A jury learned Friday that two prints were found on fragments of a toilet tank lid used as a murder weapon: one from the defendant and another from the victim’s husband.
Also, a detective with bloodstain pattern analysis expertise testified, a footwear impression in blood found at the crime scene would have required that the wearer step close to the body of 19-year-old Justina Altamirano Mosso.
Rontarus ...
A 25-year-old Iola man has pleaded no contest in connection with a hit-and-run accident that occurred in Lawrence more than two years ago.
Andrew A. Walden admitted to police that he rear-ended a broken-down Dodge Neon that several people were trying to push in the lanes of the 900 block of West 23rd Street, then kept on driving, according to a police affidavit in the case. That was just before 1 a.m. May 19, ...
Story updated at 6:25 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26:
A Baldwin City man was charged Wednesday with convincing someone to sell sexual relations, according to court documents.
James Ryan Reynolds, 43, was arrested at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11 at an address in the 2300 block of West 31st Street, according to the Douglas County Jail booking log. He was released a couple of hours later on $2,000 cash or surety ...
Jurors in a Lawrence murder trial on Thursday heard about the partial DNA evidence that prosecutors say links 23-year-old Rontarus Washington Jr. to the crime.
However, they also heard that this particular bit of partial DNA could be found in a frequency of roughly 1 in 2,000 men in the general population, plus any of Washington’s paternal male relatives.
Experts testified about the forensic evidence in ...
A man has been charged and bound over for trial after allegedly inappropriately touching a woman who was a stranger to him at a Lawrence liquor store.
Gerald L. Pamaska, 51, was charged Aug. 29 with sexual battery, a midlevel-severity felony, court records indicate.
The Journal-World requested and on Monday received the police affidavit supporting Pamaska’s arrest. Allegations in affidavits have not been ...
Story updated at 8:34 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25:
Rontarus Washington Jr. told police he knew that a woman murdered in his apartment complex had to have been beaten or stabbed to death. There was blood everywhere, and the images haunted him in his sleep.
He had seen someone get shot, then-18-year-old Washington told detectives during an interview, and he knew that wasn’t what killed the woman. His cousin had ...
