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One of the most watched recent murder cases in the Philadelphia area in years wound to a close on Wednesday with David "DJ" Creato, 23, admitting to killing his three-year-old son, Brendan, in October 2015. He pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the case after a 10-day trial on a first- degree murder charge ended in a hung jury and mistrial in May. THE LATEST:   DJ Creato admits he killed son Brendan , takes manslaughter plea deal Here's a day-by-day timeline of the significant events surrounding the case. TUESDAY, OCT. 13, 2015:   David “DJ” Creato reports his son,  Brendan, missing  around 6 a.m. He suggests the three-year-old may have opened the door and left the second-floor apartment they shared. A large community-wide search in Haddon Township ends three hours later when a K-9 located the boy’s lifeless body in Cooper River Park . A death scene investigator from the office of medical examiner   Dr. Gerald “Buck” Feigin  goes to the  scene and subseque...

Devastated relatives will say their final farewells to little AbbieGail Smith next Monday — and her Jamaican father hopes to be among them. "I want to see my daughter for the last time, please, one last time before she goes down into the earth," distraught dad Kenroy Smith , 50, told the Daily News Monday , breaking down with emotion. The 11-year-old New Jersey girl vanished from her mom's Keansburg apartment last Wednesday and was stabbed to death by an upstairs neighbor who dumped her body in a hiding spot on the property, prosecutors said. The medical examiner confirmed that Smith died from a stab wound to the neck. 11-year-old girl found dead behind New Jersey apartment complex Accused killer Andreas Erazo , 18, was arrested hours after her body was found Thursday. He was charged Friday with first-degree murder and illegal weapons possession . "I want to see the perpetrator. I want to see him brought to justice and would like to confront hi...

Gemmel Moore Courtesy LaTisha Nixon UPDATE, Aug. 15: The Los Angeles Sheriff ’s Department's homicide bureau "has assigned several investigators to review the circumstances of the death to determine if any criminal culpability exists ," according to a sheriff's statement. Sheriff's officials say the case is closed on the recent death of a 26-year-old suspected of overdosing on methamphetamine at the West Hollywood apartment of political influencer Ed Buck . But the mother of the man, Gemmel Moore, says Buck should be held accountable for her son’s death. Moore's mother, LaTisha Nixon, says that about a year ago her son called her crying about Buck. He was scared, she says, and his experiences with the 62-year-old inspired him to leave Los Angeles and return to her Texas home. She also says he was struggling with homelessness and an HIV diagnosis. A day before his death, Moore flew back to Los Angeles, according to Nixon. She says Buck sent him a plane tick...