01of 07Sisters Dead in Luxury Seychelles Resort After SafariOn Sept. 22, 2016, Robin Marie Korkki, 42, and her 37-year-old sister Annie Marie Korkkiwere found unresponsive in their $2,000-a-night villaat the Maia Luxury Resort and Spa in the Seychelles, an archipelago nation off the eastern coast of Africa, according to police. Their deaths triggered months of high-profile headlines and speculation.Seychelles police announced in December that “excess water in the lungs and brain due to acute combined drug intoxication,” including a mix of alcohol, codeine and morphine, led to both deaths, which they called accidental.The two sisters, described as close, outgoing and adventurous, were staying at the Maia after being on safari in Africa since mid-September, according to their Facebook pages. Police said that, according to an itinerary found at the hotel, the sisters had already visited Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar. Annie worked at JPMorgan Chase in Denver and Robin was a financial trader in Chicago. They both attended high school in Minnesota.
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Sisters Dead in Luxury Seychelles Resort After Safari
On Sept. 22, 2016, Robin Marie Korkki, 42, and her 37-year-old sister Annie Marie Korkkiwere found unresponsive in their $2,000-a-night villaat the Maia Luxury Resort and Spa in the Seychelles, an archipelago nation off the eastern coast of Africa, according to police. Their deaths triggered months of high-profile headlines and speculation.
Seychelles police announced in December that “excess water in the lungs and brain due to acute combined drug intoxication,” including a mix of alcohol, codeine and morphine, led to both deaths, which they called accidental.
The two sisters, described as close, outgoing and adventurous, were staying at the Maia after being on safari in Africa since mid-September, according to their Facebook pages. Police said that, according to an itinerary found at the hotel, the sisters had already visited Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar. Annie worked at JPMorgan Chase in Denver and Robin was a financial trader in Chicago. They both attended high school in Minnesota.
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Boston Doctors Found with Throats Slit in Penthouse Apartment
Dr. Richard Field and his fiancée, Dr. Lina Bolanos,were found dead on May 5, 2017, in Field’s $1.9-million luxury penthouse in South Boston. Police said that both doctors’ hands were bound andtheir throats had been slit— and that a “message of retribution” had been written in blood on the condo’s walls.
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Family, Housekeeper Allegedly Held Captive Then Murdered in D.C. Mansion
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A suspicious house fire at a five-bedroom, approximately $3 million mansion in northwest Washington, D.C., led tothe discovery for four dead bodieson May 14, 2015: businessman Savvas Savopoulos, his wife, Amy, their 10-year-old son, Philip, and their housekeeper,Veralicia Figueroa.
It was later learned that, according to authorities, they were held captive, beaten and tortured for hours before their deaths.
Daron Dylon Wint, who had worked at Savopoulos' construction-supply company, was arrested a week afterthe four were discovered, following an extensive manhunt. He has been charged with first-degree murder in all four deaths, to which he has pleaded not guilty. His trial is reportedly scheduled for September 2018.
TheSavopoulos familyincludes two teenage daughters who were away at school at the time of the killings, which D.C.’s mayor, Muriel Bowser, described as an “act of evil.”
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Daughter and Boyfriend Convicted of Killing Her Mom at Bali Resort
It became known as the “suitcase murder”: Heather Mack and her then-boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, were found guilty of killing Mack’s mother, 62-year-old Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack, at the upscale St. Regis hotel in Bali, Indonesia. They then stuffed the body in a suitcase, where it was later discovered outside in a taxi.
At the couple’s trial, Schaefer confessed to the killing and admitted to hitting von Wiese-Mack repeatedly with a metal fruit bowl.
Von Wiese-Mack’s family has also spoken out. Her younger sister reportedly said at one court hearing, “I can’t look at a suitcase [now] without thinking of my sister’s half-naked body … This will haunt me for the rest of my life.”
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Banker Records His Torture and Murder of 2 Women in Hong Kong High-Rise
He was automatically sentenced to life in prison. He called it “just and appropriate judgment” even as trial observers were left grappling with the full measure of his sadism in October and November 2014, when — in separate incidents — he brought Mujiasih and Ningsih back to his 31st-floor apartment at the J Residence in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai neighborhood. (Though small, the residence cost him more than $2,580 a month.)
According to authorities, Jutting, a Cambridge University graduated who had relocated from London to work at the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, tortured Ningsih, 23, his first victim, for three days before slitting her throat. Then he stuffed her body into a suitcase that he put on the balcony. He killed Mujiasih, 26, less than a week later after she became alarmed at a gag she spotted in his living room and began calling for help. Throughout, Jutting recorded much of his actions on his phone, narrating in real time.
The grisly murders also cast a spotlight on the plight of domestic migrant workers in Hong Kong like Mujiasih and Ningsih.
A cousin of Ningsihtold CNN in 2016that they first traveled to Hong Kong together: “We wanted to make a change, wanted a better life, and to help our family.”
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Millionaire Executive Poisons 8-Year-Old Son in N.Y.C. Hotel
In Jordan’s telling, her son, Jude, had to die to spare him a life of future torment: She said she believed one ex-husband had threateened her, which would leave Jude in the custody of another ex-husband, whom she suspected was sexually abusing the boy and would continue to do so. Neither man has ever been charged in connection with these claims, which they have vehemently denied.
Prosecutors unsuccessfully sought to convict Jordan of murder, but the jury found her guilty of first-degree manslaughter instead. Noting that he thought Jordan “appears to have psychological problems,” the judge who sentenced her said in court that there had been no evidence presented that Jude was sexually abused and he cast doubt on Jordan’s claim that she tried to kill herself after killing her son.
“There are tragedies here,” the judge said. “All of her money. All her resources. She decided to kill him. There are so many things she could have done.”
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19-Year-Old Murders Parents, Tries to Kill Siblings in O.C. Home
Courtesy Ruth Briscoe; Orange County Sheriff’s Department/AP. Inset: Anna Reed/The Orange County Register/ZUMA
“He has no remorse or empathy," the district attorney said of Sachs at his sentencing. “All he cares about is himself.”
Sachspreviously pleaded guiltyto the first-degree murders of his parents, 57-year-old Brad and Andra Sachs, 54, and the attempted murder of two siblings. The couple was shot to death in a bedroom of their $2.5 million luxury home in the ritzy Orange County beach community of San Juan Capistrano, California, on Feb. 9, 2014.
Ashton was armed with an automatic rifle when he shot his mother 10 times and his father 12 times, including once in the face. He told police he hatched the plot to kill his parents and then himself four or five days before the shooting.
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