A Michigan woman arrested earlier this month and charged with assault with intent to murder apparently attacked her own daughter, throwing the girl headfirst down a flight of stairs, choking her, and slashing her with a knife. Jennifer Vargas was arrested on November 8 after Michigan State Police responded to a call at Vargas’s Traverse …
A non-custodial father in Ohio is refusing to return his toddler daughter to her custodial mother, and police are asking for help locating them. Devon Mason, 23, took 2-year-old Naomie Lynn Mason on November 4, and Bethel Police say the believe the little girl is in danger. Naomie is 2 feet tall and weighs 30 …
A Wisconsin man who faked his death in August and fled to eastern Europe, apparently to be with a woman, has been in contact with authorities but is so far refusing to come back to the United States. Ryan Borgwardt, 44, doesn’t yet face any charges for his elaborate and months-in-the-making scheme to flee his …
A Georgia mother convicted of killing her toddler son and dumping his body in a dumpster in 2022 was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison plus 10 years. Leilani Simon’s attorneys asked the judge to give her a chance at parole, while prosecutors wanted her to go to jail without that possible. After the …
A Missouri woman who was the subject of a reported abduction Wednesday morning in Clayton was found dead in St. Louis. The Clayton Police Department did not mention the abduction, only that the woman was seen “entering a vehicle with a man … under suspicious circumstances” shortly after 7 a.m. Family members, however, told KTVI …
A 14-year-old Georgia girl has been charged with shooting her mother to death at their home in Tifton. Tifton Police said they arrived at the home of 41-year-old Rachel Wagner at about 8 a.m. on Tuesday to tell her that her daughter had been in an accident in Bibb County, WALB reported. They were unable …
A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly held her 14-year-old daughter’s head underwater until she died and attacked witnesses with a hammer when they tried to stop her. Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez said the witnesses — another child and a roommate — called 911, reporting that they saw 35-year-old Kelsie Glover holding …
An Idaho judge on Tuesday denied 12 motions filed by attorneys for accused college killer Bryan Kohberger to dismiss the death penalty from his case. District Judge Steven Hippler listened to oral arguments on the motions during a lengthy hearing on November 7, promising to issued a ruling at a later date. 112024 Memorandum Decision …
A Texas jury awarded nearly $100 million to the family of a man gunned down in his own apartment by a Dallas police officer who thought she was at her own apartment on a different floor. The jury awarded $60 million in punitive damages and $38.6 million in compensatory damages, ruling that Amber Guyger acted …
A Utah judge on Wednesday dismissed a wrongful death suit filed against the Moab Police Department in the 2021 death of Gabby Petito but said an appellate court might have more leeway to pry apart the case’s minutiae. “The existing case law applies governmental immunity and extends the reach of governmental immunity in this kind …
A Minnesota man is accused of bursting into a hunting cabin and gunning down his 62-year-old father as he had dinner with friends and relataives. Kirk Edward Hazlett III, 31, was charged with two counts of second degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and one count of first degree burglary in the death of Kirk …
An autopsy report for a 7-year-old Oklahoma girl who died in August reveals that the girl, who weighed less than 30 pounds at the time of her death, swallowed a baby bottle top, leading to her death. According to the autopsy report, the bottle lid blocked Violet Mitchell’s small intestine, causing a “failure to thrive” …
