Oliver Bernsdorff threatened to kill his ex-wife, their children and himself if he couldn't have their family back the way it used to be, Largo police Lt. Mike Loux said in a statement Saturday. ...more

December 15, 2007

Oliver Bernsdorff threatened to kill his ex-wife, their children and himself if he couldn't have their family back the way it used to be, Largo Police Lt. Mike Loux said in a news release today. ...more

December 15, 2007

A central Florida man was charged with vehicular homicide after DNA evidence showed he was driving a car that ran a red light and struck another vehicle, killing four family members, authorities said. ...more

November 4, 2007

TALLAHASSEE (AP) — The final chapter in one of Highlands County's most notorious murders may have come to an end Thursday. DNA testing cannot be done in the contract killing of citrus and cattle baron Charles Von Maxcy because evidence from the sensational 1966 case apparently no longer exists, the Florida Supreme Court ruled. The justices unanimously affirmed a trial judge's decision denying DNA testing sought by death row inmate William H. Kelley. He was convicted of killing Von Maxcy in 1984 — 18 years after the 41-year-old victim was stabbed and shot to death at his Sebring home. Von Maxcy's wife, Irene, had arranged through her lover, John Sweet, to have Kelley, 64, of Brockton, Mass., kill her husband. Sweet, the state's chief witness, testified the wife was afraid of being left out of Von Maxcy's $1.7 million estate. ...more

October 26, 2007

The body of George Gipp, the Notre Dame football player who inspired the rallying cry 'Win one for the Gipper,' was exhumed recently for DNA testing in his Upper Peninsula hometown. ...more

October 11, 2007

NEW PORT RICHEY – A judge granted a mistrial today in the case of Phillup Alan Partin because of the last-minute discovery of an FDLE report last week. Partin, 42, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 2002 death of 16-year-old Joshan Ashbrook. He faces the death penalty if found guilty as charged. Ashbrook's body was found in the woods off Shady Hills Road on Aug. 1, 2002. ...more

October 9, 2007

Three former Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of rape filed a sweeping federal lawsuit Friday that could return the sensational case to a courtroom, suing disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong, the city of Durham and the police detectives who handled the investigation. ...more

October 6, 2007