An Alabama mother who vanished earlier this week is believed to be deceased after a burned body was found with gunshot wounds, WBRC-TV reports. Law enforcement in the state had previously issued a missing persons alert that said 31-year-old Jermiera Ivory Fowler was in danger. Fowler had been last seen on Wednesday around 4 p.m. in …
The son of an elderly Home Depot worker who was fatally attacked late last year is pleading for something to be done about a growing scourge of retail theft, ABC News reports. “There has to be consequences in my mind, and the consequences have to fit the crime,” Jeff Rasor told the network’s “Nightline” program …
Residents of a Pennsylvania community came together Friday to remember the abbreviated life of an infant who was killed this week at the hands of his father, Fox 29 reports. “We have to do something for this mother and her family,” Stephanie Scancella told the television station. “It’s heart-wrenching.” Scancella was among the community members …
A Maryland father was fatally beaten outside his home while shielding his children from a group who arrived at his home uninvited, following a school-related altercation. According to NBC 11 News, three teenagers and two adults confronted Christopher Michael Wright, 43, outside his home in Brooklyn Park on Friday. The group was reportedly looking for …
A North Carolina man allegedly shot a 6-year-old girl and her parents after a basketball rolled into his yard earlier this week, prompting an ongoing manhunt for his arrest, WSOC-TV reports. Around 8 p.m. Tuesday, a group of children was playing near April Drive and Grier Street in Gastonia County, just west of Charlotte, when …
An Indiana man says he was invited to a home for some food and drugs but ended up chained in the basement where he was tortured and waterboarded, WSBT-TV reports. On Thursday, authorities in South Bend announced charges stemming from the brutal assault, which allegedly occurred on March 22. The victim told investigators that one …
Three young Texas girls who initially appeared to have drowned were actually strangled to death, investigators now believe, yet no one has been arrested in the eight-month-old case, CBS 19 reports. On Thursday, Cass County District Attorney Courtney Shelton revealed that authorities are treating the deaths as homicides and urged the public to come forward …
A man who allegedly claimed to support ISIS threatened to kill a New York mayor and police officers at a St. Patrick’s Day parade, ABC News reports. On Friday, authorities arrested 32-year-old Ridon Kola in connection with the threats, which were aimed at local officials in Yonkers, New York. Kola allegedly began posting the threats …
Six women who vanished in Mexico are believed to have been murdered and burned in a horrific act of brutality possibly tied to warring drug gangs, ABC News reports. Details of the slayings come as American authorities are warning against traveling to Mexico because of an apparent uptick in kidnappings and cartel violence. The warnings …
A Tenessee man is behind bars after police say a kidnapping victim escaped captivity last week after being held in a closet for two months. According to Fox News, Dyersburg police responded to a call at around 1:30 p.m. Saturday to a Dyersburg residence off Schaffer Street. According to a male caller, a 40-year-old woman …
Recently-released documents alleged that six people who traveled to Mexico with Shanquella Robinson were seen behaving oddly the night before her suspicious death last October. The lawyers for Shanquella Robinson’s family, Sue-Ann Robinson and Benjamin Crump, said in an 18-page information packet given to U.S. officials in March that Mexican authorities identified Daejhanae Jackson, one …
An arrest has been made in connection with the fatal shooting of a beloved Catholic bishop in Los Angeles, where authorities are scheduled to release more information later today, CBS Los Angeles reports. The arrest comes less than 48 hours after Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell was found dead at his home in Hacienda Heights on …
