A North Carolina sheriff said Wednesday that a body found in a burnt out truck last fall was that of a missing woman believed to have been killed along with two of her children in the summer. Maria Calderon Martinez, 38, had been reported missing after her home in the Sugar Loaf community in Alexander …
A state university dean was among 14 men arrested for sex crimes against children during a four-day sting operation in south Georgia, the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department said Monday. Keith Walters, 44, was placed on administrative leave from his job as a chemistry professor at Valdosta State University (VSU) and was stripped of his title …
An 18-year-old South Carolina man is in jail Monday, charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot at a woman driving the car in which he was a passenger. The 20-year-old woman jumped out of the car as he fired, police said, and the still running vehicle crashed into an optometrist’s office, WIS reported. The …
Police in California have arrested a 48-year-old man they’ve accused of being a peeping Tom and posing as a ride share driver to get women into his vehicle. Bakersfield police charged Nassef Ragheb with burglary, false imprisonment and attempted sexual battery dating back to 2018, the Bakersfield Californian reported. Police identified Ragheb as the suspect …
A 51-year-old south Pittsburgh man has been charged with criminal homicide, child endangerment and weapons offenses in the death of a toddler killed by a shotgun blast, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. Marlin Pritchard said he was asleep next to 3-year-old Chassity Clancy and another girl early Sunday when he was awakened by the bang from …
Nevada police have arrested three men and a woman in Pahrump, charging them with 137 counts of child abuse, sexual assault, and pornography between them, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said it began its investigation on January 17, but did not say what prompted the investigation, nor did it say when …
The death of a New York woman found at the bottom of a luxury Manhattan building’s garbage chute in the summer of 2018 may not have been an accident, according to Michael Baden, the 85-year-old forensic pathologist who served as the city’s chief medical examiner for two years during the 1970s. Lara Prychodko’s father, Nicholas …
A Kansas jury on Thursday found Rachael Hilyard guilty of killing her ex-boyfriend’s mother in 2017 and cutting off her head, KWCH reported. The verdict came a day after Hilyard testified that voices in her head told her to kill Micki Davis, 63, on April 9, 2017. Police found Davis’s body in a garage in …
A Texas mother and her boyfriend have been charged with capital murder in the death of her 3-year-old son, who was brought to a hospital Tuesday with severe bruising over most of his body and an internal body temperature of only 81 degrees, KCBD reported. Because of the severity of his injuries, Elijah Lebario was …
Fort Lauderdale police are looking for information on the driver of a red Porsche that hit two Norwegian tourists early Thursday morning and fled the scene, sending both to the hospital with serious injuries. Local 10 News reported that the two tourists were scheduled to leave on a cruise on Saturday with a group of …
A Colorado teen who told investigators he planned a deadly shooting at school because he was taunted by classmates over his gender identity pleaded guilty on Friday to more than a dozen felonies, including first degree murder, the Denver Channel reported. Alec McKinney, 16, was originally charged with 43 counts in the May 7, 2019, …
A 21-year-old woman broke into her ex-boyfriend’s Shelby Township house early Wednesday morning with a rifle, baseball bat, knife, rope, duct tape, and lighter fluid, but whatever she planned to do was foiled when the dog woke up the sleeping family. Lilly Xiong was charged with assault with intent to murder, first-degree home invasion, arson …
