CEDAR RAPIDS - The chief state medical examiner testified Thursday that Raymond Ursino was a chronic alcoholic diagnosed with emphysema and coronary heart disease that could have caused a heart attack ...

As her estranged husband held her against the wall, squeezing her neck with both hands, a Barberton woman kept thinking, “I have to get free.” She tried to grab his head and face as he stared at her ...

Ashton E. Newberry, 20, of Coeur d’Alene is charged with attempted strangulation, a felony, and domestic battery in the presence of a child, a misdemeanor, after police said he choked a woman.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The prosecution and defense in Kylr Yust's double-murder trial took very different approaches in closing arguments Wednesday afternoon. After hearing testimony from the defendant ...

Police found Jacob Neal Carroll in the bathroom of the apartment he shared with his girlfriend. He was straddling the woman with his hands wrapped around her neck. The woman’s face was purple, and she ...

A countywide protocol is being developed to address strangulation, a crime that has proven to be one of the deadliest forms of domestic violence. San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Tracy Prior, ...

Stevie Barber’s roommates awoke to her screams as her boyfriend strangled her into unconsciousness, then set fire to her bedroom. Barber’s boyfriend and her roommates made it out of the burning ...

NORTH PORT, Fla. – The Gabby Petito autopsy finding that she died of homicide by strangulation indicates a likelihood of domestic violence and deadly intent at the Wyoming campsite where an FBI-led ...

A quick Internet search for news on strangulation events returns pages and pages of tragic examples. The most recent cases to grab the nation's attention were the asphyxiation deaths of a pregnant ...

On Sept. 6, a little girl, Ashley Johnson-Barr, played at her local park in Kotzebue. She will never return to play there again. Her body was found on Sept. 14. The autopsy conducted by the State ...