South Carolina officials are investigating the death of a woman who was reportedly impaled by a beach umbrella on Wednesday. WMBF reported that an umbrella that took wind struck Tammy Perreault, 63, in Garden City. Perreault suffered chest trauma as a result; she died at a hospital in Waccamaw less than an hour later. “A …
A 14-year-old Colorado boy found dead on Monday was reportedly stabbed, shot, and beaten. Josiaz Aragon’s body was discovered near a baseball diamond at the Southwest Recreation Center in Denver. The Denver Medical Examiner listed his cause of death as “multiple sharp and blunt force injuries with a gunshot wound,” according to The Denver Post. …
An Illinois woman who has been jailed since 2019 for killing a pregnant teen and stealing her baby from her womb recently filed motions to have her arrest overturned. Block Club Chicago reported that Clarisa Figueroa also wants evidence suppressed, including evidence recovered when investigators searched her home and yard following Marlen Ochoa-Lopez’s slaying. Figueroa …
An elderly woman was killed in a dog attack on Tuesday, according to Nevada police. KVVU reported that a rescue pit bull fatally mauled Joan Caffiel, 89, while she was being watched by her hired caregiver, Jelena Kelly. Caffiel’s grandson said the dog had not been aggressive in the six years they had him. According …
A Louisiana woman who allegedly stabbed her two children on Sunday, killing her 4-year-old daughter, reportedly video called her children’s father after the incident. Janee Pedescleaux, 31, reportedly FaceTimed her children’s father on three instances. Pedescleaux first filmed their bloodied 2-year-old son, then showed the boy and his 4-year-old sister, Paris Roberts, with their throats …
Former San Francisco 49ers running back Frank Gore was criminally charged this week for allegedly assaulting a woman at a New Jersey hotel last month. According to TMZ, Gore, 39, dragged the 28-year-old victim by her hair on the 59th floor of Tropicana Casino’s Havana Tower in Atlantic City. The woman was reportedly naked at …
Pennsylvania officials announced on Tuesday that a different agency will reinvestigate the 2011 death of a woman who was found stabbed 20 times. The Chester County District Attorney’s Office is taking over the investigation into Ellen Greenberg’s death due to a conflict of interest in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s …
An Idaho woman is facing criminal charges for Monday’s hit-and-run accident that left another woman dead. Natalie Hodson, 37, was driving a minivan on Highway 55 in Boise when she allegedly struck Kristina Rowley, 39, as she checked on a trailer she was hauling with her pickup truck. Rowley’s 16-year-old son was in the pickup …
California investigators said a woman whose burning body was found hanging from a tree at a popular park may have taken her own life. According to the Los Angeles Times, a passerby alerted rangers at Griffith Park after spotting a fire that was near a merry-go-round and the Los Angeles Zoo. Park rangers contacted the …
On Tuesday, a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose false allegations led to Emmett Till’s slaying in 1955. A Leflore County grand jury that was considering manslaughter and kidnapping charges against Donham, 88, did not find sufficient evidence. District Attorney Dewayne Richardson’s office said jurors heard more than …
Georgia police are still searching for a woman who vanished in July, and her family said they suspect she was abducted. Allahnia Lenoir’s mother told Fox Atlanta that Lenoir, 24, went out with a girlfriend on July 30, and they met up with two men in Atlanta. However, Lenoir reportedly never returned home. Atlanta police …
A Texas woman was arrested on Sunday for allegedly attempting to set a fire at her property because her tenants would not pay rent. On August 4, San Antonio police responded to reports of a burglary. Responding officers met with a tenant who said that his landlord, Elizabeth Flores Romo, 35, broke into his unit …
