A Minnesota man has been accused of violently stabbing a woman to death decades ago after authorities identified him using DNA from a genealogy website and a messy napkin, the Daily Beast reports. Jerry Westrom, 52, was charged this week in connection with the 1993 homicide of Jeanne Ann “Jeanie” Childs in Minneapolis. Investigators zeroed …
Two California brothers have been arrested in connection with the murder of a teen girl who had been reported missing, KABC-TV reports. Authorities on Friday charged 18-year-old Owen Skyler Shover on suspicion of murdering 16-year-old Aranda Briones. Shover’s 21-year-old brother, Gary Anthony Shover, is charged with suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. Briones was last …
A New Jersey mother is accused of murdering her infant son, WPVI-TV reports. Nakira M. Griner, 24, reported the boy missing to police around 6:30 p.m. on Friday, claiming that he had been abducted in their small town of Bridgeton. Authorities quickly began a frantic search for the 23-month-old child, Daniel Griner Jr. But around …
An arrest has been made in the murder of a prominent Georgia businessman, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Jack Hough, 73, was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Gainesville CVS Thursday evening while his wife went inside the store to pick up a prescription. The shooting prompted an intense manhunt for the suspect, including the …
A prominent Georgia businessman was murdered outside a CVS on Thursday in what authorities say appears to have been an attempted carjacking or robbery, WSB-TV reports. Jack Hough, 73, was sitting in his car around 7:45 p.m. Thursday waiting for his wife, who was inside the Gainesville store. A man approached Hough’s Mercedes and a struggle …
A woman is wanted in North Carolina for allegedly ramming her car into someone and then flaunting the crime on social media, WRAL-TV reports. Authorities have reportedly issued warrants for Courtnay Danielle Lawrence, 22, on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run, failing to give aid and driving without a license. Lawrence …
Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman allegedly paid to sexually assault girls as young as 13, referring to the victims as “vitamins,” the New York Post reports. The accusations emerged in recently unsealed court documents in the 61-year-old’s ongoing drug trafficking trial in New York. The documents claim that one of Guzman’s associates “would regularly …
A Mississippi man accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl may have faked his own death and could be hiding in Colorado, the Biloxi Sun Herald reports. Jacob Blair Scott has been missing since late July, when authorities in Orange Beach, Alabama, found Scott’s abandoned boat with a suicide note in it. Investigators say they were …
The parents of a missing teen say they aren’t giving up in the search for their 18-year-old son, who has been missing for nearly seven weeks, WJCL-TV reports. “I can’t give up hope. That’s our child. That’s my one and only, so it’s not an option,” Michelle Spencer-Ransom said. Her son, Malik Spencer, a student …
A person looking into the suspicious 2010 death of a Florida mother has been found deceased, the New York Daily News reports. The unidentified individual was found dead Thursday in their home in St. Augustine, Florida, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office. The victim, “a person who identified as both male and female,” according …
Two Idaho sisters are accused of masterminding a murder-for-hire plot, the Lewiston Tribune reports. Authorities on Thursday arrested 50-year-old Debra Wensman and 46-year-old Doris Wensman, of Greencreek, Idaho, after they allegedly agreed to pay an undercover police officer to murder their neighbor during a sting operation. The sisters were in court Friday and charged with …
A Louisiana man who authorities believe murdered five people, including his parents and girlfriend, has been captured more than a thousand miles away following an intense manhunt, The Advocate reports. Authorities on Sunday said they had arrested 21-year-old Dakota Theriot at his grandmother’s house in Virginia. Theriot is accused of shooting and killing his girlfriend, …
