By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — After a standoff of more than 21 hours, officers entered an apartment where a felon with a gun had barricaded himself with four children and found them all dead, a police chief said. The hostage situation began when the girlfriend of Gary Wayne Lindsey Jr. left the …
A homicide investigation is underway after California officials discovered a woman’s body in a parking lot that was reportedly wrapped in a tarp near an apparent makeshift coffin, ABC 7 reports. Police say the body of 34-year-old Marlene Santellan, of San Bernardino, was found wrapped in a blue tarp and placed beside a plywood box …
The ex-wife of accused Golden State Killer Joseph DeAngelo spoke publicly for the first time this week, the New York Daily News reports. Sharon Huddle, DeAngelo’s former wife, expressed sympathy for the victims in the case. “My thoughts and prayers are for the victims and their families,” Huddle said in a brief statement released by …
The chief of police in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has been placed on administrative leave as his department investigates the dramatic murder of a young teacher — who was the subject of an unauthorized departmental leak just months before she was gunned down in her mother’s driveway. KDKA News reports that Aliquippa Police Chief Don Couch was …
Authorities in Las Vegas have released harrowing video of the moments Stephen Paddock was firing down at a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on October 1. The Las Vegas Review-Journal and The Guardian obtained surveillance video images that were captured from cameras on a street corner close to the Route 91 Harvest Festival …
Authorities in Tennessee say a man used what he had handy to halt a knife attack on his wife last week. According to Fox News, a woman knocked on the door of the couple’s Murfreesboro apartment home early on the morning of May 31. Local reports indicate the woman, identified as Shalonda Latrice Shepard, was …
A hot-headed Oregon man allegedly broke a woman’s arm and knocked her fiancee unconscious during a suspected road rage incident Friday. According to OregonLive.com, Jay Allen Barbeau, 49, is facing felony assault charges for his barbaric attack on two women. The incident reportedly occurred when the women pulled in front of a truck driven by …
A Georgia woman who allowed multiple men to rape her two young daughters in exchange for money was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison and 10 years probation, reports WXIA. 25-year-old Morgan Summerlin faced a total of 140 years in prison on counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes, trafficking a person for …
The disgraced deputy who failed to effectively intervene during a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February has spoken publicly for the first time since Nikolas Cruz allegedly opened fire at the Parkland, Florida, high school, killing 17 people and injuring 17 more. Scot Peterson, who had been a School Resource Deputy …
Authorities are investigating a disturbing, abandoned site in Arizona where restraints and other suspicious objects were found. KOLD-TV reports that the group Veterans on Patrol made the discovery earlier this week in Tucson. The organization goes out in search of homeless veterans to get them off the streets. On Tuesday, they were walking on a …
Both of the women were shot in the head, and one survived long enough to walk to a nearby bus to ask for help
An Iowa woman who killed herself and her young son in May reportedly had information about the disappearance of two girls years earlier, the Des Moines Register reports. Teresa Catherine Gerleman, 36, pulled herself and her 8-year-old son, Henry Fields, in front of a train last month. But before doing that, she claimed to have information …
