An Indiana woman who was shot and killed on Tuesday is believed to have livestreamed herself exposing a closeted gay man hours before her death. WTTV reported that Jane Waughfield, 40, was shot near the intersection of Lafayette Road and West 30th Street in Indianapolis. Witness accounts indicated that the Camaro the wounded woman was …
A popular anti-vaccine Facebook group reportedly convinced a Colorado woman not to give her 4-year-old son a prescribed antiviral medication days before he died of the flu this week. NBC News reported that the mother asked for advice about the flu in “Stop Mandatory Vaccination” — a Facebook health misinformation group comprised of approximately 178,000 …
An Alabama man was arrested last Friday after he allegedly planned to have sex with a minor girl that he met online. Nickolas Black, 22, was accused of trying to meet what he thought was a 15-year-old girl. However, the girl Black was texting was actually a 17-year-old boy who assumed the girl’s identity after …
A fire department in Michigan is under investigation after firefighters reportedly posed for a picture in front of a burning home on New Year’s Day. Deonte Higginbotham, 21, told the New York Post that he was in the process of renovating the two-story brick home which has been in his family for 50 years. He …
Hackers reportedly gained access to the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter account and used it to post strobing or flashing images, presumably to trigger seizures in epilepsy suffers. The Maryland-based organization announced in a statement on Monday that they have filed criminal reports in light of last month’s incident. In addition to hacking their Twitter account, officials …
An Alaska man was arrested on murder charges this week, days after an SD card was discovered which reportedly showed him beating and strangling a woman in a hotel room. The Anchorage Police Department said in a Nixle alert on Wednesday that a woman contacted them on September 30, after finding an SD card which …
The family of a Florida woman who was fatally struck by a car has filed a lawsuit against a funeral home, alleging an employee had taken a photo of her dead body that was posted online. In the lawsuit, the family of Jakiel Jones said a staffer for Stevens Brothers Funeral Home took photos of …
A 17-year-old New York girl was found dead outside her car Sunday after her throat was slashed by a man who then attempted to take his own life, police said. The suspect also allegedly posted a photo of her dead body to Instagram. Law enforcement sources confirmed to Syracuse.com that Brandon Andrew Clark, 21, is …
A Florida woman was arrested Thursday for allegedly posting a video to Snapchat showing her 10-year-old daughter lick a tongue depressor and place it back into a jar at a clinic. Cori Ward, 30, who was charged with tampering with a consumer product without regard for possible death or bodily injury, was ordered to stay …
A music director at a Texas Catholic school was accused of seeking sex with a 14-year-old girl who was actually an officer posing online as a minor. KRIS reported that Corpus Christi police arrested Lazaro Benito Rocha, 26, during their five-day online sting operation targeting people who were soliciting illicit pictures of children or planning …
Social media company Facebook is reportedly under criminal investigation in New York for data-sharing deals they allegedly made with two prominent technology companies. Citing sources, The New York Times reported that federal prosecutors are reviewing a deal Facebook made with two leading manufacturers of smartphone and other devices. A New York grand jury has reportedly suspended …
A New Jersey man who helped fabricate a story about a random act of kindness has pleaded to guilty to defrauding 14,000 GoFundMe donors out of $400,000, the Courier Post reports. Johnny Bobbitt, 36, reportedly admitted in court Friday to conspiracy to commit theft by deception for his role in a 2017 story that went …
