Year: 2025

Kidnapping
April 29, 2025

Florida Woman Impersonates ICE Agent to Kidnap Ex-Boyfriend’s Wife

A Florida woman was arrested on her way to Alabama after she allegedly impersonated an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and kidnapped her ex-boyfriend’s wife earlier this month. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office said it was called to an apartment complex on April 10 by a woman who told them she had been kidnapped. …

Missing
April 29, 2025

Teen Girl Missing for 4 Months Is Found Alive in Sex Offender’s Closet

A 16-year-old girl who vanished from Missouri in December was reportedly found alive this month in a sex offender’s home in Colorado. On April 18, a Missouri task force informed police in Fort Collins, Colorado, that a missing girl could be in the area. The tip led Fort Collins’ SWAT Team to execute a search …

Weird Crime
April 29, 2025

Mom Serves Vodka Jell-O Shots at Daughter’s Elementary School Christmas Party

A Texas woman was arrested last week for bringing alcohol-laced treats to a Christmas party at an elementary school. Teresa Bernal, 33, allegedly brought vodka Jell-O shots to her daughter’s fifth-grade classroom in Tyler on December 20, 2024. Fifteen students had the shots, and almost all of them reported having stomachaches or headaches afterward, according …

Joe Ramirez and Caysen Allison
April 29, 2025

Caysen Allison Murder Trial: Jury Reaches Verdict in Case Involving Teen’s Fatal Stabbing in High School Bathroom

A Bell County jury in Texas found Caysen Allison not guilty of murder but convicted him of criminally negligent homicide. After hearing closing arguments from both the prosecution and defense, jurors received their instructions Monday and began deliberating. They reached the verdict on Tuesday afternoon. Allison faced charges ranging from murder to manslaughter to criminally …

Domestic violence
April 28, 2025

Colorado Man, 36, Arrested for Assaulting His Teenage Wife

A 36-year-old Colorado man was arrested last week for assaulting his 18-year-old wife, although Pueblo County sheriff’s deputies had a wait a day to take him into custody until they could secure a warrant. Taggart Reike refused to answer the door or come out of the home on Thursday when deputies arrived at his home …

Bullies
April 28, 2025

10-Year-Old Boy Kills Himself After Being Bullied by Teacher Who Called Him ‘Stupid’

Two parents filed a lawsuit against a Florida school district last week, two years after their 10-year-old son died by suicide. Marion County student Louis Johnson reportedly shot himself in April 2023. Johnson’s mother and father have accused Dawn White, a fifth-grade teacher at Legacy Elementary in Ocala, of bullying their son and encouraging other …

April 28, 2025

Kansas City Paramedic Stabbed to Death by Patient Inside Ambulance

A Missouri fire department paramedic was stabbed to death early Sunday by a patient he was trying to help. Shanetta Boswell, 38, has been charged with first degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of the Kansas City Fire Department’s Graham Hoffman, 29. According to KCTV, first responders were called shortly after midnight …

Alexa Bartell
Trials
April 28, 2025

Rock-Throwing Teen Convicted of First Degree Murder

A jury last week convicted a Colorado man of first degree murder for his part in a night of teenaged rock-throwing that killed a woman as the landscaping stone he hurled crashed through her windshield and struck her. Two co-defendants pleaded guilty for their parts in the April 19, 2023, incident that killed Alexa Bartell, …