A five-year-old girl in Maine accidentally shot and killed herself after she discovered a loaded gun inside her grandparents’ Scarborough home. WCSH reports that Elise Dorr, 5, died on Monday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The little girl reportedly found the loaded .45 caliber handgun in her father’s backpack while they were at her grandparents’ home. …
A Michigan man accused of shaking his girlfriend’s 4-month-old daughter to death has taken a plea deal and now could spend the rest of his life in prison. Richard Watson, 46, pleaded guilty this week to second-degree murder and first-degree child abuse, Midland Daily News reports. Under the deal, prosecutors dropped other counts of felony murder …
The suspect claimed he could teach the young daughter “about the joys of sex”
A Texas teen girl who likely drowned with her family during the devastating Hurricane Harvey on Sunday, posted a message on Facebook shortly before she disappeared, and the heartbreaking message has many people hugging their loved ones a little tighter. New York Post reports that at 5:30 a.m. on Sunday, 16-year-old Devy Saldivar posted the message on …
Suspect who allegedly choked, tossed little girl over a bridge was a guest at her family’s cookout earlier that day
The suspect allegedly choked the girl before throwing her into a lake
A Colorado bus aide who admitted to kicking, hitting, and spraying a student with autism in the face with aerosol disinfectant will spend 20 months behind bars. Monica Burke, 52, was also sentenced to five years probation and ordered to complete 360 hours of community service after pleading guilty to assaulting an at-risk person, ABC News …
The body of a missing pregnant woman has been found in North Dakota. KSTP reports that kayakers found the body of 22-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind wrapped in plastic in a river north of Fargo. The police department announced on its Facebook page that the body had been positively identified as Greywind on Sunday night. The police …
A 1-month-old baby boy remains in critical condition after his father reportedly grabbed him by the throat, choked him, and threw him into a ceiling fan. Prosecutors said Robert Jackson Jones Jr., 24, of Muskogee, Indiana, also confessed to smothering and slamming his infant son to stop his crying. The boy’s mother, Emma Whitehead, 22, …
A New York man has admitted that he was on drugs when he murdered a mother and her young daughter by choking them and then slashing their throats earlier this month, the Post-Star reports. Bryan Redden, 21, told police that he was “high on drugs” and had “done heroin” when he killed 33-year-old Crystal Riley …
The six-month search for two Tulsa, Oklahoma, children has reportedly ended with the children’s safe return and their parents’ arrest. Christopher Smith and Shaquelle Cantrell are accused of taking off with their children during a supervised visit in February. According to KOKI, Department of Human Services (DHS) removed the couple’s 5-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter from …
Police have arrested a man and a woman and charged them with a litany of felonies after their 2-year-old son suffocated to death after they allegedly tied and weighted down a mattress over his crib so he wouldn’t be able to climb out, WGAL-TV reports. The parents, Justin Dwyer and Courtney Stash, are facing a …
