Two days after a Florida judge scolded attorneys for abruptly resting their case, the Parkland school shooter’s defense filed a motion asking her to “disqualify” herself from the case. A jury is deciding whether Nikolas Cruz — who has already pleaded guilty to killing 17 people and wounding 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High …
A Massachusetts woman was arrested this week and charged with making a false bomb threat against Boston Children’s Hospital last month, one of “well over a dozen” such threats against the Boston hospital resulting from a relentless spread of misinformation about trans health care. Catherine Leavy was charged with making a false bomb threat by …
A Texas anesthesiologist was arrested Wednesday and charged with tampering with a consumer product causing death and intentional drug adulteration. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr, 59, allegedly injected nerve blocking agents and other drugs into IV bags at a local surgery center between May 26 and August 24 causing multiple cardiac emergencies, including one death, the …
An Indiana mom faces multiple charges for allegedly shooting her husband on the side of Interstate 69 in Fishers. Shaalea Davis, 38, and Curtis Williams III had reportedly been out to a movie Saturday afternoon with Davis’s 12-year-old son to celebrate the boy’s birthday, WISH reported. Police were called to the scene on the side …
After five delays, a North Dakota woman is finally facing trial, accused of conspiring to murder her husband in a swirling mess involving a love triangle, a botched cover-up, and an attempt to cash in on an insurance policy. Police found Chad Entzel, 42, dead from two gunshot wounds to the head inside his burning …
A Detroit mom has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 8-year-old daughter, who was shot to death by the girl’s 10-year-old brother. Officials said the boy found an unsecured and loaded handgun shortly before noon on Tuesday, while he and his sister were home alone. He fired the gun and shot …
The first of two Ohio family members accused of planning for months to slaughter members of another family went on trial this week, more than six years after the grotesque slayings in Pike County. George Wagner IV has pleaded not guilty to the murders of members of the Rhoden family, as has his father, George “Billy” …
Baltimore prosecutors have filed a motion to vacate the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, whose case gained international prominence as a result of the podcast “Serial.” Syed, 42, was convicted in 2000 of killing his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, who was 18 at the time of her death in 1999, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The …
A Georgia man has been jailed for shooting two children on Saturday night in Colquitt County — just three days after his release from prison. Andrew Jacob Murphy, 32, had been jailed for non-violent offenses three times earlier — and was transferred to the Valdosta State Prison after a mutiny at the Tatnall County jail …
Florida police are investigating the distribution of a video that reportedly showed two Fort Myers High School students engaging in a sex act. Police said the incident took place in May but they only learned of it recently, the News-Press reported. Investigators said they are looking into dissemination of the video. “We are looking into …
A California man handed over his ex-girlfriends toddler — a 3-year-old boy he allegedly kidnapped late Monday — to his parents, but he fled after the handover and police are still searching for him. Donta Law, 46, reportedly gave the boy to his mother at the Oceanside Metrolink station at about 2:30 a.m. The San …
A 53-year-old Michigan man shot and killed his wife and dog and badly injured his daughter early Sunday morning before he was killed by police. Oakland County Sheriff Micheal Bouchard said that deputies arrived at the Walled Lake home shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday morning after Igor Lanis’s 25-year-old daughter called 911. Bouchard said the …
