A vegan couple in Florida were formally charged this week with first degree murder charges in the death of their 18-month-old son, who died of extreme malnutrition in September, weighing only 17 pounds. Ryan Patrick O’Leary, 30, and Sheila O’Leary, 35, were also indicted in Lee county for aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse, …
A Florida man pleaded guilty last week to a series of charges in a bizarre plot to kidnap five young children and kill their parents, and prosecutors are awaiting extradition of three more plotters who fled to the United Kingdom. Frank Jesse Amnott, 31, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit to kidnap, …
A Kansas man pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing his girlfriend aboard a cruise ship nearly two years ago, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas said in a news release. Eric Duane Newman, 55, pleaded guilty to a single count of second degree murder with malice aforethought in the death of Tamara …
A 21-year-old New Jersey man, charged in the death of a woman while they were having sex in a car, was released to home confinement with an electronic ankle monitor during a detention hearing on Thursday. Bergen County Superior Court Judge Margaret Foti had ordered Michael Gaffney, 21, held without bail last month when she …
A judge on Thursday delayed the trial for Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, who had been scheduled to go on trial in January. Cruz’s legal team told Broward County, Florida, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer that the case was moving forward far too fast for them, citing the 1,000 witnesses identified by prosecutors plus millions …
A nearly 40-year-old missing persons case ended Wednesday in Pennsylvania when 76-year-old William Korzon pleaded guilty to killing his wife and was sentenced to 7 1/2 to 15 years in prison. Korzon had long denied any knowledge of what happened to Gloria Korzon in March 1981, when she disappeared — even in April of this …
Blake’s mom found a letter to Santa in the 7-year-old’s backpack with his heart felt wishes for Christmas — among them a compass, a watch, a dictionary, and one special item that Santa may not be able to secure: “a very very Very good dad.” SafeHaven of Tarrant County is busy making sure Blake — …
A tiny box containing the cremated remains of a baby boy have been returned to his parents, a week after they were stolen during a burglary, the Elmhurst Police Department reported. Police said they’d made an arrest in the burglary and recovered several items stolen from the Illinois home of Sue and Jim LaDeur on …
Reality star Kate Gosselin has been ordered to pay her ex-husband and former reality partner Jon Gosselin $1,500 in legal costs after a Pennsylvania court found she was in contempt of a previous order barring her from using the couple’s children in an October special on the TLC network. The Daily Mail reported that four …
A California man is being held without bail, charged with attempted murder and kidnapping that began in an argument with his ex-girlfriend Sunday night and ended the next day with Good Samaritans restraining him until he could be taken into custody. The Good Samaritans recognized Victor Magana, 24, and the van he was driving from …
Genealogical databases and DNA from a beer mug to track led Colorado police to a Florida trucker, the man they charged on Monday with the rape and murder of a 21-year-old radio station intern 40 years ago. James Curtis Clanton, 61, was known as Curtis Allen White when he allegedly abducted Helene Pruszynski, raped her, …
One of Southern California’s infamous “Toolbox Killers” died on Friday at San Quentin State Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker, 79, died Friday of natural causes, the department said. Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris used implements normally found in a tool box — providing them with their nickname — …
