Two young children are accused of fatally shooting a man on a tractor in South Carolina and are facing criminal charges in connection with the death, WSPA-TV reports. On June 23, a woman in Oconee County, South Carolina, called authorities to report that her husband was missing. She said he had been out on their property …
Faye Swetlik murder: Alleged killer believed to have strangled 6-year-old within hours of abducting her The alleged killer of 6-year-old Faye Swetlik was able to hide her body in his apartment despite multiple police searches and later buried her in the woods before taking his own life, the Post and Courier reports. Those are among the new details …
A man who allegedly killed a 3-year-old girl by sitting on her while he was intoxicated has been charged in connection with her death, mlive.com reports. Authorities allege that 55-year-old John E. Graves caused the death of 3-year-old Paris N. Sharpe on September 20, 2020, while he was visiting an apartment in Bridgeport, Michigan. Prosecutors say …
A $100,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for killing two members of a prominent South Carolina family, WYFF-TV reports. Paul Murdaugh, 22, and his mother, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, were found shot to death June 7 at their family’s hunting lodge in Colleton County, South Carolina. Alex Murdaugh …
A sports utility vehicle was towed from the scene of a double murder where two members of a prominent South Carolina family were found shot to death earlier this month, the Island Packet reports. That’s the latest development in the slayings of 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh and his mother, 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh, a case that has gotten …
One of the two people charged in connection with the road-rage shooting death of a 6-year-old California boy is out of jail as the criminal case against her proceeds, KABC-TV reports. Wynne Lee, 23, was released from custody after posting bail, which comes after a judge lowered her bail on Friday from $500,000 to $100,000.Lee was driving the …
A man accused of shooting and severely injuring a Florida police officer was captured early Saturday with a cache of weapons, WJXT-TV reports. The manhunt for 29-year-old Othal Wallace ended in Georgia after multiple law enforcement agencies – including the U.S. Marshals, FBI, and Homeland Security – executed a search warrant on a property owned by …
The mother and grandmother of a Tennessee girl who has been missing for more than a week issued public statements Friday, WJHL-TV reports. Summer Wells, 5, vanished June 15 after she was last seen at her home in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Authorities have been conducting large-scale searches throughout the rural Tennessee region for the girl since …
The search for a missing Tennessee child continued into Sunday morning, with crews using a helicopter with special equipment to aid in the efforts, WJHL-TV reports. Authorities are searching for 5-year-old Summer Wells, who went missing around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Rogersville, Tennessee. Her disappearance prompted the state Bureau of Investigation to issue an AMBER Alert on …
An American woman has been found dead in Russia, days after she texted her mother that she was in a vehicle with a stranger and was concerned about being abducted, ABC News reports. Catherine Serou, 34, went missing on Tuesday in Nizhny Novgorod, a city in western Russia that is about 250 miles east of Moscow. …
A woman died this week after falling more than 200 feet on a Wyoming mountain while hiking with her husband, the Sheridan Press reports. Around 5:50 a.m. Tuesday, the husband of 28-year-old Calli Aust called 911 after she reportedly fell from Steamboat Point in the Bighorn Mountains. The husband told the operator that he was not …
A young boy died and his older brother was injured after someone fired a gun at them on a Michigan highway, the latest case in a rash of road shootings that have killed children, the Detroit News reports. Police have yet to find the shooter. The incident happened on Interstate 75 in Detroit, when Brian Christian, …
