Asked how her daughter went from cherubic medical anomaly to cold-blooded killer, the mother of 'Hiccup Girl' Jennifer Mee mused, "Where things went wrong I do not know." But she believes the "curse of the hiccups" is where it began.

Early this morning, 21 year-old Christopher Jusko was stabbed to death in his East Seventh Street apartment in Manhattan. He died on the sidewalk in front of his building. Below is a photo of the aftermath. Warning: It's very graphic.

19-year-old Jennifer Mee, who in 2007 was made famous for hiccuping 50 times a minute for five weeks straight, has been charged with first degree murder in Florida. Mee and two other girls allegedly killed someone during a botched robbery.

Els Clottemans, a 26 year-old mentally unstable Belgian skydiver, has been sentenced to 30 years for murdering a woman with whom she shared a lover by disabling the woman's parachute. Love triangles in parachute clubs are a dangerous game.

Saudi prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud has been found guilty of strangling and beating his servant to death in a London hotel last February, in a drunken attack with "a sexual element." He'll be sentenced tomorrow. [BBC]

Mexican officials say they've "suspended" the investigation into Texas jet-skier David Hartley's alleged murder by pirates, but they hope to re-start it "in a few days." Decapitating criminal investigators really gets results. [CBS, photo via AP]

The average American murder costs society $17.2 million, according to researchers who studied the economic impact of murders, rapes, and other felonies. Here's how they stacked up.

Daniel Dighton is on trial for killing his parents for calling him lazy when he was hungover. He stabbed his father four times and his mother 20 times. So he's not that lazy. But he did have a killer hangover.

Concetta Serrano was summoned to her brother-in-law's home by Chi l'ha Visto—an Italian show about missing persons—where she was informed on live TV that her teenage daughter's body had been found—and her brother-in-law was responsible for her death.

The NYPD has released security camera footage of two suspects in last week's murder of weed-selling Pace University student Max Moreno in his financial district high rise. Seen these guys? Don't sell them weed. Call the police instead. [Previously]

Two men found shot dead execution-style in their SUV near Union Square in Manhattan yesterday were each witnesses to separate murders in NYC last year—but cops don't think that's why they were killed.

Those US soldiers in Afghanistan accused of murdering Afghan civilians "for sport," which the Guardian first reported weeks ago? It took some time for US media to pick up on the story, but a leaked video confession has surfaced.

Nicaraguan diplomat Cesar Mercado was found dead today in his Bronx apartment. His throat was cut and the knife was lying next to him. Mercado's driver found him when he went to bring him to the UN's General Assembly.

A dozen American soldiers in Afghanistan are being charged in connection with an alleged string of murders of Afghani civilians "for sport." Investigators say the soldiers killed random civilians, and took their fingers as souvenirs.

In an interview with Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Joran Van der Sloot says he extorted money from missing teen Natalee Holloway's parents for the location of their daughter's body, because they "have been making my life tough for five years."

Last week, British spy Gareth Williams was reportedly found in his apartment, stabbed to death and stuffed in a gym bag. Well, turns out he wasn't stabbed to death; his death was much more mysterious and movie-like.

On Sunday, Phillip Tisson scored the winning goal for St. Lucia's soccer team in its game against St. Kitts-Nevis in the Digicell Caribbean Cup tournament being held in Brooklyn. Hours later, he was shot dead.

The body of Gareth Williams, a British spy connected to MI6, was found stabbed to death and stuffed inside a bag in the bathtub of his apartment close to MI6 headquarters. So...let's not jump to any conclusions.

Yoseph Robinson, a Jamaican-born former hip hop label exec who converted to Orthodox Judaism and was working on an autobiography, was killed in a Brooklyn liquor store robbery last night. He lived an interesting life. [NYDN]

Killings of the homeless are at their highest level in a decade. Stop that.