Facebook Killer strikes as violence, suicides plague social media livestreams
Child Abuse
Here are the scariest examples of Instagram and Facebook Live gone horribly wrong
Bullies
April 14, 2017
Police: Thieves rob boy who fell into diabetic coma while playing at park
Police officers in Nottingham, England are searching for a group of thieves who stole a 13-year-old boy’s bike and rifled through his pockets as he lay in a park, unconscious from extremely low blood sugar. According to the Nottingham Post, McKinley Chambers, a Type 1 diabetic, was at the Queens Walk Recreation Ground on Sunday, playing football. …
Family Crime
April 14, 2017
Teen girl and her boyfriend slashed grandparents’ throats, invite friends over: Police
The girl’s mother had given custody to her parents when the teen became too out of control
Juveniles
April 14, 2017
10-year-old autistic boy arrested, dragged away in handcuffs and forced to spend the night in jail [VIDEO]
A Florida mother is demanding answers after her 10-year-old autistic son was hauled away from school in handcuffs Wednesday — and had no idea why. Luanne Haygood recorded video of her son John Benji Haygood being arrested and handcuffed at his school in Okeechobee County. According to WPTV 5, the little boy had …
Family Crime
April 14, 2017
‘Manchester By The Sea’ may have inspired cold-blooded murder of special needs teen: Prosecutor
A pregnant mother accused with her husband of killing their 16-year-old special needs son may have been inspired by the Oscar-winning movie Manchester By The Sea. In late February, firefighters found 16-year-old Jeffrey Franklin dead in an upstate New York home that had been engulfed in flames. An investigation later revealed that Jeffrey was not …
Juveniles
April 12, 2017
Teen accidentally shoots himself to death while on Instagram Live
A 13-year-old Georgia boy is dead after accidentally shooting himself while filming on Instagram Live on Monday. Authorities are now investigating how a young boy got his hands on a gun. NBC 11 Alive reports that Shaniqua Stephens watched her teen son, Malachi Hemphill, take out the trash and make his way back to his bedroom on Monday …
Child Abuse
April 10, 2017
Missouri infant found with fractured skull, mouth smeared with superglue
An investigation is underway after a Kennett, Missouri, baby was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull and superglue smeared on his mouth. WREG reports that a police officer received a call last Monday after hospital staff reported that a baby brought in for treatment had blood on his nose, swollen limbs, face swelling, and …
Celebrity Justice
April 9, 2017
Casey Anthony’s mother: ‘There’s something wrong … it smells like there’s been a dead body in the damn car’
What did Casey Anthony’s parents know? How did she get away with so many lies? The first episode of the three-part series, Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery, aired on Investigation Discovery on Sunday. It highlights the incredulous weeks and months following the discovery that Casey Anthony’s two-year-old daughter Caylee had gone missing — and no …
Cold Cases
April 8, 2017
Emmett Till murder case may be re-opened, more than 60 years later
Two white men were acquitted of murdering the boy after an all-white jury deliberated for less than an hour
Drug Crime
April 8, 2017
9-month-old baby girl found high on meth was INJECTED with the drug: Police
A nine-month-old baby in Texas appears to have been injected with methamphetamine. According to an arrest affidavit from the Lamesa, Texas, police department obtained by CBS 7, an infant girl brought to the hospital last Thursday with methamphetamine in her system was injected with the drug by a needle. At around 10 p.m., when Destiny Lozano picked …
Juveniles
April 8, 2017
Casey Anthony: Tot mom jokes, screams, cries in never-before-seen video footage from jail
Never-before-seen footage of Casey Anthony, aka Tot Mom, speaking to her parents from jail will air Sunday night in the premiere of Investigation Discovery’s three-part series Casey Anthony: An American Murder Mystery. The premiere episode explores the first shocking weeks of the investigation into her three-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony’s disappearance in 2008 — an investigation …
Child Abuse
April 7, 2017
Evil Dallas mom’s baby, now dead, was ‘skin and bones’
A Texas woman indicted in 2015 on felony child injuries charges pleaded guilty on Thursday in a Dallas courtroom. Dallas Morning News reports that 22-year-old Princess White deprived her 7-month-old baby, Kary Sharpe, of nutrition to the point that the infant only weighed ounces more than his birth weight. He was too weak to even lift his …