A homeless man has died 13 days after a New York public housing resident set him on fire as he was a sleeping in a stairwell. The man, whose identity has not been established, suffered burns over 75 percent of his body just before 5 p.m. on November 5 when security footage showed a man …
An Arizona man has been arrested in California where he fled in September after cutting off his ankle monitor in an attempt to avoid multiple charges of sex abuse against a minor. Gordon Golding, 56, was accused of using his position as a kickboxing instructor to lure girls to his home, where he would molest …
The FBI last month conducted a survey of land beneath an elevated New Jersey freeway in search of the body of labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975. Hoffa, 62, was last seen in Detroit, Michigan, on July 30, 1975, when he was supposed to meet with a pair of reputed Mafia figures at …
A Florida teen found dead Tuesday near an interstate highway overpass died by homicide. Ryan Rogers, 14, left his Palm Beach Gardens home at about 6:30 p.m. on Monday and did not return, the Palm Beach Post reported. His body and his bike were found at about 9 a.m. the next morning on a sidewalk …
A father and son have been arrested and charged with the murders of a Tennessee couple in 2018. Ryan Cravens, 36, and Robert Cravens, 60, have been charged with two counts each of first degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the deaths of Henry Wilson, 46, and Kristie Wilson, 44, the Tennessee Bureau …
An attorney defending one of the men charged with Ahmaud Arbery’s murder in Brunswick, Georgia, asked the court on Friday for a mistrial, saying a prayer vigil held by Black pastors outside the court house on Thursday was akin to a “public lynching” of the defendants. Thursday’s prayer vigil was a direct response to attorney …
A Florida woman has been charged in Connecticut for the death of her infant son in 1986. Greenwich police say Janita Phillips, 62, confessed to killing her son after DNA testing revealed she and her husband were the boy’s parents, WABC reported. Phillips reportedly hid her pregnancy from her husband, telling police, “I didn’t want …
A four-day manhunt for a fired Baltimore County police officer who kidnapped his two young children earlier this week ended Thursday with all three — and Robert Vicosa’s alleged accomplice — dead. Vicosa, Tia Bynum, and Vicosa’s 6- and 7-year-old daughters were found after a brief car chase that ended in a minor crash in …
A 2-year-old Alabama girl found dead in her family’s apartment last week died from multiple blunt force trauma Ivy Baker was found dead in her family’s Opelika apartment early Friday morning when first responders responded after her mother, Chasity Umeko Baker, 28, found the little girl unresponsive. Baker and her boyfriend, 28-year-old Jamario Emanuel Mitchell, …
The defense rested its case on Thursday, and Judge Timothy Walmsley set closing arguments for Monday.
Two men charged with kidnapping in a Missouri missing person case that included photos of the victim kept in a cage have now been charged with her murder, according to court documents that also revealed investigators had found the remains of Cassidy Rainwater. The upgraded charges against James Phelps and Timothy Norton came after the …
‘This is a life-or-death situation, and I’m going to have to stop him from doing this, so I shot,’ says the man accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
