Jose Diaz is charged with murder, robbery, and related offenses in the 2013 killing of Carol Ambruster in her Germantown apartment. When retired Villanova University astronomy professor Carol Ambruster was stabbed to death in her Germantown apartment on Dec. 9, 2013, what was expected to be a normal day turned into “a nightmare,” a prosecutor...
Tymear Johnson was charged with murder in the 2017 shooting death of 13-year-old Khiseer Davis-Prather inside the Gold Fish Chinese takeout on Hunting Park Avenue. The fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy in a Chinese takeout in Nicetown two years ago was a clear case of first-degree murder as evidenced by surveillance video, a city...
Steven Simminger’s paranoid schizophrenia and anxiety were well documented, developing after a 1994 auto accident in the Navy cost him a leg, and left him with a traumatic brain injury and a disability discharge. But does that mean Simminger, 41, was legally insane early on March 13, 2016, when he fatally stabbed a man in...
The prosecution alleges that Rudolph Churchill committed two rape-murders in 1989, based on the identification of his DNA a quarter-century later on two items found near the bodies of Ruby Ellis and Cheryl Hanible. On Monday, a lawyer for the 54-year-old South Jersey man questioned the integrity of that DNA evidence. Gina Capuano spent almost...
