An Ohio man will spend a minimum of 19 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to crashing his vehicle while drunk, causing a fire that killed his 2-year-old daughter Lillyanna. Nicholas Stemen was sentenced to 22 to 27 1/2 years in prison and must serve 19 years before he is eligible for parole after …
An Illinois mother pleaded guilty last week to smothering her 7-year-old son in 2021 after a series of court motions aimed at discounting evidence against her failed. Sarah Safranek, 38, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, WIFR reported. The judge in the case, Anthony Peska, ordered that she serve 100 percent of the sentence …
O.J. Simpson’s estate has agreed to pay Ron Goldman’s father nearly $58 million, almost 30 years after a civil lawsuit. According to court documents filed in Las Vegas Friday, the executor of Simpson’s estate, Malcolm LaVergne, accepted the Goldman family’s creditor claim, along with 30 years of accumulated interest, TMZ reports. On June 12, 1994, …
A Texas daycare worker was sentenced this week to a decade in prison after she was seen on video kicking and shoving children in her care more than 100 times. Catherine Guziejka, 45, pleaded guilty in September to six counts of injury to a child, as CrimeOnline reported. She was sentenced to 10 years on …
A South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to killing his 25-year-old girlfriend and setting her car ablaze with her body inside. Jarrett Haskell Davis entered the plea on Monday and was was sentenced to more than four decades in prison, WRDW reported. The remains of Megan Bodiford were found in her burned vehicle on April …
The Tennessee man accused of killing four members of a family and kidnapping a baby has been indicted on multiple charges by a grand jury. Prosecutors said Austin Drummond was formally charged with four counts of first degree murder, four counts of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, aggravated kidnapping, and possession …
A Texas mom pleaded guilty on Monday to charges in connection with the death of her 2-year-old daughter more than seven years ago. Sarah Elizabeth Newsom pleaded to a charge of injury to a child by failure to protect in the death of Scarlette Oliva Newsom in October 2018, KFDX reported. She was sentenced to …
A Kansas woman who pleaded no contest to multiple charges related to the death of her 6-year-old daughter was sentenced on Monday to nearly 18 years in prison. Crystina Schroer entered her plea — meaning she didn’t admit guilt but also did not contest the allegations — in August, KWCH reported. Kennedy Schroer’s decomposed remains …
A Michigan mother charged alongside her boyfriend earlier this year with killing her toddler son to “make room” for a child the couple would have together pleaded guilty this week and will testify against the boyfriend. Amanda Mae Maison, 33, entered the guilty plea on Wednesday to a charge of second degree murder in the …
A Polish woman who claimed to be missing British toddler Madeleine McCann has been found guilty of harassment in Leicestershire. The jury acquitted Julia Wandelt, also known as Julia Faustyna and Julia Wendell, on a charge of stalking the toddler’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, the BBC reported. Madeleine, 3 at the time, was vacationing …
Two of five defendants in the murders of two Kansas women last year were rearraigned and pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. Cole Twombly and Tad Cullum were rearraigned after Texas County District Attorney George H. Leach III filed paperwork last month saying he would seek the death penalty against the two men, KAMR reported. The …
Florida prosecutors have dropped charges against a family of four accused of abusing their nine adopted and foster children after determining that the family was just doing to best it could under difficult circumstances. Brian Griffeth, 47, Jill Griffeth, 41, and their two biological children — 21-year-old Dallin Griffeth and 19-year-old Liberty Griffeth — have …
