A West Virginia woman awoke from a two-year coma this week and identified her brother as the man who beat her so badly officials doubted she would survive. Jackson County Sheriff Ross Mellinger Daniel Palmer III had been identified as a suspect early on but investigators never had enough evidence to charge him, until Wanda …
A Minnesota murder suspect slammed into a car carrying a mother and her four children while fleeing police Friday afternoon, killing a 6-year-old girl. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office said a 15-year-old girl is still hospitalized while the mother and her other two children had been treated and released. The suspect, who has not been …
A 1990 hit-and-run left a young woman dead by an interstate service road in Oklahoma City, launching an investigation into a mystery with that took years to piece together. A man named Clarence Marcus Hughes, 41, told Oklahoma police that the dead woman was his wife, 23-year-old Tonya Hughes, and that they had a 2-year-old …
An Alabama woman convicted of killing her husband with a fatal dose of insulin was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday. Private investigator Jim Cappello had been reported missing by his family in September 2018 when a friend of his wife called police. She told investigators that Marjorie “Nikki” Cappello had called her and …
Former professional auto racer Bobby East was stabbed to death as he pumped gas into his vehicle in California on Wednesday. Westminster Police said they were called to a 76 gas station on Westminster Boulevard just before 6 p.m. and found the victim on the ground with a serious stab wound to the chest. Officers …
Police in Los Angeles arrested a television write and producer on Thursday has been charged with sexual assault after he allegedly posed as a photographer to lure women to his home for fake photo shoots. LAPD said the alleged “sexual assaults including rape” took place between 2012 and 2019. Investigators said Eric Weinberg “appears to …
An 8-year-old Arkansas boy was shot and killed by his 5-year-old brother Thursday afternoon. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies responded to the home at about 2 p.m. and found the 8-year-old unresponsive. The coroner was called to the scene and pronounced the boy dead. “This is a tragic incident that could have …
A 62-year-old man has been charged with raping a 14-year-old girl in a subway bathroom and then trafficking her to multiple men the next day in an alleyway. A Manhattan grand jury indicted Glenn Johnson on charges of sex trafficking a child, first and second-degree rape, and criminal sexual act, prosecutors said on Thursday, according …
A white woman on a bus in Queens got into an argument early Saturday evening with three black women or girls, one of whom hit her over the head with an unknown object. At least one of the attackers told the victim “I hate white people … the way they talk,” police sources told the …
A missing Louisiana toddler was found dead in a duffel bag stuffed into a garbage can on Tuesday, and the 2-year-old’s mother and her live-in boyfriend face murder charges in his death. On Wednesday, Houma police released still images from surveillance video showing Maya Jones and Jermaine Robinson leaving their home carrying what appeared to …
A South Carolina grand jury is expected to hear that evidence this week.
A 13-month-old boy was mauled to death by the family dog on Monday, and a New Orleans police officer shot and killed the dog when it attacked a Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officer. The toddler was identified as Apollo Duplantis, WDSU reported. New Orleans police said they responded to a …
