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Police collect evidence Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, in the slaying of a man on Division Street. | News4Jax
January 2, 2025

Jacksonville ends 2024 with record low homicides

Murders, manslaughters and justifiable homicides fell by more than half last year, records show.…

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Macclenny babysitter Rhonda Jewell testifies during her trial this month. | News4Jax
December 19, 2024

Babysitter gets 17 years for infant’s death in hot car

Baker County babysitter Rhonda Jewell said she forgot she left the 10-month-old girl in her car until five hours later.…

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Jerry Burns sits with his defense attorney during this week's sentencing phase in a Duval County courtroom. | News4Jax
December 17, 2024

Jury recommends life sentence for husband in murder plot

Jerry Burns was convicted of plotting the slaying of his wife, who was stabbed 39 times.…

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December 13, 2024

Husband convicted in wife’s murder-for-hire killing

Jerry Burns faces the death penalty after he was convicted of arranging his wife’s murder.…

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Harold Swain and his wife, Thelma, were killed at Rising Daughter Baptist Church in Waverly. | Google
December 10, 2024

Arrest made in 39-year-old Camden County murders

A Camden County church deacon and his wife were shot to death during a Bible study class. The wrong man…

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Contractor Corey Binderim sits with his defense attorneys on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, as a jury recommended that he serve life in prison. | News4Jax
October 17, 2024

Jury recommends life sentence for Clay County contractor

Contractor Corey Binderim was convicted of killing Susan Mauldin of Fleming Island in October 2019.…

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A police sketch shows how a man might have looked before his skeletal remains were found on Little Talbot Island in 1990. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today
July 15, 2024

Police reopen 34-year-old case of skeleton found in woods

Cold case detectives say the man was never identified and there was no evidence of who killed him,.…

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Jazmine Shelton, 13, and best friend Megan Simmons, 14, were shot and killed in August 2013 in a trailer home on Missouri Avenue. | MAD DADS
May 20, 2024

Sheriff Office reexamines teenage girls’ slayings

No leads ever emerged in the shootings of Jazmine Shelton, 13, and Megan Simmons, 14, on Aug. 10, 2013.…

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ICARE board member Geneva Pittman lays a flower atop others on the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office steps. The 124 carnations represented how many people were murdered in 2023 in Jacksonville. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today
April 8, 2024

ICARE lays murder toll at sheriff’s doorstep

ICARE again implored Sheriff T.K. Waters to adopt the Group Violence Intervention program to stem murders in Jacksonville.…

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Jared Bridegan | Jacksonville Beach Police Department
November 16, 2023

Defense wants prosecutors removed in Bridegan murder

Defense attorneys say prosecutors violated attorney-client privilege for two people accused of plotting Jared Bridegan’s slaying.…