Childhood sexual abuse and an obsession with witchcraft might have been part of what led California mother Louise Turpin to starve and torture her 13 children, the jailed woman’s sister claimed in an upcoming tell-all book. In Secrets of Sisters: The Story of Sisters Leading Up To The Turpin Case Arrest, Elizabeth Flores recounted how …
A 20-year-old Louisana woman was charged with second-degree murder for a brawl on a St. Tammany Parish sandbar Saturday that left a man dead. NOLA.com reported that Blaine Manalle is the third person to be charged in connection with the death of Jeffery Howell, 46. Manalle was booked on second-degree murder charges Monday after an …
Prosecutors in Nebraska charged two suspects with the first-degree murder of a young woman whose body was discovered in a remote farming area in December. While it’s still unclear how Sydney Loofe died, the Lincoln Journal Star reported that the last two people to see her alive, Aubrey Trail, 53, and Bailey Boswell, 23, were charged …
The biological mother of a Florida teen who was abducted at birth said she’s cut ties with her daughter for still pursuing a relationship with her kidnapper. Shanara Mobley, 36, told the Daily Mail that daughter Kamiyah, 19, has refused to sever ties with Gloria Williams—the woman who posed as a nurse and abducted her from …
A Pennsylvania man who told reporters that a newly-discovered body was the victim of “some kind of hit” was arrested on murder charges shortly after the body was identified as his mother. Matthew Haverly, 38, appeared baffled as he talked to WNEP about a then-unidentified body discovered across the street from his Bradford County home on …
On late Friday, a Florida judge released 1,700 documents pertaining to last year’s serial killings in Tampa—which included evidence that the suspect watched pornography after carrying out three of the four murders. According to The Tampa Bay Times, recent records stated that data from suspect Howell Donaldson III’s cellphone showed a “significant amount of Internet activity” within …
A fifth-grader in New Hampshire appeared before her school board and provided officials with a first-hand account of the bullying she’s suffered before urging them to take action. During Timberlane Regional School Board meeting last week, Delanie Marcotte, a student at Pollard Elementary School in Plaistow, claimed her parents spoke with school administrators about the bullying but nothing …
A Connecticut man with a history of mental illness reportedly confessed to killing his mother, who was reported missing by her sister days earlier. WFSB reported that the missing persons investigation involving Donna Tucker, 60, turned into a murder investigation Friday afternoon. The woman’s son, Kyle Tucker, 34, gave police a “very detailed confession” that took more …
Chicago residents are demanding answers following the recent disappearances of four local women—including two teens—that some fear could be connected. WGN-TV reported that the four women, Sadaria Davis, 15; Shantieya Smith, 26; Victoria Garrett, 15; and Anna Stanislawczyk, 18, vanished in Chicago’s West Side between March 16 and June 5. The women’s gender and ages …
The woman who abducted a newborn from a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital in July 1998 and went on to raise the girl as her own for 18 years was sentenced to prison on Friday. Gloria Williams, 52, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for a plot that involved her posing as a nurse to steal a …
A 17-year-old Florida boy who allegedly participated in a street race that killed a mother and her child will be charged as an adult. According to KMOV, court documents filed Wednesday revealed that the case involving John Barrineau has been moved from juvenile court to Circuit Court. The Tampa teen has been in a juvenile detention …
The Georgia Composite Medical Board has suspended the license of Dr. Windell Davis Boutte, the dancing dermatologist recently disgraced by allegations of malpractice dating back as far as two years. In an order obtained by WSB-TV, the state board deemed the doctor a “threat to the public health.” The order was handed down Thursday, a day …
