A Long Island man has been charged with the death of his 63-year-old mother, who was found dead in the woods in Manorville earlier this month. Kathleen Harrison Trent was reported missing by another son on January 29 and found dead two weeks later, six miles from her home, News 12 reports. Curtis Trent Jr., …
Investigators in North Carolina have found the mother of a newborn girl found dead in a landfill in 1979. Thanks to the use of genetic genealogy, Cathy McKee, 69, has been charged with concealing the birth of a child, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said. The baby’s body was found in a trash …
Two Illinois daycare employees were arrested this week on multiple battery charges stemming from incidents that occurred last November involving children in their care. The Des Plaines Police Department said that Jessica Murillo, 36, and Izabella Thompson, 23, were charged on Monday with the offenses following an investigation that also involved the state Department of …
Police in Arizona this week arrested a 25-year-old man on child abuse charges after his girlfriend caught him on camera hitting her toddler in the head. Bullhead City Police said that Ora Ray Carson II has been charged with child abuse and aggravated assault. The mother told investigators that she had Carson had been in …
A Long Island woman arrested earlier this month for the death of her newborn baby girl 33 years ago allegedly confessed to killing the child and abandoning her body in a bag along a roadside. A New York Department of Transportation employee found the infant on the shoulder of Route 25 in Calverton on September …
A Chicago woman has been charged with carjacking an UberEats driver, who was struck and killed by his own vehicle as it fled the scene. Montoya Perry, 33, is charged with murder and vehicular hijacking, WLS reports. Police said that Perry “participated in taking a vehicle” from 28-year-old Daniel Figueroa at around midnight on Monday, …
A Sikh man was found dead in Napa County on Friday, days after he was kidnapped from the temple in the Central Valley where he had been the head cook for 23 years. Avtar Singh, 57, was reported missing on February 17 from Gurdwara Gur Nanak Parkash in Tracy, the Los Angeles Times reported. Singh’s …
An elderly Florida couple was found shot to death Tuesday in their condominium in Fort Pierce, and police say their 55-year-old son is a person of interest. The son was later arrested in Indian River County, north of Fort Pierce, on charges of fleeing from police, WPBF said. He has not been charged with his …
A California woman is behind bars in Arizona after she allegedly kidnapped a 2-year-old girl she believed was her “long lost child.” Marina Noriega, 23, has been charged with custodial interference in the case that prompted an Amber Alert over the weekend, KTVK reported. Police were called to a home in Avondale, where the toddler’s …
The FBI arrested an 18-year-old Pennsylvania man in a hotel room in California, where he’d lured a 13-year-old girl for sex — and suicide. Matthew Edward Pysher has been charged with traveling with intent to engage in illicitly sexual conduct, the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said. “The facts charged in …
West Virginia police went searching for a man believed to have shot his father to death over the weekend, only to find him already in jail after he took off all his clothes at a casino and confronted officers working security. According to a criminal complaint, Thomas Lawson Sr. left his home about 2 p.m. …
A court document file in a separate case reveals that the stepbrother of Anna Kepner has been charged with her murder along with a second charge that was redacted from the released document. According to WESH, the document was filed on Friday by the stepbrother’s biological father. Kepner’s father, Chris Kepner, said that the 16-year-old …
