Murderer Among Us

A Port St. Lucie teen was charged with murder Wednesday, the same day he was found after being missing for two months. Jason Prendergast Jr., 17, was arrested Wednesday by police in Coconut Creek, Broward County, in connection to the death of a 56-year-old Coconut Creek man Oct. 12.

A Millcreek man faces criminal charges after attempting to kill his disable daughter and himself last week. Michael Vetere, 73, faces charges of attempted murder and aggravated abuse of a vulnerable adult. According to court documents, police responded to Vetere’s home on Nov. 13 after his sister went over to Vetere’s home and found Vetere and his daughter Marra in their bedrooms covered in blood. She told police she went over to the home after Vetere did not respond to her text messages.

Police say they’ve found the man who murdered a Cohoes teen. Thomas Slivienski, 22, of Watervliet is charged with second-degree murder. Johni Dunia, 17, was shot and killed Nov. 16 on the bike path adjacent to Central Avenue in Cohoes.

Authorities in California's Bay Area are one step closer to solving a 1973 cold case killing of a 21-year-old woman after genetic genealogy led investigators to an arrest this week. Deputies from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office arrested 74-year-old John Arthur Getreu Tuesday in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Leslie Marie Perlov, authorities announced. (MORE: DNA links Nevada prisoner to multiple 1984 cold case murders, authorities say) Perlov was last seen at her job in Palo Alto on the afternoon of Feb. 13, 1973, the sheriff's office stated in a press release. Her orange 1972 Chevrolet Nova was discovered later that day, parked at the gate of an old quarry in Los Altos Hills, shortly off the exit from Interstate 280 and about a 5 mile drive from Perlov's place of work, authorities said.

Arquinn Deandre Stafford, 37, sidestepped convictions for first-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the killing of Benjamin Sharkey. But the defendant’s lengthy criminal record means he hasn’t yet dodged a life term in prison.

Aubrey Oliver, 28 , has been charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. The charges stem from a shooting that left 43-year-old Ray B. Nunley dead early Saturday morning .

Alston, 23, of Washington, D.C., was taken to an area hospital, where he died from his injuries, police said. The victim and the suspect knew each other, police said.