A former Texas high school teacher who had an illicit, sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student was sentenced Thursday to 120 days behind bars. According to The Dallas Morning News, ex-Plano Senior High School algebra teacher Alaina Ferguson, 25, pleaded guilty to improper relationship between a teacher and a student and indecency with a child by …
Police in North Carolina said they’ve arrested a man in connection with a series of six unsolved rapes committed more than a decade ago. According to a statement issued to ABC News, Darold Wayne Bowden, 43, is believed to have tortured and raped five women and one child between March 2006 and January 2008. The …
A New York man who was convicted of killing a suspected child rapist recently had his 2016 first-degree manslaughter conviction overturned and was granted a new trial. The Times Herald-Record reported that David Carlson was found guilty of the 2013 fatal shooting of Norris Acosta-Sanchez. Acosta-Sanchez, 35, (pictured right) was wanted in Rockland County on second-degree rape charges …
A Michigan mother said a 911 dispatcher refused to send police to her grandparents’ home after she accidentally locked her 2-month-old daughter in her car. CBS News reported that Waterford police have apologized for last Saturday’s incident involving Lacey Guyton and her infant daughter, Raina. Temperatures reportedly reached 84 degrees on the day Raina became trapped …
An Indiana father is facing criminal charges for allegedly being on drugs when his 2- and 4-year-old sons drowned in the Kankakee River Tuesday night. WGN reported that police believe Eric Patillo, 34, was on drugs and didn’t notice his two sons, Evan Patillo, 2, and Levi Patillo, 4, becoming overcome by the waters. Two fishers who were …
A search for two bodies in South Carolina has ended following a tip that incarcerated serial killer Todd Kohlhepp told someone that he buried additional victims on the side of the highway. GoUpstate.com reported that Spartanburg County deputies concluded their six-hour search of a wooded area off Sumner Road near Interstate 26 at 2:30 p.m. on …
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 …
