A Florida man who shot a gay couple to death in 2010 was captured flicking off the victims’ families shortly after being condemned to death. Steven Adams and Kevin Powell reportedly invited Peter Avsenew, 33, into their home after responding to a post on Craigslist appearing to suggest a sexual encounter for money. The rendezvous ended with …
A Michigan mother who fabricated a story about being abducted and raped by four black men will spend time behind bars for attempting to escape from custody. MLive reported that Leiha Ann-Sue Artman, 27, was sentenced to 13 months to four years in jail after pleading guilty to resisting and obstructing police. Artman made headlines in …
An Oklahoma father who reportedly claimed his daughter fatally shot herself last year will be tried for her murder after detectives determined that it was impossible for the shot to have been self-inflicted. According to Tulsa World, Ronald Lee McMullen Jr., 43, claimed his ex-cheerleader daughter, Kailee McMullen, 22, was “playing with a wheel-gun” when she …
An Akron, Ohio, man who claimed that Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak told him to kill his mother was found not guilty of the woman’s murder. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, Derrick Williams, 48, also believed that his mother, Alaine Williams, 78, was using witchcraft on him when he bludgeoned her to death with …
An Ohio babysitter who was watching a 2-year-old girl when the toddler suffered fatal head injuries learned her fate this week. The Richland Source reported that Allison Nething, 20, was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday for the April 2016 death of Marley Milner. The victim’s relatives claimed the child suffered such a violent blow …
A Minnesota man who said he smacked his girlfriend’s toddler son in the face with a flip-flop “no more than five times” was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for the boy’s beating death. The Star Tribune reported Thursday that Quran J. Mitchell, 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges in connection with Joshua Isaiah Lockhart Jr.’s …
On Thursday, the Oregon Court of Appeals announced they would uphold a $135,000 fine against a Gresham-based bakery who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. According to the Portland Tribune, the Court agreed with the Bureau of Labor and Industries’ (BOLI) determination that Sweet Cakes by Melissa violated Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer’s civil …
A convicted killer who refused to listen to his murder victim’s family in court was reportedly forced to hear their statements–five times over to be exact–on his way to prison. Jeffrey Willis was convicted in November of the murder of Rebekah Bletsch. Authorities believe Willis shot and killed Bletch in June 2014 after she refused to …
The parents of a 13-year-old California girl who committed suicide have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District, accusing officials not doing enough to squash the relentless bullying their child experienced. Redlands Daily Facts reported that at Monday’s news conference Rosalie Avila’s father, Freddie Avila-Olague, accused the district of not doing “justice” …
A Texas man who admitted to decapitating his wife in front of their two young children and storing her head in the family freezer was sentenced on Friday. Davie Dauzat, now 24, will spend 52 behind bars for the August 2016 murder of his wife, Natasha Dauzat, 21. An autopsy report stated that Natasha died from …
A man who opened fire outside a Pennsylvania Walmart appeared in court with a tattoo of tombstones bearing his intended victims’ names before being sentenced to life on Thursday. WNEP reported that Scott Sargent, 33, will spend 179 to 358 years in prison for the October 2015 shooting which occurred in the parking lot of a Wilkes-Barre …
The woman accused of kidnapping and killing pregnant North Dakota woman Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind changed her plea on Monday. Brooke Crews, one of two suspects facing charges, appeared in the Cass County Courthouse and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, and providing false information to police. Crews had previously pleaded not guilty. Crews will be sentenced …
