An Illinois woman has been arrested after her 10-year-old son was found dead in a garbage can last week. Rock Island Police began the investigation on July 26 when 10-year-old Zion Staples was found dead in a garbage can in his mother’s garage, KAAL reported. The boy’s body had been there for seven months, investigators …
Police in a small east Texas town have arrested three adults and two juveniles in connection with the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy last month. Dispatchers were called about a body lying in the road just after 1:30 a.m. on June 7, although the body had been in the street for more than 90 …
A New York man who disappeared after a concert in Brooklyn Saturday night was found dead on Tuesday in a nearby creek. John Castic, a 27-year-old Goldman Sachs analyst, was last seen on video walking down the street after the Zeds Dead concert at the Brooklyn Mirage venue, WPIX reported. Police found his body floating …
Convicted child killer Johnny Johnson was put to death Tuesday evening, following the 2002 abduction and murder of a 6-year-old Missouri girl. AP News reports that 45-year-old Johnson received a lethal injection dose of pentobarbital at a Bonne Terre state prison for the July 2002 murder of Casey Williamson. He was pronounced dead at 6:33 …
The LosAngeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating after a man’s naked body was found floating inside a 55-gallon drum at Malibu Lagoon State Beach on Monday. Police identified the victim Tuesday as 32-year-old Javonnta Murphy but provided no other information about him, KTLA reported. A park maintenance worker first saw the drum Sunday night, floating …
An Oregon man has been accused of kidnapping a woman in Washington, sexually assaulting her, and keeping her in a makeshift cinder block cell in his garage until she escaped and flagged down a passing driver to call 911. The FBI tracked Negasi Zuberi to Reno, Nevada, and arrested him after a brief standoff. He …
An Ohio mother is doused with gasoline and set on fire. Judy Malinowski, then 31, suffered third-degree and fourth-degree burns over 90 percent of her body. She was in a coma for seven months and underwent more than 60 surgeries. Malinowski was resuscitated seven times. She died in 2017, but not before providing three hours …
Texas police have made an arrest in connection with the May murder of 18-year-old Lakaria Moore — two days after the man suspected of killing her shot and killed himself as police closed in on him at a Lubbock motel. Tahdeejah Washington-Harris, 29, was arrested early Wednesday and charged with hindering the apprehension or prosecution …
The accused Gilgo Beach serial killer’s wife has spoken with him since his arrest, her lawyer said Tuesday, adding that she hasn’t been questioned by investigators. Newsday reports that attorney Robert Macedonio is currently representing Heuermann’s wife, Asa Ellerup, in her divorce proceedings against him. Macendio said that his client hasn’t seen Heuremann since his …
Nicholas Rossi can be extradited from Scotland to the US to face rape and sexual assault charges, a Glasgow judge ruled this week at the Edinburgh Sheriff Court. AP News reports that on Wednesday, Judge Norman McFadyen called 35-year-old Rossi’s claims of being an Irish orphan “implausible” and “fanciful” before the ruling. Rossi has been …
Texas police are searching for a woman accused of leaving a baby in the toilet at a Houston gas station and fleeing the scene. According to KHOU 11, the incident happened at around 4:30 a.m. on April 2 after a customer found a newborn in the toilet at a southwest Houston gas station on South …
