A recording reportedly caught a Florida kindergarten teacher calling a 5-year-old student a “loser”—and now the boy’s mom is demanding answers. Speaking with the Miami Herald, Kandy Escotto said she noticed a change in her son, Aaron, last fall, which entailed him bringing home bad grades and dreading going to school. She recalled doing homework with …
“If I can’t have her no one can,” Marc Alan Berkowitz reportedly told police after the slaying
Authorities in Missouri say an Ohio professor traveled hundreds of miles on the promise of engaging in sex with an underage girl. According to the New York Post, 52-year-old Kevin Armitage was a Miami University professor when he began communicating online with a user who identified herself as a 14-year-old girl. Armitage used a website …
UPDATE @ 5:25 p.m. (EST): The Cape Coral Daily Breeze reported that Yanisley Delgado-Martinez, 28, and her daughter, Kaylie Melendez, 5, have been found safe. Additional information regarding their disappearance and whereabouts isn’t available at this point in time. ORIGINAL Story: Police in Florida are asking for the public’s help in locating a mother and daughter …
Seven years after she brutally murdered her two teen children in what she claims was an act of insanity, Julie Schenecker is hoping she will receive a new trial. According to WTVT, the convicted murderer now says her attorneys provided substandard counsel and omitted crucial evidence that would have demonstrated her diminished mental state. As …
A Florida judge has dismissed a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by a Tampa man claiming to be the illegitimate son of actor William Shatner. The Tampa Bay Times reported that, for decades, radio DJ Peter Sloan, 61, has claimed that Shatner, 87, is his father. The “Star Trek” actor, who has three daughters, has publicly …
A Florida man who was 21 when he repeatedly raped a 3-year-old child is challenging the constitutionality of his multiple life sentences on the basis that his age when he committed the transgressions wasn’t considered a mitigating factor at his trial. The Pensacola News Journal reported that Charles Hoyt McConnell III, 23, routinely recorded himself violating the toddler …
A Florida woman is accused of shooting at her own adult son in a drive-by attack outside of their home last week. According to the New York Post, 66-year-old Priscilla Ann Ethridge and her 46-year-old son were engaged in a heated argument on Saturday before the man walked out of their Panama Beach home and …
Authorities issued a Florida missing child alert on Thursday for a 3-week-old baby boy who disappeared from Gainesville. NBC reports that infant Jayce Jenkins was last seen off of the 4300 block of Southwest 13th Street. Officials say 37-year-old Alison Jenkins could possibly have the baby, although it’s still unclear what her relationship to Jayce is. …
The cases of Florida mom Joleen Cummings & little Owen Hidalgo-Cameron
Authorities in Florida arrested a man on suspicion of killing a woman found on the side of the road last week. According to Fox News, emergency personnel discovered the body of 41-year-old Ann Farran alongside a road in Miami on Wednesday. The remains were recovered at about 6:30 a.m. that day. A subsequent autopsy revealed …
Orlando police said Thursday that they believe the four children found dead following a 21-hour standoff were fatally shot at the beginning of the hostage situation. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the Orlando Police Department (OPD) suspects that Gary Wayne Lindsey Jr., 35, had killed Irayan Pluth, 11, Lillia Pluth, 10, Aidan Lindsey, 6, and Dove Lindsey, 1, …
