A Texas teenager accused of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old at a high school track meet will not face the death penalty convicted, the Collin County District Attorney announced Wednesday. Prosecutors charged Karmelo Anthony, 17, with first-degree murder in the April 2 stabbing of Austin Metcalf. The incident happened at the Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco during …
Florida police said a murdered woman’s body was discovered in a closet at a resort on Monday. WPLG reported that Nadyne Tillman, 43, met Dylan Lamb, 33, on a prostitution website. Monroe County said they believe Lamb killed Tillman at the Amoray Beach Resort and stashed her body under a water heater in a closet. …
Ohio officials announced on Tuesday that a state agency will review child services’ handling of abuse allegations that surfaced before a 13-year-old girl was abducted and murdered last month According to WTVG, Lucas County Children Services executive director Randy Muth said they will conduct an internal review into how they handled abuse claims involving Kei’mani …
A Georgia man accused of killing his pregnant teenage girlfriend was granted bond again after prosecutors filed additional charges against him. In February, Jesus Monroy, 20, was indicted on new charges after prosecutors uncovered additional evidence, according to 11 Alive. The added charges include statutory rape, child molestation, and enticing a child for indecent purposes. …
Opening statements were delivered Friday in the trial for the 2023 murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five found dead on Maryland’s Bel Air trail. Morin’s mother, Patricia, listened with tears in her eyes as prosecutors recounted the circumstances of the crime, Maryland’s Hartford County court in Bel Air, where suspect Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez …
U.S. Marshals in Nevada arrested a man last month for killing a woman who was found dead in Iowa in February. The Gazette reported that Brittany Hopkins, 38, was found dead in a shopping cart in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on February 28. Hopkins, who was pregnant, was wrapped in a comforter bound with electrical tape …
A North Carolina man who was just released from prison was arrested on Monday for killing his mother and brother. Dana Jenkins, 50, and her son, Daryn Cox, 15, were found dead at a Wilson home. Suspect Da’ron Jenkins, 25, who is the slain woman’s older son, had not been in contact with the family …
On Friday, Ohio officials said that they found no evidence of abuse before a 13-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and murdered by her father late last month. Lucas County Children Services told WTOL that it received three reports — one in December 2023 and two in March 2024 — while Kei’mani Latigue was in her …
The wife of a former Green Beret has been arrested in connection with his death. On Friday, police arrested Shana Cloud Bonnell after DNA confirmed that the body found in February in a pond about five miles from their home belonged to her missing husband, Clinton Bonnell, according to ABC 11. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s …
A Shelby County, Tennessee, district attorney is seeking to transfer a teenage suspect’s murder and rape trial to adult court. In July 2024, Aaliyah Kyles, 19, was raped and murdered at her home at 3901 Bald Eagle Drive, according to the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office. WREG reported that neighbors heard a disturbance and gunshots …
A Native American tribe in southeastern Arizona is urging stricter oversight of state-licensed group homes after police found 14-year-old Indigenous teen Emily Pike dismembered after fleeing a Mesa group home. The San Carlos Apache Tribe said Monday it sent a resolution to Gov. Katie Hobbs and other state officials, calling for an investigation and legislative …
A 13-year-old Ohio girl who was found dead on Monday reportedly came to school with injuries months before her death. Kayleene Hairabedian, who was Keimani Latigue’s sixth-grade English teacher, told the Toledo Blade that she regularly came to school with injuries last year. Hairabedian said she and other teachers reported this to authorities, though it …
