‘Though I hear what my kids went through and what they endured—though as a mother, if I could personally rip his face off, I would’
A man in California who killed his business partner, his partner’s wife, and their two sons and buried their bodies in the desert in February 2010 is facing the death penalty after he was convicted of their murders on Monday. Charles Merritt, 62, was found guilty of fatally bludgeoning Joseph McStay, 40, Summer McStay, 43, …
An Illinois woman is behind bars after police say she planned out, then killed her own parents inside their Arlington Heights home on Saturday. ABC 7 reports that 43-year-old Deborah Jane Martin is accused of murdering her parents, 71-year-old Anne Martin and her husband, 72-year-old David Martin. The incident took place inside the elderly couple’s …
An Arizona woman was sentenced to life in prison last week, years after shooting her ex-boyfriend dead amid a custody dispute involving their then-infant son. Kathryn Sinkevitch, 35, is ineligible for parole for the first-degree murder of Michael Agerter. Surveillance videos captured Sinkevitch opening fire on Agerter as he pulled into the garage of his …
A Florida woman accused of stabbing her husband to death in January reportedly married him after his second wife—her mother—died of cancer. A family friend told WFTV that Michael Redlick was dating Danielle Redlick’s mother when she got cancer. Investigators reportedly believe Michael married his last wife’s mother so she could get better health insurance. …
An Ohio woman was arrested Thursday for the murder of her newborn son, whose partially-dismembered body was reportedly discovered in a wooded area in 1993. Gail Eastwood-Ritchey, 49, allegedly admitted that she gave birth to the boy and left him in a trash bag she abandoned in Geauga County, where animals dismembered the corpse and …
Two Alaska teens are behind bars following the death of a 19-year-old woman whose body was recovered earlier this week in a river, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Denali Brehmer, 18, and Kayden McIntosh, 16, have been charged with first-degree murder and evidence tamping in connection with the death of Cynthia “CeeCee” Hoffman, 19. The …
A South Carolina man convicted this week of killing his five children reportedly did so after his 6-year-old son expressed that he wanted to be with his mother. According to WLTX, Timothy Jones Jr. made the admission in a recorded jail conversation which transpired days after the September 2014 murders. In it, he suggested that …
The mother of a slain 15-year-old boy has agreed to not sit in on her son’s murder trial after having two emotional outbursts which have halted court proceedings and threatened a mistrial. WPIX reported that Leandra Feliz will watch a live stream of the high-profile trial from another courtroom. The agreement, made between Feliz and …
The suspected killer, Terry Peder Rasmussen, died in 2010 while serving a prison sentence for his wife’s murder
Authorities in Texas have made an arrest in connection with Tuesday night’s fatal drive-by shooting of a teen boy who was reportedly struck and killed by a stray bullet while outside of a gas station. The Dallas Morning News reports that Datrail Deon Clayton, 21, is facing murder charges for allegedly shooting Malik Tyler, 13, …
A Brooklyn woman was convicted of first-degree manslaughter after she drowned her 2-year-old daughter in a storage bin. According to the New York Post, Lin Li was arrested in March 2016 after her daughter Melody died by drowning. Prosecutors reportedly said that Li had forced the 2-year-old girl to stand facing a wall for several …
