A 16-year-old boy who started a fire that killed his adoptive father previously threatened to kill his family so he could “get a cell next to his paternal father in prison,” according to prosecutors. WRTV reported that Jordan Marin-Doan (pictured center) was charged with murder, arson, and auto theft in connection with the November 3 fire …
An Arizona man was found guilty Wednesday of leaving his wife’s 10-year-old cousin in a footlocker overnight to suffocate and die. Now, a jury is tasked with deciding whether he’ll be put to death for his crimes. The Republic reported that a Maricopa County Superior Court jury found John Allen, 29, guilty of first-degree murder, three …
A Colorado teen is in jail awaiting a first-degree murder charge after police say he killed a woman as she slept and later claimed he thought she was his father after gender reassignment. The New York Post reported that 19-year-old Joseph Saur turned himself in Sunday after he shot Patricia Stewart, 28, multiple times. Saur …
A 16-year-old girl in Denver, Colorado, is facing first-degree murder charges after she allegedly suffocated her newborn baby by shoving a rock down her throat. KMGH-TV reported that police believe Alaya Dotson killed her baby, Amekah Dotson, at her Denver home about an hour after giving birth to her on September 8. The teen told officers that she …
An Oregon teen is accused of shooting and killing his foster mother and his two sisters in Portland. KRON 4 reports that the 16-year-old boy, Kevin Adams, is in police custody after surrendering at the scene of the killing on Tuesday night. The victims, Donya Adams, 55; her biological daughter Amory Adams, 26; and 10-year-old foster …
A former Colorado airman who beat—and possibly strangled—the 4-year-old son he just met to death was sentenced Monday to life in prison. People reported that Jeremy Deonte Ralph, 26, was convicted in August of first-degree murder by one in a position of trust for the December 2016 death of Montana Glynn. Ralph called the 911 for a possible drowning …
Deputies have arrested and charged a 16-year-old after they say he shot and killed his foster mother and two siblings, according to KRON. Investigators said they found Keven Wayne Adams, the alleged shooter, at the scene of the Oregon home where the homicides occurred. Adams allegedly admitted he shot and killed the victims, according to …
A jury indicted a Pensacola, Florida, woman for first-degree felony murder for allegedly sitting on her 9-year-old cousin until she died. The Pensacola News Journal reported that Veronica Green Posey, 64, was indicted Tuesday in connection with the death of Dericka Lindsay. Authorities believe Posey was punishing the girl for “acting out” toward her adoptive parents, Grace Joan …
The woman who admitted to causing her fiancé’s drowning death during a kayak trip in the Hudson River in New York was sentenced to up to four years in prison on Wednesday. The Poughkeepsie Journal reported that Angelika Graswald, 37, has been jailed since April 30, 2015, and will be given time served. Graswald’s lawyer revealed …
A former Texas dentist who rammed her car into her cheating husband before running over him several times is scheduled to be released from prison, officials confirmed on Monday. People reports that on July 24, 2002, Clara Harris, a then-44-year-old Houston dentist, spotted her husband, David, also a dentist, in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in Nassau …
A Pennsylvania man is accused of brutally murdering a 19-year-old woman after she rejected his marriage proposal. The Morning Call reports that Christopher R. Tucker, 34, “snapped” when he asked Tara M. Serino to marry him, and she refused. Tucker is accused of snapping the young woman’s neck and attacking her with a hatchet, before rolling up …
An Illinois woman is facing murder charges after she reportedly took her deceased son’s body onto a train and placed him onto a corner seat, propped up with a backpack. New York Post reports that the incident occurred on July 1 when Jamie Jones, 29, allegedly took the boy, 6-year-old Carl Rice Jr., to the Round Lake …
