A former teacher has been arrested in Florida on an Alabama fugitive warrant and is awaiting extradition to face charges of sexual abuse. The Helena Police Department said that a victim reported the absue in December 2022, and Richard Bailey Granger was named the suspect. By that time, Granger, who resigned his post at the …
Alabama police have obtained capital murder warrants for John Peyton Scott III, accusing him of killing his girlfriend and her father in Helena. Sharon Tarwater Whited, 40, and Chester E. Tarwater Jr, 75, were found dead in their home on Wednesday, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Scott, who also reportedly lived in the residence, was initially …
A 75-year-old Alabama man and his adult daughter were found dead in their home on Wednesday, and authorities say the woman’s boyfriend is a suspect in their deaths. Chester “Chuck” Tarwater Jr’s 12-year-old grandson found him unresponsive at about 3:20 p.m. The boy grabbed his grandmother — who suffers from dementia — and went to …
An Alabama teenager is suing his adoptive parents after they pleaded guilty earlier this month to holding him captive and starving him, WBRC reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Richard and Cynthia Kelly were arrested in 2017 on felony child abuse charges. Prosecutors said they kept their 14-year-old charge locked in the basement 23 hours a …
