The family of slain Iowa student Mollie Tibbets released a statement Wednesday, the same day the man accused of the University of Iowa student’s murder made his first court appearance. According to KWWL, the family released the following statement through the Iowa Department of Public Safety: “Our hearts are broken. On behalf of Mollie’s entire family, …
Police in Virginia are investigating after a 3-year-old boy was reportedly found dead inside a dryer at his father’s home a day after his birthday. Chet Lloyd told The Virginian Pilot that he awoke early evening on August 7 to find that his son, Brantley Lloyd, had climbed out of his crib and into a clothes …
A Texas sheriff’s deputy who has been jailed since June for allegedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl was found dead in his jail cell Monday of an apparent suicide. According to The New York Times, former Bexar County Deputy Jose S. Nunez, 37, was found dead in his cell at Karnes County Correctional Center at 5:45 …
A Texas father is facing capital murder charges for allegedly fatally stabbing his 16-month-old son Sunday afternoon in his apartment’s courtyard. According to The Dallas Morning News, neighbors watched in horror as a father slammed his son on the sidewalk and repeatedly stabbed him. The barbaric attack only stopped after a neighbor reportedly fired a …
A recent inquiry revealed that a nurse at a U.K. mental health hospital who killed herself five months earlier did so following relentless bullying from her colleagues. According to the BBC, a court learned that coworkers’ at Swansea’s Cefn Coed Hospital made Rhian Collins’s life “very difficult.” So much so, that the mother-of-two reportedly hanged herself …
A surrogate mother in California who became pregnant with twins and learned that one of the babies was her biological son is suing, alleging that the surrogacy agency wanted her to pay them to get her son back. According to the Daily Mail, Omega Family Global matched Jessica Allen, 31, with a childless Chinese couple (called the Lius …
Florida officials are hopeful that DNA technology will finally allow them to identify the infant girl who was found floating facedown in a Gainesville pond on August 21, 2003. Per The Gainesville Sun, the Baby Jane Doe was so decomposed that authorities initially had difficulty determining her race. It was through DNA testing that they ascertained that she …
John Hinckley Jr.—the man who attempted to kill sitting President Ronald Reagan in 1981—will undergo a psychological evaluation which could determine whether he’ll be given unconditional freedom after nearly four decades. Reuters reported that psychologist Mitchell Hugonnet will evaluate Hinckley, 63, at the request of the U.S. District Court. Hugonnet’s findings will influence the court in deciding …
A Minnesota teen who took to social media Saturday to celebrate that he “made it” to his 17th birthday was reportedly shot and killed a mere hour after making the post. Chandra D. Payne, 38, told the St. Louis Dispatch that her son, Armond Latimore, asked her to get ice cream to go with his birthday cake. She …
A family is rejecting Chicago police and the medical examiner’s finding that a 15-year-old boy died from a self-inflicted gunshot last week during an on-foot chase with officers. Per the Chicago Sun-Times, Steven Rosenthal’s relatives marched with activists in protest on Sunday after the Cook County medical examiner’s office backed law enforcement’s account, ruling Rosenthal’s death a …
Police in New York are investigating after a driver in Brooklyn allegedly pistol-whipped and tried to rape a woman who got into his vehicle, mistakenly thinking it was her livery car. According to the New York Daily News, the 39-year-old woman hopped into the back seat of a car parked in front of El Gran Mar …
The desperate dad is reportedly taking a ‘break’ at the request of law enforcement
