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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Jon Schuppe
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. Appalled Texas lawmakers called for a crackdown on the corpse trade Wednesday after they heard stories of unclaimed bodies’ being cut up and used for profit by medical schools, private brokers and health care companies.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Jon Schuppe
Two Mississippi Capitol Police officers have been charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a young father during a 2022 traffic stop, part of a string of shootings by officers in an aggressive push to stamp out spiking crime in Jackson. A grand jury in Hinds County indicted the officers, Michael Rhinewalt and Stephen Frederick, last month. Rhinewalt is on unpaid administrative leave; Frederick resigned from the Capitol Police in March 2023 after adrunken driving arrest.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Jon Schuppe
Law enforcement officers were called to the hotel where authorities say Sam Nordquist was tortured to death at least eight times throughout his captivity, sheriff’s office call records obtained by NBC News show.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Jon Schuppe
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Sam Nordquist left home in Minnesota last fall and traveled 1,000 miles to be with a woman he’d fallen in love with online. He ended up imprisoned in a cut-rate hotel in upstate New York, suffering unspeakable horrors before he was killed.
Disturbing details emerge in death of Sam Nordquist, transgender man tortured and killed in New York
1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Jon Schuppe
CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — New York authorities on Wednesday outlined an astonishing story of kidnap, torture and sexual assault in the killing of Sam Nordquist, a transgender man from Minnesota who was allegedly imprisoned in a small room of an upstate motel for a month before he died.
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