A Virginia couple charged in the beating death of the woman’s young disabled daughter forced the girl to stand up for hours and fed her only bread and water in the days leading up to her death, a prosecutor said. Latoya Smith, 33, and Demont James Harris, 43, were denied bond as they face murder and …
A former child psychologist who admitted to having more than 600 videos and pictures depicting child pornography was sentenced Friday to 6-and-a-half years behind bars in a California court. According to the Berkley Patch, prosecutors said Contra Costa child psychologist Kenneth Allen Breslin, 69, was in possession of illicit images that depicted “prepubescent children being subjected to …
Police said four people found dead Monday in a Tennessee home were victims of a murder-suicide. According to WZTV, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department said Sean Ganey shot his wife, Cassidy Ganey, her father, Kenny Adair, and her stepmother, Shelly Lorenz-Adair, before turning the gun on himself at a Murfreesboro home on Memorial Day. The Daily …
An Iowa man is appealing his life sentence months after being found guilty of trying to abduct two young girls by offering them $100 bills. The Des Moines Register reports that Jeff Lee Altmayer, 58, is pushing to have his life sentence overturned. Investigators believe Altmayer targeted at least 19 girls—sexually abusing two of them—in …
The parents of Casey Anthony recently sparred over the events—and warning signs—that led up to the murder trial that gripped a nation. During Monday night’s airing of A&E’s “Casey Anthony’s Parents Speak,” Cindy Anthony said she’s tired of the public only knowing her and husband George as the “the Anthonys who raised Casey, a monster.” The …
A Canadian man has admitted to killing his estranged half-sister on the first day he would be tried for her shocking murder. According to the Terrace Standard, Mathew Pernosky, 33, entered a surprise guilty plea for the March 2013 slaying of Rachel Pernosky, 18. The mother to a then-1-year-old boy vanished from her British Columbia home and …
Police will continue their search Tuesday morning for a missing Sodus, New York,toddler, who vanished almost two weeks earlier. Per WHEC, 173 volunteers combed a farm along Joy Road Monday for 14-month-old Owen Hidalgo-Calderon and will resume their search first thing tomorrow. The Sodus farm is of extreme interest because the missing toddler’s mother, Helena Hidalgo-Calderon, 19, …
A Virginia woman and her fiancé are accused of beating the woman’s 11-year-old daughter so seriously that the child’s stomach split open days before she died. Latoya Smith, 33, and Demont Harris, 43, are charged with second-degree murder for the May 18 slaying of Heaven Watkins, who relatives told WSET had autism and cerebral palsy. …
A Florida agriculture teacher who allegedly drowned two raccoons and an opossum during class earlier this month won’t face criminal charges—as authorities determined the killings weren’t cruel or inhumane. In a four-page “decline to file” letter obtained by the Ocala StarBanner, Assistant State Attorney Toby Hunt explained his controversial decision not to prosecute Forest High School agriculture teacher Dewie Brewton. …
A recorded phone call reportedly caught suspect Terrence Roach admitting to kidnapping Beckerle to get back at the teen’s mother
A 71-year-old Massachusetts woman was found dead Saturday night after reportedly falling into her backyard fire pit. MassLive.com identified the deceased woman as Worchester resident Jacqueline Cardinal. The woman’s daughter, Michelle Gay, told the newspaper that Cardinal was fine 10 minutes before she and her husband came upon the horrifying scene. Fire officials said they believe Cardinal …
Prosecutors announced Friday that they wouldn’t be filing charges against a Texas woman who falsely accused a state trooper of rape. Though Sherita Dixon-Cole, 37, made “blatantly false and malicious allegations,” the Ellis County District Attorney said she won’t face criminal charges as she never made a formal complaint, according to KDFW. “This office shares the outrage …
