Timothy Horton pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the death of Cassie Rainwater in 2021. In return, charges of kidnapping and abandonment of a corpse were dropped.
North Carolina officials recently released two 911 calls related to an incident earlier this month which reportedly involved a man punching a 1-year-old boy in the face. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said a woman was pushing her baby in a stroller outside when Rico Williams — a stranger — walked up to them, mumbled something under his …
California authorities have arrested a 55-year-old woman and her 25-year-old son in connection with the shooting death of their roommate on Wednesday. The woman, Ruth Cecile Wieser, called 911 from a local hospital — where she went for an undisclosed medical issue Wednesday morning — to report a suspicious death at her home, KXTV reported. …
Police in Ohio are investigating after a 13-year-old girl was found dead in an Akron alley. Akron police said a citizen found the girl’s body behind a home just before 1 p.m. on Monday, WOIO reported. She has been identified as Melanie Elkins. Summit County Medical Examiner spokesman Gary Guenther said that an autopsy has …
A pending DNA test could confirm whether a Texas woman is a missing toddler from Chicago who vanished more than 20 years ago, WLS-TV reports. On July 6, 2001, 3-year-old Diamond Bradley (pictured) and her 10-year-old sister, Tionda were reported missing. The girls’ mother told police that when she got home from work that day, she found …
A Colorado woman will serve three months in jail after admitting to having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy and having his child. Andrea Serrano, 31, of Fountain, was arrested in July 2022 on charges of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust and sexual assault on a child. In …
Jurors in the murder trial of “cult mom” Lori Vallow Daybell saw body camera footage from January 2020, when police officers finally tracked down her and new husband Chad Daybell and served her with a court order requiring that she present her missing children to authorities in Idaho. The video was obtained by KSAZ in …
A badly injured groom has been released from the hospital and is recovering at home while planning his wife’s funeral after she was killed when an alleged drunk driver plowed into their ATV as they left the reception. Aric Hutchinson suffered two broken legs, numerous broken facial bones, a brain bleed, and multiple cuts, his …
A Utah woman who wrote a book about coping with the sudden death of her husband has now been charged with his murder. Kouri Darden Richins, 33, faces a first-degree aggravated murder charge along with three charges of possessing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute. First responders found Eric Richins dead in his …
An El Paso County jury in Colorado found Letecia Stauch guilty Monday of murdering her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, in 2020. The jury took around seven hours and 30 minutes and returned the verdict Monday afternoon, after failing to reach a decision last week. Stauch was also found guilty of tampering with a human body …
