Prosecutors say a 4-year-old child may have witnessed the murder and dismemberment of an Alabama man last week. Joselina Elizabeth Lopez appeared Tuesday at a bond hearing in a Geneva County court, WDHN reported. She was arrested last Thursday for the murder of 41-year-old Benito Morales Guzman, who was found dismembered in a car behind …
An Alabama sting operation swooped up 11 men, including an Alabama state trooper, in an operation late last week targeting men who were soliciting children for sex Ryan Christian Rhodes, 26, reportedly resisted arrest by Montgomery County deputies, Assistant Chief Deputy Wesley Richerson told WSFA. “During the arrest, I was advised by our staff that …
A former south Alabama beauty queen awaiting trial in a murder-for-hire plot against her husband in the Bahamas has accused her latest boyfriend of abusing her. In a protection order filed against 35-year-old Dorsey Ryan Love last month, Lindsay Shiver accused him of throwing her onto a bed, choking her, and putting a pillow over …
An Alabama man was arrested Saturday after he called 911 to say he’s shot his parents. Calhoun County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene in Ohatchee and found Randall Ferguson dead inside the home and Debbie Ferguson fatally wounded on the back porch, WBMA reported. She was rushed to Gadsden Regional Hospital, where she died. …
Alabama authorities have ruled the death of a 4-year-old girl, critically injured two years ago in a shooting that killed her father and injured her infant brother, was a homicide. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office made the ruling this week, AL.com reported. Madison Grace Davis died on June 25, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Her father, …
Two people have been charged with killing a child in north Alabama. Little information is available, but Mason John Grimes, 36, and Brooklyn Paige Posey Grimes, 31, were booked Wednesday afternoon on charges of intentional murder, felony murder, and child abuse of a child under 15, according to jail records. WBRC reported that the victim …
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 …
