A second autopsy on the body of a University of Missouri student found dead in a Tennessee River after he was thrown out of a Nashville bar returned the same results as the first: no signs of foul play. Chris Dingman, a family friend acting as a spokesman for Riley Strain’s family, told NewsNation that …
An 8-year-old girl was found dead in a Houston hotel pool Saturday night after being reported missing. According to KPRC, the girl was reported missing shortly before 10 p.m. at the DoubleTree in northwest Houston. The body was recovered after the pool was drained. A witness told the station the girl was trapped in a …
Preliminary autopsy results indicated a University of Missouri student found dead in Nashville after he was missing for two weeks died accidentally. Metro Nashville Police confirmed to WKRN on Saturday that the early results on Riley Strain’s autopsy indicated no foul-play related trauma and that the death was “accidental.” Strain, 22, was in Nashville with …
After the discovery of a child’s body in a duffle bag in an empty lot in West Philadelphia on Monday, police are working to determine if the decomposing remains belong to a 4-year-old boy who disappeared in December. Damari Carter’s mother, 28-year-old Dominique Bailey, and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Kevin Spencer, were charged with multiple counts, …
City workers in Philadelphia found a small child dead inside a duffle bag while cleaning a lot Monday morning. Philadelphia Police Inspector Kpana Massaquoi told WPVI the child appeared to be between the ages of 2 and 4. The discovery was made shortly before 10 a.m. in the city’s Mantua neighborhood. A woman said she …
A toddler was found dead with head and neck injuries in a Brooklyn apartment Sunday night. New York police were called to the apartment shortly before 10 p.m., WPIX reported. Authorities said the 3-year-old’s mother had left the child with a family friend, a 54-year-old man, who was babysitting. According to WNYW, the tot boy …
Florida police have arrested the mother of an infant found dead in a dumpster in January. A construction worker found the baby on January 8. On Friday, Hollywood Police said that they had identified Brenda Feliciano, 36, as the baby’s mother and charged her with failure to report a death, WSVN reported. They also arrested …
Florida police are investigating after a homeowner found “toes sticking out of the ground” while doing yard work. Workers told WJXT the home is a rental property and they were on the scene doing renovations with the owner when the discovery was made. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was called to the scene Wednesday night and …
A 32-year New York sheriff’s deputy died early Sunday morning after he was involved in a brawl at a Genesee County casino. Police said Sgt. Thomas A. Sanfratello, who was on assignment at the casino, and casino security were escorting two patrons from the bar area following an altercation, the Democrat and Chronicle reported. One …
Police are investigating the death of an 11-year-old central New York boy who appears to have died from a drug overdose. Ashton Degonzaque, a 6th grader at Grant Middle School in Syracuse, was found unconscious and not breathing at his home on Thursday and was rushed to Upstate University Hospital in critical condition but died …
Police investigating a report of a missing child on Saturday found an 8-year-old dead. WKOW said the Rock County Sheriff’s Office found the child inside a home after they were called shortly after 6 p.m. but did not say if it was the same home where the call about the missing child originated. Deputies took …
Four people were charged with concealing a human corpse and tampering with evidence in connection with two bodies found mutilated and scattered in parks in Long Island last week. Steven Brown, 44; Amanda Wallace, 40; Jeffrey Mackey, 38; and Alexis Nieves, 33, have not been charged with murder or any other violent crime and were …
