A man who helped a teenage girl commit suicide in Utah will spend a significant amount of time behind bars, a judge ruled Friday. The Deseret News reports that 19-year-old Tyerell Joe Przybycien was sentenced to at least five years but could serve up to life in prison. Przybycien expressed remorse for his involvement in …
Seven children were rescued from a Missouri home where they were wearing urine-soaked clothes and had feces caked onto their feet, KMOV-TV reports. Last month, neighbor Pat Abney reportedly encountered two of the children, an 8-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy, after they had exited the residence in the November cold with bare feet and without …
In an interview on ABC’s 20/20 Friday night, the parents of murdered mom Shanann Watts spoke of their grief after losing their only daughter and grandchildren. Sandra and Frank Rzucek, Shanann’s parents, sat for their first interview since their daughter and two granddaughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, were found dead by the hand of …
Shanann Watts’s best friend Nicole Atkinson is being called the “unsung hero” of the murder investigation due to her quick action when she realized the pregnant mom of two was missing with her young daughters Bella and Celeste. Inside Edition has obtained police bodycam video from August 13, when Atkinson called police to report that …
The parents of Shanann Watts have spoken out for the first time, in an interview on ABC’s 20/20 that will air in full Friday night. ABC released a clip of the interview ahead of Friday’s airing, in which Frank and Sandra Rzucek talk about their memories of their daughter and granddaughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste. …
On the day that Shanann Watts and her young daughters were first reported missing in mid-August, her husband Chris Watts made a series of phone calls to area hospitals at the suggestion of concerned family and friends — but an investigating officer was skeptical that Watts actually inquired about his family. According to a phone …
A woman who had a brief affair with convicted family-killer Chris Watts spoke with Inside Edition about her tryst, as newly released interview footage shows her speaking to police about dating the man who would later kill his pregnant wife and two daughters. Amanda McMahon told Inside Edition that she met Watts on Tinder in …
The Weld County Coroner released the complete autopsy reports of Bella, Celeste, and Shanann Watts, who were murdered by Chris Watts on August 13. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Chris Watts tried to pin the murders of 3-year-old Celeste and 4-year-old Bella on his wife when he first confessed to murdering Shanann, who was 15 weeks …
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that the names of 11 priests accused in the grand jury’s scathing report regarding rampant child sex abuse in the church will remain permanently redacted. As reported by the Philadelphia Enquirer, August’s grand jury report included testimony from more than 1,000 children who alleged abuse at the hands of 301 priests in …
Every winter, actor Scott Schwartz hears stories of how children, in an attempt to emulate his character from the classic hit movie, “A Christmas Story,” stick their tongues to frozen poles. As Christmas approaches and the temperatures begin to drop, the actor wants to warn kids that not only are they putting themselves in danger, …
Autopsy reports released by the Weld County District Attorney’s office show that murdered mom Shanann Watts’s unborn baby was found just outside of her body after Chris Watts buried his pregnant wife in an oil field. The documents obtained by CrimeOnline came with a warning about the graphic nature of the autopsy reports, which explain …
A New Mexico court is deciding whether a man who was 15 when fatally shot his parents, brother, and two sisters will walk free nearly six years after the grisly quintuple slaying. Per the Albuquerque Journal, Children’s Court Judge John Romero is tasked with determining if convicted murderer Nehemiah Griego, now 21, is rehabilitated and can be reintroduced …
