A Louisiana Uber driver was stabbed to death in the parking lot of a hotel by a rider who “decided he was going to kill someone.” Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said that 54-year-old Yolanda Dillion picked up Brandon Jacobs, 29, in New Orleans on Thursday and drove him to a Travelodge in Harvey at …
Records from the June 2021 arrest, which charged Anderson Lee Aldrich with five felonies, were unsealed this week.
With winter graduation taking place on the University of Idaho’s Moscow campus on Saturday, Moscow Police urged vigilance for the influx of people joining students for the weekend. Moscow Police Chief James Fry said patrol officers would be on hand in downtown Moscow and around the school’s campus, four weeks now after four students were …
A woman found dead after a house fire in Atlanta earlier this month was stabbed several times and her neck was slashed, police said. WXIA reported that two people were found dead inside the home: Lola Bell Thomas, the homeowner, and her nephew, Bobby Grubbs. Thomas was the victim of a homicide, the Fulton County …
Investigators recovered human remains on Friday from a wooded area near the Philadelphia International Airport where they had previously searched for clues in the October disappearance of a woman from Sellersville, more than 40 miles away. KYW said investigators were on the scene with a man in an orange prison jumpsuit with the word “inmate” …
A 5-year-old South Carolina girl reported missing after her mother was found dead has been located, and her father has been charged with her mother’s murder. Orangeburg County Sheriff Leroy Ravenell said that Aspen Jeter’s father, 46-year-old Antar Antonio Jeter, is in custody after two warrants were issued for his arrest, one for the murder …
A former Chicago socialite who has already spent eight years behind bars in Indonesia for the murder of her mother was denied bond this week and will remain jailed until her conspiracy trial begins next summer. Heather Mack, 27, was convicted in the murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack in 2014 in Bali, where von Wiese-Mack …
An Iowa couple have been charged with murder in the drowning death of their newborn daughter shortly after the mother gave birth in their apartment bathroom. Brandon Thoma, 31, and Taylor Blaha, 24, have been charged with first-degree murder in the baby’s death, WHO reports. Thomas has an additional charge of abuse of a corpse. …
Two weeks after Mexican authorities issued an arrest warrant for a suspect in the death of North Carolinian Shanquella Robinson in Cabo San Lucas, there’s no confirmation that an arrest has been made. But experts say that appears to be par for course of international relations between two countries with an extradition treaty, such as …
A Wyoming man pleaded guilty Wednesday to second degree murder and child abuse in the death of his ex-girlfriend’s toddler son last year. Wyatt Lamb initially pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and 10 counts of child abuse relating to the death of 2-year-old Athian Rivera. The boy’s mother reported him missing on February …
A 39-year-old woman has filed suit against Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, claiming he raped her on his boy band’s tour bus when she was 17. Shannon Ruth, who has autism and cerebral palsy, says that Carter invited her onto the bus after a 2001 concert in Tacoma, Washington, when she was waiting backstage for autographs, …
A former New York police officer was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Thursday, following his conviction last month for locking his 8-year-old son with autism in an unheated garage as temperatures dropped into the 20s — and after hosing him down with cold water. Michael Valva did the same to Thomas …
