17-Year-Old Tennessee Girl Charged With Overdose Deaths of 2 Classmates
Drugs
The girl was hospitalized in critical condition after all three girls were found in a high school parking lot earlier this week.
AMBER Alert
May 18, 2023
Amber Alert: Idaho Toddler Abducted, Believed Possibly Headed to Oregon
Idaho State Police have issued an Amber Alert for a 2-year-old boy taken from his home in Nampa. Rudy Ozaih Reyes is believed to be in danger. He is described as about 2 feet tall and 50 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. The boy was last seen wearing a grey and white t-shirt …
Child sex crimes
May 18, 2023
Georgia County Commissioner Charged With Child Molestation, Sexual Battery
An 84-year-old Georgia county commissioner has been arrested on child molestation and sexual battery charges. Effingham County Commissioner Reginald “Reggie” Loper was arrested and released on bail on Wednesday Documents obtained by WTOC revealed that a teenage victim and her mother reported multiple sexual assaults to the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office on January 5, the …
Murder
May 18, 2023
Suspects in Shooting Death of 6-Year-Old Kansas City Boy Arrested in South Dakota
Two suspects in the murder of a 6-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, boy earlier this month were arrested 350 miles away from the scene Tuesday night in South Dakota. Lakevis Sloan, 20, and an unnamed 17-year-old were taken into custody as they stepped off a Greyhound bus in Sioux Falls, KMBC reported. They face second degree …
Hot car deaths
May 18, 2023
Florida Toddler Found Dead After She’s Left in Hot Car for 14 Hours
A Florida couple has been charged with child neglect after their toddler was left in a locked car for about 14 hours. The 2-year-old girl was pronounced dead at about 4 p.m. on Tuesday after a 911 call came in 15 minutes earlier. Holmes County Sheriff John Tate said the girl’s body temperature was 107 …
Famous Murder Cases
May 18, 2023
‘Indigent’ Joran van der Sloot Appointed Public Defender as He Awaits Extradition in Natalee Holloway Extortion Plot
A federal public defender has been appointed for Joran van der Sloot — the man suspected in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance and suspected slaying in Aruba — who is awaiting extradition to Alabama to face extortion charges as he remains jailed in Peru for murder. On Monday, federal magistrate judge Gray Borden assigned Alabama public …
Murder
May 18, 2023
Missing Teen Found Dead in River With Wrists Tied With Phone Charger Cord
A man found in a North Carolina river in 2021 drowned and had his wrists bound with a cell phone charging cord, an autopsy released on Tuesday revealed. Jose Ramirez, 19, was found in the Swannanoa River near Asheville a week after he vanished from a party in September 2021. Investigators told WLOS that Roberto …
Crime Stories
May 18, 2023
[Crime Stories with Nancy Grace] Gorgeous Texas Bartender, 21, VANISHES: WHERE IS MADELINE?
After a night out with friends, Madeline Pantoja returned home, then stopped responding to texts and phone calls. One of Pantoja’s friends and a sibling went to her apartment, but the door was locked and no one answered. Midland police were called. Officers broke in and found Pantoja’s phone, keys and her dog inside. Her …
Podcast
May 18, 2023
Body Bags: Unearthed: A Vegas Crime Hidden in Concrete | The Esmeralda Gonzalez Story
In this episode of “Body Bags,” hosts Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack examine the chilling case of Esmeralda Gonzalez, a young Instagram model whose life ended tragically in Las Vegas. Additional Reading Missing model found strangled & injected with pool cleaner, sealed in concrete: Docs They dissect the perpetrator’s elaborate cover-up involving a U-Haul, …
Murder
May 18, 2023
Subway Rider Electrocuted When Stranger Pushes Him Onto Tracks
A man was arrested in New York on Wednesday, a month after he allegedly killed a man in Maryland by pushing him onto electrified subway tracks. Christopher Foster, 28, was standing on a platform at the Shot Tower Subway stop in Baltimore on April 12 when suspect Joseph White, 39, allegedly pushed him from behind. …
Missing
May 18, 2023
Developing: Body Found in River Confirmed by Family as One of Two Young Boys Missing Since Friday
New York police are investigating the discovery of a male body in the East River in NYC, reportedly confirmed by family members as one of two boys missing out of Harlem. The body was spotted by multiple people near the Madison Avenue Bridge, ABC 7 reports. Law enforcement subsequently retrieved the body from the water. …
Unsolved
May 18, 2023
Rasheem Carter: Prosecutor Says Fourth Set of Remains Not of Man Found Decapitated With Genitals in Mouth
A Mississippi prosecutor has accused an attorney representing the family of a man who was found dead last year of making unfounded claims about the case and ensuing investigation. WCVB reported that the Mississippi Crime Lab announced last week that a fourth set of remains were animal bones. Smith County district attorney Chris Hennis said …