An Alabama teenager is suing his adoptive parents after they pleaded guilty earlier this month to holding him captive and starving him, WBRC reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Richard and Cynthia Kelly were arrested in 2017 on felony child abuse charges. Prosecutors said they kept their 14-year-old charge locked in the basement 23 hours a …
Georgia police have arrested the fiance of a foster mother charged in October with murder in the deaths of 3-year-old twins in her care, jailing him on the same counts, WSAV reported. Sam Edwards was arrested on December 19 on two counts each of second degree murder and second degree cruelty to children in the …
A South Carolina man has been charged with murder by child abuse following the death of his 14-month-old son, the Greenville News reported. Little Kingston Clark was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries on Saturday after his father, Ashton Robert Clark, allegedly smashed his head into a wall and slammed his body into furniture, …
An Arkansas teen has been charged with killing his mother, and his father is also in jail for trying to cover up the crime, Arkansas Online reported. Carson Glover, 19, was arrested on Wednesday on a single county of capital murder in the death of Sonya Glover, 54. His father, William Gregory Glover, 55, was …
Two children foiled an attempted carjacking Sunday night in Chicago, choking the would-be thief and pounding him over the head with an computer tablet. Police said a 49-year-old man left his SUV running with his three children inside when he went into a Domino’s pizza in Rogers Park, according to WGN. A car pulled up …
An Arizona man convicted of sexual abuse in Iowa 15 years ago has been charged with threatening an Iowa legislator over a requirement in the state’s sex offender registry law the he register in Arizona, where he has lived since 2016. According to a federal complaint, Cody Ray Leveke, 36, had been communicating with state …
Two more women have filed suit against disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, charging that the convicted pedophile raped them when they were young teenagers. The women, identified as Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4, join a lawsuit already filed on behalf of Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 by attorney Lisa Bloom. Epstein died …
The baby found at the Houston home where Heidi Broussard was found murdered and stuffed into the trunk of a car is “fine, happy and healthy,” a spokeswoman with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) said on Monday. Tiffani Butler of DFPS told ABC 13 that the results of a DNA test …
A Utah woman is being accused of trying to buy an illegal biological agent to harm her sick roommate — and it wasn’t the first time she’d tried. Janie Ridd, 50, is her roommate’s caretaker and the beneficiary of her life insurance policy, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Additionally, the roommate’s will stipulates that Ridd …
Police investigating a suspected child pornographer on Friday found a teenage boy missing for two-and-a-half years in the man’s cupboard, solving a missing persons case that had plagued investigators from the start. The 15-year-old boy, known as Marvin in the German press, vanished without a trace from a supervised group home in Recklinghausen in 2017, …
Detectives in south Florida are investigating after a 9-month-old baby drowned when his mother left him unattended in the bathtub and took a nap, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said the child’s parents, identified as Heather Clifford, 29, and Shawn Stewart Davis, 30, found the boy face down in the water …
Police in two Idaho jurisdictions investigating the mysterious death of a woman in October are now looking for two missing children, their mother, and the dead woman’s husband, who married the children’s mom two weeks after his wife’s death, EastIdahoNews.com reports. The FBI is assisting in the search for Joshua Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, …
