A California man was charged with murder last week after investigators found burned human remains on his property. The Butte County District Attorney’s Office said a 911 call came in from on March 21 from two men who said they’d found a human skull and other remains on property belonging to 52-year-old Joseph Dexter Taylor. …
A California man is behind bars, charged with assaulting his ex-wife, kidnapping his 4-year-old son, and hitting two pedestrians with his car as he fled the scene. An Amber Alert was issued after the incident early Monday evening and officers issued a be on the lookout alert for 40-year-old Daniel Hutchens, the Monterey Police Department …
A California man who used his home as a short-term vacation rental has been charged with filming his guests — including children — “during private moments without their knowledge.” Christian Parmalee Edwards, 44, has been charged with multiple felonies “related to the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material,” the Madera County Sheriff’s Office …
A California nanny was arrested on child abuse charges after a landscaper saw the abuse and recorded it, and other witnesses followed her to a nearby home. The Lincoln Police Department said it was called to Markham Ravine Park, where the witness provided the video to officers. Police found Suzanne Buhler, 41, at the home …
California parents were found dead on Friday after one of their three children called 911 to say their father was attacking their mom. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said it got the call at about 9:30 p.m. They had to breach the door to get inside, where they found the man and woman dead. The …
A 92-year-old millionaire developer was found dead and decomposing in a swanky beach home in California’s Hermosa Beach last week, and a suspect was arrested after a seven-hour standoff. Hermosa Beach police said they were asked to conduct a welfare check shortly after noon on Saturday after a landlord at the home reported that they …
A California woman and her boyfriend have been charged with 27 counts of torture and child abuse related to their treatment of the woman’s 11-year-old niece that included strangulation, dragging her around on a dog leash, and forcing her to sleep in an uninsulated garage. The Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said it was contacted by …
A former captain with California’s wildfire management agency has pleaded guilty to gunning down his girlfriend her second grader son last year. Darin McFarlin may have entered the guilty plea to avoid the death penalty, as prosecutors had initially said he faces death or life without parole because of special circumstances, KCRA reported. Those special …
Two girls — a teen and a pre-teen — escaped a kidnapper in Los Angeles Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles police are now looking for the man they say lured the girls into his car and locked the door, KTLA reports. The girls, one 12 and the other 16, told police they were walking together in …
Riverside, California, police are investigating after a two people were found dead within a block of one another near the county courthouse. Police said they responded to a call about “a subject down” just after 2 a.m. and then found a second person nearby, both suffering from “unknown injuries.” They were pronounced dead at the …
A Sikh man was found dead in Napa County on Friday, days after he was kidnapped from the temple in the Central Valley where he had been the head cook for 23 years. Avtar Singh, 57, was reported missing on February 17 from Gurdwara Gur Nanak Parkash in Tracy, the Los Angeles Times reported. Singh’s …
A California man accused in the vicious beating death of a woman at a residential hotel in Oakland has multiple serious convictions on his record and once told police that he was “not fit for society if I keep doing s*** like this.” Jeffrey McMaster Jr., 44, has been charged with the murder of 49-year-old …
