An Arkansas mother was jailed on Wednesday when she sent her 7-year-old son to walk nearly eight miles to school alone after he missed the bus. Amber Thompson, 33, told Craighead County deputies that it wasn’t her problem if the boy had to walk to school because he was old enough to get himself up …
Three people are dead and five more wounded after gunfire broke out at a late-night party in Arkansas. A person identifed by police as “the suspect” is among the dead, Jonesboro Police said in a Facebook post. The two slain victims, a man and a woman, and a woman who was wounded were all “known …
Arkansas police have arrested two people in connection with the deaths of a mother and infant child found dead off the side of an interstate on-ramp on Tuesday morning. Willie Mott Jr., 43, was initially arrested on an unrelated warrant and later charged with capital murder in the deaths of TeAngela Tate, 27, and her …
A woman and her infant son were found dead on the side of an interstate on-ramp in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Tuesday morning, and police say they are investigating the case as a homicide. Teangela Tate, 27, and her 2-month-old son Noel Mott were found dead beside the Interstate 440 ramp from Highway 165, KARK …
The coach of a minor league football team in Arkansas and his wife have been arrested after they traveled from their home to northwest Arkansas to have sex with a pre-pubescent child. Benjamin Coney, 26, was immediately fired from his job as headcoach of the Arkansas Punishers of the Next Level Football Alliance. Minor league …
An Arkansas man was arrested last week after investigators found a 5-year-old girl hidden in a secret closet in his home. Jon Thompson, 40, has been charged with false imprisonment, child endangerment, and interference in custody. He was already out on bond on drug charges at the time. Tontitown Police officers arrived at Thompson’s home …
An Arkansas woman wanted for abducting her eight children from their foster homes was arrested on Saturday in California. All eight children were ultimately located and handed over to Shasta County Children and Familiy Services to be reunited with their guardians in Arkansas, the Anderson Police Department said. Police said they were contacted just after …
A 48-year-old Arkansas man serving a life sentence for the 2018 murder of his wife has confessed toe another murder — the 1991 death of 19-year-old Sabrina Lynn Underwood. Rick Allen Headley pleaded guilty to stabbing his estranged wife, Kirstie Headley, in March 2018 and was sentenced to life without parole. Sabrina Underwood disappeared on …
Arkansas police are looking for a convicted child sex offender they say took off his electronic monitoring device. Cameron Santana, 36, was convicted in 2009 for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. He was out of jail on probation when he took off the monitor, KHBS reported. Sebastian County Sheriff’s Capt. Philip Pevehouse said that probation …
A southwestern Missouri emergency room doctor missing for more than a week has been found dead in northwestern Arkansas. John Forsyth’s brother Richard posted a brief notice on Facebook, while the Benton County Sheriff’s Department in Arkansas said it was investigating, KOLR reported. Forsyth, 49, was reported missing on May 21 when he didn’t show …
Human remains found earlier this month in rural Arkansas have been positively identified as belongong to a Jefferson County woman who disappeared last May. Maranda Neal was last seen on May 22, 2022, when she left her home on an ATV to visit her mother’s grave at a local cemetery, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Police …
Barry Walker, a former doctor, pleaded guilty last year to more than 100 counts of sex crimes against children and was sentenced to 39 life sentences totaling 1,710 years in prison with no chance for parole. Now, his victims say family members — including his niece, an elected chief prosecutor in rural Arkansas — spent years protecting and defending him.
