A Utah couple is in jail after police found their 13-year-old son locked in an alcove under the stairs in their home, and they say they’d do it again because they’re nothing wrong with it. Travis Peterson, 49, and Melissa Gray, 42, were arrested Tueday and charged with aggravated child abuse, KSTU reported. Gray, the …
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An accused teen murderer has been ordered to be held behind bars on a $1 million bond after allegedly killing his girlfriend at a park earlier this month. According to a criminal complaint obtained by the Star Tribune, Isaac Arthur Arndt, 18, stabbed his 14-year-old girlfriend, Jaelyn Nichole Walker, more than a dozen times in …
An Instagram model accused of being high on “pink cocaine” when she caused a high-speed crash in Miami is now under house arrest after posting a $26,000 bond. Maecee Marie Lathers, 24, posted bail and entered a not-guilty plea to charges of vehicular homicide, reckless driving, driving on a suspended license, and fleeing the scene …
A Maryland couple was found shot to death in their bed Sunday morning amid 42 spent shell casings in what authorities called “a crime of rage and anger.” The children of 33-year-old Crimea Baker, all under the age of 13, were home at the time of the shooting and hid for hours, according to Frederick …
Susan Smith’s possible prison release faces opposition not only from her ex-husband but also from the lead prosecutor of her trial. Tommy Pope, the former solicitor for South Carolina’s 16th Judicial Circuit, told TMZ that he is working with current solicitor Kevin Brackett to ensure that Smith remains behind bars at the Leath Correctional Institution …
A Massachusetts man who disappeared from his South Carolina vacation rental and was found dead 10 days later died by suicide, officials said. Beaufort County Coroner David Ott said Tuesday that Stanley Kotowski, 60, died by asphyxiation from hanging himself, the Island Packet reported. Kotowski’s body was found Monday beneath another home four houses down …
Kouri Richins, the Utah grief book author accused of killing her husband with a fentanyl-laced drink, will finally go on trial next April. Judge Richard Mrazik ruled Tuesday, after a two-day preliminary hearing, there was enough evidence to try the case and set a start date for April 28, KTVX reported. The trial is expected …
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Department in South Carolina is requesting the public’s assistance in locating a woman who was last seen early Tuesday morning. Holly Dae Hewitt, 63, left her home around 11 p.m. Monday in a beige 2011 Chevrolet Tahoe with South Carolina license plate VFC233, according to sheriff’s spokesperson Alexis Douglas. A desription …
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A Georgia man has been indicted for murder, following his arrest earlier this month, in connection with the 1999 death of his wife, Melissa Wolfenberger. Christopher Wolfenbarger has been indicted on murder and felony murder charges for the 1998 death of Melissa, who vanished in November of that year from her Atlanta area home. As …
An Indiana jury convicted a man who, at 16, murdered three people while demonstrating how to convert a Glock into a machine gun. Caden Smith, now 19, was found guilty on Friday of three counts of murder, robbery, possession of a machine gun, and possession of methamphetamine, among other charges, according to the Marion County …
