An investigation is underway after an 81-year-old woman’s body was found in two plastic bins inside her Illinois home. According to WLS, officers performing a wellness check on June 10 discovered Thana Muhammad’s body in her basement. Sources told the network that the octogenarian had been “cut in half.” Meanwhile, police said she had sustained “severe …
A Mississippi man is facing criminal charges after police reportedly found him in a cemetery with five underage girls—two of whom were unconscious. Per WLOX, Jordan McClain, 20, had picked up a group of girls from a foster home in Mobile, Alabama, last weekend after meeting a 16-year-old girl on Facebook. Authorities said the five girls …
Rescue crews continued their search Friday for a 6-year-old Indiana boy who reportedly vanished Thursday afternoon while swimming with family. WRTV reported that Brendan Sperry was with his mother, brother, two sisters, and cousin at Flat Rock River in Columbus when he went into deeper water. The boy’s uncle, James Pepper, said the 14-year-old cousin tried …
Orlando police said Thursday that they believe the four children found dead following a 21-hour standoff were fatally shot at the beginning of the hostage situation. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the Orlando Police Department (OPD) suspects that Gary Wayne Lindsey Jr., 35, had killed Irayan Pluth, 11, Lillia Pluth, 10, Aidan Lindsey, 6, and Dove Lindsey, 1, …
A married school counselor in Texas who allegedly had sex with a ninth-grade student nearly a dozen times was arrested after the boy’s mother reportedly caught the pair naked in bed together. Shannon Hathaway, 33, a former school counselor at Harwood Junior High School, turned herself in Thursday on charges of improper relationship between an educator …
A Brooklyn man with a lengthy rap sheet was arrested Thursday after allegedly trying to snatch a 2-year-old boy from a stroller as his mother pushed him across an intersection. WPIX reports that Matthew Waly, 27, approached the 32-year-old mother at Prospect Park at around 9 p.m. and grabbed her stroller. The toddler’s father was nearby at the time …
A Pennsylvania man is facing criminal charges for allegedly snatching a 4-year-old girl from her home in the middle of the night and sexually assaulting her. According to the WPVI, prosecutors said Humberto Guzman-Garcia, 35, knocked on the door of the victim’s Avondale apartment at around 3:30 a.m. on June 10. The girl slightly opened the door, …
An ex-choirmaster accused of violating a teen boy with a foreign object recently lost a bid to remain in the U.K. and avoid extradition to the U.S. Britain-based Roger Giese, 42, reportedly fled California before his 2007 trial for 19 counts of committing lewd acts on a 13-year-old boy. The alleged incidents occurred between 1998 and …
Officials have charged a South Carolina mother who allegedly lied about her infant daughter’s kidnapping hours before she was found dead in a diaper box. Breanna Lewis, 19, has been charged homicide by child abuse in connection with last month’s death of her 11-month-old daughter, Harlee. An arrest warrant obtained by WSOC-TV stated that Breanna had …
A Florida man accused of killing his pregnant wife kept her body for eight days before dumping her into a dumpster in an alley, police alleged. Police said Cassandritz Blanc, 22, unsuccessfully attempted to dismember wife Martine Bernard, 20, after shooting her in the head Fort Lauderdale apartment on June 4. An arrest report said …
A former Texas doctor was arrested Wednesday, months after the woman who he allegedly raped and strangled 30 years earlier died from her injuries. KTVT reported that George Guo, 56, faces capital murder charges for the death of Dr. Katherine Bascone. Prosecutors believe Guo strangled and raped Dr. Bascone in June 1988, when she was 28. The strangulation …
Relatives said a Bronx, New York, mother with a history of drug addiction and mental illness had her three other children taken away before she allegedly killed her 5-month-old son by throwing him into a wall. The New York Daily News reported that officers discovered Raymond Porfil’s lifeless body in his crib on June 4. He …
