A California man was sentenced to 212 years in prison for defrauding insurance companies with an “evil and diabolical” plot to kill his two severely autistic sons, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ali F. Elmezayen, 45, drove the family car off a San Pedro wharf in 2015, killing Abdelkarim Elmezayen, 8, and Elhassan Elmezayen, 11, …
An Indiana superintendent has resigned days after she was arrested for allegedly getting a high school student medical treatment using her son’s health insurance. According to WTHR, Casey Smitherman’s resignation was announced during Friday’s Elwood school board meeting. The assistant superintendent will take on Smitherman’s role in the interim. In a statement to the Indianapolis …
A New Jersey man is facing fraud charges after surveillance cameras reportedly showed him intentionally throwing ice on the floor of his former workplace and fake a fall that he later filed an insurance claim for. As part of a statewide crackdown on insurance fraud, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office released footage they allege shows a fake …
A school superintendent in Indiana was criminally charged after she allegedly pretended a student was her own son in order to get medical treatment for the child. KFSM reports Casey Smitherman was accused of taking the student to a doctor on January 9 after he didn’t come to school due to a sore throat. Reportedly suspecting that the …
A California father is behind bars, expected to face multiple charges in the deaths of his two autistic sons who drowned after he drove his family over a wharf in Los Angeles. The New York Daily News reports that a judge has ordered Ali F. Elmezayen, 44, to remain in jail as authorities continue an …
A woman in China reportedly killed herself and her two children following the death of her husband—only for the man to admit that he faked his death to get himself out of debt. Per the BBC, the 34-year-old was presumed dead after a car he borrowed was found in a river on September 19 with …
