A young girl is dead and an adult woman critically wounded in what appears to be a murder and attempted suicide in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office told First Coast News that deputies responded to a 911 call from someone in the home and found the girl, who was under the age …
An Oklahoma woman recently diagnosed with postpartum depression was arrested over the weekend and accused of stabbing her 11-day-old baby and husband, KFOR reports. The husband said he shoved Victoria Shane Matheson away from the baby, and she stabbed him before he could wrestle the knife from her. The infant was eventually taken to a …
A Florida mom is behind bars after she left her child home alone early Tuesday morning and went to a neighbor’s home, where she tried to kidnap the neighbor’s child, WFLA reports. St Petersburg Police Department detectives said that Hannah Braun, 28, left her home at 2 a.m. and went to a neighbor’s home, where …
New York police say they’ve arrested a Queens man who allegedly shot another man on a subway platform in Grand Central Terminal over the weekend, the Flushing Post reports. Tearance Crumpty, 26, reportedly followed 40-year-old David Altamirano off a train and shot him in the arm, according to the criminal complaint. The complaint says the …
Beth R. waited nearly 30 years to confront the man who sexually abused her from the time she was 11 years old until she was 16, and she did so bravely, reading her 11-page victim impact statement in full during the sentencing hearing for Charles LeRoy Rutledge in San Diego.
A grand jury in East Tennessee has indicted Megan Boswell, mother of deceased toddler Evelyn Boswell, on 19 counts, including two counts of felony murder, WJHL reports. Boswell, 19, has also been charged with single counts of aggravated child abuse, aggravated child neglect, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse, and failure to report a …
An Arizona man was arrested last week on a string of charges relating to his increasingly bizarre behavior over money he and his brother inherited from their grandparents. Mesa police said they began their investigation in March when the victim contacted them to say he was being threatened by his brother, Ross Paul Emmick, despite …
North Carolina police have arrested four people in connection with the death of a 17-year-old girl shot to death inside her car outside a Raleigh Bojangles restaurant over the weekend, WRAL reports. Devin Cordell Jones, 17, has been charged with the murder of Veronica Lee Baker Saturday night. Keyshara Michelle Deans, 19; Nezyiha Zamir Collins, …
Federal agents were seen Wednesday morning sifting through a Kentucky storage unit belonging to Crystal Rogers, the Bardstown mother of five who vanished in July 2015, according to WLKY. The FBI took over the investigation into Rogers’s disappearance after human remains were found on the Washington-Nelson County line — a few miles east of Bardstown …
A special prosecutor found nothing worthy of criminal charges in his investigation of State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of actor Jussie Smollett’s case, but Dan Webb said he would be reporting possible ethics violations to the Illinois attorney disciplinary board, the Chicago Tribune reported. Webb’s investigation led to Smollett’s indictment by a Cook County grand …
Houston police are looking for a suspect who stole a car with a 2-year-old girl sleeping in the back seat, KTRK reports. The car was running and likely unlocked, parked in front of the Speed Queen Laundry in the shopping center at Mi Tienda while the mother was inside. “She was sleeping in the car. …
A Minnesota couple have been charged with murder in the death of the husband’s 8-year-old daughter, who weighed just 45 pounds at the time of her death. The Minneapolis Star Tribune said an autopsy revealed that Autumn Hallow had atrophied muscles and significant hair loss, puncture wounds on her head, bleeding on the brain and …
