because he lived alone. 'He slowly isolated himself from friends and family due to his paranoia, and there was nobody to tell him that the thoughts in his head and the voices that he was hearing were not real ... or that medicine could help his situation,' Petersen said. Thornton, who had an extensive criminal record, entered a no-contest plea for being a felon in possession of a firearm months before the killing. If there is ever a court order releasing him from the psychiatric facility, he must first serve the sentence for that offense, which carries a prison term of up to 50 years. Creighton is a private university in Omaha.
The Sun
19-05-2025
- The Sun
Bodysnatcher who dressed mummified remains of 29 girls as dolls to stay locked up after plea from psychiatric doc
A SICK bodysnatcher who dressed up mummified remains of 29 girls as dolls will remain locked up in a psychiatric hospital, a Russian court has ruled. Anatoly Moskvin, 55, turned the dead children into 'dolls', dressing them in stockings, clothes and knee-length boots. 7 7 He was first arrested in 2011 when a series of desecrated graves of girls aged three to 11 led to a months-long manhunt across Novgorod, Russia. When cops searched the flat Moskvin shared with his parents, they discovered the bodies of 29 girls. Each had been mummified, dressed in children's clothes, and arranged like dolls in his home. The former academic claimed that he practised black magic and believed he could one day revive the children using science. Moskvin, now 58, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was ruled unfit to stand trial in 2012. He has been held in a secure Russian psychiatric unit ever since. Despite several pleas made by Moskvin's lawyers, a Russian court has now confirmed that the sick man would remain under forced detention. His term was extended after the chief physician of the psychiatric hospital filed a petition against his release - possibly due to his behaviour. Moskvin confessed to 44 counts of abusing the graves of girls aged three to 12. In Soviet times, he worked as a translator for military intelligence in the Red Army, and later wrote several history books. Horror moment sisters are found chained to their beds where 'Brazil's Fritzl' dad 'drugged & raped them for a year' The historian, described in court as a genius and the author of scientific papers, gave various explanations for his deeply disturbing behaviour. Moskvin told his interrogators he was waiting for science to find ways for these girls to live again, as well as wanting to be an expert in making mummies. He chillingly said to the family members of the dead children: "You abandoned your girls in the cold, and I brought them home and warmed them up." Moskvin added that he had needed biological material for cloning and insisted his actions were not for any sexual motive. He told investigators: "I felt sorry for the dead children, who could still live on. "So I kept them until the time when science would have advanced, and revived them." 7 7 7 His mother Elvira told the court: "We saw these dolls, but we did not suspect there were dead bodies inside. We thought it was his hobby to make such big dolls and did not see anything wrong with it.' Parents of the dead children have pleaded he remain locked up for life, fearing he'll return to his sinister old habit, which saw him living with some children's remains for up to ten years. In the early years after his arrest, he frequently gave interviews and made bizarre confessions, including that he had slept in Muslim graveyards and visited more than 750 cemeteries. He claimed: "I lay down in one coffin, and slid another one on top. And I got a good night's sleep. And no one noticed." In 2021, his lawyers tried to argue that he should be transferred to outpatient care and had plans to write a book and work as a language teacher in Moscow. But the court rejected the plea, as it did again last week. The court sided with the hospital that he remain under psychiatric supervision in detention until November.
