A man with a history of assaulting strangers was arrested this week for slugging a 4-year-old boy in the head, prompting the toddler’s mother and another women to take the assailant down themselves in busy Times Square. The incident took place at about 3:20 p.m., police said, when 34-year-old Babacar Mbaye cold-cocked the boy as …
The Texas Attorney General’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit will take another look at the case of a college student who disappeared while on his way home for winter break in 2020. Jason Landry, 21, left the Texas State University campus in San Marcos on December 13 to drive to his home in Missouri …
A French modeling agent awaiting trial for raping minors was found dead Saturday morning in his Paris jail cell, just days after Britain’s Prince Andrew settled a lawsuit charging him with sexual abuse. Jean-Luc Brunel, 74, was also under investigation for human trafficking and sexual exploitation in connection with a French investigation into potential crimes …
A Georgia woman convicted of killing her newborn baby in 2017 had her murder conviction tossed out by the state appeals court on Friday. According to court documents, the state Court of Appeals agreed in a ruling that the prosecution failed to provide sufficient evidence that Cortney Bell, who was convicted along with her boyfriend, …
Loved ones of a woman who was murdered at their Virginia vacation home is pleading for answers as the case continues to remain unsolved, PEOPLE reports. On July 11, 2017, the body of Peggy Lammers was found in the hallway of her family’s waterfront property in Deltaville on the Chesapeake Bay. Investigators determined that Lammers died …
Criminal proceedings against a man who allegedly kidnapped a young boy from his bed and stabbed him to death have been halted indefinitely after a judge’s ruling, the Dallas Morning News reports. On Friday, Magistrate Judge Farrel Chapman found Darriynn Brown incompetent to stand trial on a capital murder charge in connection with the death …
The release of autopsy and forensic reports for Brian Laundrie provides an interesting study in forensics. When Laundrie, 23, was found dead of an apparent suicide, police had been searching for him in connection to the death of his girlfriend Gabby Petito. The newly-released documents show that Laundrie’s “skeletal remains and personal effects were in plain …
Anna Sorokin conned her way into Manhattan society. As Anna Delvey, a German heiress, she swindled banks, hotels and friends out of more than $200,000 dollars. She forged checks to get money from banks and charmed people into paying for extravagant meals and travel. Sorokin was convicted on a handful of grand larceny and theft …
A police officer is accused of the kidnap, rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl whose body was found in a Florida drainage ditch nearly 40 years ago, WKMG-TV reports. On Thursday, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara announced that investigators have uncovered evidence that James Harrison, a former deputy, was responsible for the attack. The …
A Nevada woman was sentenced to eight to 20 years on Friday for fatally pushing an elderly man off a bus in March 2019. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Cadesha Bishop, 28, pleaded guilty in December 2021 to abuse of an older or vulnerable person resulting in death. Bishop was initially charged with murdering …
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