A California couple have been charged with murder and child abuse after their toddler drowned in a bathtub earlier this week. Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies and medics were called to the couple’s home in Rodeo Monday night, KPIX reported. Medics performed life-saving measures on the 2-year-old child and rushed them to the hospital, but …
A former campus gynecologist at the University of Southern California, who was awaiting trial for sexually abusing 16 patients, was found dead at his Los Angeles home. A judge found sufficient evidence in August to try George Tyndall, 76, on 18 counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person and nine counts of sexual battery …
A 25-year-old Kansas man has been charged with the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl neighbors say was living in a homeless encampment with her teenage sister and father after her mother kicked them out of the house. Mickel Cherry was charged with capital murder, first-degree murder, and rape this week in the death …
A California mother and her boyfriend have been chargedin the death of her 1-year-old son was found unresponsive and with severe burns on Sunday. Sergio Mena, 32, and Samantha Garver, 33, were charged on Wednesday with murder and child abuse that detectives say occurred over the past several months, KABC reports. Additionally, Mena has been …
Lori Vallow Daybell’s new public defender filed an amended notice of appeal on Wednesday, listing 16 questions he wants answered. The questions are identical to the ones filed by Vallow Daybell’s former attorney on August 31, but that notice was suspended a week later when the case was reassigned by the Office of the State …
Baltimore police have released surveillance footage asking for help identifying people who may have been involved in the this week’s mass shooting on the Morgan State University campus. Four people were wounded in the shooting — four men and a woman — and all but one of them were students at the historically Black college. …
A 14-year-old Alabama boy has been arrested for the murder of his 17-year-old brother and had a “hit list” of other family members he planned to kill. Pike County Sheriff Russell Thomas said that the 17-year-old victim was found dead outside the family’s home Tuesday afternoon, WSFA reported. He had been missing since Monday, although …
New York police have identified a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Brooklyn activist early Monday morning as he and his girlfriend were returning from a wedding on Long Island. Ryan Carson, 32, was waiting for a bus with his girfriend in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 4 a.m. when he was stabbed to death in …
A 31-year-old California man has been charged with the murder and dismemberment of his girlfriend after her remains were found burned in a barrel next to a trailer where his sister lives. Gilroy Police say that Ivan Alfaro Escobedo killed Alyssa Nicole Salazar, a mom of two, because she reported to police he raped and …
The alleged incident took place more than a year ago, and the case was closed last month with no charges filed.
A West Virginia couple has been charged with child neglect after investigators found two teenagers locked inside a shed in the backyard of their property and a third, younger child locked inside the main home in a loft 15 feet off the ground. Donald Ray Lantz, 63, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 61, were not present …
Three South Carolina businesses have settled a wrongful death suit with the estate of Samantha Miller, the 34-year-old newlywed killed by an alleged drunk driver who slammed into the golf cart carrying her and her husband away from their Folly Beach wedding reception. Aric Hutchinson, the new husband, and two other people suffered serious injuries …
