A mother found dead Wednesday in a trash compactor at her luxury Manhattan apartment building apparently appeared drunk before she made the 27-story descent. On Tuesday afternoon, surveillance cameras at the Zeckendorf Towers caught Lara Prychodko, 48, stumbling out of an elevator stopped on the 27th floor. Thirty minutes later, Prychodko is believed to have slid down a …
A family was committed to commemorating a murdered New Orleans teen at his wake—so much so, that they reportedly propped him up in front of a television screen and posed him to play video games. WGNO reported that Renard Matthews, 18, was laid to rest Tuesday in a traditional jazz funeral in his Upper Ninth Ward …
A Florida man was caught on tape running from his elderly neighbor who was allegedly trying to run him over with his tractor during a dispute. According to WJXT, Scott Lynch told deputies that a disagreement over property led Howard Lamar Morris to hop onto his tractor and drive on Lynch’s property to mow him over. Lynch can …
Police have arrested the mother of two Oregon brothers who allegedly lured a 16-year-old boy to the woods and beat him to death. The Olympian reports that Kindra Rose Adamson, 43, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with first-degree rendering criminal assistance. In a statement, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said her arrest was based …
North Carolina authorities are asking for the public’s help in identifying two children whose remains were found in Orange County in the ’90s. In 1998, a boy was found under brush near a billboard sign near the westbound lanes of Interstate 85 and Interstate 40. He’s believed to have been dead for several months before he was …
A California man was caught on video allegedly using his 18-month-old son as a human weapon against his girlfriend during an argument. According to the Press-Enterprise, Riverside police said the child suffered cuts, bruises, and an ear injury as a result of a scuffle that was later posted to Facebook. The video led police to …
Police in Georgia have released surveillance footage showing a possible suspect in last month’s unexplained murder of a 71-year-old woman. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Sandy Springs police also increased the reward from $25,000 to $100,000—the highest in the city’s history—for information regarding the June 27 stabbing death of Kay Thomasson. Thomasson died in her home …
Police in Delaware are investigating after a family of five was found dead inside their Prices Corner home in an apparent murder-suicide. WPVI reports that Matthew Edwards, 42, wife Julie Burton Edwards, 41, and their children, Jacob, 6, Brinley, 4, and Paxton, 3, were found shot to death Monday night on the home’s second floor. Police …
An Oregon couple who looked towards faith healing as their premature newborn daughter died from breathing complications will spend the next six years in prison, a judge ordered on Monday. Sarah Elaine Mitchell, 25, and Travis Lee Mitchell, 22, members of Followers of Christ Church, gave birth to twin girls in March 2017 with others from the …
A California man was arrested after a toddler he lived with reportedly used his pistol to fatally shoot himself. The Fresno Bee reports that Jace Alexander, 2, was found at his Fresno home with a gunshot wound to the head and was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The child’s father, Jonathan Alexander, was working …
Neighbors claimed the 2-year-old had been left in the car a week prior to the deadly incident
Authorities charged a Michigan man with first-degree child abuse in connection with last week’s death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old daughter. According to 9&10 News, De’Marco McCovery, 22, brought the child to Otsego Memorial Hospital Thursday, where she was ultimately pronounced dead. Hospital staff determined the child’s death was suspicious and called police. McCovery was arrested that night. Michigan …
