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Santa Rosa police woman beheaded the head of a woman who was found decapitated Thursday in northwest Santa Rosa, officials said.

A San Mateo County Superior Court judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to 26 years to life in prison after he was convicted of beheading his child's mother outside a home in San Carlos. Judge Lisa Novak also said that the sentence she imposed on Jose Landaeta does not feel sufficient, but is what she is required to do by law. Castro," Novak said. Novak then called Landaeta, 34, of Hayward, "clever and manipulative" as he tried a mental health defense to deny responsibility for how he killed his ex. In November, a jury found Landeta guilty of the gruesome attack of his year-old former girlfriend Karina Castro on September 8,

Woman beheaded

KGO -- A Bay Area man has been found guilty of first-degree murder for beheading his ex-girlfriend with a samurai sword in the middle of a San Carlos street in The jury handed down their verdict Monday afternoon in a Redwood City courtroom. They found Rafa Solano guilty of murdering year-old Karina Castro in the middle of the street in September Monday was an emotional day for Castro's family who are now looking after the victim's young children. Outside the courthouse, her father, Marty Castro, said he's relieved with the conviction but not as much as he'd like to be. Robert Cummings is Solano's defense attorney. He said Solano was positive he would walk out of the courtroom a free man. ABC7 was told the two were in an ongoing relationship and had a child together. Law enforcement sources say Solano had been violent with Castro, leading her to get a temporary restraining order against him in April Officials say the crime happened in the street outside the Castro's residence during an argument over Snapchat messages. Cummings said what happened in this case was a psychotic break. He said Solano is schizophrenic and it was his client's paranoid thoughts that drove his actions. Castro said Karina was his oldest daughter who loved her kids more than anything, one of them she shared with Solano.

Before he was sentenced, Castro's grandmother, Danielle Ganon, woman beheaded, implored the judge to spare him no mercy. Police said the woman was killed in a targeted attack by her grandson, Luis Gustavo Aroyo-Lopez, 23, who they said then fled the residence with her head.

A devout Christian forged her friend's will after killing and decapitating her in order to get a "large sum" of money to repair her home, a court has heard. Ms Mitchell is alleged to have disposed of her body more than miles km from London, in Devon, in June Ms Chong's body was discovered decapitated in woodland near Salcombe. Ms Mitchell, on trial at the Old Bailey, has denied murder. Ms Chong, 67, from Wembley in north-west London, was reported missing from her home on 11 June Jurors previously heard on Tuesday that Ms Chong's remains were found 16 days later, lying at the bottom of some steps near Salcombe, and the area was cordoned off and an extensive search began. Four days later, her head was discovered about 10m 30ft away in undergrowth, the court was told.

In a shocking video widely circulated on social media, three suspected separatist fighters in Muyuka, South-West region, beat and drag a year-old woman, identified as Confort Tumassang by the government, over the ground with her hands tied behind her back on August She begs for mercy before she is beheaded, her body left in the street. The mother-of-four is just the latest casualty in brutal attacks against civilians committed by separatist groups across the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon — some of them similarly captured on video. Human Rights Watch also reviewed a second video, filmed before the killing, showing separatists interrogating and threatening Tumassang, whom they accused of collaborating with the military. The video, which corroborates previous accounts of killings by armed separatists documented by Human Rights Watch since late , emerged as a new spike of violence affects civilians across the Anglophone regions. Yet when Human Rights Watch contacted the three main Anglophone separatist groups — the Ambazonia Governing Council, the Interim Government, led by Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe, and its splinter faction, led by Samuel Ikome Sako — for their reaction to the video, they condemned the killing but denied responsibility.

Woman beheaded

A film of a woman being beheaded in Mexico caused an international outcry in October when Facebook refused to remove it from its site. There have been hundreds of reports about the video - but why has no-one identified the victim in it? In the grainy footage, the woman is on her knees in jeans and a pink top, before a masked man holding a knife behind her says in a gruff voice: "Well, gentleman, this is what happens to all those in the Gulf Cartel. On behalf of Los Zetas. The rest of the video is a gruesome 40 seconds of cold-blooded murder, which caused international controversy recently when it was posted on Facebook.

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Outside the courthouse, her father, Marty Castro, said he's relieved with the conviction but not as much as he'd like to be. Patricia Seffens said in a news release Monday. Image source, Jonathan Goldberg. Before he was sentenced, Castro's grandmother, Danielle Ganon, implored the judge to spare him no mercy. Novak herself admitted the sentence delivered Tuesday morning, didn't feel like enough of a punishment. Novak then called Landaeta, 34, of Hayward, "clever and manipulative" as he tried a mental health defense to deny responsibility for how he killed his ex. Castro said Karina was his oldest daughter who loved her kids more than anything, one of them she shared with Solano. Rafa Solano has been found guilty of first-degree murder after he beheaded his ex-girlfriend with a samurai sword. The jury handed down their verdict Monday afternoon in a Redwood City courtroom. Aroyo-Lopez was released from prison Wednesday after serving time for assault with a deadly weapon and weapons possession charges for cases, unrelated to Thursday's homicide. Send a letter to the editor. Local News.

A young Amish woman was six months pregnant with her third child when she was brutally killed in her own home in late February.

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