Prosecutors in Pennsylvania say they plan to seek the death penalty for a 30-year-old doctoral student accused of killing a 6-week-old boy she was babysitting for friends — while they took the boy’s twin brother to the hospital for injuries police say the suspect caused. Nicole Elizabeth Virzi was arraigned on Friday on charges of …
Three people — including a prominent Kentucky dentist and his son — were arrested last month in connection with the fatal stabbing of 38-year-old Amber Spradlin, found dead in the dentist’s home more than a year ago. Michael McKinney III, 24, is charged with murder and multiple counts of tampering with evidence and is being …
A Florida mother has been charged with the murder of her 4-year-old son more than a decade after the boy was found dead in her apartment. Destene Simmons faces one count of murder and one count of aggravated child abuse, WFOR reported. The Broward State Attorney’s Office has not explained why it waited eleven years …
A graveside argument turned deadly last weekend when a Colorado man shot and killed a member of a group of friends who had gathered to remember a dead man on his birthday. The group of family and friends arrived at Crown Hill Cemetery in Jefferson County at about 8 p.m. on August 17 at the …
A North Carolina woman wanted for the murder of her mother has been caught in Asheville and taken into custody. Danya Dewey, 40, has been charged with first degree murder and is being held at the Buncombe County Detention Facility without bond, WLOS reports. Sheriff’s deputies were called to the home of Lori Pallinger, 63. …
An Idaho man has been charged in the shooting death of his live-in girlfriend in Rexburg. Fabian Hernandez, 32, has been charged with first degree murder, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia after officers arrived at the home just after 11 p.m. Thursday and found Ariana Ramos Chavez, 35, dead at …
A 35-year-old Texas man took out a gun and shot a teenage boy earlier this week over “smack talking” while the two were playing a video game. Crowley Police said Tavion Swindell, 16, was at the home of Deeven Jones Sunday afternoon when the incident took place, KXAS reported. Officers were called to the scene …
A Georgia man was arrested in Louisiana on Wednesday, a day after he allegedly killed his wife and buried her behind their home. WSB-TV reported that Kenneth Hardin Jr., 39, told family members on Wednesday that he killed his wife, Carrie Hardin, a day earlier at their Fayette County home and burned her body. Hardin …
Convicted killer Chris Watts is reportedly blaming his wife for her own murder, offering up an excuse that she was too controlling in their relationship. According to the New York Post, Watts’ handwritten letters from the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, depicted his slain wife, Shanann Watts, as a “control freak,” while addressing thoughts …
A 45-year-old New York man found running naked in the city of Rome Tuesday night has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend, a beloved Oneida County elementary school principal and mother of a son. Police did not say who called them to the home of Elizabeth Gerling, the 50-year-old principal of Utica’s Columbus …
North Carolina investigators are searching for the adult daughter of a woman found dead in her home in the Black Mountain area on Thursday. The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office said they were called to the home Thursday morning and found Lori Pallinger dead, WYFF reported. Deputies say they are investigating the death as a homicide. …
An arrest has made made in the brutal murders of a grandmother and her granddaughter in Maryland last month. Bryan Cherry, 36, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Iona Sellers, 75, and Autumn Harvey, 29, who were found dead in Middle River on July 8, after police …
