Two Florida teens were charged on Thursday, days after they allegedly killed a 14-year-old girl and set her on fire. Santa Rosa County police said Gabriel Williams, 16, and Kimahri Blevins, 14, lured Danika Troy to a wooded area where they shot her multiple times before dousing her body with gasoline and setting her on …
A Florida judge has named Anna Kepner’s teen stepbrother a suspect in her murder. On Friday, Brevard Judge Michelle Studstill announced the 16-year-old stepbrother as a suspect during a custody hearing, People Magazine reports. The boy’s father, Thomas Hudson, is seeking emergency custody of his 9-year-old daughter. She is currently living in Titusville with her …
Closing arguments began Friday morning in Sumter County, in connection with the murder trial against Trinity Poague, a Georgia woman accused of killing her boyfriend’s toddler son. Poague is charged with malice murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated battery, and cruelty to children in the death of Romeo “Jaxton Dru” Angeles, as …
A Utah couple allegedly left their 18-month-old daughter largely alone in her crib for four days prior to her death from complications of malnutrition and dehydration. Mitchell Chestnut Murray and Carrie Marie Murray, both 31, were arrested for investigation of aggravated murder and aggravated child abuse, KSL reported. Carrie Murray reportedly told police that her …
Police in Texas are searching for a San Antonio woman who has not been seen since Tuesday. According to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Katrina Mayfield was last seen “near the corner of TX-16 and Bandera,” News4SA reports. She was seen leaving a near the 18000 block of State Highway 16. Mayfield is described as …
A Colorado woman missing since Sunday has been found dead in a car partially submerged in a canal near Timnath in Larimer County. Family confirmed 20-year-old Kaylee Russell’s death in a GoFundMe post. Russell vanished on Sunday after her father helped her change a flat tire at a park-and-ride in Loveland, as CrimeOnline reported. From …
Investigators are probing the death of a Middle Tennessee State University professor who was found shot dead in the middle of a roadway in Dekalb County early Thursday morning. The Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office said deputies responded to the shooting and found “a loaded and cocked handgun” next to the body of 41-year-old Ashleigh …
A Florida judge sentenced a man to life in prison on Wednesday for the brutal murder of a woman he met on a dating app because she wasn’t “following his relationship rules.” Daniel Stearns, 35, was convicted in October, WESH reported. Stearns was arrested in March 2023 after police followed him to an undeveloped Palm …
A grand jury this week indicted a 24-year-old Georgia man on multiple charged related to the death of a 66-year-old retired firefighter at a Wilmington Island restaurant in 2019. Charles Alexander Jacobson Teeple IV, who was 19 at the time, is charged with two counts of felony murder, aggravated assault, and exploitation and intimidation of …
Bones that were discovered over a year-long span belong to an Alabama man who vanished in 2024, officials announced this week. Curtis Taylor Jr., 25, lived across the street from the Center Point property where a dog was found with a human skull in August 2024. WBRC reported that authorities got involved after the dog …
A California man who earlier this year pleaded guilty to stabbing his stepmother to death and trying to kill his father has been sentenced to decades behind bars. Justin Tray Buchanan, 34, pleaded guilty in October to the murder of Kelly Jean Buchanan, the attempted murder of William Louis Buchanan, and a knife assault on …
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