A British woman who vanished while backpacking in Guatemala was reportedly found dead Monday on the mountainside with head injuries. Citing the National Institute of Forensic Sciences of Guatemala, the BBC reported that Catherine Shaw, 23, was found naked, face-down, and with visible injuries to her body. The institute said Shaw’s body was discovered four to …
A Texas mother who admitted to causing her 2-month-old son’s severe brain trauma by throwing him into a door in April 2017 was sentenced to prison last week. The Mineral Wells Index reported that Brooke Lauren Reed, 26, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree injury to a child causing serious bodily injury. …
Police in Delaware are investigating a shooting on Monday in which the suspects fatally shot two teens while holding one of the victim’s mothers and other children in the home at gunpoint. WPVI reported that Janiya Henry, 17, and Christian Coffield, 17, were found dead in Coffield’s mother’s Wilmington home after neighbors claimed they heard about …
A New York court viewed surveillance footage which apparently showed a jailed Rod Covlin demonstrating a chokehold on another inmate before he was to stand trial for his wife’s strangulation death. The footage was reportedly shot in November at the Brooklyn Detention Center’s law library. According to the New York Daily News, prosecutors accused Covlin of bragging …
A New York jury heard a secret recording where an accused murderer’s parents are apparently heard evicting him from their home and chastising him for stealing money from his two children’s college funds. According to the Daily Mail, Rod Covlin had his then-girlfriend, Debra Oles, covertly record the heated 2012 exchange between him and his parents. In …
Police in Texas said a suspect remains at large after he shot a family’s dog in front of Texas home on Thursday—a crime they said was random and unprovoked. People magazine reported that the man approached two boys, ages 5 and 7, in front of their Dallas apartment as they took out the trash. He reportedly …
A Colorado boy will possibly spend life in prison after admitting to fatally beating a 10-year-old girl with a metal item and leaving her body in a drainage ditch. Tried as an adult, Aidan Zellmer, now 17, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. He’s …
A Texas mother died Sunday night after the car she was driving in was struck by a large rock thrown from an overpass in Temple. Keila Ruby Flores, 33, was the front seat passenger in a vehicle traveling northbound on I-35 between exits 303 and 305 when a rock broke through the windshield, killing her. …
An Alabama woman who was reported missing last week was reportedly found dead Sunday near train tracks. WABM reported that Crystal Vasquez, 22, was found dead in Bessmer following a six-hour search. Her brother told the station that Vasquez had been reported missing and her family hadn’t been seen in more than a week. How do …
Legal experts said a botched criminal investigation might result in an acquittal for a New York man on trial for killing his estranged wife in 2009. Shele Danishefsky’s 9-year-old daughter reportedly found her mother face-down in a bathtub at their New York City apartment on New Year’s Eve. The girl alerted her father, Rod Covlin, …
Employees of a missing Texas assisted-living business owner says the woman had a tumultuous—and possibly violent—relationship with her Air Force major husband, who remains jailed in connection with her disappearance. Andreen McDonald, 29, was reported missing last Friday, and her husband, Andre McDonald, 40, was arrested for allegedly tearing up a receipt that showed he bought …
HBO has provided a teaser for its upcoming documentary about the suicide-by-text case that continues to grab international headlines. Michelle Carter, 22, was sentenced to 17 months for the 2014 death of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, 18. Carter was 17 at the time when she texted Roy to “get back in” his truck after he …
