An Oklahoma man has been charged with the death of his 4-month-old son after doctors found the child had skull fractures and died from blunt force trauma. Duwuan Betancourt, 36, explained the injuries by telling detectives the infant rolled off the couch onto a soft foam mat a few days earlier and that he often …
An Ohio woman has been arrested for the death of her adopted son who had autism. The 16-year-old boy, who was not identified, was found dead on February 6, and his death was ruled a homicide after an autopsy. Tamara Moore, 52, has been charged with murder and endangering children, WXIX reported. The Hamilton County …
Charges filed in a Wisconsin court this week confirm that human remains found in a park in Cudahy on April 2 belonged to a 19-year-old woman who had been reported missing on the same day. Maxwell S. Anderson has been charged with killing and dismembering Sade Carleena Robinson after the two met for a first …
Nearly three decades after receiving a death sentence for kidnapping and murdering Polly Klaas, California child killer Richard Allen Davis is pushing for the sentence to be overturned, following a recent criminal justice reform law. According to prosecutors, Davis based appeal on Senate Bill 483, signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021 and …
North Carolina investigators disclosed new details regarding the death of a North Carolina mother and her two children, who had been missing for nearly two weeks before police found their bodies. Benjamin Joseph Taylor, 34, is facing three counts of murder and one count of concealment of death in connection with the deaths of Markayla …
The murder was caught on video, police say.
The murder trial started Tuesday for a Texas man charged with the 2020 killing of 8-year-old Kendrick Lee. According to prosecutors, Brian Coulter is accused of murdering Kendrick and abandoning his body in the family’s apartment in southwest Harris County. He pleaded not guilty to capital murder and chose a bench trial rather than a …
An unknown person opened fire in an Alabama UPS facility parking lot Tuesday, gunning down a 44-year-old husband and father who was leaving work at the end of his shift. Birmingham Police said Anthony Lamar Love Jr. had worked for the shipping company for around 20 years. They said about a dozen shots rang out …
A Houston woman was found shot to death Monday night outside her apartment, with her 3-year-old son locked inside. Police said they were called to the apartment building and found the 23-year-old woman dead in the doorway with multiple gunshot wounds, KTRK reported. Family members identified her as Diamond Thorton. Thorton’s wife, Nene Carr, arrived …
A Tennessee husband has been charged with the murder of his wife, who was found with her throat cut beside the couple’s vehicle along a rural road. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation charged Benjamin Wayne Hopson, 36, with criminal homicide after witnesses saw him leaving the scene “naked, wet and having blood on his hand …
The body of a 19-year-old farmer who disappeared nearly two years ago has been found in a remote part of Utah not far from the Nevada line. The Box Elder Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that “skeletal remains presumed to belong to Dylan Rounds” were found in the same area of Utah where he …
Danielle Johnson had already stabbed her boyfriend to death. Her 8-month-old daughter was hit by a car and killed.
