Domestic Violence Watch

LA man arrested, 40,000 fake erectile drugs seized

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 71-year-old former law enforcement officer from South Korea was arrested Wednesday, days after customs officers found his luggage and golf bag stuffed with nearly 40,000 phony Viagra and other erectile dysfunction pills at Los Angeles International Airport

Texas man executed for killing wife, her boyfriend

By MICHAEL GRACZYK

3/8/2012

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man condemned for fatally shooting his estranged wife and the neighbor who became her boyfriend denied killing them Wednesday, moments before he was put to death by lethal injection.

Man arrested in Pittsburg stabbing death

Henry K. Lee

Thursday, March 1, 2012

(03-01) 07:33 PST PITTSBURG -- A suspect was arrested in the stabbing death of a female acquaintance in Pittsburg...

Vallejo man held in slaying of his mother

Henry K. Lee

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

A Vallejo man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly killing his 71-year-old mother...

Lockyer's ex says: 'Bigger story than sex tapes'

Phillip Mattier, Andrew Ross, SF, Chronicle

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The man at the center of the sex and substance-abuse scandal engulfing Nadia Lockyer is "not a stalker" and never assaulted the Alameda County supervisor, contrary to what her state treasurer husband has told the press.

Attachment Theory made simple.

 

Girlfriend convicted of killing Healdsburg man

By Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, August 16, 2010

A Healdsburg woman was convicted of first-degree murder today for killing her boyfriend, after jurors rejected her defense that she had been battered by the victim.

Infidelity Rises When She Makes More Than He Does

By Randy Dotinga

8/16/2010

MONDAY, Aug. 16 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finds that men are more likely to cheat if their income is much lower than what their wife or female partner makes, while women are more likely to fool around if they make more than their husband or male partner.

Mexican woman granted asylum for domestic abuse

By JULIANA BARBASSA, AP

Friday, August 13, 2010

A Mexican woman who claimed she was beaten and raped for decades by her common-law husband has won the right to stay in the United States in a case that experts say makes clear that domestic violence is valid grounds for asylum.

Herhold: A sad tale of marriage and murder

By Scott Herhold

Posted: 08/15/2010 12:00:00 AM PDT

In the annals of Bay Area crime, the parallels between Jesse Crow and Scott Peterson create an unsettling mirror.