Three Mississippi men were charged this week with the shooting death of a co-founder of the Stop Abuse Campaign, a New York-based not-for-profit organization that worked to prevent child abuse, the Clarion-Ledger reports. Ken Mason, who returned to his native Mississippi this spring, was found dead on the side of a rural stretch of road …
A New Jersey youth pastor was charged this week with child sex crimes after investigators said he blackmailed young boys to perform sex acts online, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said. Sean Higgins, 30, allegedly posed as a teenage girl online and coaxed at least six boys to send him nude photographs. When they did, …
A now former police officer in southern Louisiana was arrested Friday and charged with multiple child sex charges, including rape. Casey Hoffman, 28, faces seven counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles under 13, two counts of producing porn involving juveniles under 13, and three counts of first degree rape of a juvenile under 13, …
A North Carolina woman told police she woke up from a nap to find her boyfriend unresponsive, but she was arrested for murder after the medical examiner said several small wounds on his body were stab wounds. Sharron Ivette Allen, 53, said her boyfriend, Michael Renard Foxx, 51, had been asleep in his recliner on …
Florida sheriff’s deputies arrested two teenage siblings this week for fatally shooting a man they tried to rob. Henry McGall IV, 18, and his younger sister, Madison, 15, have both been charged with first degree murder while engaged in robbery and robbery with a firearm resulting in death, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. The …
Philadelphia police have opened an internal affairs investigation after a video showed multiple officers smashing the windows of an SUV driven by a Black mother with her 2-year-old son and 16-year-old nephew inside during protests over the killing of Walter Wallace Jr., NBC Philadephia reported. Rickia Young had driven into the protest area early Tuesday …
A judge Friday morning ordered the extradition of Kyle Rittenhouse, and the Illinois teenager accused of killing two people at a protest in Kenosha is already in jail in Wisconsin, TMJ4 reports. Rittenhouse, 17, travelled from his home in Illinois on August 25 because of protests after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, who was …
A pregnant woman was shot and killed outside a Paterson, New Jersey apartment complex Thursday afternoon, but medical personnel were able to safely deliver her baby. Witnesses said the woman was outside in the parking lot when a red car pulled up and fired three shots at her, according to NorthJersey.com. A young girl, said …
Investigators have found human remains buried on a Spring Hill property tied to a convicted serial killer serving several life sentences in California for killing five women and girls, WFLA reported. William “Billy” Mansfield, 64, was convicted in 1982, but Tuesday’s discovery at the house he once shared with his brother and father — a …
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly doused a 14-year-old girl with lighter fluid and threatened to set her on fire. Tysheda Mitchell, 34, was arrested Thursday for her role in the September 27 incident, PennLive reported. Harrisburg police officers were dispatched to the scene just before 9 p.m. that …
Los Angeles County prosecutors added more sex crime charges to the docket against Ron Jeremy on Wednesday, the second time this summer they’ve amended the complaint against the 67-year-old porn star. Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, was arraigned on three counts of forcible rape, two counts of forcible oral copulation, and one …
Genealogical DNA helped solve the 46-year-old murder of Siobhan McGuinness, a 5-year-old Montana girl who vanished while walking home from a neighbor’s at dinner time one cold afternoon in February, MontanaRightNow reported. The little girl’s body was found two days later in a culvert off Interstate 91, 10 miles from her home. She sustained trauma …
