Colorado prosecutors called Kelsey Berreth’s mother to the stand on Friday, the first witness in the murder trial of rancher Patrick Frazee, accused of killing Berreth, with whom he had a child, on Thanksgiving Day last year. Kelsey Berreth is missing and presumed dead. Frazee pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including first-degree murder, tampering …
One of a set of infant twins hospitalized last week with broken bones and head trauma died on Thursday, and the babies’ father — already charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child — has been charged with manslaughter, ABC7 reported. Jonathan Melendez, 27, was arrested on October 25, two days after …
A Houston jury took ten minutes on Thursday to sentence Patrick Lambert to life in prison for stabbing his wife to death, stuffing her body into her refrigerator, and fleeing to Mexico with their young son, the Houston Chronicle reported. The same jury deliberated for four days before finding Lambert, who represented himself in court, …
A Montana woman has been sentenced to a mental health facility for 20 years for breaking into her ex-boyfriend’s house and sexually assaulting him at the point of a machete, the Great Falls Tribune reported. According to court documents, Samantha Mears, 20, broke into the victim’s home in June 2018 while he was out running …
A Michigan woman charged with biting a friend’s ear off and sadistically biting her face appeared at a preliminary hearing on Tuesday where a fourth felony was added to her charges, ClickOnDetroit reported. Deputies found Allison Thompson Weaver, 44, and a 48-year-old woman nude and covered in blood when they arrived on September 17, alerted …
A Philadelphia man has been accused of buying a shotgun, bringing it home on the subway, and then shooting each member of his family as they came home from work or school, NBC Philly reported. Maurice Louis, 29, has been charged with four counts of murder in the shooting deaths of his mother, Janet Woodson, …
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr pleaded not guilty Thursday to sexual abuse charges levied against him by a third alleged victim, the New York Post reported. The “Jerry McGuire” star was indicted earlier for touching nightclub server Natasha Ashworth’s buttocks in 2018 and for squeezing a 30-year-old woman’s breast in June, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Court …
A 36-year-old woman was found dead Wednesday with an 8-foot python wrapped around her neck, lying of the floor of a house owned by by a county sheriff with 140 snakes inside, the Lafayette Journal & Courier reported. Twenty of the snakes belonged to Laura Hurst, the woman who was found dead, Indiana State Police …
Three people were killed and nine wounded in a mass shooting at a Halloween/birthday party in Long Beach, California, Tuesday night, Long Beach police said. At least one shooter opened fire on the festivities from an alley behind the house in the Rose Park neighborhood shortly before 11 p.m., police said. The Long Beach Fire …
An Oklahoma couple is in jail, charged with injecting a woman with methamphetamine and recording her death, KOAM reported. Brian Edward Anderson and Allie Beth Anderson, both of Eucha, have been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder in the death of Melissa Vermillion, who passed away on October …
Former Major League Baseball slugger Josh Hamilton turned himself in to Tarrant County, Texas, authorities on Wednesday on a felony charge of injury to a child, CBS DFW reported. Hamilton, who spent five seasons with the Texas Rangers and won the American League MVP award in 2010, is charged with hitting and scratching his daughter …
Puerto Rican authorities have charged a grandfather with negligent homicide in the death of a toddler who fell from an 11th story window on a Caribbean cruise ship docked in San Juan this summer. San Juan Investigations Chamber Judge Jimmy Sepúlveda ruled that prosecutors had provided probable cause for the arrest of Salvatore Anello, set …
