A Georgia sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Saturday night while responding to a domestic violence call in Hiram. The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said Deputy Brandon “Cunningham was shot as he exited his patrol vehicle, never even seeing the threat.” The suspect continued to fire at the deputies, keeping Cunningham’s partner and backup who …
Nearly five months after pleading guilty to killing 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith, Rashad Trice was formally sentenced the life in prison without parole. Trice entered guilty pleas for first degree murder and criminal sexual conduct relating to an assault on the little girl’s mother on July 1, the Lansing State Journal reported. In addition to life …
California investigators cracked a 51-year-old rape and murder last week after DNA led them to a suspect in Idaho. Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was arrested in Lemhi County on Wednesday and charged with the death of Nina “Nadine” Fischer in November 1973. Fischer, 31, lived with her husband and their toddler daughter in unincorporated San …
Police in Texas are looking for a 48-year-old man they say broke into his estranged wife’s home, shot dead her boyfriend, and then forced her to help him dispose of the body. Michael Maurice Mack, 48, is wanted on a charge of capital murder in the death of 53-year-old Kelvin Hinton, the Harris County Sheriff’s …
A Tennessee man and woman were arrested last week and charged with aggravated child abuse and neglect and child endangerment after law enforcement found evidence the couple had been locking a 7-year-old boy with autism in a storage trunk with urine-soaked blankets and a pillow. Carter County deputies were assisting the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation …
A Washington state man initially arrested for assaulting an emergency room nurse at a Seattle hospital was later charged with murder after he told police he “may have killed” his girlfriend at his townhome. Police had already been called to Andy Chu’s townhome in Lake City’s Olympic Hills neighborhood a day earlier, on August 10, …
A California peace officer was killed after colliding with an accused drunk driver, marking his fifth DUI. On Friday in Santa Rosa, California, Jessica Avila Munoz, 31, a peace officer for the Sonoma County Probation Department, was involved in a fatal accident, according to CBS News Bay Area. Munoz was struck by a truck while …
One adult and two teens have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a California mother of eight. Maria Ramos, 33, was found shot in front of her home on August 7, Oakland police said. Around 2:30 p.m., officers discovered her suffering from a fatal gunshot wound on the 5600 block of Hilton …
An AMBER Alert issued for three children ended tragically when the abductor crashed, resulting in the death of one child and leaving two others hospitalized. On Thursday morning, the AMBER Alert was issued in Virginia Beach for three children taken by their father, Dana Plummer, 36. Late Wednesday night, Plummer abducted his three children—a 7-year-old …
A Tennessee woman was sentenced to life in prison after she pleaded no contest to murder and child abuse charges in the death of her boyfriend’s 5-year-old son. Turner Simpkins was found dead in his home in Chapmansboro in July 2023, The Tennessean reported. An autopsy found bruises, cuts on his body, and bite marks …
A Washington state man already wanted for questioning in connection with a deadly fire in Concrete earlier this month is now wanted for murder after the three victims were found to have died from gunshot wounds. Mount Vernon Police had identified Jason M. Birman, 49, in connection with the fire, saying they believed he had …
A former south Alabama beauty queen awaiting trial in a murder-for-hire plot against her husband in the Bahamas has accused her latest boyfriend of abusing her. In a protection order filed against 35-year-old Dorsey Ryan Love last month, Lindsay Shiver accused him of throwing her onto a bed, choking her, and putting a pillow over …
