An Iowa grand jury this week indicted a now-53-year-old woman in the murder of a realtor who was shot to death in a model townhouse she was showing on April 8, 2011. An employee of Rottlund Homes, the developer of the townhouse, heard a commotion inside and went to investigate, the Des Moines Register reports. …
A 40-year-old Mississippi mother has been arrested after investigators found her daughter’s remains inside her apartment. Southaven Police said they launched an investigation on Tuesday after a man reported that he had not seen his sister since January, WHBQ reports. The sister was unable to care for herself, he said. Investigators went to the mother’s …
A Georgia man has been charged with murder when he gunned down his childhood friend after touching the friend’s wife inappropriately. Buffy Cothern said that Brandon Frick touched her arm while she and her husband were giving him a ride in Waycross, WTLV reported. She said she was driving and pulled over, and her husband, …
A Pennsylvania mother was arrested at a Tullytown Walmart on Saturday after 911 caller told police he saw her drop one of her children into a cart and knocking the child unconscious. Tullytown Burough police said the caller reported the woman appeared to be under the influence and she had been screaming profanities at both …
A Las Vegas woman was shot to death during a 911 call on Tuesday. A newly released arrest report for Jorge Antonio Garcia, 33, says that officers were dispatched to a condo complex at about 3:30 p.m. after the woman called and said her ex-boyfriend was supposed to pick up his things from the condo …
A 37-year-old Pennsylvania man was charged with abuse of a corpse this week, months after his 70-year-old mother was found dead in the home they shared in Bensalem. Police said they were called to the home by a neighbor, who reported a foul odor, in October, WPVI says. Derrick Bouffard answered the door and told …
A 92-year-old millionaire developer was found dead and decomposing in a swanky beach home in California’s Hermosa Beach last week, and a suspect was arrested after a seven-hour standoff. Hermosa Beach police said they were asked to conduct a welfare check shortly after noon on Saturday after a landlord at the home reported that they …
A woman and a young boy are dead in suburban Minneapolis and a suspect has been taken into custody. The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office released very little information, promising more later on. It said deputies and officers from several other agencies were called just before 1 a.m. Wednesday to the home in Lexington for a …
A California woman and her boyfriend have been charged with 27 counts of torture and child abuse related to their treatment of the woman’s 11-year-old niece that included strangulation, dragging her around on a dog leash, and forcing her to sleep in an uninsulated garage. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said it was contacted by …
A second Texas man was arrested this week in connection with the death of a man found buried in a shallow grave in Tarrant County in December. Chase Cook, 23, joined Alexander James Nicholas, also 23, behind bars on murder charges in the death of 24-year-old John Richardson, KDFW reports. Cook was arrested on Tuesday; …
A former captain with California’s wildfire management agency has pleaded guilty to gunning down his girlfriend her second grader son last year. Darin McFarlin may have entered the guilty plea to avoid the death penalty, as prosecutors had initially said he faces death or life without parole because of special circumstances, KCRA reported. Those special …
A New Hampshire man was arrested on Friday after investigators found he had caused 30 fractures over two months in his now 3-month-old son’s body. The Nashua Police Department said that they were contacted by the state Department of children, Youth and Families about the boy, who “had suffered serious injuries.” A quick investigation detetermined …
