Searchers looking for a missing Grand Junction toddler on Sunday found the body of a small child who matched the description of 3-year-old Adelesia, who is believed to have wandered away from home early Saturday evening. The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office said the coroner was working on identification and notification of next of kin and …
After a months-long investigation, Louisiana authorities have charged a 29-year-old woman in the death of her 9-month-old son. Shreveport police said they responded to a call on May 2 about a baby suffering from blunt force injuries to his body. Harlem Joseph was taken to Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport, where he was pronounced dead. On …
A Colorado foster mother and her boyfriend were arrested last week following an investigation into the death of a 15-month-old boy in their care, the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office says. Dacey Spinuzzi, 31, has been charged with child abuse resulting in death, and Ramondo Jones, 36, was charged with murder of a child under 12 …
Actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd, who appeared in several movies by acclaimed director Spike Lee and was nominated for a Tony award in 2003, was shot and killed Saturday in Atlanta, Lee himself posted on Instagram. Atlanta Police officers found Byrd unresponsive, with multiple gunshot wounds in the back, in southwest Atlanta at about 1:45 a.m. …
Update 7:30 p.m.: Searchers in a helicopter on Sunday located the body of a small child matching the description of a missing Grand Junction toddler believed to have wandered away from home the previous evening, Denver 7 reports. The body was found in a canal near where 3-year-old Adelesia, who answers to the name of …
A millionaire tycoon from Britain will be freed after serving half his already light sentence for battering his girlfriend to death during what he said was a “rough sex” session in 2018, the Birmingham Mail reports. John Broadhurst, 41, admitted to manslaughter by gross negligence in the death of 26-year-old mother of one Natalie Connolly, …
A former professional baseball pitcher is wanted by Scottsdale, Arizona, police in the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend in the Phoenix suburb Friday, ABC15 reports. Charlie Haeger’s abandoned Plymouth Voyager was found Saturday afternoon near Flagstaff, 118 miles from Scottsdale. Police were told by the ex-girlfriend’s male roommate that he heard gunshots in the victim’s …
A Virginia man convicted of raping two women lifeguards at pools in Alexandria and Fairfax was sentenced to 65 years in prison on Friday, WTOP reports. Jesse Bjerke, 39, pleaded guilty in October 2019 to the 2016 rape and abduction of a then-24-year-old woman and pleaded no contest and was convicted earlier this year in …
Joel Guy Jr was found guilty Friday of the gruesome murders.
Matthew Miller was sentenced this week to 600 years in prison for the crimes.
The man who pleaded guilty to bombings at women’s clinics in Alabama and Georgia, a lesbian bar in Atlanta, and the 1996 Olympic Games is pushing to have his sentences vacated, WBMA reports. Eric Robert Rudolph, now 54, filed a hand-written motion in federal court in Alabama claiming that his conviction for the 1998 bombing …
An Alabama college student charged with murder in the death of a fellow student told police he shot Adam “Belle” Dowdell in the back of the head in self defense, a Montgomery police detective testified Friday, the Montgomery Advertiser reports. Ivry Hall, 20, fled to his hometown, Chicago, days after the shooting and told his …
