A father and son both survived deadly mass shootings that took place within months of each other. CNN reports that Braden Freidkes was attending class last Wednesday when suspected gunman Nikolas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people. To the relief of his frantic parents, Braden made it out alive. “We …
The man accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old girl reportedly admitted to police that he had sexual contact with her after she had died. KOAT has obtained search warrants connected to the investigation of Victoria Marten’s August 2016 homicide. Three suspects — the girl’s mother Michelle Martens, her boyfriend Fabian Gonzalez, and Gonzalez’s cousin …
The adoptive parents of a slain North Carolina girl have been indicted for her murder and dismemberment nearly seven years after her disappearance. The Charlotte Observer reported that nobody knows exactly when Erica Parsons died but authorities believe she was 12 or 13 when she vanished. On Monday, a Rowan County grand jury indicted her parents, Sandy …
A Michigan mother who killed her two adult children and her husband before taking her own life in an apparent murder-suicide, possibly carried out the grisly act as she struggled with being shunned by Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Detroit Free Press reported that Lauren Stuart, 45, and her husband, Daniel, 71, had left the denomination five years earlier. …
The teenager accused of killing 17 people in a mass shooting at a Florida high school last week was reported to the Florida Department of Children & Families (DCF) a year and half before the deadly gun massacre. The Miami Herald obtained records showing that someone placed a call to the DCF hotline in September …
UPDATE: 1 pm ET: WPTV 5 reports that the FBI filed second-degree murder charges against Lewis Bennett on Tuesday. According to the federal complaint obtained by the news station, investigators have accused Bennett of damaging the catamaran from the inside, causing it to flood and eventually sink while he and his wife of three months …
The suspected gunman behind last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, had a bigger arsenal of weapons than previously known: In addition to the legally-purchased AR-15 Nikolas Cruz used to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last Wednesday, the 19-year-old reportedly owned at least nine additional rifles. A law enforcement source reportedly …
A jury has recommended the death penalty for the woman’s boyfriend, who also took part in the unthinkable abuse
A woman who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in her fiancé’s drowning death says she has “to let it go” now that she’s served her time. In an interview televised Friday on ABC News, Angelika Graswald, now 37, gave her first public statement since being released on parole just days before Christmas—having a served a …
The same Florida jury that quickly decided Donald Smith was guilty of kidnapping, murdering and raping 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle must now decide of the convicted predator will get the death penalty for his crimes. Nancy Grace looks at the case against Smith with guests including victims’ advocate Klaas Kids founder Marc Klaas, crime scene investigator …
A California man saved his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son after her former boyfriend reportedly charged after them with a gun, shooting his ex dead before turning a gun towards the little boy. FOX News reports that the suspect, 34-year-old Bradley Thomas Woss, reportedly shot and fatally wounded his former girlfriend, Kacey McKinney, 31, inside her Redlands apartment on …
The suspected gunman reportedly took an Uber to the school on the afternoon of the shooting
