DNA evidence has solved the case of a 23-year-old newlywed whose body was found bound, strangled, sexually assaulted, and shot just off a Colorado highway in 1970. Mother of two Betty Lee Jones was last seen on March 8, 1970, after a days-long argument with her husband of nine days, Robert Ray Jones. Robert Jones …
Derek Chauvin “had his knee on [George] Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds,” the criminal complaint against the now-fired Minneapolis police officer says. “Two minutes and 53 seconds of this was after Mr Floyd was non-responsive,” the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported. Floyd, 46, died Monday after Chauvin and three other Minneapolis officers arrested him …
DNA analysis confirmed late Thursday that two bodies found in waterways in and near Tulsa, Oklahoma, this week were those of two toddlers who had been missing since last Friday, Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said. Miracle Crook, 2, and her brother Tony Crook, 1, were last seen in surveillance video playing on an embankment …
An unknown caller telephoned an Ohio state representative last weekend — using the spoofed phone number of her father, a state senator — and told her to resign or he would kill her father. Akron police said on Tuesday that Ohio House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes received the call over the weekend threatening her or …
Houston native George Floyd came to Minnesota “to be his best self,” his long time friend Stephen Jackson, who played 14 seasons in the NBA and called Floyd his twin, said on Instagram. Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, told CNN that “knowing my brother is to love my brother.” “He’s a gentle giant, he don’t hurt …
An Ogden city police officer was killed and a probation officer wounded Thursday responding to a domestic violence call in the northeastern part of the Utah city. Deseret News reported that a woman called 911 shortly after noon and told dispatchers that her husband was threatening to kill her. The call was disconnected, and when …
Police in Oklahoma have found the bodies of a young girl and a young boy in waterways near Tulsa, where two toddlers have been missing since Friday. Tulsa Police said the body of young girl found in the Verdigris Navigational Channel in Wagoner County Tuesday night has been taken to the medical examiner’s office for …
Melanie Gibb has been in hiding since Idaho police launched a missing persons case into the disappearance of cult mom Lori Vallow’s children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17. Gibb knows both Vallow and her new husband, Chad Daybell, and when the tales of disappearances and deaths began surfacing, she was afraid. “When …
Authorities are looking for a 58-year-old north Alabama man they say shot three people to death and wounded a fourth on Sunday afternoon. Carson Ray Peters is considered armed and dangerous, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. Peters is reportedly with April Hanner, and the two are possibly in a black 2013 Chevrolet 1500 …
Tulsa police released a new image of two toddlers walking alone down a street, shot two hours after security footage showed the missing children with their mother at a convenience story on Friday morning. The new image comes from a security camera at The Shoreline Apartments complex, where Donisha Willis — the mother of Miracle …
Florida’s beaches were packed over the weekend with quarantine-weary visitors who took advantage of the holiday weekend to flock into beach towns, largely ignoring social distancing guidelines put out by the state to combat the coronavirus pandemic. In Daytona Beach, a widely publicized event called Orlando Invades Daytona was cancelled at the request of police, …
A coastal Georgia town was rocked this week by a shocking crime when the owner of a freight transportation company was arrested in an alleged scheme “to have a family member assassinated,” WSAV reported. Port Wentworth Police Lt. Dale Sylvester told the station that they received a tip last week saying that Mark Clayton Davis, …
