Couple found dead with three children in townhouse murder-suicide had no known domestic issues; mom described as ‘a lovely person’
Family Crime
The 9-year-old twins had just celebrated a birthday last week
Juveniles
October 7, 2019
Little boy, 6, missing after SUV plunges into canal, killing brother, cousin. Teen boy dies trying to rescue them
Delaware authorities are still searching for a little boy involved in a fatal accident that ended with a vehicle crashing into a Delaware canal. USA Today reports that the crash happened at around 9 a.m. Sunday morning after the driver of a Chevrolet HHR plunged into the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, around a mile west …
Family Crime
October 6, 2019
Nurse impersonating a teacher tries to kidnap 4-year-old boy from elementary school, calling him the name of her teenage son: Report
A California woman is accused of impersonating a teacher and attempting to kidnap a young child, KTXL-TV reports. Officers were dispatched to Cooper Elementary School in Vacaville, California, on Thursday because of reports that a woman was acting erratically. Police say that Aileen Caringal, 56, was taking pictures of vehicles and people as children were …
Family Crime
October 5, 2019
Three children left alone with no food in filthy home covered in feces
Four Florida children were left inside a filth-ridden home that was filled with animal feces, urine, swarming insects, and numerous cats and dogs, WKMG-TV reports. Their mother, Sarah Mahoney, 31, is now accused of child neglect after police discovered the kids were alone inside the residence for 13 hours without food. A witness notified authorities …
child endangerment
October 4, 2019
Mom trades INFANT DAUGHTER for a 1992 Plymouth: Police
A North Carolina mother is behind bars on charges that she traded her then-infant daughter to a married couple for their 27-year-old car, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. A Davidson County grand jury indicted Alice Leann Todd and the couple who took Todd’s daughter, Tina Chavis and Vincencio Romero, on charges of unlawful sale, surrender or …
Juveniles
October 4, 2019
Grandmother of 2-year-old girl who died after mom left her in car with heater on said family had long worried for toddler’s safety [EXCLUSIVE]
It remains unclear why both June Love Agosto and her mother were inside cars for several hours when they were reportedly parked outside of a babysitter’s home
Juveniles
October 4, 2019
‘I like helping, except if it’s with chores’: Five children nicknamed ‘junior detectives’ rescue missing elderly woman
A group of California children are being called “junior detectives” and honored by police after locating a missing woman. According to the Roseville Police Department, the children saw a Facebook post about a missing 97-year-old woman with dementia, who disappeared from Belford. Three boys and two girls jumped on their bikes and spent the evening …
Juveniles
October 4, 2019
HEAR IT: Authorities release mother’s frantic 911 call after 5-year-old girl disappears in New Jersey park
Authorities in New Jersey have released the 911 call made by missing Dulce Alavez’s mother the day the 5-year-old disappeared in Bridgeton City Park. NJ.com obtained a recording of Noeme Alavez Perez’s September 16 emergency call in response to a records request. “I can’t find my daughter,” Alavez Perez is heard saying to a 911 …
Juveniles
October 3, 2019
High school football team cancels season after players accused of sexually assaulting teammate
A California high school has cancelled the remainder of its varsity football schedule for the year after one of its players accused four teammates of a sexual assault, and police “determined there was evidence to support a criminal complaint,” the Mercury News reported. The Gilroy Unified School District had said Monday, when the incident was …
Family Crime
October 3, 2019
‘Her eyes filled with blood’: Killer Dad Chris Watts shares grisly details of pregnant wife’s murder, admits to drugging Shannan Watts in attempt to end pregnancy: Report
Convicted family-killer Chris Watts reportedly revealed in a prison letter that he had been thinking about killing his wife Shannan Watts for weeks before her murder, and described her final moments in gruesome detail. Watts, who is serving multiple life sentences in a Wisconsin prison for the murder of his pregnant wife and two young …
Juveniles
October 3, 2019
School staff member throws 9-year-old child into freezing weather, reports him missing & lies about what really happened: Lawsuit
The mother of an elementary school student in Chicago says a school staff member tossed her son into freezing weather before the school reported the boy missing and lied about what happened, according to court documents recently filed. CNN reports that according to a lawsuit filed by the fourth-grade student’s mother, Yvonne Pinkston, a school …
Family Crime
October 3, 2019
Mom who left 2-year-old daughter in car with heater on for hours and sprayed her with garden hose after skin melted is arrested on suspicion of murder
The mother of a 2-year-old girl who died after she was left in a car with the heater on has been arrested. KTLA reports that Lacey Mazzarella, 34, was arrested and taken into custody on suspicion of murder Wednesday night. Her daughter, June Love Agosto, died on September 23 after Mazzarella left her alone in …