A Wisconsin woman pleaded not guilty last Monday to starving her 23-year-old autistic daughter who reportedly died in January weighing 70 pounds. Cora Laszkiewicz, 23, was found dead at a Pewaukee condo on January 4. Amy Laszkiewicz, 52, who called police reporting Cora’s death, said her daughter had problems with her eating and hygiene routines. …
This week, authorities announced that DNA discovered as part of the investigation is linked to an unsolved California home invasion and assault on a child in March.
A Colorado mother of 15 on the lam for child abuse was allegedly found hiding behind a false wall inside her family’s home this week, KRDO-TV reports. On Thursday, authorities responded to a residence in the town of Walsenburg when 62-year-old Timothy Crouch died. One of the man’s adult children, who no longer lived with …
A judge will rule on whether Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley can be sentenced to life in prison without parole. That is the harshest punishment available in Michigan. Crumbley, now 17, pleaded guilty to one count of terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree murder and 19 other charges. In November 2021, Crumbley fatally …
A teacher at a Wisconsin Christian school is accused of having sex with a middle school student and then purchasing him a gun, CBS 58 reports. An investigation into the teacher, 34-year-old Tyesha Bolden, started on July 25, when the mother of an eighth-grade student at Pilgrim Lutheran School reported to police that her son …
A British nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others may have been motivated to commit the serial killings because she wanted the attention of a doctor in the pediatric ward, the Guardian reports. This week, 33-year-old Lucy Letby was found guilty in connection with the attacks at the Countess of …
A suspect in the horrific rape and murder of a Texas 11-year-old has been arrested, ABC13 reports. On Saturday, authorities announced that Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez was detained in Shreveport, Louisiana. Police one day earlier had named 18-year-old Garcia-Rodriguez as a person of interest in the death of Maria Gonzalez, whose body was found last weekend …
A Utah woman charged with murder for allegedly poisoning her spouse and then writing a children’s book about grief will not face the death penalty if convicted, KUTV reports. Kouri Richins, 33, is accused of killing husband Eric Richins, 39, by covertly adding fentanyl into a Moscow mule cocktail she made for him more than …
Family killer Chris Watts is spending his days inside a Wisconsin maximum-security prison writing to female pen pals and working as a custodian, the New York Post reports. He has also has allegedly continued to practice religion after he “found God” following the slayings. The 38-year-old pleaded guilty in 2018 to murdering his pregnant wife, …
An Ohio teenager convicted of murdering her boyfriend and another man by deliberately crashing her vehicle into a building allegedly posted tributes to the victims following the wreck, according to the New York Post. Mackenzie Shirilla, 19, was found guilty Monday of murder, aggravated vehicular homicide and multiple other charges in connection with the deaths …
A Florida man has been arrested following the murder of his young son’s mother, whose body was found shot multiple times in the back of her own car last month, Fox 13 reports. Phillip Stapleton, 32, is charged with principal to murder in the first-degree and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with the …
