Arizona mom Brittany Velasquez allegedly murdered her two young children by locking them in a car for over 14 hours and then blaming an unidentified babysitter for their deaths. Nancy Grace looks at the case against the 20-year-old woman with a panel of experts including DNA expert George Schiro, New York psychotherapist Lauren Howard, Atlanta juvenile judge and founder …
After finding her family dead, a 4-year-old California girl reportedly used her murdered grandfather’s cell phone to call for help. The Sacramento Bee reports that Jacob Jedidiah Thayer, 26, is believed to have fatally shot his girlfriend Marie Leonetti, 27, and father, Richard Thayer, 60, early Thursday before turning the gun on himself. According to the newspaper, …
PLUS: Hart family careens over cliff to their death…was it intentional?
Her wife and several children had large amounts of a drug in their systems that can cause drowsiness, authorities said Friday.
Jennifer and Sarah Hart cultivated an image of an idyllic family life with their adopted black children. Was it all a lie?
The Mendocino County Sheriff’s office has announced the results of toxicology tests performed on four of the five deceased victims of the Hart family’s fatal SUV plunge on March 26. According to the sheriff’s statement, Jennifer Hart, who was being the wheel of the SUV, had a blood-alcohol level of .102 BAC at the time …
A family of four is feared dead after their SUV went off a highway into a swollen river during a spell of severe storms in Northern California last week. According to the Mercury News, authorities have concluded that a Honda Pilot SUV seen plunging into the Eel River outside Leggit, California, on Friday belongs the …
An Australian woman whose mother arranged for her to be raped has urged a court to extend her mother’s sentence as her release date approaches. Peta Butler was 16 when an overweight man with bulging eyes raped her in a Toowoomba hotel room. Butler’s mother, Therese, not only organized the rape but sat outside smoking a cigarette while …
Authorities found the bodies of Sarah and Jennifer Hart and three of their adopted children, Markis, Jeremiah and Abigail. Three other children, Hannah, Sierra and Devote, are still missing.
The women found dead with three of their six adopted children took in a foster child before they adopted two sets of siblings. And former friends who knew them at the time Sarah and Jennifer Hart fostered a teenage girl have recollections of the couple that diverge from the image of the family shaped by …
A friend of Sarah Hart’s said she got an alarming text message from Sarah in the early hours of the morning after CPS visited the Hart home in Woodland, Washington. According to The Oregonian, Cheryl Hart, who is no relation to the family, called Clark County emergency dispatch on Monday, March 26, the same day …
A family of four is missing in California, and their car may have gone into a river in the same area where the Hart family drove over a cliff two weeks ago. The Press Democrat reports that witnesses saw a Honda Pilot SUV pull into a turnout on Highway 101 before going over a riverbank …
