The mother of two long-missing children is due back in court on Friday. As East Idaho News reports, Lori Vallow is scheduled to appear at the Madison County Courthouse in Idaho for a bond reduction hearing. Vallow is in custody on child desertion charges after refusing to cooperate with the investigation into the disappearances of …
New York police are investigating a Brooklyn funeral home that has allegedly been storing bodies in U-Haul trucks and other vehicles parked on the street, the New York Daily News reports. Police were called to the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Services in the Flatlands neighborhood on Wednesday after neighbors reported a growing stench from the …
The owners of a trendy Jersey City restaurant were found dead Sunday in what appears to be a murder-suicide, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office said on Monday. Garima Kothari, the 35-year-old chef of Nukkad in the waterfront Paulus Hook neighborhood, was found dead early Sunday morning in her home. The medical examiner ruled that she …
An alleged New York rapist recently released from jail to help prevent spread of the coronavirus is accused of another sex crime, the New York Post reports. Robert Pondexter, 57, was arrested early Saturday morning in Brooklyn in connection with an attack on a 58-year-old woman, who did not know him. While crossing the street, …
On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered medical examiners across the state to review autopsy reports dating back to December. Newsom’s proclamation comes on the heels of news that two California residents who died in early and mid-February were possibly infected with the virus. Officials initially believed the first COVID-19-related death in the United States …
Investigators in Indiana have not been able to determine how a mother and young daughter found dead in their home earlier this week were killed. As the Courier and Press reports, police in Evansville found the bodies 49-year-old Kimbra Shanafelt and 5-year-old Dahni Shanafelt in their Evansville home on Wednesday night. According to the report, …
A New York man and his girlfriend were fatally shot in Mexico where they were quarantinging during the coronavirus pandemic. According to Syracuse.com, 32-year-old Pat Landers and his girlfriend Karla Baca were killed in Juarez, Mexico, on Monday when suspects shot at them while they were driving a Jeep. KTSM reports that witnesses said the …
A statewide sting operation in Virginia resulted in the arrests of 30 men who allegedly used the Internet to solicit sex from children. Fairfax County police revealed in a statement that Operation COVID Crackdown targeted predators who used online platforms to engage in sexually-explicit conversations with children — who were actually undercover police officers. Detectives …
A Michigan girl has passed away after spending two weeks on a ventilator. Officials say she died from COVID-19 complications. The Detroit News reports that 5-year-old Skylar Herbert is the first child in Michigan to pass away from the disease. Around a month ago, the little girl told her parents she had a severe headache. …
A man in Connecticut is accused of breaking into a shuttered restaurant and binging on thousands of dollars of food and alcohol, the Hartford Courant reports. Police earlier this week arrested 42-year-old Louis Angel Ortiz at the downtown New Haven eatery Soul De Cuba Café, which had been closed because of the coronavirus. Authorities believe Ortiz broke into …
Family and friends of Gretchen Anthony receive strange texts saying she is in quarantine after contracting coronavirus. Police are called in for a wellness check, but they find a bloody crime scene. Her husband cannot be found, but her car is located in the Jupiter Medical Center parking lot. What happened to Gretchen Anthony? Joining …
A judge has greenlit murder charges for a pair of teens suspected in the double homicide of a Wisconsin doctor and her husband. As ABC News report, a Wisconsin judge has determined there is enough evidence to proceed with charges against Khari Sanford and Ali’Jah Larrue, both 18, for the shooting deaths of Dr. Beth …
