Police conducting a wellbeing check in northwestern Chicago found the body of a 96-year-old woman stuffed into a freezer in the garage. Chicago police said they’d charged 69-year-old Eva Bratcher with concealing the death of her mother, Polish immigrant Regina Michalski, WLS reported. Bratcher has also been charged with possession a false ID, according to …
Actor Alec Baldwin and film armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged Tuesday for the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust” in 2021. Baldwin was handling the gun that killed Hutchins, and Gutierrez-Reed was in charge of all weapons on the set of the movie western, including ensuring that live …
Nebraska police shot dead a man who opened fire with an AR-15 rifle in an Omaha Target store on Tuesday. Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer did not identify the gunman but said he was a white man in his 30s and carried “plenty of ammunition” when he walked through one of the store’s front doors …
Two more Memphis police officers have been relieved of duty and three members of the city’s fire department fired in the wake of the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols earlier this month. Five officers have been fired and charged with murder in the beating, which was captured on multiple police cameras. Police released the videos …
A 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman has been charged with killing a doppelganger she found on Instagram in order to fake her own death. Khadidja O’s body was found in August, covered in blood in a parked Mercedes in Ingolstadt, Bavarian prosecutors say, but the body was initially identified by family members as 23-year-old Sharaban K, 23-year-old …
A wannabe New York Instagram influencer killed her father and critically wounded her younger sister in “an argument over a laptop,” prosecutors say. Nikki Secondino, 22, was arraigned Monday on a murder indictment for the death of her 61-year-old father, Carlo Secondino, on December 28, the New York Post said. After killing her father, Secondino …
Three young Manhattanites died of overdoses on the same day.
A 19-year-old Iowa woman was charged earlier this month with scamming nearly $40,000 with false claims that she had cancer. The Eldridge Police Department said Madison Russo claimed to have acute lymphoblastic leukemia, stage 2 pancreatic cancer, and a football-sized tumor wrapped around her spine as she solicited more than $37,000 from 439 donors, according …
Police in Houston are looking for a man who’s been missing since another man was found dead in his home last week. According to KTRK, investigators were called the man’s home for a welfare check at about 8:30 a.m. on Friday after neighbors became concerned over a vehicle left running in the garage for several …
An Atlanta man has been hospitalized in stable condition after he was attacked Monday morning by his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend. WAGA reported that police were called to the northwestern Atlanta home shortly before 3 a.m. and found the victim had been stabbed multiple times. The former boyfriend ran from the scene before police arrived; investigators are …
