A Pennsylvania mother and her boyfriend were arrested on suspicion of beating her 4-year-old son to death. According to Philly.com, 19-year-old Lisa Smith told police her son, Tahjir, told her he spilled his cereal Monday morning, a confession that allegedly sparked the vicious beating. During an attack that allegedly included King punching the boy in …
An Ohio man is in jail on felony assault charges after police say he exposed officers to Hepatitis during a recent encounter. Matthew Wenzler, who is reportedly Hepatitis-C positive, is accused of spitting blood into a police officer’s mouth early Friday morning. Reports indicate a Cuyahoga Community College officer saw the 27-year-old man lying unconscious …
The brother of David Turpin, the California father accused of torturing and starving his 13 children, says he wants to care for the minor siblings–sparing them from being placed into foster care. A source told CBS News that Dr. Randy Turpin, a faith healer and megachurch preacher, was looking into adopting the children. But before this …
On Wednesday, a Riverside County Superior Court judge prohibited California parents David and Louise Turpin from contacting their 13 children, who were allegedly found starved and tortured last week. According to The Los Angeles Times, Judge Emma Smith approved a three-year protective order that will ban the parents from contacting their children in any way except …
An attorney representing the Perris, California, couple accused of torturing their 13 children is reportedly setting the stage to have the high-profile trial moved out of Riverside County. According to The Desert Sun, Deputy Public Defender David Macher filed a motion ahead of Wednesday’s hearing expressing concern that the “extraordinary” media coverage will make it difficult …
A young man in Michigan turned a gun on himself and took his own life after he realized he had accidentally shot and killed his best friend. WJRT reports that Zachary Woodcock, 20, hosted a gathering to celebrate his upcoming birthday at Bavarian Haus Apartments in Merrill on Friday night. At some point, after Woodcock and …
A North Carolina mother’s live-in boyfriend was charged with first-degree murder on Weds. in connection with the death of toddler, Mariah Woods. In addition to first-degree murder, ABC reports that Adolphus Earl Kimrey II, 32, was also charged with felonious child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury. As CrimeOnline reported in early December, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that …
Investigators have learned that the children were isolated from each other and locked in different rooms in small groups
A mother’s first instinct when she realizes hot bath water severely burned her baby should be to call for help, but Christina Marie Hurt, 35, allegedly did nothing. Her 1-year-old son died the next day. Nancy Grace explores the case with lawyer and child advocate Ashley Willcott, private investigator Vincent Hill, New York psychologist Dr. …
“She had this whimsical optimism to her that couldn’t be dampened, couldn’t be doused no matter what anybody threw at her”
Despite public outcry, sources revealed that the six minor Turpin children will be split up between two foster homes. Sources also told CBS News that Riverside County will be awarded conservatorship over the seven adult Turpins before they’re moved to an assisted living facility. Last week, an anonymous source close to the investigation told the network …
A father convicted of helping cover up his daughter’s murder shared chilling details of the killing in a newly released confession — one that alters the previously reported story of Ashley Zhao’s death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, five-year-old Ashley Zhao was found dead last January in her parents’ Chinese restaurant in Canton, Ohio, following a …
