COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) – Attorneys said Joseph Elledge’s recorded arguments with his wife and his lies about her disappearance were enough to prove he intentionally killed her. The attorney general’s office filed its response to Elledge’s appeal on Monday. Assistant attorney general Zeb Charlton said hours of recorded arguments between Elledge and his wife Mengqi
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man who was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at MU Hospital is facing more charges. Chance Williams, 29, is charged with first-degree domestic assault, armed-criminal action, third-degree domestic assault, first-degree kidnapping and tampering with a victim in a felony prosecution. A court date for those charges has not been
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A pool of more than 60 jurors were questioned and filtered down Tuesday to a narrow selection in a sexual assault case involving a Columbia psychologist. Kurt Bumby, 53, was indicted by a grand jury in 2020 for sex crimes. Bumby is accused of two counts of second-degree sodomy in 2010 and
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COOPER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman has been charged with attempted murder and other charges after the Cooper County Sheriff’s Office says she tried to stab children on Thursday. Jennifer Fangmann, 41, is charged with two counts of second-degree attempted murder, three counts of first-degree domestic assault, two counts of attempted abuse of a
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The trial of a Columbia man accused of killing his ex-wife and throwing away her remains has been pushed back to June.
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COOPER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was arrested Friday by Cooper County Sheriff’s Office deputies after the office claims he tried to fight a deputy. Roger Davis, 56, of Roeland Park, Kansas, is charged with possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. He is being held at the Cooper
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was arrested over the weekend after he was accused of several weapons charges in January. Devon Hopkins, 36, is charged with shooting a gun at a person, armed-criminal action, unlawful possession of a gun, first-degree assault and first-degree domestic assault. He is being held in the Boone County Jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Keith A. Comfort, who is accused of killing his wife 17 years ago, was scheduled to appear in the Boone County Courthouse for his murder trial on Monday. Instead, both sides are now looking for a new trial date on Monday morning. According to online court records, Comfort’s lawyer Kevin O’Brien filed a motion
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man faces several charges after he was arrested Thursday in west Columbia. John Lonce Williamson III, 26, is charged with stealing a gun and possession of a controlled substance. He also has a charge from 2021 for unlawful use of a weapon, in relation to an incident from 2020, according
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Prosecutors argued in court Friday that the defense shouldn’t be able to bring up allegations that a Columbia homicide victim was abusive to the man accused of killing her.
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The Columbia Police Department responded to a call Thursday night about a possible shooting at Betty Jean Way in southern Columbia.
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By JIM SALTER and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis prosecutor decried efforts to oust her from office Thursday and defended herself from blame after a teenage volleyball player from Tennessee lost both her legs in a vehicle crash that police say was caused by a speeding driver facing
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri Department of Corrections inmate has been charged with several felonies after allegedly stabbing a corrections officer at the Jefferson City Correctional Center in September. Aaron Stevens, 40, is charged with first-degree assault, second-degree attempted assault of a special victim, five counts of armed-criminal action, two counts of violence to
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Missouri Department of Corrections inmate has been charged with three felonies after allegedly stabbing an employee at the Jefferson City Correctional Center in 2022. Ricky McGluen, 42, is charged with violence to a DOC employee, possession of a weapon at a correctional center and armed-criminal action. An arraignment is scheduled
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A Columbia man accused of shooting another man at a south Columbia roundabout in October was in the Boone County Jail on Thursday morning.
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Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced in a Tuesday press release that his office has asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for a man convicted of killing two people in 2006.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who is accused of killing his wife 17 years ago will go to trial on Monday. A pre-trial conference was held Tuesday afternoon for Keith Comfort. He is charged with second-degree murder. He is being held in the Boone County Jail on a $5 million bond. Comfort, 41, will
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A Camden County man was charged Monday with first-degree murder and other violent felonies in the shooting death of a family member and severe wounding of another.
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Last week, Lamar Johnson’s conviction was vacated, setting him free from a wrongful conviction.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police arrested 38-year-old David Walter Rose Saturday after he barricaded himself in a house. Columbia Police were called to the 4300 block of Derby Ridge for a domestic disturbance around 10 p.m. Friday night. Rose was barricaded inside the house and would not come out, according to police. Police said officers
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