A former Florida high school star athlete who stabbed his ex-girlfriend 15 times, leaving her paralized, and slashed her mother as well has been sentenced to life in prison. Spencer Pearson, 20, pleaded guilty to the June 2023 attack on Madison Schemitz and her mother, Jaclyn Roge, in July, the Florida Times Union reported. Pearson’s …
A Virginia sex offender was arrested in Utah this week, accused of playing inappropriate games of “truth or dare” with preteen boys. The victims told police they played truth or dare and another game called the “touch your body challenge” with Robert Paul Walker, which included removal of clothing and performing sexual acts, KUTV reported. …
A California couple was arrested this week after their 10-year-old son was brought to a Moreno Valley hospital “in medical distress” and later died. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office said the boy was brought to the hospital on Thursday by medics, and an initial investigation found “signs of possible neglect and abuse.” Several hours later, …
A California father has been arrested after his 2-year-old child found a loaded, unsecured gun and killed themselves with it. Merced Police said they and medics were called to the scene at about 4 p.m. on Friday and immediately began life-saving measures, but the toddler was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital, KMPH reported. …
A man suspected of opening fire on a car in Hartford, Connecticut earlier this week and killing a 20-year-old woman and her 4-month-old son has been arrested in Puerto Rico and is awaiting extradition. The shooting took place Tuesday afternoon when someone pulled up alongside another vehicle carrying Jessiah Mercado and Messiah Diaz and began …
A Texas couple has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of their 3-year-old daughter on Thursday. The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to the home in rural Donna, Texas, late Thursday afternoon. The toddler was taken to Edinburg Children’s Hospital but pronounced dead about an hour later. The sheriff’s …
A former bodyguard says the rap mogul sacrificed a bird for good luck before he went to court to hear the verdict in his trial for a 1999 nightclub shooting. Combs, now awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, was acquitted on all charges, including weapons possession and bribery, after the bird incident described by …
A judge sentenced a Kentucky mother who shot her young sons in the head last year to life terms in prison after emotional victim impact statements eviscerated her lawyer’s arguments that a “psychotic disorder” led to the murders. Tiffanie Lucas initially pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but changed her plea to guilty last …
A Michigan teenage missing since early this month was found dead on Friday after a 20-day search. The body of Cortez McConer Jr, 16, was found Friday afternoon “in a secluded and heavily wooded area near Rockford,” the Grand Rapids Police Department said. “This is not the outcome we had hoped for,” said Chief Eric …
The full autopsy report has been released for the second of two women brutally killed earlier this year in Oklahoma, their bodies buried in a freezer on a rural property near where they were killed. Veronica Butler was cut 30 times, with a a third of her injuries coming in form of defensive wounds, the …
A Seattle woman who admitted to police that she killed her 67-year-old father in a violent ice axe attack earlier this month pleaded not guilty Thursday in court. Corey Lizette Burke, 33, told police she argued with Timothy Burke on November 5 because he insisted on keeping the lights in their house on and then …
Although police have not said it, it appears a 19-year-old North Carolina man suffering mental health issues shot his mother and girlfriend to death earlier this week before killing himself. Search warrants indicate that police found Erica Holton, 54, and Aminah Guy, 19, dead in the living room of Holton’s home in Cary. Her son, …
