A Virginia couple charged in the beating death of the woman’s young disabled daughter forced the girl to stand up for hours and fed her only bread and water in the days leading up to her death, a prosecutor said. Latoya Smith, 33, and Demont James Harris, 43, were denied bond as they face murder and …
Police said four people found dead Monday in a Tennessee home were victims of a murder-suicide. According to WZTV, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department said Sean Ganey shot his wife, Cassidy Ganey, her father, Kenny Adair, and her stepmother, Shelly Lorenz-Adair, before turning the gun on himself at a Murfreesboro home on Memorial Day. The Daily …
The parents of Casey Anthony recently sparred over the events—and warning signs—that led up to the murder trial that gripped a nation. During Monday night’s airing of A&E’s “Casey Anthony’s Parents Speak,” Cindy Anthony said she’s tired of the public only knowing her and husband George as the “the Anthonys who raised Casey, a monster.” The …
A Canadian man has admitted to killing his estranged half-sister on the first day he would be tried for her shocking murder. According to the Terrace Standard, Mathew Pernosky, 33, entered a surprise guilty plea for the March 2013 slaying of Rachel Pernosky, 18. The mother to a then-1-year-old boy vanished from her British Columbia home and …
A Virginia woman and her fiancé are accused of beating the woman’s 11-year-old daughter so seriously that the child’s stomach split open days before she died. Latoya Smith, 33, and Demont Harris, 43, are charged with second-degree murder for the May 18 slaying of Heaven Watkins, who relatives told WSET had autism and cerebral palsy. …
A recorded phone call reportedly caught suspect Terrence Roach admitting to kidnapping Beckerle to get back at the teen’s mother
The man who shot and killed an Atlanta-area socialite in a murder-for-hire plot more than three decades ago has been freed after serving a 20-year prison sentence. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Phillip Anthony Harwood was released from Coastal State Prison on Friday. Harwood pleaded guilty in 2003 to killing 35-year-old socialite Lita McClinton Sullivan …
A 3-year-old boy was found dead earlier this week with bruises all over his body and broken teeth, and now his mother’s boyfriend is in custody. The New York Post reports that Kenneth Lynch, 36, is facing a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s son, Messiah Allen. Emergency crews found Allen …
A British army sergeant has been found guilty of trying to kill his wife, but the woman who miraculously survived his attempt to fatally sabotage her skydiving outing says she still doesn’t believe he was trying to kill her. The Guardian reports that Emile Cilliers was found guilty of attempted murder after he tampered with …
Unsettling new information has been released about Joseph DeAngelo, the suspected Golden State Killer, who has been linked to at least 12 murders and dozens of rapes decades ago in California. The New York Daily News reports that Paul Holes, the investigator who initially cracked the case and tied DeAngelo to the crimes, revealed a …
Search warrants obtained by a Pittsburgh news outlet show that Rachael DelTondo, a suspended teacher who was murdered on Mother’s Day in Pennsylvania, had received death threats before she was shot to death in her mother’s driveway. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette obtained warrants detailing interviews the police conducted with Rachael’s parents. The 33-year-old’s parents reportedly said …
Authorities in New York have issued an AMBER Alert for a missing 14-month-old boy after his mother was found dead. WGRZ reports that Owen Hidalgo-Caldron is missing from upstate New York, and his mother was found dead on Thursday under suspicious circumstances. Wayne County Sheriff’s office told the news station that Owen is in need …
