David Brooks, one of two teenage accomplices of notorious Houston serial killer Dean Corll, has died in prison of COVID-19, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced this week. The Houston Chronicle said Brooks, 65, was hospitalized on May 12 and tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 before he died on May 28. …
A 6-year-old Arizona boy who died in March was in a “non-life-sustaining state of starvation,” weighing just 18 pounds at the time of his death, according to a just-released autopsy report, the Arizona Daily Sun reported. Deshaun Martinez’s parents, Elizabeth Archibeque, 26, Anthony Martinez, 23, and the boy’s grandmother, 50-year-old Ann Marie Martinez, were indicted …
The US Department of Justice has filed a request under a mutual legal assistance (MLA) treaty with the United Kingdom requesting that it be allowed to question Prince Andrew in a criminal matter regarding convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail awaiting trial last year, British tabloid The Sun reports. The Duke of York, …
Colorado authorities are looking for missing 16-year-old girl they believe may be on her way to Texas and/or Florida. Elizabeth “Lizzy” McPherson is described as about 4 feet 11 inches tall and 84 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. She was wearing a t-shirt and blue …
A North Carolina man has been charged with killing his girlfriend outside a Georgia hotel and then leading police on an extended pursuit that include carjackings, a car crash, and a foot chase. Sandy Springs police responded to a call at 7:30 p.m. about a person shot in the parking lot of the Hilton Atlanta …
A California sheriff’s deputy was killed and another deputy and a California Highway Patrol officer were wounded on Saturday when they were ambushed by an active duty Air Force sergeant at his home. Deputy Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was pronounced dead after being transported to a hospital, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported. And on Sunday, the …
A Utah man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly tried to force a woman to have sex with him and refused to let her leave his apartment, the Orem Daily Herald reports. Police were called to John DeHaven’s basement apartment in Orem when his upstairs neighbors called to report hearing a woman screaming. The woman …
One of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd has a string of traffic violations and criminal charges before he was hired by the Minneapolis Police Department, Business Insider reports. Thomas Lane, 37, was on his fourth shift as a full-time police officer on May 25, when he and three …
The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling this week, denying Joshua Miller’s attempt to have his life with parole sentence changed to allow the possibility of parole, the Hattiesburg American reports. Miller, now 38, was convicted in 1997 of killing his on-again, off-again 13-year-old girlfriend, Kristin Aultman, on August 18, 1996, when …
Sarasota police launched an investigation this week after a video was released of a mid-May incident that showed one of their officers kneeling on the neck of a 27-year-old man they were trying to take into custody, WFTS reported. The video was posted on social media on Monday by Terria Johnson, mother of the suspect …
Idaho State Police have issued an AMBER Alert for 6-year-old Leo Isador Hiibel-Cloutier, who was last seen on Sunday at Super 1 Foods in Rathdrum, KUTV reported. Police said they believe the boy was abducted his non-custodial mother, Mimi Charmayne Hiibel, 35, and that 16-year-old Gene Heckman may be with them, according to KPIC. They …
Alabama’s Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed the death sentence for James Osgood, who was convicted of beating and raping a 46-year-old woman and then slitting her throat in 2010. The unusual aspect of the case is that Osgood asked for death penalty, WSFA reported. Osgood, 50, was initially convicted and sentenced to death in …
