A California toddler is dead and her 17-month-old twin sister is in critical condition after they reportedly climbed out of a living room window and plunged into a pool as their parents slept. The girl’s family told KTLA that Maya and Makayla Edwards suffered traumatic brain injuries on April 29 when they managed to push out …
A trial for Emily Glass, the stepmother of missing Lucas Hernandez, started on Tuesday in a Sedwick County, Kansas, courtroom. Glass stands accused of child endangerment. KSN reports that although prosecutors allege Glass, 25, was arrested after smoking marijuana in home off of South Edgemoor before driving to a nearby Olive Garden with her toddler …
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby will be sentenced Sept. 24 — five months after he was convicted of sexual assault. Judge Steven O’Neill set the date on Tuesday. Cosby’s lawyers had asked to delay sentencing until December. Cosby turns 81 in July and is likely to face a sentence of up to 10 years in …
A suspended school teacher who had been accused of an inappropriate relationship with a student was reportedly shot to death in her mother’s driveway on Mother’s Day. WXPI reports that 32-year-old Rachael DelTondo was gunned down at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Buchanan Drive in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, after coming home from getting ice cream with a friend, …
The woman killed with her four children and her parents in an apparent murder-suicide in Australia last week had written a poem about domestic violence four years ago that suggested she may have been a victim. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Katrina Miles, 35, was shot and killed last Friday on a remote farmstead in Australia …
Jacqueline Ades, who is in jail on charges of stalking an Arizona man, explains that “love is excessive” and she thought she found her soulmate after one date. Ades sent 65,000 text messages to the man, allegedly broke into his home, where she took a bath and later told him she wanted to bathe in …
State officials are investigating after a Florida high school reportedly incorporated a caged tiger into their jungle-themed prom. According to ABC News, “Welcome to the Jungle” was the theme of Christopher Columbus High School’s prom, which was held Friday night at the DoubleTree Hotel at the Miami International Airport. Video shot that night appears to show a …
A Texas mother was drunk when she was ousted from her child’s high school play, assaulted an officer, and flooded a jail cell by setting off the sprinkler system, police said. The Houston Chronicle reported that Christy Ann Churchwell, 35, was at Friendswood Junior High School Thursday night at around 8 p.m. to watch her child’s performance …
An Arizona man is behind bars after police say he shot and killed his girlfriend on Sunday because he didn’t approve of the outfit she wore. Azcentral reports that authorities arrested 22-year-old Martin Larney on Monday on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend, 22-year-old Alina Duwyenie, in his Mesa apartment off of Broadway a little before 8:30 a.m. …
SALINE, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan engineering company employee has been fired after police determined she baked laxatives into brownies intended for a departing colleague’s send-off. Saline police Chief Jerrod Hart says officers confiscated the tainted confections May 3 after another employee tipped off management. No one ate the brownies. The Ann Arbor News reports …
A child who escaped the home told police that the mother “duct taped their hands, put socks in their mouths” before stabbing 11-year-old girl
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens declared victory as prosecutors abruptly dropped a felony invasion-of-privacy charge alleging he had taken a revealing photo of a woman with whom he has acknowledged having an affair. The St. Louis circuit attorney’s office said it still plans to pursue the case, either through a special prosecutor …
