A Kuwaiti court sentenced a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging for the murder of a Filipina maid whose body was found in a freezer earlier this year. Al Jazeera reported that Nader Essam Assaf, 40, and wife Mona Hassoun were detained in February in connection with the death of Joanna Demafelis, 29. Demafelis had vanished in …
The California Highway Patrol has uncovered surveillance footage appearing to show Jen Hart, the mother found dead with her partner and three of her children last week, the day before the family’s SUV went over a cliff from the Pacific Coast Highway. Authorities are now examining the footage to determine which of Jen Hart’s six …
A North Carolina man accused of stabbing his wife to death after he took cough medicine was apparently obsessed with a movie about a serial killer and often talked to friends about killing, according to police. The Charlotte Observer reports that 29-year-old Matthew Phelps is accused of stabbing his wife, Lauren Hugelmaier Phelps, 126 times …
The family killed in a fatal SUV plunge off the Pacific Coast Highway last week was visited by police in response to a Department of Human Services inquiry in Oregon, a year before Devonte Hart was photographed in a tearful embrace with a Portland police officer at an anti-police brutality demonstration in 2014. Sarah and …
A California man is in custody on suspicion of stabbing both his parents after they reportedly tried to console him during a bad break-up. NBC Los Angeles reports that Yihong Peng was arrested in California on Saturday on suspicion of stabbing his mother to death and critically injuring his father in a shocking knife attack. According …
The fatal crash that killed at least five members of the same family in Northern California earlier this week appears to have been intentional, an investigating officer confirmed on Sunday. California Highway Patrol Acting Assistant Chief Greg Baart told KGW 8 News that investigators “do have reason to believe … that the crash was intentional,” …
Authorities in California say a man violently attacked his parents with a knife Friday night, killing his mother and critically injuring his father. According to KTLA, 30-year-old Yihong Peng led deputies on a short foot pursuit when the Orange County Sheriff’s Department responded to the report of an armed man near an intersection in San …
Investigators searched the Hart family home looking for suicide notes
A nurse in California who said an unarmed black man whom police shot to death “deserved” to die has been fired, the Sacramento Bee reports. The nurse, Faith Linthicum, reportedly wrote a comment on her since-deleted Facebook about the March 18 police-involved shooting of 22-year-old Stephon Clark. “Yeah but he was running from the police …
A South Dakota woman made an agreement to plead guilty for the beating death of her toddler son. As part of a deal arranged with federal prosecutors, she’ll receive a second-degree murder conviction. People reports that Katrina Shangreaux, 30, also referred to as Katrina White Whirlwind, murdered her 2-year-old son, Kylen Shangreaux, on July 28, 2016, after a night …
The family of the 12-year-old boy who was the subject of an instantly-iconic photo in 2014 was overwhelmed by the attention they received after the image went viral, and relocated to try and start anew. But five members of the large family are now dead and three are missing following a mysterious SUV plunge off …
A Florida teen is behind bars after police say he is the suspect seen in surveillance footage fatally attacking a man at a North Miami Beach ATM. According to the New York Post, 26-year-old Dillon Bud Calvin Steve was withdrawing some cash from the machine when authorities allege 17-year-old Marcine Bernard approached from behind and …
