Police believe a family found dead in a California home this week died as the result of a murder-suicide. According to KTLA, Michael and Amy Birnkrant and their children were apparently killed with a gunshot to the chest inside the Pacific Hills residence. A firearm was reportedly recovered near Michael Birnkrant’s body. There were no …
The former Bachelor star who killed a neighbor in a traffic accident last year suffered a major setback in his efforts to avoid jail time. The New York Post reports that Chris Soules, who was charged with failure to remain at the scene of a fatal accident, had filed a constitutional challenge to the Iowa …
An Akron, Ohio, man who claimed that Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak told him to kill his mother was found not guilty of the woman’s murder. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, Derrick Williams, 48, also believed that his mother, Alaine Williams, 78, was using witchcraft on him when he bludgeoned her to death with …
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A South Carolina woman is accused of murdering her boyfriend’s toddler daughter, after the three-year-old was found dead of blunt force trauma. The Herald Online reports that Kayla Cook, 25, was arrested Dec. 29 and charged with homicide by child abuse. Lillian Schroeder, 3, was pronounced dead earlier in December after police responded to a call about …
‘Dad’ was accused of violating a protection order sought by the girls’ mother, and feared custody loss
A sheriff’s deputy in California has died after a gang member allegedly punched him the head — and the deadly blow was caught on surveillance camera footage. Fox News reports that San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Larry Falce died on Tuesday after a minor traffic collision with a man police are calling a “career criminal.” …
An Ohio babysitter who was watching a 2-year-old girl when the toddler suffered fatal head injuries learned her fate this week. The Richland Source reported that Allison Nething, 20, was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday for the April 2016 death of Marley Milner. The victim’s relatives claimed the child suffered such a violent blow …
The teen suspect claimed self-defense, but witnesses claim she stole the victim’s wallet after he was shot
The suspect in a deadly ambush that killed a sheriff’s deputy in Colorado on Sunday had previously escaped from a mental health ward, and his own mother had warned local authorties that he was off his medication and likely suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Matthew Riehl, 37, was killed by SWAT team gunfire on Sunday …
“I just killed her, and then she died.”
A Florida man is facing murder charges for allegedly killing his 6-year-old stepson by throwing him against a wall–then forcing the boy’s young brothers to sleep in bed with his body. Jack Junior Montgomery, 31, is accused of killing Brice Russell, 6, this weekend at the Masters Inn in Seffner. WFLA reported Montgomery was left in charge of …
