The family of a Mississippi man found hanging from a tree on Monday called for an independent autopsy as officials investigate his death as a suicide. Vanessa J. Jones, the lawyer representing Demartravion Reed’s family, said it is unclear what happened before he was found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, where he …
Officials have pushed back against claims of foul play in the death of a Mississippi college student whose body was discovered hanging from a tree on Monday. Demartravion Reed, 21, was discovered hanging from a tree in the middle of Delta State University’s campus, behind the pickleball courts. Not only did Delta State University police chief …
The bodies of a toddler girl, a 6-year-old boy, and a 31-year-old woman were recovered from Lake Michigan on Saturday. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the children as 1-year-old Jream Jaycee Washington and Wyatt Bryden Patton, 6. The woman has not yet been identified, WLS reported. Police believe the deaths are connected and …
The former University of Kentucky student charged with concealing her newborn’s death was not home when the body was discovered last month, police said. The Lexington Police Department’s report stated that someone called 911 on August 27 about an unresponsive baby that was “cold to the touch.” Laken Snelling, 21, is believed to have given …
Local media is reporting new details of a decomposing body found in a vehicle registered to singer D4vd this week. The body was found Monday in the front trunk of an impounded Tesla that had been on a Hollywood tow yard for several days, as CrimeOnline reported. The vehicle was impounded after it was reported …
A Texas teenager was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly killing his father and then leading police on a high-speed chase in the victim’s truck. Authorities said the 16-year-old boy has not been charged with Willie Washington’s murder but with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault of a family member, KTRK reported. Washington, …
An ex-boyfriend of a former University of Kentucky student whose newborn son was reportedly discovered in a closet last month has submitted his DNA as investigators determine the baby’s cause of death. Lexington police allegedly requested the DNA sample from Laken Snelling’s former boyfriend to confirm whether he fathered her deceased baby. The 21-year-old man’s …
A Florida man was arrested on a domestic violence charge after his wife was found dead and floating in a nearby canal. Coral Springs Police said that Jeffrey Ernest Evans, 43, called 911 Monday night just before 9 p.m. and said his wife was having a “mental break” and needed assistance., WPLG reported. Six minutes …
A father and his 4-year-old son were found dead in an eastern Ohio lake over the weekend after their mother crashed a golf cart — carrying three other children — into the water. It’s not clear from Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office releases how exactly the two incidents are connected. According to the sheriff’s office, the …
Florida authorities this week released video they’d found in their investigation of the death of Giovanni Pelletier. Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells recapped the teen’s texts and travels in the time before his disappearance. Pelletier, 18, disappeared on August 1 after getting out of a vehicle driven by a cousin on Interstate 75 near State …
A missing California woman was found dead in a national forest, and her husband has reportedly fled to South America with their children. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed a murder charge against 36-year-old Jossimar Cabrera for the death of mother of three Sheylla Cabrera, 33. Cabrera reportedly fled to his native Peru …
A 22-year-old Massachusetts man will be charged with the murder of his missing and pregnant girlfriend after her body was found on his property in Rehoboth. Police say Gregory Groom assaulted 18-year-old Kylee Monteiro on August 6 then reported her missing the next day, according to WCVB. Monteiro, who was 12 weeks pregnant and living …
