An Iowa woman will spend her life behind bars for the murder of her stepmother. On Monday, a Benton County jury found Samantha Bevans, 35, guilty of first-degree murder in the 2022 killing of 58-year-old Jodie Bevans. Last week, Bevans testified in her defense, claiming her boyfriend, Tacoa Talley, smothered the victim inside her home …
A Georgia college junior was shot and killed Saturday during an argument in front of a campus residential complex. Kennesaw State University identified the victim as Alasia Franklin, 21. She was pursuing a career in nursing, her father, Bobby Franklin, told WXIA. Campus police issued a shelter-in-place alert for the campus, northwest of Atlanta in …
New York police have arrested a 19-year-old man in the shooting death of a 16-year-old boy last week and say they are still looking for a second suspect. Henry Thomas was arrested on Friday and has been charged with murder in the death of Makhi Brown, WABC reported. Brown has breaking up an argument between …
A Pennsylvania man is behind bars after state police say they found his roommate’s body scattered in three locations, including a trail, a cemetery, and a quarry. Police said 37-year-old David Hittinger’s dismembered body was discovered in Slatington, just 15 miles north of Allentown, Pennsylvania, according to CBS News. Hittinger was reported missing Monday by …
A UPS driver was found shot to death in his truck Thursday afternoon, and a co-worker with the delivery company has been charged with killing him. Irvine, California, police were called to the scene by multiple reports of shots fired at about 3 p.m., KCAL reported. Officers found Expedito Cuesta De Leon, 50, slumped over …
A man suspected of gunning down a South Carolina woman as she arrived at her job Friday morning was arrested hours later in Georgia. The Anderson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Katy Brooke Jones, 36, an employee at NRTC Automation in Piedmont, South Carolina. Investigators say Jones arrived at work and Derek Snyder, …
A Utah woman accused of killing her husband by mixing drugs into his drink reportedly threw a huge party following his death, reportedly after flipping a $2 million home. A search warrant affidavit indicates Kouri Richins told investigators that the night before her husband Eric Richins’ death in 2022, she had just finalized the sale …
Wisconsin investigators discovered a human arm along the Waukegan shoreline earlier this month, which is likely of 19-year-old Sade Robinson. According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, DNA results are needed to confirm the arm’s identity, Robinson’s family told FOX 6. The family found out about the body part on Mother’s Day. A Waukegan police …
A movie production crew found the body of a woman shot multiple times at a transit bus stop near an interestate overpass in northwest Atlanta early Thursday morning. Atlanta police said their officers were flagged down just before 5:30 a.m. at the intersection of Collier Drive NW and Harwell Road NW for the unresponsive woman. …
An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend’s 4-month-old son after the infant died Wednesday from injures suffered on April 25. Jacquon Ledarrion Stewart was initially charged with aggravated child abuse, the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said, but the charges were upgraded to murder after the baby’s death, according to WBRC. …
Tennessee police have arrested a suspect after a missing man’s body was reportedly discovered in a buried freezer on Wednesday. Edward Elliott, 64, was reported missing on March 31, but investigators believe Joey Guinn, 46, killed him sometime in February and moved his body. Guinn told Elizabethton and Carter County police that he last spoke …
Oklahoma authorities have arrested a man for gunning down his parents and sister last week. Jacob Mayhugh, 22, has been booked into the Grady County jail on three counts of first degree murder, the Oklahoman reported. Investigators had been searching for Mayhugh since May 11, when they found James and Patty Mayhugh, 55 and 54, …
