A Georgia man accused of killing a young mother and dumping her body under a bridge two years ago is scheduled to face trial this month. The Covington News reports that the trial for James Gary Hill III is scheduled to begin on July 15 at the Covington courthouse in Newton County. Hill is facing …
Investigators have recovered the body of missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck in a canyon north of Salt Lake City. Per KSL, Salt Lake City police chief Mike Brown announced in a press conference Friday that investigators found the 23-year-old woman’s remains on Wednesday. “In the wake of this tragic, tragic incident I am …
A police officer among the responders to the deadly mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in 2017 was fired earlier this year after body cam footage showed he hesitated while one floor below the room where Stephen Paddock was spraying gunfire on the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. The Las Vegas Review-Journal …
An Ohio man was arrested Tuesday for the deaths of his wife and three of her relatives who were reportedly found shot to death in the family’s apartment in April. Gurpreet Singh, 37, was charged with the aggravated murders of his wife, Shalinder Kaur, 39, her parents, Hakiakat Singh Panag, 59, and Parmjit Kaur, 62, …
The man accused of killing his girlfriend and their unborn child was denied bond during his court appearance Wednesday in a Mississippi court. The Mississippi Clarion Ledger reported that Terrence K. Sample, 33, is facing two counts of murder for the deaths of Makayla Winston, 21, and her unborn child. Holmes County District Attorney Akille …
Authorities are searching for a couple on the run after one of their children was found dead, and three more in critical condition. NBC News reports that the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department announced in a release that Hakim Mustafa Moore, 27, and Robin Alexander, 29, are considered fugitives and are believed to have fled …
A California mother was arrested over the weekend, 11 years after she tried to kill her oldest son, police say ABC News reports that in 2008, 45-year-old Sherri Renee Telnas took her son Jackson Telnas, a 10-month-old at the time, to the Clark Fork River in Montana and tried to drown him. She told authorities …
The man accused of killing Mackenzie Lueck in Salt Lake City in June had previously been the focus of a rape investigation before his accuser declined to press charges. The Los Angeles Times reports that Ayoola Ajayi, who was arrested last week for the presumed murder of the 23-year-old University of Utah student, was a …
The suspect in the presumed murder of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck is still legally married to a woman who so feared him that she went into hiding. In an interview with the Daily Mail, Tenisha Jenkins Ajayi said she married Ayoola Ajayi in 2011, but has not seen him in years although they …
The remains of a Chinese scholar who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in central Illinois in 2017 may never be recovered, the Associated Press reports. That’s according to a court filing unsealed Friday in the case of Brendt Christensen, who was convicted earlier this week of kidnapping and killing Yingying Zhang in 2017. Lawyers for …
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with the murder of a 4-year-old girl, a crime her 8-year-old brother helped solve, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Authorities on Friday arrested 32-year-old Marquis Lamont Thomas of Hatfield, Pennsylvania, in connection with the 2016 death of Kailee Bunrout, his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter. About one month before she died, Bunrout …
The parents of a slain University of Utah student have filed a $56 million federal lawsuit, alleging college police and housing officials failed to act before her ex-boyfriend shot her to death on campus last year. Matt and Jill McCluskey, the parents of slain student Lauren McCluskey, 21, announced Thursday that they’re suing the college …
