Asphyxiation

BRANSON, Mo. -- City police said Monday that a man whose body was found in a bath tub on Friday was strangled.   That resulted in a murder charge against Sean Roberson, 24, the man who was charged on Saturday with assaulting Andros Valentin, 18. That...

Necropsy results of a dropped Iditarod sled dog found in snowdrift in Unalakleet show the dog died after being smothered by weather conditions. Dorado, a five-year-old male from the team of Paige Drobny, died of “asphyxiation as the result of...

There are many lessons parents could learn from the ghastly death of Phylicia Barnes ("Johnson guilty in Barnes case," Feb. 7). Though the media and the justice system were taken to task by the victim's family when she disappeared, the beautiful young...

In a pivotal day of testimony in the Phylicia Barnes murder trial, a 36-year-old petty criminal the defense has dismissed as a "jailhouse snitch" took the stand as one of the prosecution's key witnesses. James McCray, currently locked up in Charles...

Newly released details about suspected Alaskan serial killer Israel Keyes' attacks  showed two abduction-killings and notable similarities. Keyes -- a 34-year-old Anchorage construction worker who was found dead in an apparent jailhouse suicide Sunday...

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a hunter who apparently was asphyxiated by fumes from a propane heater he was using to heat his van in West Michigan. The Mason County sheriff's department says 54-year-old Richard...

Terrance Gough bought a king-size mattress, unpacked his clothes and arranged the bedroom in his uncle's Southwest Baltimore home just the way he liked it. The 26-year-old never got a chance to sleep in the bed, however: he was gunned down the next...

An off-duty Baltimore County police officer chased down a 17-year-old Randallstown High School student and killed him during an altercation Wednesday night, police said, after a group of youths threw a rock at the front door of the officer's home. The...

Prosecutors alleged Friday that the 28-year-old man charged with murdering Phylicia Barnes asphyxiated the teenager in her sister's Northwest Baltimore apartment, and then moved her body using a 35-gallon plastic tub. Michael Maurice Johnson, the ex-...

City police say they have made an arrest in the killing of a 44-year-old woman found handcuffed and bound by the feet in her bedroom at the McCulloh Homes housing project.  Cheryl Thomas was found May 3 in the 400 block of Cummings Court at about 5 p.m....

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KTLA) -- A 92-year old great-grandmother selling do-it-yourself asphyxiation kits was sentenced to probation for failing to file federal tax returns. Sharlotte Hydorn, a retired public school science teacher from Spokane, Wash.,...

Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died of asphyxiation due to hanging, the Westchester County medical examiner said Thursday. Her death is the latest for a family that has seen its share of tragedy. "We know from a history of...