Young mother kills herself after strangling 8-year-old daughter — exactly two years after husband’s suicide
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The little girl survived the murder-suicide attempt, but police believe her mother thought she was dead
Family Crime
June 25, 2017
Little girl finds mother dead of suicide — and mom may have thought she killed daughter first
A mother is dead and her daughter is injured in what police believe may have been an attempted murder-suicide. According to NBC News, an eight-year-old girl in Fairfield, Connecticut, woke up on Saturday morning to find her mother dead. The girl ran to a neighbor’s house for help when her mother wasn’t responding. Ivanna Krekhtyak, …
Child Abuse
June 23, 2017
Baby drowns in bathtub while mom chats on Facebook
A Texas mother is in jail after her 8-month-old daughter drowned in a bathtub while the mom left her unattended last week. According to CBS DFW, Cheyenne Summer Stuckey of Parker County told police that she put her daughter in the bathtub with the water running and then became distracted by other children in the home, …
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June 22, 2017
Murder-suicide father called child services just hours before last contact; Mom of murdered children speaks out [EXCLUSIVE]
“I said many many many times my children were in danger,” the mother said in a statement
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June 22, 2017
‘Monster’ mom claims boyfriend injected her with heroin after he beat tot girl to death
Jurors begin their second full day of deliberations on Thursday to decide if Michael McCarthy is guilty of killing his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter in 2015. According to CBS News, McCarthy was charged with first-degree murder in Bella Bond’s death, which authorities believe took place in May or June of 2015. Bella’s mother Rachelle Bond had …
Cold Cases
June 21, 2017
Husband of slain radio DJ star goes berserk when cops try to search premises
“I’m not going to jail for this!”
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June 20, 2017
Divorcing dad kills two young children before hanging himself during Father’s Day visit
A California father is the prime suspect in a tragic murder-suicide on Father’s Day weekend that took the lives of two young children. According to ABC 7, authorities found Alvaro Camara, 40; his six-year-old daughter; and his 18-month-old son dead in Camara’s Santa Rosa home on Monday morning. Camara reportedly hung himself, and the children’s cause …
Child Abuse
June 19, 2017
Famed pianist’s wife claims she doesn’t remember smothering her children to death
Lawyers for the Texas woman accused of smothering her two young children to death last year plan to use the insanity defense in her upcoming trial for the murders. According to the Star-Telegram, Sofya Tsygankova is facing trial for charges that she smothered her two daughters, Michaela Kholodenko, 1, and Nika Kholodenko, 5, in March of …
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June 18, 2017
FBI raids condo of woman lost at sea for a month
The FBI raided the Delray, Florida, condominium where Isabella Hellman had been living before she vanished in a mysterious boating accident last month. According to the Palm Beach Post, roughly 20 FBI personnel performed a day-long search on Friday of the Delray condo where Isabella lived with her husband Lewis Bennett and infant daughter. Hellman …
Celebrity Justice
June 16, 2017
Christian rocker murders mother and brother: Police
The family appeared on the ‘Wife Swap’ reality show
Child Abuse
June 14, 2017
Monster dad forces teen daughter ‘exorcism’ of Satan
A Michigan father is headed to prison after ambushing his teen daughter with a forced exorcism. According to the Detroit Free Press, William Ellis Watt, of Gregory, was sentenced to one to 10 years of prison for his third domestic violence offense. The incident reportedly took place in September, when Watt and other family members approached …
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June 13, 2017
Former secretary of Texas principal who shot himself admits affair; police have surveillance video of school parking lot
“You realize you’re still alive only because I can’t afford a hitman, right?”