A former California high school teacher was charged last week with sex crimes against a minor, three years after he was found in the bedroom of a 16-year-old student. Enochs High School Band teacher Patrick Mester was fired in March 2021 after he was arrested for inappropriate communication with the then-16-year-old student. Seven months later, …
Investigators in a North Georgia mountain community said Thursday they have made three more arrests in last month’s murder of a 19-year-old woman — bringing the total number of arrests to seven. The Gilmer County Sheriff’s Office said Aspen Leigh Cagle, 15; Madison Alina Grace Perez, 19; and Elizabeth “Rylie” Sue Henson, 17, have been …
A teacher at a Texas daycare center has been arrested and charged with severely injuring a 3-month-old child in a baby bouncer, causing brain and retinal damage. Jasmine Collum, 24, is charged with injury to a child and is being held at the Bell County Jail on a $125,000 bond, KCEN reported. The Temple Police …
A former US soldier was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison for the murder of a 19-year-old, pregnant fellow soldier more than 20 years ago on a US base in Germany. Shannon L. Wilkerson, 44, was found guilty in May of second degree murder in the death of Amanda Gonzales, according to the US …
The mother of a six-month-old baby found covered by more than 50 rat bites last year won’t spend any further time in jail. Angel Schonabaum, who initially pleaded not guilty to neglect charges, reversed course just before her trial was to begin last month and pleaded guilty, the Evansville Courier & Press reported. At a …
A 36-year-old Florida woman has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly instructed her 10-year-old daughter over a gaming platform to kill a baby. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office says that Tara Alexis Sykes told the child to drown a 2-month-old boy in the bathtub, burn the infant with scalding water, and drop the …
The parents of a woman accused of killing her National Guardsman husband have been arrested on obstruction of justice charges. Thomas Ray Gledhill, 74, and Rosalie Christianson Gledhill, were arrested on Thursday and face four obstruction counts, KTVX reported. Police say they helped Jennifer Gledhill, 41, clean her home after the alleged murder of Matthew …
While the brother called 911 to blame the mass murder on his younger brother, the sister escaped and called 911 herself – to finger the real killer.
A Massachusetts man charged in connectino with the death of his 4-year-old daughter last week was ordered held without bail on Wednesday after a judge deemed him too dangerous to release. Francisco Ortiz, 34, called 911 on October 15 and told officers his daughter had fallen from a kitchen table. The responding officer found the …
A Texas man has been arrested and charged with capital murder for a shooting in May that killed a 4-year-old girl and injured four other members of her family, including two other children. Israel Perales, 20, has also been charged with aggravated assault-mass shooting, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and two counts of injury …
A “person of interest” has been taken into custody in the case of a Army sergeant who was found dead earlier this week after being reported missing. Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri said the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division was investigating the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque but provided no information about the person of interest. …
The sister of a Kentucky woman charged with killing and dismembering their mother earlier his month has accused the siblings’ brother of orchestrating the murder. Telby Fields, 31, filed for a protection order against her brother, 42-year-old Truitt Fields, of threatening to kill her and others, the Lexington Herald Leader reported. “When my body is …
