The wife of an Arkansas jail administrator was arrested on Monday for allegedly holding four minors at gunpoint as they tried to raise funds for their football team. Jerri Kelly, 46, was charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a minor for an August 7 incident at her home in Wynne. …
An Ohio woman who’s weeks away from standing trial for allegedly killing her newborn daughter and burying her in her parents’ backyard has asked for all charges against her to be dismissed. Brooke Skylar Richardson, 20, is charged with aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter, gross abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, and child endangerment for her child’s …
A man in Texas turned himself in on Thursday, a day after he allegedly shot into the wrong apartment and killed a 9-year-old girl. Tyrese Simmons, 19, is charged with the capital murder of Brandoniya Bennett, who KTVT reported was sitting on a couch in her Dallas apartment when she was shot in the head. …
Two women in Pennsylvania were arrested Wednesday on attempted homicide and arson charges for allegedly setting fire to a home early Tuesday—nearly killing one person who was sleeping inside. Misty Dunbar and Michelle Rhoads, both 23, are accused of setting the Mount Carmel home ablaze with a can of kerosene they found under the porch. …
Michael Gargiulo, the California man known as the “Hollyknown Ripper,” was found guilty Thursday of murdering two women and trying to kill another. A Los Angeles jury convicted Gargiulo, 43, for the 2001 slaying of Ashley Ellerin,22, in her Hollywood home and killing Maria Bruno, 32, in her El Monte home in 2005. Gargiulo was …
An officer in South Carolina was reportedly arrested in a sex sting operation that was carried out by his own police department, officials announced this week. According to NBC News, Derek Vandenham, 34, was immediately fired from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department following his arrest on Tuesday. Vandenham, a deputy who had been with the …
Texas police said a 14-year-old boy sustained life-threatening injuries on Saturday after he was sucked into a drain at a water park, reportedly as part of a dare. KTRK reported that the incident occurred at Fun Town Water Park in Crystal Beach. Though an employee shut off the pipes after a drain sucked Caden Strimple …
More than a dozen registered sex offenders in Wisconsin are unaccounted for after they tampered with or removed their GPS monitoring devices, officials said. Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections made the startling revelation in response to WMTV’s inquiry about Brandon King, 31. King’s accused of removing his tracking device hours after his August 6 release from …
On Thursday, Malaysian officials revealed that foul play likely wasn’t involved in the death of Nora Quoirin, the 15-year-old London girl whose body was discovered in the jungle on Tuesday, 10 days after her disappearance. According to CNN, Negeri Sembilan state police chief Mohamad Mat Yusop told reporters that Quoirin had bruises on her leg …
A middle schooler in California was reportedly left with serious brain and spine injuries after another student choked him last year. According to NBC News, surveillance footage from the January 2018 incident showed a 14-year-old student punch a 12-year-old boy in the stomach and pin him against a wall outside. The alleged bully is then …
A 15-year-old cat was returned to his owners on Monday, weeks after a New York nanny allegedly stole him before he could be euthanized. Rebecca Katz, 33, was charged with petit larceny for reportedly stealing a tabby cat named “Tigger” from Russell and Julie Berman on July 2. NBC News reported that the nanny stole …
A man in Florida was arrested earlier this month after an argument over slavery role-playing reportedly resulted in him spitting in his black girlfriend’s face. A probable cause affidavit by obtained by The Smoking Gun stated that Ashley Edwards, 35, asked Kenneth Atkins, 37, to play “slave and slaver because she is African American and …
