In 1979, police said, Ryan, then 17, Robert Brensic, 17, Peter Quartararo, 15, and Michael Quartararo, 14, killed Pius near a Smithtown elementary school because they thought he would turn them in ...

In 1979, James Burke became a teenage witness in one of Long Island's most notorious murder cases: the suffocation of 13-year-old John Pius in Smithtown. The experience helped focus him on a ...

His case was highlighted in Netflix's recent docuseries, ... John Pius Jr. was a young boy from Smithtown, Long Island, born on August 1, 1965, to parents John Sr. and Barbara Pius.

A Smithtown man whose police brutality case ended the careers of a police chief, district attorney and top corruption investigator was arrested for allegedly breaking an 89-year-old woman’s ...

Years ago, Banfelder had followed the strange case of a 13-year-old boy named John Pius who’d been found dead at an elementary school in Smithtown, LI, in 1979. Stones had been stuffed down the ...

Smithtown schools say a staff member from St. James Elementary School tested positive for the virus. District officials say the person was last in the building Aug. 27.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. Sarah Piccolo LINCOLN — A 16-year-old girl charged in a knife and hammer attack on another student at Pius X High School in ...

WAUWATOSA -- Shell shocked may have been the best way to describe what happened to the Case High School football team Saturday night in its 41-6 season-opening loss to Milwaukee ...