Last week, a group searching a Mississippi courthouse located an arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham — the white woman whose false assault accusations against Emmett Till led to the 14-year-old’s lynching in 1955 Mississippi. The Mississippi Free Press reported that the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and filmmaker Keith Beauchamp made the discovery at the …
A Massachusetts man was charged on Tuesday for strangling his girlfriend earlier this month in an ordeal witnessed by the woman’s two young daughters. On June 8, suspect Thadius McGrath’s mother called officers to Samantha Rementer’s apartment in Northampton amid concerns that McGrath, 35, was suicidal. Responding officers knocked on the door and were met …
A New York federal prosecutor said during R. Kelly’s sentencing on Tuesday that the singer secretly sold $5 million in August — months before he was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering. According to Insider, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Geddes made the allegations during R. Kelly’s sentencing hearing. Kelly reportedly made money through his master …
U.S. Marshals confirmed on Wednesday that they have caught a woman who has been on the run since fatally shooting her boyfriend’s love interest in Texas last month. Authorities told VeloNews that Kaitlin Armstrong was apprehended in Costa Rica overnight. She will be extradited to the U.S. — where she will face first-degree murder charges. Sources …
A New York woman and her son were arrested on Wednesday for last year’s beating death of the woman’s 7-year-old daughter. Navasia Jones, 35, and Paul Fine, Jr., 18, allegedly killed Julissia Batties at their Bronx home on August 21. The girl’s cause of death was determined to be abdominal trauma from being struck with …
On Wednesday, a New York federal court sentenced R. Kelly to 30 years in prison for operating a sex trafficking ring that victimized young women and girls. The New York Times reported that Judge Ann M. Donnelly handed down the sentence after Kelly’s lawyer begged for leniency, claiming the singer was a child sex assault …
Three Americans who died at a Bahamas resort in May died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, police revealed on Tuesday. According to CNN, Michael Phillips, 68, and Robbie Phillips, 65, from Tennessee; and Vincent Chiarella, 64, from Florida, died within hours of each other on May 6 at a Sandals resort on the …
On Tuesday, jailed South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh and the man he allegedly paid to fatally shoot him last year were indicted on drug-related charges. Greenville News reported that Murdaugh and Curtis Smith, 61, are charged with two counts of conspiracy — one of which involves oxycodone. Smith was also charged with money laundering, forgery, …
On Tuesday, the Michigan Supreme Court threw out the criminal case against former Governor Rick Snyder and eight others in the Flint water scandal, finding that a judge who acted as a one-person grand jury had no power to indict them. In a unanimous decision, the six-judge panel found that a one-judge grand jury can …
A Texas man who was deemed insane in his father’s 2014 murder allegedly escaped from a state hospital on Sunday. The Austin American-Statesman reported that security cameras caught Alexander Ervin, 29, leaving a dorm at North Texas State Hospital. Hospital staff informed the police of his disappearance on Monday morning. In 2014, Ervin was acquitted …
On Tuesday, a New York federal court sentenced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to 20 years in prison for procuring underage girls for late billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. The New York Times reported that Judge Alison Nathan handed down the sentence, saying Maxwell “worked with Epstein to select young victims who were vulnerable” and facilitated the abuse. …
Louisiana police arrested a woman on Saturday, a day after suspected human remains were reportedly discovered under the floor of a home. Amite City Police Department said in a Facebook post that the remains were found while executing a search warrant at an unoccupied home. Officers reportedly noticed that the floor had been replaced recently, …
