Wade Wilson was expressionless, make-up caked on his stone-face to hide his garish tattoos, throughout his two-week trial for the murders of two women the prosecutors said he killed “for the sake of killing.” In the end, a Florida jury deliberated just two hours before finding the man with the swastika tattoos he didn’t want …
Florida investigators have released hundreds of pages relating to their investigation into the disappearance and murder of 13-year-old Madeline Soto, who was reported missing on February 26, the day after her birthday. Soto’s body was found in a wooded area in Osceola County, near where her mother’s boyfriend was seen with a flat tire on …
A Florida man was shot and killed on Sunday when Fort Myers police officers saw him climbing out a window carrying a large knife and “what appeared to be a dismembered body part.” Police said they were called to the scene at about 11:30 p.m. about a woman and two small children hiding in a …
A Florida sheriff’s department credited tips from the public leading to the arrest of a man who shot and killed his friend while pistol whipping him over a missing pool pump. Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez said deputies were called to the scene of the shooting at a home in St. Cloud on Saturday and …
Florida police have identified the man who allegedly shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and her 4-year-old son at a bank last week. Odalys Bancroft, 43, was driving in a minivan with her son, Theofore Couto, in the backseat when she pulled up to an ATM at Chase Bank in West Kendall. It was then that …
A sentencing trial begins Monday for the former prison guard trainee who admitted killing five women at a Florida bank in 2019. Zephen Xaver, now 27, pleaded guilty to five counts of murder last year in the deaths of Cynthia Watson, 65; Marisol Lopez, 55; Ana Pinon-Williams, 38; Debra Cook, 54; and Jessica Montague, 31, …
A South Carolina man has been arrested on charges related to a shooting incident in Florida in February that wounded his father and another man. Sean Bigwood, 53, fired more than 30 times into the home in Grant-Valkaria because of a property dispute, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey said Saturday. Both victims, who were not …
Jury selection got under way this week in the trial of a Florida man accused of killing two Cape Coral women in 2019, but not until after he was given make-up to cover some of his swastika and stitch tattoos and street clothes to look more “presentable” for potential jurors. Wade Wilson, 30, is charged …
A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly gave a relative a baby bottle of bleach to feed her 13-month-old daughter. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said it began a lengthy investigation on January 2 when the relative reported the incident. The relative found 22-year-old Melissa Barnes and the baby living in a shed …
A 15-year-old boy is dead and a 48-year-old man is hospitalized after another teen crashed a sleepover at the boy’s house Saturday night and stabbed the victims. Sumter County Undersheriff Pat Breeden said deputies were called to the home at about 10 p.m. and found the two victims. Emergency medical personnel rendered aid before they …
Two Florida teens jumped into a Broward County canal this week and pulled a driver out of his truck after it plunged into the water. The incident happened just before 9 p.m. on Wednesday, WSVN reported. Tony Cooper and Elijah Hodge, both 13, were walking home from a Dollar Tree when they saw the driver …
Florida authorities arrested two men on Saturday for an alleged road rage shooting into an SUV carrying a couple and three children. The victims called 911 after two men in a Dodge pickup truck began tailgating them, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said. “The truck ultimately passed them, forced them halfway off the road, cut …
