Clayton Whittemore

(Newser) - Clayton Whittemore pleaded not guilty today to killing his girlfriend , 18-year-old Alexandra Kogut, in her college dorm room last month, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reports. Whittemore, 21, has been charged with second-degree murder in Kogut's death. He previously told police that he "just snapped" in Kogut's...

(Newser) - A New York college freshman was thrilled her boyfriend was visiting last weekend—and then ominously disappointed shortly before police say she was brutally murdered by him in her dorm room. "Ahhh see you sooon !! :)" tweeted 18-year-old Alexandra Kogut to boyfriend Clayton Whittemore, reports the Utica Post-Dispatch. But...

(Newser) - The boyfriend of an upstate New York college freshman found beaten to death in her dorm room has been charged with her murder. Clayton Whittemore, 21, was nabbed at a gas station some 100 miles away from the College at Brockport where Alexandra Kogut's body was discovered, reports the...