On Friday, a Texas woman reportedly shot and killed a suspicious man who was looking into her bedroom window. KTRK reported that the woman retrieved a rifle after spotting the suspected peeping Tom outside her Houston home, as she feared for her safety. Houston Police Department spokesperson Ronnie Wilkens said the woman fired through the …
Three children were among five people reportedly killed in a house fire on Monday in Ohio. In addition to the five fatalities, the blaze in Akron reportedly also left three adults and a child injured. Relatives and neighbors told the Akron Beacon Journal that two families lived in the home where the fire occurred. Akron …
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A Florida man who on Sunday killed four people — including an infant boy and his parents — reportedly believed God told him to save an imaginary 11-year-old girl the victims were torturing and sex trafficking. Polk County police said on Thursday that marine veteran Bryan Riley, 33, confessed to stalking the family at their …
A Maryland judge at the center of a child sexual abuse investigation killed himself on Friday as federal agents came to his home to arrest him, according to reports. The Baltimore Sun reported that Caroline County Judge Jonathan Newell, 50, who took a leave of absence more than a month ago, posted pictures on Facebook …
Two Florida teens were arrested on Thursday, after authorities reportedly learned they were planning to carry out a mass shooting at their middle school. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said during a press conference that a student at Harns Marsh Middle School told a teacher that one of the two boys, ages 13 and 14, …
Police said a Kentucky man who has not been seen or heard from since Tuesday was kidnapped and is being held for ransom. During a press conference on Thursday, Louisville Metro police Sergeant Matt Kennington said Jermaine Sprewer’s family contacted authorities after receiving several FaceTime calls from the suspects in which they could see Sprewer, …
South Carolina police wrote that Alex Murdaugh had no visible injuries after Saturday’s shooting that reportedly involved the legal scion being shot in the head. The Daily Beast obtained an incident report where Hampton County police stated that Murdaugh, 53, did not have a “visible injury” and was not under the influence of drugs and …
Dylann Roof — the neo-Nazi who killed nine Black parishioners at a South Carolina church in 2015 — appealed his death sentence again on Wednesday, claiming the victims were portrayed too sympathetically during his federal trial. Roof, 27, filed another petition in the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, where a three-judge …
On Monday, an Oklahoma prison inmate who is serving multiple life sentences for sex-related crimes allegedly murdered his cellmate — a convicted child killer. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections said in a statement that Lawton Correctional Facility staff found inmate Riley Walker, 29, deceased in his cell. Walker’s cellmate, Aaron Stone, 43, allegedly confessed to …
A family of four was reportedly found fatally shot in their Ohio home on Tuesday in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide. Avon Lake police said in a statement that they were responding to a welfare check when they discovered the bodies of husband and wife, Jeffrey and Heidi Hull, 50 and 46, and …
A Florida man accused of murdering a woman who was found Monday allegedly told police he was having a sexual relationship with the victim — at the same time he dated her mother. An arrest report stated that Eric Westergard, 45, told detectives that he had been having an affair with Perrin Damron, 23, for …
