The father of slain Colorado boy, Gannon Stauch, broke down in tears Monday afternoon following ex-wife Letecia Stauch’s murder conviction for killing his only son. Al Stauch requested that the defendant have his last name taken away from her, citing his frustration in hearing her addressed as “Ms. Stauch.” He then asked the judge to …
A Colorado judge sentenced Letecia Stauch to life without parole Monday afternoon, in connection with the death of her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch. 4th Judicial District Judge Gregory Werner took a brief recess before returning to the El Paso County courtroom, where he told the defendant that he had never seen a case with “conduct …
A sex offender in Illinois has been charged with killing a 15-year-old girl who was found dead in a dumpster on Sunday. WTVO reported that the victim, Gracie Sasso-Cleveland, was last seen by family on Thursday. Phone records placed her in the 500 block of College Avenue in Dekalb, not far from where her body …
An El Paso County jury in Colorado found Letecia Stauch guilty Monday of murdering her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, in 2020. The jury took around seven hours and 30 minutes and returned the verdict Monday afternoon, after failing to reach a decision last week. Stauch was also found guilty of tampering with a human body …
The body a missing Virginia DoorDash driver and father of a newborn was found this weekend after three suspects in a murder were found in his car. Cameron Cole, 23, was reported missing in Chester on April 28 when he failed to make a planned meet-up with his mother. Cole’s 2016 Honda Civic EX as …
A California man drove 12 hours to his brother’s home in Utah, where he shot and killed him, wounded his wife, set the house on fire, and then died in a shootout with police who were called by neighbors. A Ring doorbell camera captured most of the incident. The extremely graphic video, provided by the …
A Pennsylvania teen has admitted to helping torture and kill a man who was beaten, mutilated, burned, and shot before he was killed, WETM-TV reports. On Friday, 19-year-old Malik Weems (pictured right) pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder in connection with the 2021 death of 38-year-old Juan Jose Gotay. Authorities alleged that Weems …
Kaitlyn Babb was preparing to go to Oklahoma to testify against Jesse McFadden, the man she says lured her into an online relationship when she was 16 — and he was serving time for rape — when she got a message from him at about 8 p.m. on May 1, the first time they’d been in contact in years. “This is all on you for continuing this,” he wrote, with a photo of him looking directly into the camera. Now 23 and living in Texas, she said she was confused at first — and didn’t learn he’d killed his wife, her three children, and two teens having a sleepover with them until the next day.
Arizona deputies conducting a welfare check in April on a man who hadn’t picked up his mail in more than a year found another man living on the property and human remains in a fire pit. Yavapai County deputies came to 67-year-old John McCabe’s home initially on April 7 after the post office in Ashfork …
The Arizona esthetician who was stabbed more than a dozen times by a former Marine managed to fight him off and escape him before she collapsed and died, FOX 10 reports. Police on Friday said that 29-year-old Lauren Heike was randomly attacked by 22-year-old Zion Teasley on an East Libby Street hiking trail in Phoenix …
A Texas mother accused of slitting her young daughter’s throat and then strangling her to death last year had multiple encounters with child welfare authorities before the slaying, KHOU-TV reports. Public records obtained by the television show that the state’s Child Protective Services was even alerted about potential abuse just 10 days before the killing, …
The man who was arrested on Thursday for killing a woman on a hiking trail on Thursday allegedly stabbed her 15 times. AZ Family reported that Lauren Heike, who was found dead on Saturday at Reach 11 trail in Phoenix near her apartment, had defensive wounds on her hands and arms. Her suspected killer, Zion …
