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14-Year-Old Indicted For Rape, Murder Of Danvers High School Teacher
Prosecutors allege that Philip Chism was armed with a box cutter when he killed Colleen Ritzer in a school bathroom.
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Prosecutors allege that Philip Chism was armed with a box cutter when he killed Colleen Ritzer in a school bathroom.
A Massachusetts judge has rejected a bid to unseal search warrant documents in the case of a 14-year-old boy charged with killing his high school math teacher.
News organizations will ask a Massachusetts judge to unseal documents in the case of a 14-year-old boy charged with killing his math teacher.
Approximately one-thousand people showed up for the funeral of murdered Danvers High School teacher Colleen Ritzer Monday.
The mother of the Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his teacher inside a school bathroom is brokenhearted over the educator's death.
On Friday, with students already in class, the U.S. flag outside the school flew at half-staff, while a row of six trees outside the front entrance were adorned with pink ribbons, Ritzer's favorite color.
A scholarship fund has been set up in honor of a Danvers math teacher who was murdered earlier this week.
Nearly a thousand parents flooded into the Danvers High School Fieldhouse Thursday night for a meeting aimed at answering their questions before their children return to classes on Friday.
Sources tell WBZ-TV a box cutter was used to kill Colleen Ritzer and her body was carried out of the school in a recycling bin.
Sometime on their last day at the school together Tuesday, prosecutors say, teacher Colleen Ritzer and 14-year-old student Philip Chism crossed paths, and he killed her.
Hundreds attended a vigil for Colleen Ritzer, a 24-year-old math teacher who was allegedly killed by a student.
A teenager has been charged with killing a Danvers High School teacher in a horrific case that led the town to close all public schools for the day.
The 14-year-old charged with the slaying of a Danvers High School math teacher only lived in Danvers a couple of months.
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