A Florida woman was arrested Sunday after authorities learned she was reportedly keeping her autistic daughter housed in a homemade cage made of wood and metal. Police were called to a Palm Bay home on Saturday after a neighbor spotted a girl inside their screened-in patio. Officers determined the girl was nonverbal and had some …
An Arkansas woman turned herself in on Tuesday for allegedly having her adopted son endure unnecessary medical procedures for aliments he did not have. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that from 2017 to 2019, Kristy Schneider intentionally provided false information to doctors and medical experts so that her son would receive medical treatments. Schneider and her …
A man attacked a bailiff inside a Texas court on Monday after he was found guilty of fatally shooting a police officer in 2016. KENS reported that it took a jury 25 minutes to unanimously convict Otis McKane, 36, of San Antonio police Detective Benjamin Marconi’s capital murder. McKane, who was speechless after the verdict, …
A man who opened fire Monday at a Texas party was killed when bystanders beat him with bricks, according to authorities. The Dallas Morning News reported that one person was fatally shot and several people were wounded during the incident which unfolded in Fort Worth. The suspect was reportedly attending the small gathering when he …
Florida officials said a man who was previously sentenced to death for abducting, raping, and killing an 11-year-old girl in 2004 died in prison on Monday. The Bradenton Herald-Tribune reported that it is unclear how Joseph Smith, 55, died but the medical examiner’s office will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death. In …
A woman was arrested in Texas earlier this month — 37 years after she allegedly shook an infant in an incident that led to his death in 2019. The Sun-Sentinel reported that Terry McKirchy, 22, shook 6-month-old Benjamin Dowling in Hollywood, Florida, in 1984 while watching Dowling and four other children, including two of her …
Police announced Thursday that a California man is a person of interest in the ongoing disappearance of his wife who vanished in early January. Chula Vista police said in a statement that they filed a gun violence restraining order against Larry Millete in May. On Wednesday during a court hearing for that order, he was …
State officials had told the organization to be ‘alert’ for his safety
A man is facing criminal charges after he stole an ambulance in Texas on Friday while an EMT and a patient were inside, according to reports. KTRK reported that the armed suspect exited another car and forced a Houston Fire Department ambulance to stop. He allegedly then forced the driver out of the ambulance at …
A convicted sex offender was arrested in Georgia on Wednesday for the unsolved 1988 murder of an 8-year-old boy. The Atlanta Journal-Consitution reported that James Coates, 56, was riding in an Uber when he was arrested during a traffic stop. Coates’ arrest comes months after murder victim Joshua Harmon was exhumed and Rosewell police conducted …
The health aide reportedly lived at the residence with the victim and her child
An Arkansas woman was arrested on Monday after her 12-year-old son’s body was reportedly found in her house. According to KLRT, Betty Adams, 39, was charged with abusing a corpse after police found her son Justin deceased in a bedroom at her Dermott home. Police had been called to the home, but the nature of …
