Newly released transcripts of text messages between the surviving roommates of the 2022 University of Idaho murders and their 911 call reveal the frantic chaos of that night as the two women gradually understand what has happened. The documents identify Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke by their initials, revealing Mortensen’s initial text to Kaylee Goncalves, …
An Indiana woman has been charged with drowning her cousin’s 4-year-old daughter while babysitting more than a year ago. Nakia Martin, 39, was arrested in December and extradited to Texas, where the drowning took place on September 8, 2023, WISH reported. Courtney Fischer, Harris County District Attorney’s Office chief of communications, said told the station …
A New York grand jury this week indicted seven people for the torture-murder of a Minnesota trans man and for the first time revealed that one of the perpetrators of Sam Nordquist’s gruesome death forced two children to participate. But prosecutors still declined to seek hate crime charges for the defendants, saying now that Nordquist’s …
A Wisconsin judge declined Thursday to block the conditional release of a woman who was 12 when she stabbed a classmate to appease the fictional character Slender Man in 2014. Judge Michael Bohren ruled in January that Morgan Geyser, now 22, could be released, but prosecutors tried last week to block her release, saying her …
An Illinois couple has been charged with beating an 11-year-old boy because he didn’t clean the bathroom the way they wanted. Loves Park Police said Alexandria Thompson, 30, and Branden Crane, 35, were arrested for a December 29, 2024, incident after a weeks-long investigation, WTVO reported. Police were called about that incident on January 1, …
A Michigan woman was convicted this week of driving drunk into a birthday party at a Monroe boat club last year, killing two children and injuring a dozen other people. The jury deliberated less than two hours after a four-day trial before returning guilty verdicts for Marshella Chidester on all counts, including two counts of …
A Colorado daycare employee who was fired last fall when allegations of abuse surfaced has now been arrested on 51 misdemeanor child abuse charges. The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said “somebody” reported an instance of abuse on September 5. A substitute teacher’s aide said that 32-year-old Brandon Vigil “seemed irritated and in a bad mood …
California police over the weekend arrested a 22-year-old mother on abuse charges after she allegedly beat her 11-month-old baby. Shasta County sheriff’s deputies said they arrived on the scene Sunday morning in time to see Aleesha Ann Allen putting the baby into a vehicle and “noticed facial injuries that ppeared to be deliberately inflicted and …
A Missouri mother was charged this week in the death of a her 1-year-old child who “suffered from severe malnutrition and neglect.” An arrest warrant filed in Cape Giradeau County says that Alyssa N. Wehmeyer, 21, didn’t feed her baby “for approximately 43 hours,” causing the infant serious injury and ultimately death. Wehmeyer was charged …
A 24-year-old Tennessee man has been charged wth killing his mother at the home they shared in Unionville. Bedford County deputies said they were called to the scene on Monday for a welfare check, but didn’t say who called them, and “made contact” with Curtis Colten Edwards. “Further investigation led to the discovery of the …
A New Hampshire police officer has been arrested after he allegedly uploaded graphic videos to an app showing children as young as 7 being raped by adults. John Giarrusso III, 48, who lives in Massachusetts but works for the Seabrook, New Hampshire, Police Department, was charged with possession of child sexual abuse images, dissemination of …
Prosecutors have filed charges in the deaths of three Kansas City Chiefs fans who died after taking drugs at the home of a friend where they’d gone to watch a game more than a year ago. Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said that Jordan Willis, who hosted the game watch party, and Ivory Carson have …
