A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder after he killed his cousin with a semi-automatic rifle, dragged the body into a hole, and lit it on fire. Derek Louk, 30, agreed to the plea deal Thursday in Bedford County in connection with the death of Tyler Matthai last year. Louk also pleaded guilty …
This week, authorities announced that DNA discovered as part of the investigation is linked to an unsolved California home invasion and assault on a child in March.
A Colorado mother of 15 on the lam for child abuse was allegedly found hiding behind a false wall inside her family’s home this week, KRDO-TV reports. On Thursday, authorities responded to a residence in the town of Walsenburg when 62-year-old Timothy Crouch died. One of the man’s adult children, who no longer lived with …
A Florida man arrested earlier this week in the shooting death of a mother of two has now been charged with murder and tampering with evidence in another killing. Phillip Stapleton, 32, was charged with principal to murder in the first-degree and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with the July 20 death of …
A prominent New Jersey realtor was bludgeoned to death Wednesday in the family’s luxury townhome, allegedly by her 30-year-0ld stepson. Police were called to the scene by John Daniels Sr., who told them his son, John Daniels Jr., had killed his wife, Sotheby’s International realtor Irma Daniels, the Daily Voice reported. Daniels Jr had fled …
The stepfather of a missing North Carolina girl was released from jail on Friday after a judge lowered his bond from $200,000 to $25,000. Christopher Palmiter has already surrendered his passport and will wear GPS monitor as part of the conditions of his release, WCNC reported. He and his wife, Diana Cojocari, had been behind …
Georgia police are actively searching for a 2-year-old boy whose father was arrested was arrested and charged with false reporting the boy was kidnapped. DeKalb County Police said J’Asiah Mitchell was originally reported kidnapped just before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday by his father, 23-year-old Artavious North, who said that a car started following him then swerved …
A judge will rule on whether Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley can be sentenced to life in prison without parole. That is the harshest punishment available in Michigan. Crumbley, now 17, pleaded guilty to one count of terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree murder and 19 other charges. In November 2021, Crumbley fatally …
An Ohio woman has been charged with abuse of a corpse after Toledo Police found the decomposing body of a man who’d been missing for 11 days inside her apartment last week. Josephine Torres, 39, was arrested on August 9 after police accompanied the victim’s friend and boss to her apartment, according to WTVG. Officers …
A teacher at a Wisconsin Christian school is accused of having sex with a middle school student and then purchasing him a gun, CBS 58 reports. An investigation into the teacher, 34-year-old Tyesha Bolden, started on July 25, when the mother of an eighth-grade student at Pilgrim Lutheran School reported to police that her son …
A British nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others may have been motivated to commit the serial killings because she wanted the attention of a doctor in the pediatric ward, the Guardian reports. This week, 33-year-old Lucy Letby was found guilty in connection with the attacks at the Countess of …
A suspect in the horrific rape and murder of a Texas 11-year-old has been arrested, ABC13 reports. On Saturday, authorities announced that Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez was detained in Shreveport, Louisiana. Police one day earlier had named 18-year-old Garcia-Rodriguez as a person of interest in the death of Maria Gonzalez, whose body was found last weekend …
