The teen embroiled in the middle of an investigation into his stepsister’s death on board a Carnival cruise ship was briefly hospitalized after the cruise for an undisclosed reason. The information was disclosed Thursday at a custody hearing involving the 16-year-old boy’s mother, Shauntel Kepner, and her ex-husband, Thomas Hudson, over custody of two of …
A 24-year-old Ohio man was arrested in Canada after his parents were found dead in their home on Wednesday. Maxwell L. Anatra is already back in the United States, behind bars in Michigan while he awaits extradition back to Ohio, Crawford County Now reports. The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio was called for a …
A Texas man tracked his girlfriend to a Dallas Walmart on Wednesday and shot her and a bystander before killing himself. WFAA reported that both victims were not critically hurt, but an off-duty officer found the shooter in his car, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident took place just before 3:30 p.m. when …
A Connecticut man was charged on Saturday with the death of his father, and it’s not the first time he’s been accused of violent crimes. Joshua Popielarczyk’s arrest warrant was sealed for two weeks, so details of the murder of 62-year-old David Popielarczyk are unavailable, CT Insider reported. Police did say the the elder man …
An Alabama elementary school teacher was arrested this week and charged with willful abuse of a child under 18 after a video went viral showing her allegedly beating a boy with a belt more than 20 times. Cottage Hill Christian Academy said the boy was Nicole Staples’ son and the incident took place at her …
Federal authorities stepped in on Wednesday and charged a man who set a woman on fire on a Chicago transit train with terrorism. The federal charge against 50-year-old Lawrence Reed carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, The Associated Press said. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the 26-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition after …
Investigators this week followed up on a lead in the four-year-old case of Summer Wells, the Tennessee girl who vanished from her Hawkins County home when she was 5 years old. A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokesperson told WJHL that its agents and detectives were at a rural location about 10 miles from the girl’s …
A 26-year-old woman is in critical condition after a man set her on fire in the middle of an argument on a Chicago transit train Monday night. The incident took place just before 9:30 p.m. on the downtown loop of the Chicago Transit Authority’s blue line, WBBM reported. A person of interest is in custody, …
The White House intervened in a federal investigation of self-described misogynist and accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate and his brother when they visited Florida earlier this year after restrictions on their travel were lifted. Customs and Border Patrol agents seized the electronic devices of Andrew and Tristan Tate when they arrived by private plane in …
A step-sibling may be facing criminal charges in connection with the death of an 18-year-old Florida cheerleader on board a Carnival cruise ship earlier this month. The twist in the investigation into the death of Anna Kepner comes in a family court filing from Kepner’s stepmother, Shauntel Hudson, requesting a delay in a custody hearing, …
A source with the Los Angeles Police Department says that singer D4vd has been identified as a suspect in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas. KNBC reports that the source, “with direct knowledge of the investigation,” says that the Houston-born artist has not been cooperative with the investigation into the teen’s death. Rivas’s “severely decomposed” …
An Arizona teen broke into hs ex-gifrlfriend’s home and shot her to death in her bed then went after the girl’s mother. Emilio Rivera, 18, was charged Friday with first degree murder in the the death of 17-year-old Rhiana Kemplin a week earlier, KSAZ reported. Court documents say after killing Kemplin, Rivera tried to shoot …
