Asphyxiation

MT. KISCO, New York -- She might have gone unnoticed through the many years of triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family. Now the spotlight will be cast, sadly, on Mary Richardson Kennedy. The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was found dead...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KTLA) -- A 92-year old great-grandmother selling do-it-yourself asphyxiation kits was sentenced to probation for failing to file federal tax returns. Sharlotte Hydorn, a retired public school science teacher from Spokane, Wash.,...

LOS ANGELES -- Hundreds of people, including friends, family and former co-stars, attended a funeral service for actor David Carradine Saturday. The service was held indoors at the Hall of Liberty at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, the cemetery adjacent...

PASADENA -- The sister of a 2-year-old boy found tortured and murdered in Pasadena is speaking out about his death, which prosecutors say appears to have been from asphyxiation. Natasha Palaez, 13, flew in from Mexico upon hearing that her little...

TOWSON, Md. - A tax attorney's investment dealings are being investigated by the FBI after he beat and asphyxiated his wife and daughters in a Maryland hotel room before killing himself, authorities said Wednesday. The bodies were discovered Monday in...

Mary Richardson Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. who had struggled with alcohol and drugs, died of asphyxiation due to hanging, it was announced Thursday. The body of the 52-year-old was found in a building at her home in Bedford, N.Y.,...

Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died of asphyxiation due to hanging, the Westchester County medical examiner said Thursday. Her death is the latest for a family that has seen its share of tragedy. "We know from a history of...

Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., died of asphyxiation due to hanging, the Westchester County medical examiner said Thursday. Her death is the latest for a family that has seen its share of tragedy. "We know from a history of...

City police say they have made an arrest in the killing of a 44-year-old woman found handcuffed and bound by the feet in her bedroom at the McCulloh Homes housing project.  Cheryl Thomas was found May 3 in the 400 block of Cummings Court at about 5 p.m....

Prosecutors alleged Friday that the 28-year-old man charged with murdering Phylicia Barnes asphyxiated the teenager in her sister's Northwest Baltimore apartment, and then moved her body using a 35-gallon plastic tub. Michael Maurice Johnson, the ex-...

A Taylor University student found dead inside of his dorm room last week died from autoerotic asphyxiation, according to the Grant County coroner. Josh Larkin, 21, was found inside Morris Hall on the Upland, Ind., campus April 4. Medical experts say...

The sarcastic old quip — "It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy" — seems to fit this week's sob story about KidsPeace. KidsPeace, a so-called treatment network for troubled youths, once had 10,000 children under its control, often placed...