A Delaware day care worker was charged with first-degree murder a day after she allegedly suffocated a 4-month-old girl at the facility last week. Delaware State Police said in a statement Friday that Dejoynay Ferguson, 19, was found to have “intentionally restricted” the infant’s breathing until she became unresponsive. Crews who responded to the Little …
A Tennessee couple and their 6-year-old grandson are dead in an apparent murder-suicide. According to Fox News, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department confirmed that Terry Majors, 64; Leigh Shea-Majors, 61; and their grandson, Ty Dodson, were all shot to death. Terry Majors is believed to have fatally shot his wife and grandson before turning the …
Jury selection has begun in the high-profile murder trial for a former Texas police officer who fatally shot her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment last year. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that more than 500 prospective jurors were summoned to the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas on Friday—on the one-year anniversary of Amber …
A California man accused of raping and fatally beating an elderly woman will claim he didn’t kill the victim, but instead engaged in necrophilia with her dead body, The Mercury News reports. Authorities allege 39-year-old Jonathan Jackson attacked 81-year-old Sun Yi Kwon while she was on a morning walk in January 2012 in Richmond, California, …
A New Jersey court learned on Thursday that a mother accused of killing her 22-moth-old son last year had allegedly filmed herself mocking her injured son hours before he died. Judge Edward J. McBride Jr. ruled Thursday that Tynaizha Brown, 24, will remain jailed pending her trial for murder, aggravated assault, and endangering the welfare …
An 11-year-old Wisconsin girl who’s in an adult jail for allegedly killing a 6-month-old boy last year was found unfit to stand trial on Wednesday—a decision which was influenced by a doctor’s finding that the preteen’s mental capacity has worsened in recent months. WQOW reported that Chippewa County Judge James Peterson ruled the girl incompetent, …
Although a 3-month-old infant’s manner of death remains undetermined, police said the boy was intentionally killed, leading to the arrest of his mother. AJC reports that 22-year-old Rebecca Taylor Kipp turned herself in on Tuesday morning. She facing one count of malice murder. According to authorities, infant Nickolas James-Campbell Bryan was found inside a Macon …
A Georgia woman who had given birth weeks earlier was fatally stabbed on Sunday while defending her younger sister from another teen, according to reports. Ta’Lela Stevenson, 19, reportedly died from a neck wound she sustained when she and her siblings confronted Jashaunte Marshall, 14, about bullying their 14-year-old sister. A fight broke out, leading …
An Alabama teen has been charged with five counts of murder for allegedly gunning down his father, stepmother, and three young siblings late Monday. Speaking with WAAY, an uncle and close friend identified the shooter as Mason Sisk, 14, who killed his family members at their Elkmont home at around 10:30. Limestone County Sheriff’s Office …
The Texas mother who reportedly kept her daughter’s dead body in a closet has blamed the 5-year-old girl’s death on her boyfriend. According to ABC 13, Priscilla Nicole Torres of Houston confessed to police that she wrapped her dead daughter in a blanket and placed the body in a closet after the girl died on …
A California man was arrested on Wednesday for the presumed murder of his missing girlfriend, whom he allegedly rapped about killing and burying shortly after her disappearance. Robert Anthony Camou, 29, is facing capital murder charges for the death of Amanda Custer, 31. The New York Post reported that Camou is believed to have killed …
Officials confirmed on Thursday that the 10-year-old Indiana girl who was found dead behind her home days after her reported disappearance was strangled. According to WPTA, the Fort Wayne Forensic Examination Unit completed their autopsy on Skylea Carmack on Wednesday—and deemed her death was a homicide as she died from strangulation. While her stepmother, Amanda …
