Prosecutor Drops, Refiles Murder Case Against Pamela Hupp, Accused of Killing Her Friend for Insurance Money
Murder
The case inspired an NBC miniseries last year that starred Renee Zellweiger.
Shooting
October 29, 2023
Gunman Opens Fire When He’s Barred Entry to Chicago House Party, 15 Shot
At least 15 people were shot, two of them critically, as a Halloween house party in southwest Chicago came to an end in the early hours Sunday. Police said the gunman fled the scene but was captured nearby and taken into custody, WBBM reported. A handgun was recovered, they said. A witness told WBBM that …
child endangerment
October 29, 2023
Long Island Man Points Gun at 6-Year-Old Retrieving Bag of Candy Mistakenly Left on His Porch
A Long Island man has been charged with menacing and endangering the welfare of a child after he allegedly pointed a gun at a 6-year-old boy retrieving a bag of candy mistakenly left on his doorstep. Manhasset police said the incident happened Saturday evening when a mother tood her daughter, two sons, and a nephew …
Celebrity
October 29, 2023
Matthew Perry, Chandler Bing on ‘Friends,’ Found Dead in His Hot Tub
An autopsy to determine his cause of death may take weeks, but no foul play is suspected.
Murder
October 29, 2023
Woman Found Dead in Basement of Connecticut Home; Police Chief Says It’s ‘Deeply Troubling’
A Connecticut woman reported missing earlier in the day was found dead Saturday afternoon in the basement of a home in Willimantic. The woman’s family contacted police at about 2 p.m. and said she had been missing and unaccounted for since mid-morning. They said they believed she was in Willimantic in eastern Connecticut. Police went …
Mass shooting
October 28, 2023
Maine Massacre: County Sheriff Sent Out Statewide Alert About Robert Card’s Threats Last Month
A Maine county sheriff says he sent an awareness alert to all law enforcement agencies in the state in September after the Army Reserve tipped his department about Robert Card’s threats against his base and fellow soldiers, but deputies were unable to find him. Card, 40, was found dead Friday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, …
Attempted Murder
October 28, 2023
NY Mom Suspected of Munchausen’s By Proxy; Charged With Poisoning Daughter With Unnecessary Meds
A New York mother has been charged with with poisoning her 4-year-old daughter with “life-threatening levels” of seizure meds. Authorities say they believe Tajahnae Brown, 23, suffers from Munchausen’s syndrone by proxy, in which someone induces or invents illness in someone in their care for attention. Prosecutors say Brown made 190 trips to medical providers …
Court
October 28, 2023
Bryan Kohberger: Judge Nixes Attempt to Dismiss Grand Jury Indictment, Will Review DNA Evidence in Private Before Ruling
The judge overseeing Bryan Kohberger’s Idaho murder trial issued orders this week regarding DNA evidence at trial and rejected a defense motion to toss the grand jury indictment. The DNA orders concerned the defense attempt to include documentation surrounding the use of investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) in discovery. Judge John C. Judge said that at …
Mass shooting
October 27, 2023
Maine Shootings Suspect Robert Card Found Dead From Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound
The body of Maine shootings suspect Robert Card was found Friday night just before 8 p.m. not far from where he vehicle was found abandoned just hours after he killed 18 people at two locations in Lewiston. “I stand her tonight to simply report that the Maine State Police have located the body of Robert …
Mass shooting
October 27, 2023
Shelter in Place Order Lifted After Maine Mass Shootings
‘That’s not to say the crisis is over,’ DPS Commissioner Mike Sauschuck said.
Serial Killers
October 27, 2023
FEMALE SERIAL KILLER EMERGES IN OHIO, Meets Men for Sex, Then MURDER, Say Cops
An Ohio woman previously charged with giving a man a fatal overdose of drugs and robbing him has now been charged with doing the same thing to four other men, one of whom survived. Rebecca Auborn, 33, is accused of meeting the men for sex and drugging them with the intent of robbing them. She …
Murder
October 27, 2023
Florida Teen Charged as Adult in Stabbing Death of His Mother as She Slept Next to Newborn Daughter
A 13-year-old Florida honors student has been charged as an adult for the murder of his mother earlier this month as she slept next to his newborn half-sister. Derek Rosa was not in court on Friday to face the first degree murder charge in the October 12 stabbing death of Irina Garcia, 39. His father …