Year: 2024

Murder
November 14, 2024

Inmates Beat Dad Charged With Killing 4-Year-Old Son Who Weighed 19 Pounds

A New York man accused of starving his 4-year-old son to death wants to be placed in protective custody as other inmates have attacked him. Laron Modlin, 25, and Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, are charged with killing their son, Jah’Meik Modlin, who reportedly died last month weighing 19 pounds. Modlin’s attorneys said that other inmates at …

Domestic Abuse
November 14, 2024

Texas Man Released Without GPS Monitoring After Shooting Wife Over a Dozen Times

A Texas man accused of shooting his wife 14 times has been released from jail, leaving the victim’s loved ones in fear. According to News4SA. domestic violence victim Erica Torres has been at University Health in San Antonio for the last five months, following a June incident in which police say her ex-boyfriend shot her …

Missing
November 14, 2024

Kayaker Dad of 3 Fakes Death, Possibly in Europe: Police

Police  believe a father of three, who vanished at a Wisconsin lake this summer, may have staged his own death and fled to Eastern Europe. The investigation started on August 12 when authorities found out that 45-year-old Ryan Borgwardt had not returned home and was last seen at Green Lake, according to the Green Lake …

Famous Murder Cases
November 14, 2024

Cult Leader Charles Manson Admits to Secret Life in Mexico, More Killings

In a newly released phone call, late cult leader Charles Manson confessed to additional murders in Mexico. DailyMail reports that the the call is part of Peacock’s “Making Manson,” which explores his  life through 20 years of recorded conversations with a friend. “See, there’s a whole part of my life that nobody knows about,” Manson …

Murder
November 14, 2024

Las Vegas Woman Accused of Killing Roommate, Storing Body in Freezer

Las Vegas police have arrested a woman and charged her with killing her roommate and leaving her body in a freezer. Police said they were called by a person from the mobile home community management office on November 6 who said she was concerned because she hadn’t been able to reach one of the residents …

Murder
November 14, 2024

Teen Boy, Brother Charged in Cousin’s Murder

An 18-year-old man was found dead, wrapped in a comforter alongside Connecticut highway last week, and his cousins have been charged in the murder. Police said Edgar Josué Chiche Martínez’s body had been dumped along the Pope Park Highway after he was shot in an apartment elsewhere. His body had been there for about a …

Vandalism
November 14, 2024

Antisemitic ‘Wanted’ Posters Flood University Campus in New York

The University of Rochester in New York is investigating after hundreds of “wanted” posters targeting Jewish faculty and staff were posted on campus over the weekend. University President Sarah Mangelsdorf said the posters were “disturbing, divisive and intimidating” and that they run “counter to our values as a university,” NBC News reported. The university’s public …

Child Abuse
November 13, 2024

Teen Father Charged With Brutal Abuse of 7-Month-Old Infant

An Illinois teenager has been charged with abusing his 7-month-old son, leaving the child hospitalized with a skull fracture, two broken arms, and numerous bruises. Tyler J. Holmes, 18, was charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm to a child, four counts of aggravated battery to a child, three counts of aggravated domestic battery …

child endangerment
November 13, 2024

Caretakers Lock 6-Year-Old Boy into Laundrymat Dryer and Turn It On

Three people in Texas were arrested on Monday after they locked a 6-year-old child into an operating dryer at a laundrymat and refused to let him out. According to Harris County Constable Mark Herman’s Office, deputies were called to the Hi Tek Washeteria by other patrons and found the child “visibly shaking and crying.” When …

child endangerment
November 13, 2024

Louisiana Mom Charged With Abandoning Child on Busy Roadway, Reporting Him Kidnapped

A Louisiana mother has been accused of abandoning young son on the side of the road and then reporting that he’d been kidnapped. The St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday that it was called at about 1 a.m. on on November 5 by Artasia Quantaya Viges, who said she had stopped to deal with …