• Wyoming teens accused in triple murder denied bail

    By Jeff Black, Staff Writer, NBC News

    Two Wyoming teenagers who police say stole guns then murdered a family while trying to steal a car will be held in jail without bail.


    Stephen Hammer, 19, and Tanner VanPelt, 18, made their first appearance in court Tuesday after being apprehended in connection with a triple murder in Clark, a small community near the border with Montana.

    Circuit Judge Bruce Waters ruled that due to the severity of the charges – 11 felonies in all, including premeditated murder, murder during a robbery and using a firearm to commit a crime – the two men would be held without bond.

    In what Park County Sheriff Scott Steward deemed “nothing short of cold-blooded murder,” the men are accused of entering a home along a gravel road and fatally shooting Janos Volgyessi, 69, and wife Hildegard Volgyessi, and their 40-year-old daughter Ildiko Freitas.

    According to the Cody Enterprise, the family had lived in the area near Sugarloaf Butte for six or seven years and spoke German while together. The daughter was a married nurse whose husband was away for a job.

    A neighbor found two of the family members shot inside the home, the sheriff said. Deputies then found another body in the basement.

    Witnesses reported that they saw two slender white males enter the home, and two cars fleeing and were able to provide a description to deputies. One of the cars, a black Audi, was recognized as Freitas’ vehicle. State troopers found the vehicles and suspects several miles from the murder scene.

    The teens told police that had stolen handguns from a Cody pawn shot on Feb 26 and went to the house intending to steal the car and escape to Denver, until the robbery went awry, the Cody newspaper reported, citing an arrest affidavit filed in court.

    The Associated Press contributed to this story

     

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  • 48 years later, California couple learns marriage wasn't legal

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    By Jacob Rascon and Julie Brayton, NBCLosAngeles.com

    In 1964 Norma and Bob Clark had a wonderful wedding in Northern California. Everything was perfect.

    Nearly five decades later, the happily married couple, now in their seventies, live in Redlands.


    But while getting paperwork in order in case one of them passed away, they made a somewhat disturbing discovery -- they were never legally married, because they had no marriage license.

    "I couldn't find it, and couldn't find it for a reason, because it wasn't there," Norma Clark said.

    When couples get a marriage license, the person who then marries them must return the license to their county record office, where it becomes a marriage certificate.

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    The pastor who married the Clark's apparently never did that.

    Bob Clark went to the San Bernardino County Hall of Records to try to fix everything. The couple first told the story to the Redlands Daily Facts.

    "I just went in there thinking I could just do it, and she said, 'No, no, you have to have witnesses,'" Clark said.

    "Well, you know most people at our wedding are dead. If we had waited a couple more years, we would have been in trouble,” he added.

    'You Can Be Right' investigates modern love and marriage 

    Luckily, the Clarks had their old maid of honor and junior usher in town for the holidays. The four of them, among others, finally made it official.

    The Clarks' son, Alex, got to attend the second marriage.

    “My sister and I, we just kind of joked that we didn't have to throw them a 50th anniversary party anymore," he said.

    Norma Clark said their friends in Redlands had teased them, wanting to know when the reception would be.

    And they have some advice: Check your marriage license.

  • Police: NJ teen's tweet about intruder was a hoax

    Photo of Kara Alongi from her Twitter feed

    By Katherine Creag, NBCNewYork.com

    Police say the New Jersey teen who tweeted that someone was in her home, asked her followers to call 911 and then disappeared likely left her house voluntarily.


    Kara Alongi gained thousands of followers after asking people on Twitter to call 911 on Sunday because an intruder was in her home. She then went missing, sparking fears that she may have run into foul play. People re-tweeted her message and #helpfindkara trended on the social network.

    A preliminary investigation suggested that no foul play was involved in her disappearance. Investigators later discovered that someone had called a local taxi company at about the time the tweet was posted.

    Police say the driver who responded to the Alongi home positively identified the 16-year-old girl as the fare he picked up. He told police he drove her to the Rahway train station.

    Police Chief Alan Scherb said her apparent disappearance remains a missing person's investigation.

    "Kara might feel that she will be in trouble if she comes home after this scare and causing a panic," Scherb said in a statement. "At this point, all everyone cares about is seeing her safe and at her house where she belongs."

    Police responded to Alongi's home on Hall Drive in Clark Sunday evening. A person who answered the phone at the girl’s home quickly said ‘No comment” and hung up.

    "She is currently still missing, but we are confident she left voluntarily," Scherb told Patch. "No abduction, no foul play. We are investigating this as a missing runaway juvenile.”

    On Sunday, Kara Alongi, 16, tweeted that someone was inside her house, asking people to call 911. Now, her parents are staying quiet and police are saying the New Jersey teen is missing. NBC's Katherine Creag reports.

    Twitter users worldwide tweeted messages of good will @KaraAlongi overnight as her initial post asking for help circulated. Many said they were frightened to think about what could have happened to her.

    Others were skeptical about her pleas for help, pointing out a tweet that allegedly popped up on Alongi's account that said: "Why is everyone saying I'm missing? I was jkin haha" and was deleted a short time later.      

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