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BOLO: Crime Stoppers offer $100K reward, highest in city’s history, after suspect kills ‘loving’ elderly mom, 71

 BOLO: Crime Stoppers offer $100K reward, highest in city’s history, after suspect kills ‘loving’ elderly mom, 71
Unsolved

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 …

Little boy arrives to sleepover to find whole family shot to death: Report
Murder
July 10, 2018

Little boy arrives to sleepover to find whole family shot to death: Report

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 …

DEVELOPING: Mom’s boyfriend charged with child abuse following 1-year-old girl’s death
Child Abuse
July 9, 2018

DEVELOPING: Mom’s boyfriend charged with child abuse following 1-year-old girl’s death

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 …

WATCH LIVE: D.A. in Jessica Chambers murder case responds to accusations of coaching a witness in hearing
Murder
July 9, 2018

WATCH LIVE: D.A. in Jessica Chambers murder case responds to accusations of coaching a witness in hearing

A defense attorney representing the Mississippi man charged in the burning death of Jessica Chambers filed a motion accusing a district attorney of coercing a possible witness to provide false testimony in the 2017 trial that ended with a hung jury. LocalMemphis.com reports that Darla Palmer accused District Attorney John Champion of pressuring Jalen Asir Matthews Caudle …

Mom arrested for allegedly abandoning nonverbal son at busy train station
child endangerment
July 6, 2018

Mom arrested for allegedly abandoning nonverbal son at busy train station

Police have arrested a California mother hours after she reportedly returned to the downtown Los Angeles train station where she allegedly abandoned her 7-year-old son. The Associated Press reported that the unidentified woman was taken into custody Thursday afternoon as she arrived at Union Station. Cafe workers had spotted a woman and the boy eating Wednesday …

YouTube stars die in 100-foot waterfall plunge
Celebrity Justice
July 6, 2018

YouTube stars die in 100-foot waterfall plunge

Three popular travel bloggers died Tuesday after falling over a waterfall in British Columbia and plunging 100 feet to their deaths. According to the BBC, Ryker Gamble, 30, Alexey Lyakh, 30 and Megan Scraper, 29, died at Shannon Falls when Scraper slipped into the water leading Gamble and Lyakh, her longtime partner, to attempt to rescue her. …