The families on three sides of a stabbing death of a Spokane man sobbed Friday as a jury returned guilty verdicts against the man and woman who fought the man they killed in 2009. The jury found Matthew M. Nedeau and Maggie M. Tyler, both…
This pipe bomb was attached to Cyndi Steele's car June 15 when she went to a Coeur d'Alene auto shop for a routine oil change. The photo was shown to jurors today in Edgar Steele's murder-for-hire trial. BOISE - A Spokane County bomb expert said…
BOISE - Edgar Steele's lawyers have questioned the reliability of recordings that show their client discussing the plot to kill his wife with alleged hitman-turned-FBI-informant Larry Fairfax. Prosecutors used phone records provided by the defense to poke a hole in that claim this morning. Steele…
BOISE - Jurors this morning saw emails Edgar Steele sent to a 25-year-old European woman with whom prosecutors say he was seeking an intimate relationship. The messages were among more than 14,000 Steele sent through a Ukrainian online dating website in the months before his…
A longtime Coeur d'Alene cocaine dealer who laundered money through a bar and restaurant has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. James Roy "Slim" O'Neill, 49, was the kingpin of a cocaine distribution ring that supplied the drug in North Idaho for at least…
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for tips that help arrest a Coeur d'Alene rape suspect wanted fore more than two weeks. Scott Patrick Giordano, 30, is accused of raping the girl last Wednesday at a home in the 800 block of Mullan Avenue. The…
BOISE - "This phone call is protected under husband-wife privilege, even if they're recording it, they can't use it for any purpose." Edgar Steele said that to his wife, Cyndi, in a June phone call played for jurors today in his murder-for-hire case in U.S.…
These are portions of phone calls from the Kootenai County Jail that were played for jurors today in the murder-for-hire trial of Edgar Steele. BOISE - Cyndi Steele testified today that she knew her husband was talking to European women online but said the communication…
BOISE - Idaho State Police Trooper Jess Spike has notified families of about two dozen deaths in his career. Never has he seen a reaction as stoic as that of Edgar Steele at his Sagle-area home last June when Spike told him his wife, Cyndi…
The main witness against Edgar Steele is writing a book he says is fiction and "may have" said he hopes to be on the Oprah show. Larry Fairfax (left) admitted that under cross examination this morning in U.S. District Court in Boise, the second day…
BOISE - When Larry Fairfax spoke with Edgar Steele about a plot to kill Steele's wife, he asked the North Idaho lawyer why he didn't divorce his wife instead. "He said the last time he was going to get a divorce form her she was…
The man who boasted online about taking part in racist protests of taco-trucks in Coeur d’Alene and now faces an illegal weapons charge was the victim of government entrapment, his brother says. Jeremiah Daniel “J.D.” Hop, 29, was set up earlier this month by an…
In this sketch by Ward Hooper, Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Haws is shown at the podium during the trial of Edgar J. Steele today. Steele is shown at right. BOISE - Larry Fairfax told jurors in the Edgar Steele murder-for-hire trial that though he accepted…
BOISE - The day Edgar Steele was arrested for an alleged murder plot against his wife, investigators first told him his wife had died in a car crash to see if he would go along with alibis he'd mentioned in a secretly recorded conversation with…
BOISE - The murder-for-hire case against Edgar Steele is really the work of financially strapped man desperate to cover up his theft of silver from Steele's home, defense lawyer Robert McAllister said this morning. "This case is as much about a man named Larry Fairfax…
BOISE - Prosecutors say the case against Edgar Steele is simple. "It's the story of a man who wanted to murder his wife, hired somebody else to do it, and fortunately, they didn't succeed," Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Haws said in his opening statement this…
BOISE - Thirteen women and one man will hear the case of a North Idaho attorney accused of hiring a man to kill his wife and mother-in-law. Two of the 14 jurors selected Tuesday for the trial of Edgar Steele will be alternates. All will…
A member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club pleaded not guilty Monday to gun and drug charges. Michael Ryan Fitzpatrick, 33, was booked into Spokane County Jail after his arraignment before U.S. Magistrate Cynthia Imbrogno in U.S. District Court in Spokane. Fitzpatrick is charged with…
The U.S. Marshals Service has released booking photos of Kevin William Harpham. The photos were taken the day of his arrest in connection with the bomb found along the planned route of the Martin Luther King, Jr., United march in downtown Spokane Jan. 17. Photos…
A former Spokane man with a 2006 arrest warrant for felony theft died in a shootout with police in Missouri last month. Lonnie Eugene Moore, 41, died March 29 after he shot at a police officer after being pulled over on a freeway near Kansas…
BOISE - Jury selection is underway in the trial of a North Idaho lawyer accused of hiring a hitman to kill his wife and mother-in-law. Edgar J. Steele, 65, faces at least 30 years in prison if convicted of his most serious charge - possession…
A Coeur d’Alene woman and her mother were ordered imprisoned today for their roles in the neglecting of twin 2-year-old girls. Elisabeth Crossley and her 55-year-old mother, Ruth Cassidy, each will spend up to five years in prison, with no less than two years. Crossley’s…
Jealousy may have led to the fatal stabbing of a Spokane man in Plummer, Idaho, last week, a friend said. Victim Antowyn D. “Tony” Swiney, 37, (left) was with his girlfriend when her ex, Jody A. Miller, arrived with a group to celebrate Miller’s 41st…
A Spokane transient has been sentenced to 10 ½ years in prison for the slaying of a 46-year-old man last April. Roland E. Benton II, 35, pleaded guilty last month to first-degree manslaughter with a deadly weapon for the beating death of Douglas J. Klages.…
Police are looking for tips on a smash-and-grab cigarette burglary that damaged a Spokane Valley convenience store early today. A burglar smashed glass from a front window at the the Broadway Mini Mart, 10304 E. Broadway Ave., early today and stole cigarette packs. An alarm…
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