Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has added $5,000 from the state to the reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting death of Birmingham toddler Major Turner earlier this month, WIAT reports. The 2-year-old was lying on the couch with his mother in the evening of February 4 when someone fired nearly …
An Alabama grand jury has indicted a former Birmingham detective in a “love triangle” shooting last April that left another woman dead. Alfreda Fluker, 40, has been charged with capitol murder for the death of 43-year-old Kanisha Nicole Fuller and the attempted murder of Mario Theodore White, Fluker’s partner on the Birmingham Police Department’s Crime …
A convicted child rapist is seeking a pardon from the state of Alabama, almost 50 years after he molested and assaulted a 7-year-old girl who was a student in his Sunday school class. Leon Albert Prince, 79, served 15 years of a 30 years sentence after his 1991 conviction for carnal knowledge of a child, …
The man who pleaded guilty to bombings at women’s clinics in Alabama and Georgia, a lesbian bar in Atlanta, and the 1996 Olympic Games is pushing to have his sentences vacated, WBMA reports. Eric Robert Rudolph, now 54, filed a hand-written motion in federal court in Alabama claiming that his conviction for the 1998 bombing …
An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his 2-month-old son in July after an autopsy revealed the boy died from blunt force trauma to the head, WIAT reports. Jefferson County deputies responded to a call about an unresponsive child on July 29 and found Amari Ruffin not breathing. The boy was taken …
Police in Arkansas believe they have found the body of a Kansas pastor’s wife missing for two weeks after she set off to drive to visit family in Alabama, WMC Action News reports. The Crittenden County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday they found the vehicle Marilane Carter was driving when she left Overland Park, Kansas, on …
A Kansas pastor’s wife who disappeared earlier this month while driving to visit family in Alabama originally planned to make the trip by airplane, Overland Park police say, but changed her mind and set off for Birmingham by car, AL.com reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Marilane Carter, 36, was last seen leaving her home at …
Police in multiple jurisdictions are looking for a 36-year-old Kansas woman who vanished on her way to Birmingham, Alabama. Marilane Carter, 26, was last seen leaving her Overland Park home at around 8:15 p.m on Saturday, on her way to visit her family in Birmingham, the Overland Park Police Department said. Her family last heard …
A 24-year-old Alabama woman found shot to death in her vehicle in a Birmingham park was the sister of “Pose” star Ryan Jamaal Swain. Birmingham police found Raven Lynette Swain dead of multiple gunshot wounds in Underwood Park on the city’s southside at about 7 p.m. Tuesday, AL.com reported. Her vehicle was lodged in the …
The last surviving man bomber of Birmingham’s 16th Avenue Baptist Church in 1963 has died in prison, Alabama Gov Kay Ivey said Friday in a statement. “While serving a life sentence, Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr., the last surviving 16th Street Baptist Church bomber, has passed away from natural causes. His role in the hateful act on …
Birmingham police captured a suspect wanted for murder in Auburn, Alabama, after an hours-long manhunt that included a brief shoot-out with officers. The as yet unidentified suspect was wounded in the shoot-out and is receiving treatment, Deputy Chief Scott Praytor said. Praytor said the ordeal began late Friday night in east Birmingham when officers responded …
British police arrived en force to a Birmingham entertainment complex Saturday afternoon after they received a report of people armed with machetes swarming into the cinema in the complex. The Mirror reported that witnesses said the fighting was over the film Blue Story,” based on YouTube videos about gang culture in southeast London. But the …
