The former fiancé of a decorated Navy officer and mother of three has been charged with her murder, the Navy Times reports. Authorities in Jacksonville, Florida, arrested 36-year-old Danny Ray Beard on Friday in connection with the September 17 killing of 37-year-old Andrea L. Washington. Washington was a chief gas turbine systems technician who worked …
A man who helped a teenage girl commit suicide in Utah will spend a significant amount of time behind bars, a judge ruled Friday. The Deseret News reports that 19-year-old Tyerell Joe Przybycien was sentenced to at least five years but could serve up to life in prison. Przybycien expressed remorse for his involvement in …
Seven children were rescued from a Missouri home where they were wearing urine-soaked clothes and had feces caked onto their feet, KMOV-TV reports. Last month, neighbor Pat Abney reportedly encountered two of the children, an 8-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy, after they had exited the residence in the November cold with bare feet and without …
Genealogy and DNA technology has once again solved a decades-long cold case, this time in Indiana. John D. Miller pleaded guilty Friday to the 1988 abduction, molestation and murder of 8-year-old April Marie Tinsley in Fort Wayne, WISH-TV reports. Tinsley, who was in first grade at the time, disappeared after walking to a friend’s house …
Family and friends are desperately trying to find a Florida woman they say has disappeared in Costa Rica. The Miami Herald reports that Carla Stefaniak, 36, has not been heard from or seen since Tuesday and failed to board a plane back to her home in Miami the following day. Stefaniak’s loved ones are pleading …
A Texas mother is accused of gruesomely murdering and dismembering her young son before tossing his remains in the garbage, KTRK-TV reports. Lihui Liu, 43, has been charged with capital murder in connection with the death of the 5-year-old boy on Friday in Houston. Police were called to the woman’s residence for a report of …
Kareem Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs won’t be playing on the gridiron anytime soon as officials investigate a dispute in which he kicked and pushed a woman, TMZ.com reports. The celebrity website posted video on Friday documenting the encounter, which occurred at a Cleveland hotel in February. The NFL is investigating the incident and …
The children in the California “House of Horrors” case would likely testify against their parents should the case go to trial next year, the Press-Enterprise reports. A judge on Friday scheduled a trial in the matter to begin on September 3, 2019. Defendants David and Louise Turpin are accused of abusing 12 of their 13 …
A man in Arizona allegedly murdered a woman hours after he was released from prison, the Arizona Republic reports. On Friday, authorities arrested 34-year-old David James Bohart on suspicion of second-degree murder. The arrest came two days after police discovered the body of 49-year-old Marika L. Jones inside a Tucson house. Jones’ body had stab wounds …
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A woman has filed a federal lawsuit after Georgia police mistook a bag of cotton candy for methamphetamine, causing her to spend three months behind bars, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Dasha Fincher is suing the Monroe County Board of Commissioners, two of its deputies and the maker of a drug testing company. The case, filed …
The man killed by police after a shooting at an Alabama mall on Thanksgiving was likely not the assailant, meaning the gunman is still at large, WBRC-TV reports. Two people, including one child, were shot Thursday night at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. The shooting happened around 9:30 p.m. amid a …
