The Alabama nursing student who drew national attention when she faked her own kidnapping a year ago spoke out this week on her now private Instagram account, for the first time since she was sentenced to a year’s probation, community service, and mental health counseling. Posting for her 27th birthday, Carlee Russell wrote that she …
An Alabama man awaiting trial in the death of his son, whose decomposing body was found in a non-function freezer, has died. Court records say Michael Halstead, 44, was out of jail on bond when he died on July 7, death. A cause of death was not released. Halstead and his wife, 44-year-old Karen Halstead, …
An Alabama man has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of a woman and four children. Bibb County Sheriff Jody Wade said that Brandin Kendrick, 32, was arrested and charged with five counts of capital murder, WBRC reported. Wade said deputies were called after 8 p.m. Thursday to a home West Blocton. WBMA identified …
An Alabama youth minister was arrested this week after he allegedly threatened to kill himself and his wife if the 13-year-old girl he repeatedly raped didn’t give him nude pictures. The girl attended Terry Lewayne Murphree’s church, AL.com reported. Murphree, 39, is charged with nine counts a clergy member having sex with a child, three …
Alabama police have opened a homicide investigation into the death of a 31-year-old Atlanta doctoral student who disappeared during a family 4th of July celebration and was found dead two days later. Investigators are also looking for Deundray Cottrell’s 31-year-old partner of three years, Julian Taylor Morris, who disappeared the day after Cottrell disappeared. Cottrell’s …
A Utah man was arrested Friday in Alabama on child sex crimes in his home state. Police in Sheffield said they were notified by the Vernal City Police Department in Utah of warrants for the arrest of Damien Zachary Marshall on two counts of sodomy of a child and one count of sexual abuse of …
A 14-year-old was shot and killed near an Alabama Walmart Sunday morning. Birmingham Police said a group of juveniles were in the area Sunday morning with a firearm, but they don’t yet know what led to the shooting, WBRC reported. The 14-year-old was brought to the University of Alabama Hospital in a minivan just before …
A 1-year-old boy believed to have been abducted by his mother in Massachusetts has been found safe in Alabama. The Fall River Police Department said that Genezza Packett, the boy’s 22-year-old mother who does not have legal custody of him, visited the child where he lives with her aunt, who does have legal custody, in …
An Alabama mother wanted in the death of her son in March was found dead last week in Texas. The medical examiner of the Southwestern Institute of Forensics Science in Dallas, Texas, told detectives in Alabama that 53-year-old Serena Starkey died on June 21, WVTM reported. Foul play is not suspected, but cause and manner …
A 34-year-old Alabama man has been arrested and charged with robbing and sodomizing two elderly women in their home. The Florence Police Department said it was called to a home on a burglary call late Saturday afternoon and found the two victims inside with multiple injuries. Officers provided first aid until the arrival of Florence …
A 27-year-old Alabama man has been charged with capital murder in a deadly shooting that left his ex-girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter dead and her 5-year-old son wounded. Birmingham Police said that Otis Lee Montgomery III has also been charged with attempted murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied building, WBMA reported. Investigators say Montgomery fired …
A two-day manhunt for a man suspected in three murders in Oklahoma and another in Alabama ended on Thursday with Stacy Lee Drake’s arrest in Arkansas. The hunt for Drake began early Tuesday evening in Oklahoma when Sequoyah County deputies responded to a report that two people were dead at a business in Gans, KOCO …
