A 28-year-old Kansas mother has been charged with murder after she led a deputy on a high speed chase late Sunday afternoon and crashed, killing her 17-month-old child. Maria Papalas crashed into a wall at about 5:30 p.m. but fled when an Atchison County deputy pulled up behind behind her and got out to speak …
A Maryland elementary school teacher will remain in jail on charges that he sexually abused a 9-year-old girl after his attorney waived a bond hearing and investigators found photos and videos of other children being abused at his home. Mark Cobb, 44, is accused of engaging in a year-old online relationship with the student, WTTG …
A Utah couple is in jail after police found their 13-year-old son locked in an alcove under the stairs in their home, and they say they’d do it again because they’re nothing wrong with it. Travis Peterson, 49, and Melissa Gray, 42, were arrested Tueday and charged with aggravated child abuse, KSTU reported. Gray, the …
A Maryland couple was found shot to death in their bed Sunday morning amid 42 spent shell casings in what authorities called “a crime of rage and anger.” The children of 33-year-old Crimea Baker, all under the age of 13, were home at the time of the shooting and hid for hours, according to Frederick …
A Massachusetts man who disappeared from his South Carolina vacation rental and was found dead 10 days later died by suicide, officials said. Beaufort County Coroner David Ott said Tuesday that Stanley Kotowski, 60, died by asphyxiation from hanging himself, the Island Packet reported. Kotowski’s body was found Monday beneath another home four houses down …
Kouri Richins, the Utah grief book author accused of killing her husband with a fentanyl-laced drink, will finally go on trial next April. Judge Richard Mrazik ruled Tuesday, after a two-day preliminary hearing, there was enough evidence to try the case and set a start date for April 28, KTVX reported. The trial is expected …
The family of a Boston police officer has filed a wrongful death suit against the woman accused of killing him and two bars where the couple was drinking prior to his death. The suit names Karen Read, 44, and the bars C.F. McCarthy’s and Waterfall Bar & Grille in the the death of John O’Keefe, …
An investigation is under way in Houston after a Rice University junior waws found dead in her dorm room Monday afternoon. Authorities made entry into Andrew Rodriguez Avila’s dorm room after a family member contacted the school, saying they hadn’t heard from her and asking for a welfare check. Avila was from Maryland, KTRK reported. …
A federal grand jury last week indicted two Nevada men for damaging ancient rock formations at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in April. Accoring to the indictment, Wyatt Clifford Fain, 37, and Payden David Guy Cosper, 31, pushed large chunks off rock formations millions of years old off the edge of a cliff on …
Police in Maine say they have arrested four juvenile — one of them 12 years old — and an adult in connection with an incident earlier this month in which a 13-year-old boy was assaulted, held prisoner in a camper, and had property stolen from him. The victim and other witnesses told the Wilton Police …
An Alabama sting operation swooped up 11 men, including an Alabama state trooper, in an operation late last week targeting men who were soliciting children for sex Ryan Christian Rhodes, 26, reportedly resisted arrest by Montgomery County deputies, Assistant Chief Deputy Wesley Richerson told WSFA. “During the arrest, I was advised by our staff that …
A body was found Monday underneath a home at a resort on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island, and investigators believe it is a Massachusetts man who disappeared from his vacation rental 10 days ago. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said it got a call at about 11:30 a.m. for “suspicious activity” and found the body …
