An Arizona man was sentenced last week to 22 years in prison for striking a motorcyclist while driving drunk and dragging the bike and the rider for nearly a mile before realizing it. “The friction from being pushed at such a distance caused the bike to catch fire as it was pushed down the road,” …
A convicted Arizona child sex offender was arrested last week for trying to kidnap an 11-year-old girl in Tolleson. The City of Tolleson said the most recent incident took place on September 29 when the suspect, later identified as 35-year-old Christopher Leon, grabbed the victim by the arm as she was walking home from school …
A 31-year-old Arizona man was arrested this week for the apparently random murders of two teens who had been camping at Mount Ord in May. Thomas Brown, 31, has been charged in the shooting deaths of 17-year-old Evan Clark and 18-year-old Pandora Kjolsrud, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said. The Arizona Republic said that the …
An Arizona man was charged with multiple counts after he savagely beat his girlfriend inside his apartment because he was angry she used his vape without asking. Prosecutors said 32-year-old Nicholas Vincuillo beat the victim “beyond recognition,” KSAZ reported. “She had 36 documented injuries to her head alone. She required significant medical intervention,” prosecutor Dawn …
The body of a woman found stabbed to death was finally identified in 2022, and now investigators have found her two children, who had been abandoned in a restroom nearly 400 miles away two days after her death. According to the Arizona Republic, the nude body of a woman was found in Mohave County on …
A 10-year-old Arizona girl may have suffered a decade of abuse before her death last month, three days after she was found in a wash in Holbrook, unconscious and with multiple injuries. Rebekah Baptiste’s father, 32-year-old Richard Daniel Baptiste, and his girlfriend, 29-year-old Anicia Woods, told investigators that a neighbor found the girl in the …
A 16-year-old Arizona high school student has been charged with second-degree murder after he stabbed a fellow student to death with a pocket knife in class in front of other students. The Phoenix Police Department said that Chris Aguilar stabbed Michael Montoya II, also 16, with a 4-inch folding pocketknife then ran out of the …
Convicted killer Jodi Arias may be planning a new appeal of her 2013 conviction for killing her ex-boyfriend. Arias, 45, is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in an Arizona prison for the death of Travis Alexander in 2008. Recently she began selling her artwork from prison and has launched a blog …
A 21-year-old Arizona man received a hefty prison sentence last week after pleading guilty to gunning down a couple when his purchase of a classic sports car from them fell through. Alexander Smith pleaded guilty to two counts of first degree murder and one count of burglary and was sentenced to two consecutive life terms …
An Arizona man faces multiple charges after his girlfriend told police she had escaped from a shed where he’d held her while assaulting her for several days. Police received a 911 call late in the afternoon on July 2 from a home in the neighborhood where Timothy James Wood, 36, lived, KTVK reported. The woman …
Arizona officials have arrested a group of four 5th grade girls in a plot to kill a boy at a Surprise charter school and stage it to look like a suicide. A recently released police report said the 10- and 11-year-old girls made the plan during lunch and recess on October 1, 2024, KPHO reported. …
A man wanted for killing his mother and stepfather in Arizona earlier this week was shot and killed by Missouri state troopers on Tuesday. The Snowflake-Taylor Police Department responded to a welfare check call on Sunday night and found Cynthia Templeton, 53, and Troy Templeton, 62, dead from apparent gunshot wounds, KNXV reported. Police were …
