A young Indiana boy was brutally beaten to death by his cousin because the child put his shoes on the wrong feet, the Journal & Courier reports. The older cousin was also reportedly enraged that the child sat down to use the bathroom instead of standing up. The disturbing allegations are contained in court records …
An Indiana mother will spend the rest of her life behind bars for starving, torturing and beating to death her young son, the Commercial Review reports. On Thursday, 28-year-old Chelsea Crossland was sentenced to life in prison for the death of 5-year-old Christian last year. She will not be afforded an opportunity for parole. Police in …
A California man who allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death because he believed she was pregnant and wanted to keep the children has been convicted of murdering her and discarding her body in a dumpster, KTLA-TV reports. On Friday, jurors found 33-year-old Amer Alhasan guilty of first-degree murder in connection with the death of 38-year-old …
A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to third-degree murder after he killed his cousin with a semi-automatic rifle, dragged the body into a hole, and lit it on fire. Derek Louk, 30, agreed to the plea deal Thursday in Bedford County in connection with the death of Tyler Matthai last year. Louk also pleaded guilty …
This week, authorities announced that DNA discovered as part of the investigation is linked to an unsolved California home invasion and assault on a child in March.
A Colorado mother of 15 on the lam for child abuse was allegedly found hiding behind a false wall inside her family’s home this week, KRDO-TV reports. On Thursday, authorities responded to a residence in the town of Walsenburg when 62-year-old Timothy Crouch died. One of the man’s adult children, who no longer lived with …
A teacher at a Wisconsin Christian school is accused of having sex with a middle school student and then purchasing him a gun, CBS 58 reports. An investigation into the teacher, 34-year-old Tyesha Bolden, started on July 25, when the mother of an eighth-grade student at Pilgrim Lutheran School reported to police that her son …
A British nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others may have been motivated to commit the serial killings because she wanted the attention of a doctor in the pediatric ward, the Guardian reports. This week, 33-year-old Lucy Letby was found guilty in connection with the attacks at the Countess of …
A suspect in the horrific rape and murder of a Texas 11-year-old has been arrested, ABC13 reports. On Saturday, authorities announced that Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez was detained in Shreveport, Louisiana. Police one day earlier had named 18-year-old Garcia-Rodriguez as a person of interest in the death of Maria Gonzalez, whose body was found last weekend …
A Utah woman charged with murder for allegedly poisoning her spouse and then writing a children’s book about grief will not face the death penalty if convicted, KUTV reports. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of killing husband Eric Richins, 39, by covertly adding fentanyl into a Moscow mule cocktail she made for him more than …
A Nevada man was found decapitated by his mother earlier this month, leading police to arrest the victim’s girlfriend. On August 7, the body of 47-year-old Johnathan Willette was found by his mother inside a home in Henderson, a southeast suburb of Las Vegas. Willette’s body was reportedly wrapped in blankets on a bed. His …
Authorities this week searched a backyard in connection with the unsolved disappearance of a Florida woman who was last seen the same day she and her former fiancé appeared on national television, WESH-TV reports. On November 17, 2011, a taped episode of “The People’s Court” aired featuring 33-year-old Michelle Parker and her ex-fiancé, Dale Smith …
