James Degorski accused a Cook County Jail guard of punching him and breaking his cheekbone and eye socket in 2002, just after his arrest in the murder.
Booking records show that Dean was booked with second-degree murder and was being held at the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison with bond set at $200,000.
Jordan Graham pleaded guilty to a second degree murder charge on Thursday (Dec. 12) in the death of her newlywed husband, Cody Johnson, at Glacier National Park.
Cpl. L'Jean McKneely says Corey Pittman was returned to Baton Rouge to be booked with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 35-year-old Kenneth Barton.
Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Savannah Williams says 47-yeaer-old Karen Diamond shot and killed her mother, 84-year-old Eula Diamond, and the family dog before shooting herself.
29-year-old Kewanda B. Duncan was booked Monday on one count of manslaughter in the death of A'Mircle Parker, a 12-week-old baby born premature this summer at Baton Rouge General Medical Center.
Chris Lane, an Australian man who had recently accepted a scholarship to play baseball for East Central University in Oklahoma, was shot and killed by three Oklahoma teens Friday afternoon. According to the police, the teens did it simply because they were bored.
He is accused of shooting Creighton University pathologist Roger Brumback to death and fatally stabbing Brumback's wife, Mary, in May at the Brumbacks' Omaha home.