A Philadelphia judge ruled Friday that a lawsuit can go forward against several city officials over the handling of the death of Ellen Greenburg, a 27-year-old teacher whose death was ruled a suicide despite being found with 20 stab wounds. The judge dismissed the lawsuit for one defendant — a police supervisor who was a …
A former Michigan youth pastor and music director charged with more than 30 counts of sexually abusing children had his $3 million bond denied after prosecutors told the judge that he had called one of his victims eight times after the allegations surfaced last year. Zachary Joseph Radcliff told the boy to “keep his f****** …
Police have identified the woman and two children found stabbed to death in a Jersey City apartment in a domestic violence incident uncovered by the building’s superintendent. Luis Turcos told The New York Post that he heard a commotion in the basement apartment and went to investigate, but found Napoleon Romero-Anduray, 31, with a knife. …
Seattle police are investigating after a 14-year-old boy was found unresponsivle with multiple injuries following a “domestic violence altercation” on Thursday. The boy was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition, police said, but he died at the hospital. The teen’s 29-year-old mother was arrested for investigation of homicide. Police said “the homicide and …
An Alabama woman who pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot had her sentence reduced by a federal judge after the intervention of the target of the plot. Rebecca Elizabeth Murphy, 36, pleaded guilty in US District Court in September ro conspiracy to commit murder for hire and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, …
Charges were dropped this week against an Indiana couple accused of killing their two children and burning their bodies in a firepit, but prosecutors vow to refile the charges. A judge on Wednesday approved the prosecutors’ motion to drop the charges without prejudice, meaning they can be filed again. But an attorney for Steven Valle …
A California man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping their toddler daughters has been captured and the girls found safe. Kings County Sheriff David Robinson said Thursday afternoon that FBI agents tracked Jonathan Maldonado-Cruz, using both his cell phone and the victim’s, to Mexico and negotiated his surrender at the San Ysidro border crossing. …
A Georgia grand jury has indicted a Coweta County mom for killing her infant son when she fell asleep while warming him with an electric hair dryer in November 2023. Morgan Alyson Creel, 32, has been charged with second-degree murder and cruelty to children, WAGA reported. Deputies were called to Creel’s home on November 9, …
A Missouri man has been charged with killing his older brother with a hatchet after police found the dead man with the weapon still buried in his head. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Timothy Fox, 58, with first degree murder and armed criminal action, The Webster-Kirkwood Times reported. He’s accused of killing …
An Illinois man has been charged with hiring two men to gun down his estranged wife’s girlfriend last month in what prosecutors called “a personal grievance” killing. Sammy Schafer Jr., 36, was charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of soliciation of murder in the death of 32-year-old Portia Rowland on …
A woman and two young children were stabbed to death in New Jersey early Thursday morning. Jersey City Police took a suspect, who had attempted to stab himself, into custody, WABC reported. It’s not clear who called police to the basement apartment at around 1 a.m., but they found the woman, a 5-year-old, and a …
Members of the US figure skating team and their families, as well as Russian-born former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American Airlines jet that collided with a US Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport Wednesday night. Shishkova and Naumov, who were married, had lived in the United States since the …
