Missouri police have issued an endangered person alert for two siblings who were reportedly taken by their father and have not been seen since Monday. KDSK reported that Michael Gonzalez, 12, and Maya Gonzalez, 15, were last seen at a home in the 9200 block of Confederacy Drive in Sappington. The pair is believed to …
A body found at a Texas port on Friday is a man who has been missing for more than two weeks, according to his family. The Houston Chronicle reported that Delano Burkes’ body was discovered in the Houston Ship Channel. Burkes, 26, was last seen on November 12 leaving McIntyre’s bar in Houston, where his …
A German court has issued an arrest warrant for the prime suspect in the unsolved disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a British toddler who vanished from a resort in Portugal in 2007. According to The Independent, Christian Brückner’s arrest warrant pertains to a series of sex crimes involving children in Portugal. Brückner, 45, a convicted sex …
A Georgia woman allegedly killed her 4-year-old daughter before setting a house fire on Wednesday that left the slain girl’s twin sister seriously injured. Fire crews who responded to the Brookfield Apartments in Atlanta discovered the girl’s body in a burning unit. According to WXIA, firefighters initially believed the girl’s mother, Nicole Jackson, 27, was …
An Ohio woman who was reported missing earlier this month was reportedly found fatally shot in Pennsylvania last week. WOIO reported that an arrest warrant has been issued for Anthony Kennedy, 43, for the murder of Adrianna Taylor, 23. Kennedy was found fatally shot in the head in the backyard of a Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, home …
Authorities said on Monday that partial remains discovered at a Georgia landfill last week are a 1-year-old boy who vanished in October. According to WCIV, the FBI Laboratory Division confirmed bones recovered from a Chatham County landfill last Monday are Quinton Simon. The toddler’s mother, Leilani Simon, 22, was arrested the same day the remains were …
A Connecticut man was arrested last week for leaving his newborn son on top of a stranger’s car in March. WSFB reported that troopers responded to a location in Mansfield after a baby was discovered wrapped in a towel and on top of a woman’s car hood. A subsequent investigation linked Jorge Grados, 41, to the …
Law enforcement continue to search for a Connecticut man who reportedly fled after murdering his 1-year-old daughter earlier this month. Christopher Francisquini, 31, is believed to have stabbed, choked, and dismembered his daughter, Camilla, at their home in Naugatuck on November 18. CT Post reported that the FBI is assisting in the ongoing investigation and …
A Canadian paramedic who responded to a fatal car crash last week was reportedly unaware that the mortally-injured girl she was treating was her 17-year-old daughter. The CBC reported that on November 15, Jayme Erickson was called to a crash involving two cars near Aldrie, Alberta. Family friend and paramedic Richard Reed said that Erickson …
This week, a Texas teacher and two assistants were arrested for allegedly keeping a 5-year-old special needs student in a locked room last year. Liberty ISD teacher Melody LaPointe, 47, and teaching assistants Tarah Tinney, 33, and Augusta Costlow, 27, reportedly deprived the boy of food to the point that he ate his own feces …
A 5-year-old Florida boy was found dead in a pond on Thursday, hours after he reportedly wandered away from his home. Aaron Peña’s body was discovered not far from his Orange County home. His mother told WKMG that he left the home via a back door as she worked from home. The mother said she …
The Department of Children and Families had no prior involvement with the family of a 9-month-old Connecticut girl who was reportedly murdered by her father on Friday. Christopher Francisquini, 31, is believed to have stabbed, choked, and dismembered his daughter at their home in Naugatuck on November 18. According to WTIC, the agency was notified about …
