An Iowa woman was arrested last month after a months-long investigation determined that she had purposefully injured her infant son. Court documents say Emma Ann Swanson, 22, failed to provide adequate food and health care for the child, who was diagnosed with failure to thrive at the age of 2 months, according to The Messenger. …
A Texas man has been charged with gunning down his fiancee with shotgun, then living with her body for several weeks before the smell drove him to a motel. William Joseph Oddo III, 52, told police when he was finally arrested on June 2 that he “wanted to lay” with LaVera Wardell after he murdered …
A federal arrest warrant has been issued for the Washington state man accused of killing his three daughters after taking them on a “planned visitation” last week. The warrant charges Travis Decker with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, KIRO reported. He has already been charged with three state counts of first degree murder and first …
A former police chief and convicted murderer and rapist who escaped prison in Arkansas last week was apprehended Friday less than two miles from the facility he fled. Grant Hardin’s identity was confirmed by fingerprints, the Izard County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post announced his recapture. Hardin, 56, walked out of the the …
A Wisconsin jury deliberated for about 20 minutes before returning a guilty verdict for a man accused of killing a 19-year-old woman and distributing her body parts at several locations near Milwaukee. Maxwell Anderson, son of a prominent insurance executive, was found guilty of first degree homicide, mutilating a corpse, arson, and hiding a corpse …
An Indiana woman was high on methamphetamines and was doing her makeup when she caused an accident last November that killed a 6-year-old boy. Khristal Grant 43, wasn’t charged until May 9 and wasn’t arrested until May 28, WXIN reported. The accident took place on November 9 in Shelby County. Six-year-old James Doniven Hodges was …
Warrants have been issued for a Wisconsin couple who failed to appear in court on Thursday to face charges of child abandonment after their two young children were found living “in a completely wild, unkept state” in a squalor-filled apartment in Waukesha. Police were initially called to the scene on January 9 and found the …
Travis Decker is wanted for the murders of his three young daughters on a ‘planned visitation.’
The Arkansas Department of Corrections released a photo of a former police chief convicted of murder and rape who escaped prison last week, saying it was “a possible updated headshot which could reflect how he might look today.” ADOC spokesperson Rand Champion told CBS News that the department “took the last headshot we had of …
A suburban Chicago couple was charged with first degree murder in the death last November of their 2-year-old daughter from a drug overdose. Court documents say that Edward Weiher, 49, and Alexa Balen, 28, bought Narcan via Uber and didn’t call 911 for nearly 4 hours after their toddler daughter began experiencing the overdose on …
An 81-year-old Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly pepper-sprayed two young girls and their mother, reportedly because the girls were playing with bubbles. April Morant, mother of the 3- and 6-year-old girls, told WESH that they were playing with bubbles in their own yard in Ocala, well away from the fence that separates …
An adult Indiana man was “playing with” his loaded handgun, even cocking it and pointing it at friends, moments before he said it misfired, shooting a woman in the head and killing her. Elliot Hines told police he started drinking after the shooting but had not been drinking when he was pointing the gun at …
