The father of a 4-year-old Ohio girl who was killed last year by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county’s Department of Children and Families, accusing the agency of ignoring evidence of abuse before his daughter’s murder. According to WJW, Mickhal Garrett filed the lawsuit against the Cuyahoga County …
A man was jailed this week for a string of arsons at three historic black Baptist churches located in one Louisiana parish. Holden Matthews, 21, was charged with three counts of simple arson of a religious building for a March 26 fire at St. Mary Baptist Church, an April 2 fire at Greater Union Baptist Church …
A California man will spend at least 26 years in prison for bludgeoning his married reality star girlfriend to death with a hammer in 2016 and burying her in a shallow grave in his backyard. Jackie Jerome Rogers, 36, was sentenced Monday to 26 years to life in prison for the first-degree murder of Lisa Marie Naegle, 35, …
An elderly man in New York City has been arrested for the 1973 slayings of two 19-year-old women who were vacationing in Virginia Beach at the time. The New York Times reports that DNA evidence recovered from the crime scene was matched this fall with Ernest Broadnax’s profile in a national database. Broadnax, 80, was …
Authorities in Arizona are asking for the public’s help in locating a suspect who reportedly attempted to kidnap an 11-year-old girl last week but was stopped by a Good Samaritan with a gun. KSAZ reported that the incident occurred near 19th Avenue and Bell Road in Phoenix. Police said girl was walking to Village Meadows …
A Florida man was arrested Saturday for allegedly stealing $300 in houseware goods from Kmart, days after he reportedly bought a private island for $8 million. According to the Miami Herald, Andrew Francis Lippi, 59, was charged with grand theft for stealing a Keurig coffeemaker, a Hamilton Beach coffeemaker, eight light bulbs, and a bed skirt from …
Authorities in Texas confirmed Monday that a body pulled from a lake last week belongs to a mother who has been missing since early February. According to KXAS, the body found floating Wednesday in Mountain Creek Lake in Dallas was identified as Weltzin Garcia, 26. Weltzin and her estranged boyfriend, Alfonso Hernandez, 28, were reported missing from …
A Florida man who walked out of federal prison Friday was reportedly rearrested moments later for a murder he allegedly committed nearly two decades earlier. According to WFTS, New Port Richey police arrested Randy Petersilge, 51, for the November 2001 murder of Simon Clark, 41, who was found dead of blunt force trauma in Pasco County. Authorities …
The mother of a South Carolina fifth-grader who died last month after a fight at her elementary school said she warned school officials about the girl who ultimately killed her daughter. Airing Monday, Ashley Wright told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that friends of Raniya Wright, 10, claimed a bully had goaded her daughter to fight all …
The 18-year-old allegedly did drugs while pregnant in hopes of miscarrying
Authorities had said they were ‘cautiously optimistic’ the remains belonged to Andreen McDonald
A Texas mother who admitted to selling her son and trying to sell her two daughters to settle a drug debt was sentenced to prison last week. Esmerelda Garza, 29, was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday after being convicted of three counts of selling or purchasing a child, money laundering, and conspiracy to …
