An Illinois doctor who took his own life last year hinted in his suicide note that he may not have immunized children despite parents’ requests to do so, according to reports. Dr. Van Koinis, 58, a pediatrician, reportedly killed himself in September. He suggested in his suicide note that he may have doctored and forged …
The Cayce Department of Public Safety announced in a Thursday press conference that Faye Swetlik has been found dead. An unidentified male was also found dead in the search for the missing 6-year-old girl. The Cayce DPS official said that the case is now a homicide investigation. Police have not made any arrests, and authorities …
Officials from the Cayce Department of Public Safety announced on Thursday a press conference in which they are expected to share a significant update in the search for missing Faye Swetlik, WIS-TV is carrying the press conference live. The Cayce CDS held a press conference earlier Thursday in which officials said that investigators were still …
A 9-year-old Florida boy accused of stabbing his younger sister repeatedly is facing attempted murder charges. ABC News reports that the boy appeared in an Ocala courtroom on Wednesday, where he pleaded not guilty via his attorney. The incident happened at the Berkley Point Apartments in Marion County in January, after the children’s mother stepped …
A 14-year-old Texas girl with special needs remains unaccounted for days after she was spotted leaving school on Tuesday. KRIV and KTXH report that Shamara Carter was seen with another female student leaving Aldine Ninth Grade School in Houston. Both girls reportedly reside at the same residential treatment center. Carter was in the custody of …
A mother made a gruesome discovery Monday morning at her ex’s home in East Naples, Florida: her 5-year-old son and the boy’s 45-year-old father, both shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide, WINK reported. Collier County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the call after the woman, who was not named, let herself into the unlocked home. She …
Isabella Telles, the owner of Cake Fashion by Bella Marie bakery in Colorado Springs, says she’s been affected by the disappearance 11-year-old Colorado boy, Gannon Stauch, much like the rest of her community. “I just feel very invested in him and doing whatever we can to support Gannon and his family,” Telles told FOX 31. …
A Cook County grand jury this week indicted former Empire star Jussie Smollett on six counts of disorderly conduct related to “four separate false reports to Chicago Police Department officers related to his false claims that he was the victim of a hate crime, knowing that he was not the victim of a crime,” Special …
San Bernardino, California, police have asked for the public’s help in solving several shootings that resulted in five deaths — including a school teacher and a toddler — since last August. Police believe they are related, even though some appear random, the San Bernardino Sun reported. The first shooting, early in the morning on August …
A North Carolina sheriff said Wednesday that a body found in a burnt out truck last fall was that of a missing woman believed to have been killed along with two of her children in the summer. Maria Calderon Martinez, 38, had been reported missing after her home in the Sugar Loaf community in Alexander …
Authorities in California confirmed Monday that a murder investigation’s underway after an elderly patient was reportedly beaten to death by another patient sharing his hospital room. In a statement, the Long Beach Police Department said that Francisco Sanchez-Reyes, 74, died nine days after patient Reginald Daniel Panthier, 37, attacked him at College Medical Center at …
A Florida family reportedly filed a formal complaint against a funeral home who they alleged improperly preserved an 11-year-old relative’s remains — resulting in her body decomposing before her funeral service. The Palm Beach Post reported that Re’Asia Washington’s family has accused Shawn Johnson Funeral and Cremation of neither embalming or refrigerating the girl’s body. …
