An Ohio man accused of cutting his estranged wife’s throat before fleeing was captured on Saturday after a nationwide manhunt. WHIOTV reports that 42-year-old Raymond Roberts was apprehended in Clark County, Ohio, close to State Route 72 and Possum Road, at around 9:15 a.m. According to authorities, a state trooper spotted Roberts’ car close to Springfield-Xenia …
Police were called to investigate a possible sex assault after doctors found a dead turtle in a woman’s vagina. Translating from a report in the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the New York Post reports that doctors made a horrifying discovery when a woman went to the hospital with abdominal pain: A dead, Chinese three-keeled pond turtle lodged …
Authorities in New York confirmed witness reports that a panhandler stabbed a man in the neck this week after the victim refused the suspect’s request for a dollar. The suspect was not named in initial reports, but witnesses told local reporters that he was a panhandler who was a common sight in the neighborhood. He …
A Florida man is facing multiple counts of child abuse after he allegedly used a lighter to burn the shape of smiley faces onto the skin of three young children. ABC Action News reports that Joshua Mize, 21, was arrested on Tuesday night in St. Petersburg after he allegedly burned the children with a lighter. According …
A day care worker remains in custody after allegedly stabbing two adults and three infants—who were all younger than a month old—at a New York City maternity center early Friday. The New York Daily News reported that it’s still unclear why Yu Fen Wang, 52, wielded a meat cleaver and knife and embarked on a rampage that …
The suspect accused of fatally stabbing a 35-year-old woman while she was jogging in Washington D.C. reportedly said after his arrest that police were accusing him of stabbing “a little girl.” Wendy Martinez died after she was attacked while jogging in D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood on Tuesday. She reportedly ran to a nearby restaurant for …
Multiple people, including infants, have been injured in a stabbing at a private day care in Queens, New York. The New York Post reports that three infants under the age of a year and two adults were wounded when an unidentified 52-year-old woman attacked a female, a male and three babies with a kitchen knife. …
California authorities are taking an unusual approach to capturing a wealthy murder suspect they believe killed his wife—but then disappeared in 2015 while out on bond. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Newport Beach police announced on Wednesday the release of a true-crime podcast detailing the allegations against Peter Chadwick, 54, a millionaire accused of …
The suspect in the mass shooting in Maryland Thursday morning had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. CBS News reports that the suspect, a 26-year-old temp employee at the Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, shot herself in the head after allegedly fatally shooting three others at the facility early Thursday. Police have not released …
Police have identified the suspect accused of murdering 35-year-old Wendy Martinez, who was stabbed while jogging in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday evening. WTOP reports that D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham has identified the suspect as Anthony Crawford, 23, of the Northwest section of D.C. Police announced the arrest in an press conference on Thursday morning, and …
Prosecutors in the Chris Watts murder case are seeking the suspect’s footprints, reportedly for comparison to evidence found at the crime scene. Watts was arrested last month and charged with the murder his pregnant wife Shanann Watts and their daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. The bodies of all three victims were found on the …
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Days before sentencing, Bill Cosby’s trial judge denied a defense motion to step down from the sex assault case because of what Cosby’s team called a long-ago grudge with a pretrial witness. Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill has seen the case through two trials, hard-fought pretrial hearings and 15 defense lawyers …
