The second day of testimony is under way at the murder retrial of Quinton Tellis, the man accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in Courtland, Mississippi, in 2014. When Tellis was tried last year, it ended in a mistrial when a jury couldn’t come to a decision. A key argument for the defense, then …
A Michigan man is dead after allegedly fatally shooting his mother-in-law, her boyfriend, and their dog before kidnapping his wife and two young children. Police said Bruce Huntley, 33, killed Lisa Bradley, 58, and her longtime boyfriend, James Cole, 54, Saturday after his wife and two children, ages 2 and 4, sought refuge at their home following …
Murder suspect Quentin Tellis is facing a jury for a second time in the shocking burning death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers. Chambers was found burned alive in December 2014 when volunteer firefighters responded to the scene of a burning car in Courtland, Mississipi. Chambers was still clinging to life when first responders found her, thought …
A Mississippi-based reporter will never forget the December day when she learned a 19-year-old girl had been burned alive in a small southern town not far from where the journalist lives and works. Theresa Apel was one of the first reporters on the scene of the shocking murder of Jessica Chambers, a well-liked teenager in …
A teen boy in Utah has died after he was hit by a stray bullet coming from a nearby mountain range while riding in a car with his parents after church. Deseret News reports that Zackary Kempke, of North Ogden, was riding in a car with his parents and a young girl near Monte Cristo range …
Before Chris Watts confessed to police that he killed his pregnant wife Shanann Watts, he had a one-on-one conversation with his father. The arrest affidavit obtained by CrimeOnline last month shows that Chris Watts asked to speak to his father just before he gave a detailed confession to police. But as People magazine notes, a …
A 15-year-old Alabama girl was charged with two counts of capital murder for allegedly stabbing her mother and older sister to death last week. The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reports that deputies found the bodies of Rosa Aminta Maldonado, 44, and her daughter, Rosa Lee Maldonado, 19, (pictured left and right) in their Lester home at 1 …
A jury has been selected for the retrial of murder suspect Quinton Tellis, accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in December 2014. WJTV reports that jurors have been selected for Tellis’s retrial. His first murder trial was ruled a mistrial after a jury could not come to a decision. Jury selection began on Monday …
A registered Connecticut sex offender walked into a police station on Sunday and confessed to randomly attacking and killing a female jogger; a woman who he’d never met before, police confirm. According to the Hartford Courant, William Winters Leverett, 27, confessed to the murder of Melissa Millan, a 54-year-old mother who was out jogging on November, 20, …
A Texas father and son reportedly caught on tape fatally shooting their neighbor during an argument over a mattress were re-arrested Saturday and had their bond increased. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that John Miller, 67, and Michael Miller, 31, were rearrested after the victim’s fianceé, Kara Box, recently provided footage of the deadly September 1 …
Florida authorities say DNA helped them to solve a 1999 cold case murder in which a woman was brutally battered, raped and then strangled. Deborah Dalzell, of Sarasota, was discovered dead in her Sarasota home on March 29, 1999, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. Officials say she was viciously beaten and gagged with a sock before …
A toddler who has been in intensive care for nearly two weeks after an alleged assault has died. WKBW reports that a 2-year-old girl from Grand Island, New York, died in the intensive care unit of Oishei Children’s Hospital late last week after being admitted there on September 10. According to The Buffalo News, the unidentified …
