When detectives found the clothes admitted killer Justin Crenshaw wore during the slayings of Sarah Clark and Tanner Pehl, they found a clue that Spokane County Chief Criminal Prosecutor Jack Driscoll emphasized at the trial's opening this morning. Inside the plastic container with the bloody…
A 22-year-old man is accused of holding a 2-year-old girl at knifepoint during a confrontation with tribal police on the Spokane Indian Reservation.Samuel G. Laverdure appeared in U.S. District Court in Spokane on Thursday, where he's charged with kidnapping after investigators say he held a…
A double-murder trial two-and-a-half years in the making begins this morning in Spokane County Superior Court, where a jury is expected to spend three weeks hearing the case of 22-year-old Justin W. Crenshaw. Crenshaw is accused of killing 18-year-old Sarah A. Clark and 20-year-old Tanner…
A fourth suspect has been charged in a home-invasion robbery in which one suspect reportedly said she wanted to give the victim "a taste of his own (BS)."Braiden M. Connor, 18, appeared in Superior Court Friday on several felonies connected to a May 11 incident…
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