A North Carolina teen who escaped jail during his first appearance on murder charges is back behind bars after his mother turned him in. WRAL reports that the 13-year-old boy, Jericho W., apparently stopped by his uncle’s house and asked for food and a shower a few days after his Tuesday escape. According to police, …
The woman who called police to report she had seen a fugitive kidnapping suspect and a missing 14-year-old girl was the suspect’s own mother. Oxygen reports that the woman who called police last Monday to report that Bruce Lynch and Isabel Hicks had knocked on her door is Lynch’s mother, Lisa Harper. In an interview …
Five men in Spain have been acquitted of raping an unconscious 14-year-old girl because the allegations did not meet the country’s legal definition of the crime, which requires that a victim fight back, CNN reports. The suspects instead were convicted of a lesser charge under Spanish law because an element of rape requires a perpetrator …
A 3-year-old boy who was stabbed in his sleep is expected to be taken off life support. CBC News reports that Hunter Straight-Smith was hospitalized Wednesday with multiple stab wounds after he was attacked in his Winnipeg home in Canada early Wednesday morning. Daniel Jensen, 33, has been charged with multiple counts including attempted murder …
UPDATE Thursday 12:30 p.m. ET: The Scotland County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to WSOC-TV that Allyson Nicole Oxendine has been found, reportedly in good health. “Allyson Oxendine has been located and is alive,” law enforcement officials reportedly said. “No other information will be released at this time.” According to the report, Allyson’s father said the girl wandered …
The 14-year-old girl who went missing from her Virginia home on October 31 has been found safe and her suspected abductor is in police custody. Citing police sources, WTVR reports that Isabel Hicks and Bruce Lynch, 33, were found in a vehicle in Caroline County, Virginia, Wednesday night after a driver spotted the vehicle and …
A deceased teen’s aunt and uncle are planning to sue a California school district. They claim their nephew told administrators that he was being bullied days before two students fatally assaulted him on school grounds. The $100 million wrongful death claim against the Moreno Valley Unified School District alleges that Diego Stolz, 13, and his …
Two Michigan boys are dead after a fire started in their home before they left for school Monday morning, and investigators aren’t sure how or why it started. FOX 2 reports that the boys, ages 9 and 11, were in their Grosse Pointe home off of Fisher Road home when the fire broke out. According …
Authorities are searching for a 4-year-old boy and his mother who are missing from Nebraska after the mother stopped taking her son to his cancer treatment appointments. The Associated Press reports that Abak Rehan fled the state with her son Prince Rehan and missed multiple cancer treatment appointments in Omaha. Prince Rehan reportedly has Rhabdomyosarcoma, …
A 14-year-old girl and her alleged kidnapper were reportedly spotted by a resident of Hanover County, Virginia, earlier this week. WTVR reports that a woman who lives in Western Hanover said that Isabel Hicks and Bruce Lynch, 34, knocked on her door Monday night, three days after authorities issued an AMBER Alert for the teen …
A Georgia mother is facing homicide charges after her 1-year-old son died of injuries authorities believe were the result of violent abuse. Fox News reports that Trinity Pittman of Palmetto is facing murder and child cruelty charges for the death of her 20-month-old son Conner Perry, who was pronounced dead this past weekend after Pittman …
Puerto Rican authorities have charged a grandfather with negligent homicide in the death of a toddler who fell from an 11th story window on a Caribbean cruise ship docked in San Juan this summer. San Juan Investigations Chamber Judge Jimmy Sepúlveda ruled that prosecutors had provided probable cause for the arrest of Salvatore Anello, set …
