A homicide investigation is underway after police discovered a body inside a car Thursday, formally identified as Frezja Baker, a North Carolina woman who vanished a week earlier. Charlotte Mecklenburg police confirmed that Baker, 31, was the woman found deceased in a vehicle behind an abandoned church in Charlotte. Baker vanished on December 4, after …
Bones that were discovered over a year-long span belong to an Alabama man who vanished in 2024, officials announced this week. Curtis Taylor Jr., 25, lived across the street from the Center Point property where a dog was found with a human skull in August 2024. WBRC reported that authorities got involved after the dog …
A Louisiana woman is facing charges after police say she killed her own grandson while under the influence Tuesday. Slidell police said during a November 11 news conference that 55-year-old Kristen Anders has been charged with one count of vehicular homicide. The St. Tammany Parish Coroner’s Office identified the victim on Wednesday as Anders’ 5-year-old …
Florida prosecutors upgraded charges on Monday against a woman who they said intentionally crashed her car in February — leading to her boyfriend’s death earlier this month. On February 9, Leigha Mumby, 24, and Daniel Waterman, 22, were arguing when Mumby allegedly veered her vehicle into a tree on Interstate 95 in Flagler County. Waterman, …
Police on New York’s Long Island are investigating after a woman was found dead in her home with facial burns. A medical examiner said that Aleena Asif died from asphyxiation by an unknown chemical substance and ruled her death a criminal homicide, Nassau County Police said. Asif was 46. Her body was found last Friday …
A Wisconsin mother is dead after police say that her daughter bludgeoned her in her own backyard earlier this week. On October 12, police found Carrie Zettel, 64, was found dead in her backyard near South 23rd Street and West Ramsey Avenue in Milwaukee, WISN reported. According to court records, a neighbor told Milwaukee police …
The final pre-trial hearing has wrapped up for a Wisconsin man accused of killing his newborn when he was 16. Logan Kruckenberg Anderson, 21, is accused of tossing his newborn daughter, Harper, into the woods in January 2021. The incident reportedly happened days after the newborn’s mother gave birth at a residence in the Village …
A fourth deceased infant has been found inside the rental home of a Pennsylvania woman. According to the Pennsylvania State Police, police filed new charges against 39-year-old Jessica Mauthe this week after finding the baby inside a Cadogan Township residence. The charges include criminal homicide and involuntary manslaughter, in addition to four counts of concealing …
Police have charged a 46-year-old Pennsylvania man with criminal homicide for the death of his 19-year-old daughter, who died in a housefire he set because he was angry about his separation from his estranged wife. Brian Shelleby was also charged with aggravated arson and causing catastrophe, Allegheny County Police said in a statement. Police said …
A Pennsylvania woman was arrested on Sunday, after three deceased infants were reportedly found dead at her former home. Armstrong County police learned that Jessica Mauthe, 39, was evicted in mid-August, weeks before the homeowner cleaned the residence and discovered a trash bag with a foul odor in the closet. The coroner later confirmed it …
Police in New York are looking for a man they believed set a fire in Queens that killed an elderly man and woman on Monday. Officials responded to the fire Monday afternoon and found a 77-year-old man and a 78-year-old woman dead at the scene, WABC reported. The man was found tied to a pole …
Louisiana police arrested a woman on Sunday, weeks after her 12-year-old son left home and was fatally mauled by alligators. Hilda Vasquez, 34, allegedly gave police conflicting accounts of what happened when Bryan Vasquez vanished on August 14, though she stated that she woke up in the middle of the night and saw him in …
