A medical examiner has determined that iconic designer Kate Spade died of suicide by hanging, the New York Post reports. Spade, 55, was found hanged by a scarf in her Park Avenue apartment late Tuesday morning. She reportedly left a suicide note addressed to her 13-year-old daughter, telling the girl that the decision was not …
An Arkansas man confessed in court that he intentionally infected himself with HIV so that he could expose the virus to other people, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported. During his sentencing, a bewildered judge asked 25-year-old Stephen Koch, of Scranton, whether the mind-boggling admission was really true. “Just so I can get my brain …
Authorities in Las Vegas have released harrowing video of the moments Stephen Paddock was firing down at a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on October 1. The Las Vegas Review-Journal and The Guardian obtained surveillance video images that were captured from cameras on a street corner close to the Route 91 Harvest Festival …
Authorities in Tennessee say a man used what he had handy to halt a knife attack on his wife last week. According to Fox News, a woman knocked on the door of the couple’s Murfreesboro apartment home early on the morning of May 31. Local reports indicate the woman, identified as Shalonda Latrice Shepard, was …
The mother and grandparents of a 9-month-old New York boy were recently arrested after the infant reportedly choked on a plastic bag containing drugs and nearly died while in their care. Police responded to the Rochester home at 2 p.m. Sunday, following reports of an unresponsive baby. Upon arrival, first responders performed CPR on Prince DeJesus …
Police in Virginia believe they have located the remains of a New York man and his toddler son inside an SUV parked in Rockbridge County. According to New York Post, authorities launched a manhunt after 43-year-old John Ligurgo III and 2-year-old Jovani did not show up for an arranged meeting to drop the child off …
A Connecticut mother who starved her disabled teen son until he died—weighing 84 pounds—was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Tuesday. According to WVIT, mother Katiria Tirado, 34, was found to have screwed kitchen cabinets shut and locked the refrigerator to prevent son Matthew Tirado, 17, from overeating. Katiria had claimed that the teen had …
A hot-headed Oregon man allegedly broke a woman’s arm and knocked her fiancee unconscious during a suspected road rage incident Friday. According to OregonLive.com, Jay Allen Barbeau, 49, is facing felony assault charges for his barbaric attack on two women. The incident reportedly occurred when the women pulled in front of a truck driven by …
Casey Anthony, the Florida mom famously acquitted for daughter Caylee’s murder, could be sued for claims she reportedly made following the toddler’s death. Roy Kronk was the man who found Caylee Anthony’s body a decade ago. He initially sued Casey for defamation five months after her acquittal. Kronk alleged that, during the trial, Casey’s attorneys falsely claimed …
It took just over two hours Tuesday for a jury to find 29-year-old Daniel Lopez guilty of murder in the gruesome slaying of Jose Luis Menchaca. On September 29, 2014, Menchaca, 35, was lured into a home on Hillwood Street in San Antonio, before being attacked with baseball bats, strangled and dismembered. Witnesses on the …
A woman arrested on a Wildwood, New Jersey, beach near East Schellinger Avenue over Memorial Day weekend spoke out in an interview Wednesday on “Good Morning America,” after a video of the ordeal quickly trended online. “I’ve been really anxious over it,” 20-year-old Emily Weinman, the mother of a 1-year-old daughter, told the television show. “Kind …
The mystery of how Rebecca Zahau was hanged off the balcony of her wealthy boyfriend’s Southern California mansion was investigated by police and the subject of a wrongful death lawsuit — but the truth is still evasive. Investigators initially concluded the beautiful 32-year-old killed herself days after her boyfriend’s son suffered a fatal fall in …
