A 37-year-old Indianapolis man was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison and 20 years probation after pleading guilty to raping a child under 4 years old. Court documents say that investigators began looking at Devon Shane Mitchell in February “for criminal activity unrelated to child sexual abuse.” In the court of the investigation, …
A Tennessee mother and her boyfriend have been arrested after her 2-year-old son died three days after he was allegedly thrown against a wall. Deputies responded to a call on December 2 to a Baxter home and found the toddler, Ventura Mora-Francisco, unresponsive, WSMV reported. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital and then …
A toddler and a 44-year-old woman are dead and a 66-year-old man wounded in a shooting in Allentown, Pennsylvania Friday night. Police arrived on the scene just before 9 p.m. and found the man, woman, and 1-year-old boy with serious gunshot wounds, WPVI reported. The Lehigh County Coroner said Saturday morning that the woman and …
A Bronxville, New York, police sergeant murdered his wife and two sons before taking his own life on late Friday night. Clarkstown Police said they found the bodies of Watson Morgan, 49; Ornela Morgan, 43; and 10- and 12-year-old boys shortly after midnight Saturday morning. The four had all been shot. “At this phase of …
The man accused of killing rap legend Tupac Shakur in 1996 has made “credible threats to witnesses” against him and should not be granted bail until his trial next year, Las Vegas prosecutors say in a 180-page court filing. Prosecutors said in the documents filed Thursday that they learned from jailhouse interviews that Duane “Keffe …
A Georgia man who’s been missing since the middle of November has been found. Jordan Kustas, 23, stopped communication with his family since at least the middle of November. That’s when his mother says she received a text message from an unknown phone number claiming to be from her son, according to 11Alive. But on Saturday, …
New details are emerging about the deaths of a pregnant Texas teenager and her boyfriend, including how the couple were found and their relationship before they were killed. As CrimeOnline reported previously, the bodies of 18-year-old Savanah Soto and 22-year-old Matthew Guerra were discovered Tuesday in a vehicle in San Antonio. Both had been shot …
Studies show that the child sex trafficking industry may be worth as much as $9.5 billion in the US alone. Now, research is showing links between human trafficking and animal trafficking. Today, Nancy Grace and her panel look at ways to shut down the routes that both crimes utilize. Joining Nancy Grace today: Additional Guests …
A 14-year-old California boy told police that an intruder murdered his parents and seriously injured his younger sister, but investigators believe it was the teen who committed the attack, ABC30 reports. “Two children have lost their mother and father due to the actions by their other sibling,” Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni told reporters at …
The FBI is assisting Colorado police that they search for a Colorado Springs mother accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son and staging it to look like a burglary. Colorado Springs Police said they responded to a call about a burglary at the home of Kimberlee Singler, 35, on December 19 and found …
An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his father after investigators found the man’s bones scattered in an area “made to look like a garden” in his son’s backyard. Donald Cash, 52, was last seen on September 26 working on a truck at his home in Wylam, Alabama, Law&Crime reported. The truck …
A new attorney for convicted murderer Kaitlin Armstrong says she deserves a new trial because her old attorneys didn’t adequately explain her traumatic childhood or that she was pregnant near the time she was arrested in Costa Rica, where she fled after killing pro cyclist Mo Wilson. Jessica Freud filed the motion on December 15, …
