A Georgia grand jury charged two Clayton County basketball coaches with murder and cruelty to children in the heatstroke death of a 16-year-old student-athlete following an outdoor practice in 2019. Larosa Maria Walker-Asekere and Dwight Broom Palmer were responsible “by conducting outdoor conditioning training for student athletes in dangerous heat, resulting in the death of …
A Georgia grand jury on Monday indicted 14 people on multiple counts after investigators alleged that the anti-gang and gun violence charity they were operating was using the children they were supposedly helping to raise money for their own illicit activities. The Georgia Peach Youth Club of America Inc. operated in several counties from October …
A Georgia mail carrier was shot to death Saturday while driving his route in rural Banks County. Investigators identified a suspect and later spotted the suspect’s vehicle, but he fled from an attempted traffic stop and later fired at deputies after he drove his Chevy Blazer off the road, according to the Athens Banner-Herald. Deputies …
A Tennessee man was arrested Sunday night and charged with setting a fire that killed his father. John Hassey, the 25-year-old son of the victim, has been charged with arson and aggravated assault, according to fire investigators, who said Monday afternoon that “additional charges are possible,” WKRN reported. Medical crews arrived on the scene at …
A Los Angeles judge on Monday denied a request from pop star Britney Spears’ attorney to move up a hearing on removing her father from the estate conservatorship he has run for 13 years. The hearing is schedule for September 29, and attorney Mathew Rosengart asked to move it up a month to mid-August, noting that “every day matters” in the 39-year-old singer’s efforts to end Jamie Spears’ control over her financial decisions, including her career.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an alleged victim of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who settled a defamation lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell for an undisclosed amount in 2017, filed a lawsuit Monday against Britain’s Prince Andrew for sexually abusing her when she was under the age of 18. Giuffre, now 38, has previously said that Epstein paid her …
An elderly North Carolina woman who had been missing for two months was found this week entombed in concrete in her basement. The Avery County Sheriff’s Office said that 70-year-old Lynn Gay Keene’s caretaker, who had been named a person of interest, was found Friday night in a western North Carolina hospital with a “drug …
Newly released audio from a police dashcam video reveals a distraught Anthony Cook screaming at Paul Murdaugh the night the “grossly intoxicated” son of a prominent South Carolina family who allegedly drove a boat into a bridge piling, killing Cook’s girlfriend, 19-year-old Mallory Beach, who was tossed from the boat in the crash. Beach’s body …
A North Dakota daycare provider has been charged with child abuse after police say she shook an infant in her care, causing permanent brain damage. Torrie Vader, 43, was arrested on Thursday and ordered held on a $250,000 bond, the Williston Herald reported. According to a probable cause affidavit, the 5-month-old girl’s mother picked up …
Police found hundreds of pornographic videos — many of them involving children — on a Google account belonging to a Florida college student. Ethan Edlund, 19, turned himself in to the Chicago Police earlier this week after Daytona Beach Police concluded nearly a year of investigation. Edlund, a student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, has been …
Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer convicted of killing a man in his own apartment when she mistakenly thought it was her unit, lost her first round of appeals this week. Botham Jean was sitting on his sofa eating ice cream on September 6, 2018, when Guyger, still in uniform, entered his apartment. She …
A Texas jury deliberated for more than seven hours on Friday before sentencing Otis McKane to death for killing San Antonio Police Detective Benjamin Marconi in 2016. The jury took just 25 minutes last month to convict McKane, and he promptly attacked a bailiff who tried to handcuff him after the verdict, as CrimeOnline previously …
