A Florida woman who shot and killed her neighbor in a long-running dispute over children playing was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison. Susan Lorincz told the court she was afraid and “never intended to kill anyone” when she fired a single shot through her closed door and killed Ajike “AJ” Owens, a …
A Kentucky mother sentenced last week to to life in prison for the shooting deaths of her two young children told deputies after the murders that she loves her children but video games and YouTube had “mess[ed]their minds up.” Tiffanie Lucas pleaded guilty to killing Maurice Baker Jr., 6, and Jayden Howard, 9, in October …
A 19-year-old Missouri man abducted from his home in Independence on Saturday was found shot to death in a car in Kansas City a day later. Preston Bell was seen being forced into a car at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, and his family was unable to reach him afterward, according to Independence Police, who issued …
Ryan Borgwardt displayed his new apartment somewhere in Europe in a 24 second video in which he declares he is “safe, secure, no problem” after faking his death in Wisconsin and fleeing the country in an elaborate plot that was apparently months in the making.
The new judge overseeing the murder trial of Bryan Kohberger dinged his attorneys on Thursday in a ruling ordering them to resubmit a hearing request with more detail and less extraneous documentation. The new ruling came just days after Judge Steven Hippler denied 12 motions filed by Kohberger’s defense to bar the death penalty from …
An Arizona judge ordered a new competency hearing for convicted killed Lori Vallow Daybell last week after she refused to attend a hearing on the issue the week before. Vallow Daybell, convicted in the deaths of two of her children and her husband’s first wife, is in Arizona to stand trial on conspiracy charges in …
A Missouri grand jury on Thursday indicted a Tennessee man on multiple charges, including rape and incest. Jackson County court documents say that Justin L. Brown, 36, now faces charges of rape, statutory rape, incest, and domestic assault for crimes that took place between June 1, 2023, and November 30, 2023, when the victim was …
A 12-year-old Florida girl has been charged with threatening to kill another girl during an argument over a boy. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said the victim’s older sister reported the threats, saying her younger sibling “had been having issues with other juvenile siblings.” The sheriff’s office said the suspect, the victim, and a third …
An elementary school assistant principal was arrested on Friday and charged with molesting eight children at a school in Santa Paula, California. David Lane Braff Jr., 42, faces 17 counts of lewd acts upon a child under 14 and is scheduled for arraignment on Monday, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced. He also faces …
Police have filed charges against two members of a Dartmouth College fraternity after another of their members was found dead in the Connecticut River following a party this summer. Won Jang, a 20-year-old member of the Beta Alpha Omega fraternity from Delaware, had been attending a party hosted by members of the Alpha Phi sorority …
Colorado prosecutors filed new charges against a dentist charged with poisoning his wife on Friday, a day after his trial was delayed when his attorney abruptly withdrew from the case. Prosecutors said on Friday they had filed to add two solicition charges against James Craig, one solicition to commit first degree murder and the other …
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 …
