By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A former police officer suspected of being California’s elusive Golden State Killer faced 26 murder and rape-related charges Thursday after prosecutors decided this week to consolidate charges in counties across the state into one case. One family member described the 15-minute recitation of offenses as “very, very …
A former official in the Obama administration is facing charges related to groping, as described in a woman’s testimony to police earlier this year. As the New York Times reported, former Center for Disease Control and Prevention head Dr. Thomas R. Frieden is accused of squeezing a 55-year-old woman’s posterior in October. The alleged victim …
Authorities in Oregon believe they have identified the remains of a female body recovered recently by joggers. According to the New York Post, the body matches a physical description of a 27-year-old woman who disappeared Saturday. Meighan Cordie was last seen arguing with her mother, according to investigators. The two women were driving home from …
A Texas security guard is out of a job after she reportedly recorded a police officer as he struggled to arrest a teen suspect possibly involved in an earlier shooting. According to KHOU, Houston Police Officer’s Union President Joe Gamaldi announced the unnamed security guard’s firing. calling her alleged actions “disgraceful.” “She was completely oblivious to everything that was going on …
A close friend of Shanann Watts said the pregnant murder victim struggled with her suspicion that her husband — now accused of killing her and their two young daughters — had been cheating on her. As CrimeOnline previously reported, some sources indicate Chris Watts had been carrying on an affair with a colleague prior to …
A woman who met Shanann Watts and her family while on vacation in Myrtle Beach this summer spotted the woman in her photographs after learning that her husband, Chris Watts, is under suspicion of murdering her own family. Michele Greer told CBS 17 that she met Shanann and her family earlier this month while both …
A Mississippi man suspected in his wife’s slaying was recently charged with capital murder in Texas for allegedly fatally stabbing his girlfriend in April. According to KPLC, Darrell Burnside, 49, was arrested Wednesday in Louisana after investigators in Harris County filed murder charges in connection with the April 24 stabbing death of his girlfriend, Ashley George, …
The man charged with snatching Mollie Tibbetts as the Iowa college student was jogging, killing her and dumping her body in a rural cornfield made his first court appearance just as the medical examiner concluded she died from “multiple sharp force injuries.” Nancy Grace looks at the latest in the investigation with experts including …
A Philadelphia man who grabbed international headlines last year when he used his last $20 to help a stranded motorist said he’s homeless again—and the woman he helped, along with her boyfriend, and are possibly spending the $400,000 they raised on his behalf on their own indulgences. Kate McClure, 28, and boyfriend Mark D’Amico, 39, …
A former Texas high school teacher who had an illicit, sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student was sentenced Thursday to 120 days behind bars. According to The Dallas Morning News, ex-Plano Senior High School algebra teacher Alaina Ferguson, 25, pleaded guilty to improper relationship between a teacher and a student and indecency with a child by …
A Tennessee hospital security guard was arrested after witnesses told authorities they saw him having sex with a corpse at the facility on Wednesday, WREG reports. Memphis police subsequently charged Cameron Wright, 23, on Thursday with abuse of a corpse. Two witnesses alerted police after they reportedly saw Wright having sexual relations with a female …
By THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds became emotional Friday discussing her telephone conversation with the mother of slain college student, and she urged residents not to politicize the case. Asked during an impromptu news conference whether she expected Mollie Tibbetts’ family to become public advocates, Reynolds’ voice broke …
