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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...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Police in Alabama are investigating after two men were found shot to death inside a home. Local news outlets report the Jefferson County Coroner 's Office identified the men, found early Wednesday , as 20-year-old DeJohn Lewis Williams and 22-year-old Dante Lanier Hall . Williams lived in the home where the killings took place. Birmingham police Lt . Sean Edwards says police responded around 1 a.m. Wednesday to a home in Birmingham's Powderly community after neighbors reported hearing gunshots . Officers found Williams and Hall each dead from a single gunshot wound . Edwards says there was a small amount of drugs and drug paraphernalia inside the home. He called the incident a "cold and calculated shooting." The investigation is ongoing.

WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — Police say they have arrested a man for the homicide of his girlfriend, who was found dead in a Wyoming apartment early Wednesday morning . The Wyoming Department of Public Safety says officers were called to an apartment complex in the 1400 block of 44th Street east of Burlingame Avenue SW around 5:50 a.m. to check on someone’s welfare. Neighbor Sergio Valencia says he heard police knocking on a door at down the hall from where he lives at Woodcreek Apartments. “I was awake because I was getting ready to go to school and I just heard a knocking on somebody’s door,” he said. “He was like, ‘It’s Wyoming Police Department .’ He said, ‘Open the door.'” When officers got into the apartment, they found the body of a 31-year-old woman in the bathroom. She is believed to have died sometime overnight, though an afternoon release from Wyoming police did not indicate how she died. Her name has not yet been released pending notification of family. Also in the ...

All charges against Terrell Walton, one of two men accused of committing a double homicide in Aberdeen in June 2016, have been dropped, but police and prosecutors say they have not ended their pursuit of justice for the victims and their loved ones. "We're still working it as an open and active investigation," Lt. Will Reiber, a spokesperson for the Aberdeen Police Department , said Wednesday. Twenty-three charges filed against Walton, 31, of Aberdeen, were dropped Aug. 15, according to online court records . He had not been to trial. He was charged with the shooting deaths of Jumal Rodale Dudley , 43, of Havre de Grace , and Taneisha Chenay Smothers , 31, of Aberdeen. Prosecutors were concerned they could not secure a conviction for murder against Walton after his co-defendant — who faced the same charges based on the same evidence — was only convicted of second-degree assault in a trial earlier this year. "By dismissing it prior to trial, we keep it an open case a...

A Purdue student faces multiple drug charges after being stopped for an alleged traffic violation early Wednesday morning . Slater M. Burge, 22 of Indianapolis, is a senior in the Krannert School of Management. He was pulled over near the intersection of Stadium and Northwestern avenues just after midnight, according to a release from the Purdue News Service . Purdue police say they received consent to search Burge’s vehicle, where they found pills, marijuana and a “significant amount of cash,” per the release. After receiving a warrant, officers searched Burge ’s residence in Hilltop Apartments; they allegedly found pills , marijuana, paraphernalia and a large amount of cash. Burge was preliminarily charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, dealing marijuana and a Schedule III drug , and possession of marijuana, paraphernalia and a scheduled or controlled substance, the release said; he was being held on a $15,000 surety bond. The release said the Tippecanoe County Prosecut...

BARCELONA — Two days after a devastating vehicle attack on one of Europe’s most iconic tourist destinations , many questions remained as Spanish authorities continued a manhunt for a 22-year-old missing member of the cell of suspected terrorists responsible for the brutal assault that killed 14 and injured more than 100 others. Unlike other vehicle attacks Europe has endured in the last two years — in Nice, Berlin, Stockholm and London — Thursday’s in Barcelona and the one early Friday in the nearby seaside city of Cambrils displayed an unusual degree of sophistication and coordination. Authorities are investigating what they believe to be a terrorist cell of at least 12 members with possible bases in different locations across the region of Catalonia. But the Spanish government was quick to insist on Saturday that the situation was under control. Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez said that the 12-person cell had been “dismantled,” and the government ultimately decl...

Five persons suspected of ramming a van into people in Cambrils in Spain have been shot dead, police said hours after 13 people were killed in a similar incident in Barcelona. 7-year-old Sydney boy Julian Cadman is missing after the Barcelona terror attack . SUSPECTS in Spain’s twin terror attacks had been planning an even bigger assault than the deadly car rampages they carried out, police said, as distressing details emerged of families torn apart in the horror. Police said they shot dead five “suspected terrorists” who had knocked pedestrians down in the Catalan seaside resort of Cambrils in a second attack in the early hours of Friday, and arrested four others as Spain reeled from the deadly violence . Catalonia’s regional police identified three of the suspects who were killed as Moroccan nationals. They were Moussa Oukabir, 17, Said Aallaa, 18, and Mohamed Hychami, 24. Police said they suspect 12 people of involvement in the attacks: the five who were killed, four who wer...