A 24-year-old driver for Amazon’s delivery service has been arrested following a deadly hit-and-run in north Georgia last week. Cherokee County investigators say London Best struck 79-year-old Sandra Fitts as she left a cemetery in the area, WAGA reported. Investigators found evidence — a vehicle part in the roadway — indicating she was hit by …
A South Carolina couple and their 21-year-old son were convicted this week on murder and child abuse charges in the death of their 14-year-old daughter in 2022. The trial for David and Bobbie Jo Baynard and their son Edward Vincent Baynard — who was Heather Baynard’s paid personal care aide for the last 18 months …
A north Georgia sheriff’s deputy was fired from his job Tuesday when he was arrested on federal child exploitation and pornography charges. Steven Bunte was arrested at his home in Gordon County by federal investigators. Cherokee County officials said he’d been employed by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office for five years, assigned to the Adult …
A North Carolina mother has been charged with the deaths of her 4-year-old twin sons on Saturday. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said the twins’ father reported them dead when he arrived at his estranged wife’s home to pick them up for custody. Later that day, the estranged wife, identified as Genevieve Springer, was arrested …
A 70-year-old Georgia man was arrested Monday after he allegedly shot and killed his wife. Charles “Terry” Collins reportedly met police at his front door with a gun when they responded to a call about a person shot early Monday morning. Officers ordered him to drop the weapon, but he ignored them and went back …
Authorities in upstate South Carolina found the body of a missing man in a barrel on a Cherokee County lake last week and have arrested a man for desecrating human remains. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said that Jeffrey Sutphin, 56, was reported missing on June 15, although he was last seen on June 4, …
A former teacher who has already pleaded guilty to raping a student in one Georgia county is set to go on trial Monday in another county. Robert Vandel pleaded guilty in May to rape, aggravated child molestation, false imprisonment, and two counts of child molestation during his time at Lyndon Academy in Roswell, where he …
Three people are dead, including a 2-year-old girl, after a Kansas man held police off in a 3 1/2 hour standoff Saturday evening. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said Baxter Springs Police were dispatched after a woman made a 911 call requesting help. When they arrived, a woman — later identified as Taylor Dawn Shutte, …
A Georgia mother was sentenced to 200 years in prison for forcing her nine children to live in squalor and allowing her husband to abuse them mercilessly for years. The Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office announced 37-year-old Stephanie Danielle Davis’s sentence, which also included 200 years probation, on Friday, according to WXIA. Her husband, who …
A father and his girlfriend have been jailed after they allegedly kidnapped the man’s toddler on Saturday and fled with him to St Louis. Georgia authorities issued an Amber Alert for 18-month-old Nova Sampson on Saturday after the boy was taken from his grandmother’s custody in Acworth, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Investigators said at the …
Authorities in Georgia have cancelled an Amber Alert for a 1-year-old boy from Emerson, north of Atlanta. The missing boy, identified as Nova Sampson, and was found and returned safe. For the latest true crime and justice news, subscribe to the ‘Crime Stories with Nancy Grace’ podcast [Featured image: Nova Sampson/Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office]
A South Carolina man has been arrested in Alabama and charged with unlawful imprisonment for forcing his 17-year-old nephew to drive him there, and he faces a murder charge back home after police found the body of his wife buried in a shallow grave. Dionicia Nava Abarca, 42, was arrested in Baldwin County, Alabama, according …
