A bystander at a Minneapolis mall is being lauded for his heroic efforts after he helped nab a man accused of throwing a little boy from the third floor on Friday morning. Chicago Tribune reports that an unnamed bystander watched in horror as 24-year-old Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda allegedly threw 5-year-old child Landen Hoffman over the …
A former NFL player and his girlfriend are accused of murdering the woman’s 5-year-old daughter, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Authorities allege that 28-year-old Cierre Wood and 25-year-old Amy Taylor abused the girl, La’Rayah Davis, before she died earlier this week at a Las Vegas-area hospital. Wood played football for the University of Notre Dame …
Five people have been criminally charged after an Indiana woman was allegedly tortured and killed last month, the Journal & Courier reports. The body of the victim, 30-year-old Nicole Bowen of West Lafayette, was discovered March 30 in a hunting cabin near the Iroquois River. Newton County Prosecutor Jeff Drinski has not released specific details …
Two teens in California were arrested Thursday after a video appeared to show them brutally beat a man with autism before robbing him. The son of Rolling Hills Mayor Patrick Wilson, Declan Bell-Wilson, and Korey Streeter, both 18, were charged with conspiracy, assault, and robbery for a March 22 incident at a shopping center in …
The grieving friends and family of two Americans whose brief vacation to the Dominican Republic ended in tragedy are not all convinced that Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle were victims of a simple car accident. According to WPIX, some of the pair’s loved ones suspect the car wreck said to have killed both Ravenelle and …
Nearly 7,000 people have signed a petition to have photos of murder victims removed from the prison cell of the man who killed them all. CNN reports that a new Change.org petition is appealing to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to remove photos of Shanann, Bella, and Celeste Watts from the prison cell of Chris …
A California man will spend at least 26 years in prison for bludgeoning his married reality star girlfriend to death with a hammer in 2016 and burying her in a shallow grave in his backyard. Jackie Jerome Rogers, 36, was sentenced Monday to 26 years to life in prison for the first-degree murder of Lisa Marie Naegle, 35, …
An elderly man in New York City has been arrested for the 1973 slayings of two 19-year-old women who were vacationing in Virginia Beach at the time. The New York Times reports that DNA evidence recovered from the crime scene was matched this fall with Ernest Broadnax’s profile in a national database. Broadnax, 80, was …
Karina Vetrano was sexually assaulted and murdered while out for a jog in Queens, New York. Her killer, Chanel Lewis, finally convicted less than four months after the jury deadlocked at his first trial. Karina’s parents, Phil and Cathy, tell some emotional stories from the case that have never been heard before. In part two …
The man accused of gunning down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year said in jailhouse letters that he looks forward to having children. The Sun-Sentinel obtained letters that Nikolas Cruz, who was arrested hours after a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, last February wrote to a love interest and online supporter, discussing a …
A Florida man paying for meals and randomly handing out cash was killed after an argument broke out at a Waffle House restaurant in Gainesville. ABC News reports that 41-year-old Craig Brewer was paying for meals and handing out $20 cash to random people at a Waffle House near the University of Florida, when a …
The mother of a South Carolina fifth-grader who died last month after a fight at her elementary school said she warned school officials about the girl who ultimately killed her daughter. Airing Monday, Ashley Wright told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that friends of Raniya Wright, 10, claimed a bully had goaded her daughter to fight all …
