Authorities investigating the brutal murder of a Montana man found dead at his Gallatin County campsite earlier this month say they are looking for several items that appear to be missing from the scene, including an axe and guns. The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office asked the public on Thursday to be on the lookout …
A body found in a Northeast Philadelphia garage on Sunday is believed to be that of a 51-year-old mom reported missing a day earlier. Investigators say Ivelisse Lugo was last seen at her home Saturday morning, possibly with her estranged husband. Her daughters reported her missing and began knocking on neighbors doors, asking if anyone …
A Mississippi man has been charged with murder after his wife was found dead in her vehicle, which had crashed into a building. Zikoya Johnson Echols, 36, was inside her car when Hattiesburg Police responded to the crash site Saturday morning at about 10 a.m. Echols, apparently behind the wheel, was pronounced dead at the …
Police in Georgia responded to a welfare check earlier this month and found a 71-year-old man dead in a bathtub — then learned that a group of people had been living in the dead man’s home alongside his body. According to WANF, police found Robert Westbrook’s body at his home in Smyrna. “He was in …
The mother of a 4-year-old California boy was arrested on Friday after the child found a loaded, unsecured gun in her car and shot himself. Latisha Walker, 26, left her son in the car while she went inside a business, according to KCRA. Shynice Cordoba, a witness, said she was having her nails done at …
A Florida man was arrested earlier this month after a woman made a 911 call and pretended to “order a pizza” until the dispatcher understood she was about to be raped. The pizza call came in to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office at about 3:45 a.m. on October 19. The dispatcher asked further questions to …
A 19-year-old Washington state woman has been jailed on a murder charge for allegedly killing her 73-year-old landlord. The King County Sheriff’s Office said it got a call from the suspect’s brother-in-law just after 7 p.m. on Friday telling officers that the suspect had told her sister that she’d killed someone and showed her the …
A California man who plotted for two years to kill the 16-year-old girl he blamed for getting him expelled from school will never get out of prison. Owen Skyler Shover, 23, was sentenced to life without parole in the 2019 murder of Aranda Briones, KESQ reported. He was convicted in August. “The victim didn’t deserve …
Tennessee investigators have issued a first degree murder warrant for a man they say killed a hiker, planted a fake identification on him, and then called 911 pretending to be the hiker, saying he’d fallen from a cliff while fleeing a bear. The 911 call initially came in just after 11:30 p.m. on October …
A Minneapolis man charged with attempted murder remains at large despite multiple warrants for his arrest. John Herbert Sawchak, 54, faces a new warrant connected to alleged offenses against his neighbor, Davis Moturi. This time, the warrant includes attempted murder charges after Sawchak allegedly shot Moturi in the neck, NBC News reported. On Wednesday, Moturi …
A Malden, Massachusetts man was recently sentenced to life in prison after a heated argument turned fatal. According to a Middlesex County press release, Joshua Roush, 46, was convicted of the 2001 murder of his roommate, Brian McDonald, 34. Roust was found guilty of first-degree murder. He’ll spend life in prison without the possibility of …
A Texas man running from police officers across a Houston freeway was fatally struck by a vehicle Saturday morning. As Click2Houston reports, on Saturday, just after 8:30 a.m., officers from the Houston Police Department noticed an altercation between two drivers on the IH-10 feeder road near Lockwood Drive. While investigating the situation, one of the …
