An Army wife has been charged with murder in the death of an infant whose neck was cut at a Georgia post southwest of Augusta. Apil Evalyn Short was also charged with an aggravated circumstance of the murder taking place during an act of child abuse, US Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia Jill …
An Army staff sergeant, her husband, and their 4- and 9-year-old children were found dead Wednesday in their home on Georgia Army post Fort Stewart in what an incident investigators said was “domestic in nature.” Task and Purpose said that Staff Sgt. Meiziaha T. Cooper and her husband, Desmond Cooper, were pronounced dead just after …
A Georgia man has been charged with setting his wife on fire and leaving her without treatment for severe burns for two days. Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital called Albany police when the 67-year-old woman arrived wtih burns covering 25 percent of her lower body, police said, according to WALB. She was taken to the Joseph …
A commercial fishing boat is missing off the coast of Georgia with its crew of an experienced captain and two crew members. After setting out on October 14, Dalton Conway was expected to bring the 31-foot Carol Ann back into Brunswick last Wednesday, in time sell his catch on Thursday, but he didn’t return and …
A Georgia man has been charged with murder after he allegedly killed his girlfriend, stuffed her body in a suitcase in a closet of her apartment, and took off for Atlanta in her car. The Thomaston Police Department said they were contacted early Saturday morning by Margret Dubignon’s family, who said they’d been unable to …
Members of the “Soldiers of Christ” videotaped themselves torturing a South Korean woman before she was found dead in the trunk of a car outside a Korean sauna last month. The revelation came from a Gwinnett County Police Department detective during a preliminary hearing Thursday for five of the seven people charged in the death …
A 6-year-old Georgia boy is dead after he was found stabbed multiple times inside a burning apartment. Gwinnett County police and firefighters were called to an apartment fire in Peachtree Corners shortly before 8 a.m. on Thursday, police said. Firefighters made entry into the first floor unit, where the fire was centered, and found the …
A 7-year-old boy was one of the victims in a double murder suicide in suburban Atlanta on Monday. DeKalb County Police said they found the boy, a 49-year-old woman, and a 51-year-old man dead just after 3 p.m., WANF said. Police have not released the names of the victims and suspect, who investigators believe was …
UPDATE The children have been found safe in south Georgia, according to the Columbus Police Department. The investigation is still ongoing; anyone with information is asked to contact Sgt. L. Zieverink at 706-225-4384 or lzieverink@columbusga.org. Initial Coverage An Amber Alert has been issued in Georgia for two young girls taken from a Columbus Burger King …
Police in Georgia have arrested a seventh person related to the death of a Korean woman found beaten and starved in the trunk of a car outside a sauna last month. Investigators say Sehee Cho, 33, was lured from South Korea by a group calling itself “Soldiers for Christ” in the summer and then dumped …
A man arrested this week in connection with the disappearance of Georgia mom Aimee Lafakis has now been charged with her murder. Lafakis, 48, was reported missing from her Brookhaven home on September 29, after she missed a planned dinner with her daughter, and found dead on October 1 in Gwinnett County, CrimeOnline reported. Lafakis, …
Police in an Atlanta suburb issued a “critical missing” notice Saturday for 48-year-old Aimee Lafakis, who hasn’t been heard from since early Friday morning. Brookhaven Police said that family members reported Lafakis missing on Friday after having no contact with her since about 2 a.m., WXIA reported. Police said they had made an arrest in …
