‘My parents are abusive’: Hear the 911 call that led to ‘House of Horrors’ arrests
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The couple’s 17-year-old daughter told a dispatcher that she hadn’t taken a bath in a year and barely had a first-grade education
Trials
April 9, 2019
‘Kai the Hitchhiker,’ once hailed a hero for slashing man with hatchet to save assault victim, is accused of beating lawyer to death: Reports
A man who once used a hatchet to save a woman being attacked in California is facing murder charges in an unrelated incident. His trial started Tuesday morning in Union County, New Jersey. News 12 reports that Caleb McGillivray, better known as “Kai,” is accused of the May 12, 2013, killing of 73-year-old lawyer Joseph Galfy. Authorities …
Trials
March 20, 2019
WATCH LIVE: Day three of Bo Dukes on trial in slain teacher Tara Grinstead case
The trial for Bo Dukes, a man accused of helping to conceal teacher Tara Grinstead’s body, is underway continues at Wilcox County Superior Court in Georgia.
Dukes is one of two men accused of taking part in Grinstead’s death and disappearance. In 2017, he was indicted on charges of concealing a death, tampering with evidence, and hindering apprehension of a criminal.
Grinstead was last seen in 2005, in Oncilla, Georgia, leaving a party. The former beauty queen’s disappearance remained cold for over a decade until a 2017 tip led authorities to Dukes. Ryan Duke, a friend of Dukes at the time, was also arrested, and confessed to killing Grinstead and hiding her body. Duke later said he falsely confessed so he could go to jail in order to avoid retaliation from Dukes.
Trials
January 25, 2019
Angry exotic dancer shoots sugar daddy in the face after bitter break-up: Prosecutor
Opening arguments began on on Thursday in a Doylestown, Pennsylvania, courtroom, where prosecutors laid out grim details on how a slain pharmaceutical executive was purposely killed by his much younger former girlfriend, while the defense argued the suspect acted in self-defense. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 34-year-old former exotic dancer, Jennifer Morrissey, is accused of killing …
Trials
November 29, 2018
Mom convicted twice for drowning baby girl in bathtub escapes prison during third trial after jury says she’s insane: Report
After three trials, a California woman escaped prison time when a judge and jury deemed her insane on Wednesday, despite being convicted twice for drowning and killing her baby. The Orange County Register reports that Lucero Carrera, 33, was living in a Santa Ana home with her mother when she killed her 2-month-old daughter, Kimberly, …
Trials
November 29, 2018
Med student saving sex for marriage gets raped by ‘angry stranger,’ he claims they were dating and it was consensual: Court
A Missouri man on trial for allegedly raping a Washington University medical student said it was consensual. The victim, who said she was a virgin at the time, claimed she was awoken to the man, a stranger, on top of her in the middle of night at her St. Louis apartment. St. Louis Dispatch reports …
Trials
November 8, 2018
Accidental death or intentional? Dad’s girlfriend leaves little girl in sweltering hot car over 6 hours, claims she forgot to drop her off at daycare
A little girl lost her life in 2016 after her father’s girlfriend reportedly left her inside a hot car in a Pennsylvania parking lot. After hearing two days’ of testimony and evidence including a distressing 911 call, a Pennsylvania jury must decide if the child’s death was a crime or a tragic accident. On Tuesday …
Trials
October 5, 2018
Watch LIVE: ‘Cough medicine killer’ pleads guilty to killing his wife, still says cough syrup is to blame
A North Carolina man accused of killing his wife admitted in court on Friday to stabbing her death after taking “too much” Coricidin cough medicine. The News & Observer reports that over 50 people packed into a Raleigh courtroom Friday morning in support of Lauren Phelps, who lost her life in 2017 when her husband, Matthew …
Trials
September 7, 2018
‘I am not guilty!’: Alleged narcissistic serial rapist, killer accused of slaying 6 women screams at jury on first day of trial
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — A career criminal accused by authorities of raping and killing six women in the 1970s yelled “I am not guilty!” to a jury at the start of his trial Friday for two of the killings. Rodney Halbower also yelled “I have never raped or murdered in my life!” to the …
Trials
August 15, 2018
Virginia Tech student pleads guilty to hiding teen girl Nicole Lovell’s body
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia Tech student pleaded guilty Tuesday to concealing the body of a slain 13-year-old girl, but still faces trial on a more serious charge of being an accessory to the teen’s killing. Natalie Keepers is scheduled to go on trial in September, accused of being an accessory before the …
Trials
August 11, 2018
Jury orders Monsanto to pay dying groundskeeper $289 million after weed killer believed to cause cancer
By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco jury on Friday ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto to pay $289 million to a former school groundskeeper dying of cancer, saying the company’s popular Roundup weed killer contributed to his disease. Dewayne Johnson’s lawsuit was the first of thousands of cases filed in state and …
Politics and Crime
June 6, 2018
Stanford rape case judge who gave perp slap on the wrist is kicked off bench
Judge who sentenced swimmer recalled amid #MeToo movement By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The beginning of the end for the first California judge recalled since 1932 began almost exactly two years ago, when Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault to six months in …
