An eighth person has now been charged in connection with a disgusting child sex abuse case in rural Alabama. A grand jury this week indicted Olivia Shailee Elam, 26, on 34 counts of rape, sodomy, human trafficking, kidnapping, aggravated child abuse, and sexual torture of a child under 12, WBRC reported. The Bibb County Sheriff’s …
An 18-year-old Alabama woman has been charged with the beating death of her 70-year-old grandmother on Saturday. The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office said they were called by a driver who said they were flagged down by a woman who told them Jailen Mia Lupton had beaten Diane Trest to death, WALA reported. Arriving deputies found …
Seven people have now been charged with a disgusting sexual abuse case in Alabama in which children were raped and tortured in an underground bunker. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office announced three new arrests, including two women, on Wednesday, WBRC reported. As CrimeOnline reported, the sheriff’s office began investigating the case in early February, initially …
An Alabama man charged with killing a missing woman found dead at his home allegedly hit her with his car and then turned around haer second time. Court documents say that Logan Michael Rogers, 28, then came back about 30 minutes later in a pick up truck and retrieved the body of Autumn Paige Strickland, …
An Alabama man accused of gunning down a 28-year-old mother, her 5-year-old son, and her boyfriend last July as they sat in her car appeared in court Thursday and was ordered bound over to a grand jury. Prosecutors told the Jefferson County Court that Arkia “Kia” Berry sent out a text as she was dying …
The parents of a 4-year-old boy who shot himself with a loaded, unsecured handgun he found in their Alabama home have been arrested on charges related to the shooting and also to multiple snakes and a crocodile found in the home. Blount County deputies were called to the hospital last Friday for the boy, who …
An arrest warrant was filed last month for an Alabama state trooper on child pornography charges, but he wasn’t arrested for four weeks, giving him time to tender his resignation before he was taken into custody. The arrest warrant was issued for Chad Claybrook, 46, on February 12, WBRC reports. He was arrested on March …
A small Alabama town has fired its remaining police officers and department employees after a grand jury last month indicted five officers, including the chief, in connection with the death of a dispatcher and recommended that the department be abolished. The remaining 12 employees were put on a administrative leave on February 20 after the …
An Alabama man called police over the weekend and told them his wife was missing, but it turned out he had strangled her to death and dumped her body into a creek bed miles away from their home. Stephen Miller Sr. played the part of the worried husband, including begging local media to run Gloria …
An Alabama grand jury this week indicted a 50-year-old man for the death of a 37-year-old woman shot to death in front of her children a year and a half ago. Emell Odell Peavy was arrested and charged with the death of April Marie Britton in 2023, but the case had not moved forward until …
The recommendation came after an investigation into the death of a dispatcher last August found the department rife with “general incompetence” and “negligence.”
An Alabama man was arrested this week and charged with 41 counts of sex crimes, two of them the sexual torture of a child under the age of 12. Kevin Burgett’s victim appears to have been a relative, as one of the charges against him is incest, WBMA reported. The Blount County Sheriff’s Office said …
