Mom, teen son stabbed to death in New Year’s Eve murder
Murder
Stephanie Plumb’s two daughters were wounded in the attack, which police say came from her boyfriend.
Domestic Abuse
January 2, 2021
Illinois man threatens to kill mother of 5-month-old baby over WiFi password
An Illinois man was arrested after he allegedly threatened to kill the mother of his child for withholding the WiFi password from him, police told the Herald & Review. A police report said that another family member contact police about the incident. Neither the man nor the 34-year-old victim were named in the Herald & …
Coronavirus
January 1, 2021
Mom arrested for beating COVID-positive kids who didn’t wear masks
An Arizona woman has been arrested for assaulting her children and stepchildren for not wearing masks after they tested positive for COVID-19. Sarah Michelle Boone has been charged with three counts each of child abuse and assault as well as disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. She was also reportedly intoxicated when she struck the children.
Unsolved
January 1, 2021
Woman found dead in NY apartment garbage chute, feet first with her bags
New York police are investigating a woman found dead in a Staten Island apartment building garbage chute Friday afternoon, the New York Post reports.
Murder
January 1, 2021
WV man may have murdered parents with an ax, police say
A West Virginia man has been charged with murder in the death of his parents, the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office reports. Kanawha County Sheriff Mike Rutherford told WVMetroNews that investigators were trying to determine if an ax found at the scene was the murder weapon. Tsukasa and Claudette Kambara apparently died from multiple lacerations, the …
Juveniles
January 1, 2021
Infant found dead with dog ‘just lying on her,’ 911 caller says
Ohio police are investigating the New Year’s Eve death of a 4-month old girl after a man told 911 he found the baby not breathing and with a dog lying on top of her. Dayton Police identified the little girl as Raelynn Larrison and said that the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office would determine the manner …
Fraud
January 1, 2021
Florida man convicted of posing as doctor as teen arrested for defrauding new employer
A Florida man who served nearly two years in prison for impersonating a doctor as a teen has been arrested again, this time for fraud and grand theft, WPTV reports. Malachi Love-Robinson, now 23, was arrested Thursday morning and released on bond later in the day. Police say he had clients of a shipping broker …
Celebrity Justice
December 31, 2020
Scientology actor Danny Masterson’s rape accusers must use church as arbiter of their civil case, court rules
The Los Angeles Superior Court ruled Wednesday that “That 70s Show” actor Danny Masterson’s rape accusers must allow the Church of Scientology to arbitrate their civil suit against him and the church, TMZ reports. The court order says that Chrissie Carnell Bixler; her husband, Mars Volta singer Cedric Bixler-Zazvala; and another rape accuser all entered …
Murder
December 31, 2020
Colorado woman found strangled; suspect arrested 200 miles away
The suspect in the murder of a Colorado woman found dead in a Denver suburb was arrested more than half the state away the day after Lakewood police officers found the body, according to police. Police were called to a home in Lakewood’s Green Mountain neighborhood at about 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday on a report …
Kidnapping
December 31, 2020
Fellow soldier and juvenile charged in death of missing Fort Drum soldier
New Jersey prosecutors have charged a soldier and a teen boy with murder and kidnapping in the death of Fort Drum soldier Cpl Hayden Harris, whose body was found shot to death in a remote area in the northern part of the state on December 19, WWNY reported. Cpl Hayden Harris, 20, reportedly left the …
Hot car deaths
December 31, 2020
Florida toddler dies after he’s left in a hot car for 8 hours, but prosecutors drop charges against the woman who left him
A Florida mother wants to know why prosecutors dropped charges against a former friend who left her 20-month-old son in the back seat of her car while she went to work. Dougkindra Wallace, 35, was initially charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and neglect of a child in connection with the death of Jace …
Murder
December 30, 2020
DEATH BY MERCEDES? LA socialite, allegedly mows down brothers, ages 11 and 8, then FLEES
A California socialite has been charged with murder months after she hit and killed two young brothers in her speeding car as they crossed a street with their parents, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Rebecca Grossman, the 57-year-old co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation and wife of prominent plastic surgeon Peter …