A woman who says she was the stepchild of the man who allegedly assaulted Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer alleges the attacker raped her and her brothers when they were children, the New York Post reports. In a social media post early Saturday, Inti Gonzalez alleged that 42-year-old David DePape took advantage of her …
An Ohio mother is accused of murdering her infant daughter, leaving family members grieving and bewildered, WXIX-TV reports. Prosecutors allege that 37-year-old Rebecca King caused the death of the 5-month-old girl, Lily Johnson, on purpose earlier this month on October 8, according to WCPO-TV. The girl’s death is believed to have been caused by “blunt …
The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi covertly called 911 and made statements to alert authorities of an emergency without tipping off the intruder who would later attack him with a hammer, potentially saving his life, CNN reports. Paul Pelosi called emergency dispatchers around 2 a.m. Friday after a man, later identified as David DePape, …
Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a 39-year-old man and charged him with kidnapping his girlfriend and her two sons and threatening to kill them. Investigators said Kenneth D. Smiley broke into the girlfriend’s apartment early Thursday morning and forced her and her children into a car at knifepoint. State police issued an Amber Alert for …
“Substantial direct and circumstantial evidence” supported a jury’s guilty verdict for since-cleared murder suspect Adnan Syed, according to the now-retired judge who presided over his trial in 2000. Wanda Keyes Heard, who retired in 2019, submitted an affidavit in support of the legal challenge by murder victim Hae Min Lee’s family, who are seeking more …
Authorities in North Georgia are searching for a man who shot his wife in the back and fled into the woods. Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said that John Robert Wells, 49, and his wife arrived unannounced early Thursday morning at a home in the Villanow community of Lafayette, where their children were staying. The …
Six children and two adults were found dead in a suburban Oklahoma home after a house fire on Wednesday, and police say the incident appears to be a murder-suicide perpetrated by the adults. Investigators have not yet named the victims, but next of kin has been notified, Tulsa World reported. The fire was called in …
Breast cancer, behind skin cancer, is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States. Statistics show that 1 in 8 women will be breast cancer patients. While breast cancer can occur in both men and women, it’s far more common in women. Breast cancer survival rates have risen thanks to factors such …
A Texas man was arrested on Thursday, more than a year after his wife’s remains were reportedly discovered in trash bags. Stephanie Hernandez’s body was found in Houston in September 2021. Her common-law husband, Fidel Baquin, 33, was eventually linked to her slaying through DNA and trash bags found in his apartment, according to KTRK. …
A D.C. bus driver is facing DWI charges after he allegedly drank so much that his blood alcohol limit was over two times the limit while driving a group of 44 children and 4 adults. According to DC News Now, police arrested Troy Reynolds on Thursday in Fairfax County while taking the group on a …
On Tuesday, an Arizona woman filed a federal lawsuit challenging an ordinance that led to her arrest this year for feeding the homeless. The Mohave Valley Daily News reported that Norma Thornton, 78, has been the only person arrested under Bullhead City’s ordinance that almost completely bars any food-sharing events at public parks. Thornton regularly …
Missing Georgia toddler Quinton Simon’s babysitter says she’s concerned that the tot may have drowned, since she previously spotted him unsupervised at his family’s pool over the summer. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 1-year-old Quinton’s mother, Leilani Simon, reported him missing on October 5; she said her current boyfriend saw the child at about 6 a.m. …
