A Pennsylvania man is behind bars after he allegedly admitted to killing his wife with a fire poker. Fox 56 reports that Daniel Barrett went to the Plymouth Police Department on Monday and while “emotional and excited,” confessed to killing his wife, Mary Barrett. He reportedly claimed his wife had been cheating on him. When …
Tennessee police this week arrested a second suspect in the shooting death of a nurse who was shot to death last month while driving along Interstate 440 on her way to work, WKRN reports. James Edward Cowan, 28, was arrested Tuesday night as he arrived at the Hickory Hollow Place apartment after they followed him …
Authorities in Florida have arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of killing a Georgia teenager whose body was found in a Lamar County cemetery on Sunday. Lamar County Sheriff’s investigators identified the 17-year-old girl as D’Shaunti Kyanni Hunter and said she had suffered from at least one gunshot wound. On Wednesday, the sheriff’s office said that …
Police in suburban Chicago are investigating an apparent murder-suicide in the parking lot of a UPS distribution center southwest of the city, CBS2 reports. Hodgkins police responded to the scene shortly before 1 p.m. Monday and found a man and a woman on the pavement of the employee parking lot, NBC Chicago said. Paramedics declared …
A couple was arrested in California on Wednesday, a day after they allegedly robbed and fatally shot a man in a hotel room in Oregon. The Grants Pass Department of Public Safety said in a statement that officers responded to a Red Lion Inn on January 5 after an employee found Ryan Dutra, 42, on …
The woman believed who killed herself and her 5-year-old daughter in a suicide leap in Manhattan had struggled with depression following a separation from her husband, but had been improving before the apparent murder-suicide, her mother said. As the New York Post reports, Oksana Patchin, 39, and her 5-year-old daughter Olivia were pronounced dead at …
Authorities in California have launched a manhunt for six inmates who escaped from the Merced County Downtown Jail this weekend. According to Fox News, jail security became aware that the inmates had escaped at around midnight Sunday. The sheriff’s office said in a statement posted to Facebook that the inmates had somehow gained access to …
An on-duty Tennessee police officer was seen on surveillance footage shooting and killing a man he’d kidnapped and forced into his patrol car, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports. Patric Ferguson, 29, was relieved of duty and charged with first degree murder, first degree murder with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated kidnapping, abuse of a corpse, and fabricating …
A man wanted for allegedly shooting his ex-girlfriend to death in California killed himself in Texas as authorities closed in on him, the Irving Police Department said Saturday. Detectives determined Herbert Nixon Flores, 46, traveled to family in Texas after shooting 35-year-old Karen Ruiz in Los Angeles. The shooting was captured by a security camera …
A Georgia man is behind bars after he allegedly killed his own mother days before Christmas. AJC reports that 38-year-old Bryan Ray Moodie is accused of brutally murdering his mother, Katrina Kay Garrity, 62, on December 20, inside a Bartow County home. He’s currently being held on felony murder and aggravated assault charges. Officers arrived …
A Colorado man allegedly fatally shot his estranged wife on New Year’s Eve — days after he was arrested on domestic violence charges and bailed himself out of jail. Damon Mathews, 44, allegedly confessed to strangling and shooting Rachel Ream, 47, in the head at her home in Ignacio. He said they were celebrating the …
Denver police have arrested a 28-year-old man suspected of killing another man whose body was found inside two suitcases on a snowy sidewalk last month, ABC7 reports. Investigators believe Benjamin David Satterthwaite and the victim, whose identity has not been released because his identity has not been confirmed, knew one another, the station said. Public …
