Fort Worth police got an anonymous phone call early Friday morning that led them to a home where they found a man covered in blood carrying a Bible and a woman also covered in blood and beaten to death with trauma to her face and upper body. The man, identified as 23-year-old Alexander Taylor Valdez, …
A 19-year-old Washington state woman has been charged with the attempted murder of her parents in an argument at their home on Sunday. Police reports say an officer was called to the Vancouver home, where McKenzy Hafer lived with her parents and brother, just after 5:30 p.m. after her mother, Erin Hetzler, called 911 and …
An Arizona jury has returned a verdict of guilty for Lori Vallow Daybell in her trial for conspiracy to kill her fourth husband in 2019 — the incident that began a series of deaths and attempted murders that saw her and her fifth husband ultimately convicted of killing two of her children and his first …
A West Virginia couple has been charged with first degree murder in the death of their 4-month-old baby last year from apparent alcohol poisoning. The arrests came last week after the medical examiner determined the little girl had an ethanol reading of 3.210 in her liver tissue, an amount that would be fatal to an …
A Louisiana woman and her boyfriend have been charged in connection with the death of her quadriplegic 7-year-old son who died after they left him home alone for hours. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office charged Karla Padilla Pavon, 22, and Hovet Vela Espinoza, 48, with negligent homicide, NOLA.com reported. The boy, Cristian Rodriguez Padilla, had …
Lori Vallow Daybell rested her case last week without calling any witnesses or presenting any evidence to support her contention that she did not conspire with her brother to kill her fourth husband in 2019. Daybell, who opted to represent herself in the Arizona trial after being convicted in Idaho of the murders of two …
Police in Washington, D.C., are looking for a 3-year-old girl believed to have been abducted by her non-custodial father from a supervised visitation at the city’s courthouse on Thursday. Metropolitan Police describes Brooklyn Tucker as 3 feet tall and 40 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black and …
A Louisiana high school teacher was arrested late Thursday and charged with indecent behavior with a juvenile. Evan Michael Sevin-Chauvin was listed as the cross country coach at Airline High School as well as a teacher, KSLA reported. The Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office did not provide any details about the allegations, but the parish school …
The adult son of the founders and pastors of an Ohio megachurch has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing at least one young child. Gary Thomas Keesee Jr., 36, was arrested Friday at his home in Johnstown and charged with two counts of rape, the Licking County Sheriff’s Office said. The case will be …
An Alabama man accused of gunning down a 28-year-old mother, her 5-year-old son, and her boyfriend last July as they sat in her car appeared in court Thursday and was ordered bound over to a grand jury. Prosecutors told the Jefferson County Court that Arkia “Kia” Berry sent out a text as she was dying …
A New Orleans police officer accused of stalking appeared in court Thursday and was ordered held without bond pdning another court hearing on Monday. Kaja Rhea faces more than 30 counts, including stalking, obscene phone calls, and violating a protective order, WDSU reported. The police department said that Rhea had been reassigned to administrative duties …
A Long Island village code enforcement officer was arrested Wednesday after investigators determined that he illegally pulled a woman over and conducted field sobriety tests before telling her he would drive her home instead of arresting her. Patchogue code enforcement officers aren’t allowed to conduct traffic stops or DWI tests, but William Dymond nevertheless handcuffed …
