When a bullet pierced through the home of 70-year-old Constance Effie, the Kansas woman did not know what happened. In the aftermath, however, she said she realized not only what happened but that it was stopped in what some see as a case of divine intervention. According to WDAF, Effie was with her husband at …
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri jail guard persuaded her terminally ill father to fatally shoot her estranged husband to resolve a custody dispute and then kill himself so it appeared to be a murder-suicide, authorities allege. Elizabeth Kilgore, 35, of Quincy, pleaded not guilty last week to …
A Missouri mom who found her two young daughters mysteriously unconscious last Wednesday has reportedly explained her version what happened the day they died. Kansas City Star reports that Jenna Boedecker allegedly told authorities that she fell asleep in her car on July 4 after she lost her house key. She said her daughters, 2-year-old Ireland …
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 …
A grieving family and community leaders are desperate for answers after a 9-year-old boy was killed earlier this year in a vehicular shooting. Dominic “D.J.” Young Jr.’s father reportedly told authorities he and the victim were inside a rental truck on January 20 when someone began shooting. The boy was struck during the gunfire and …
The victim contracted a venereal disease from the 2010 attack, the lawsuit also alleged
A Missouri man is accused of dismembering his wife in a hotel room just days after she gave birth to their second child. According to WDAF, 35-year-old Justin Rey allegedly cut his wife’s body into pieces last month in front of the couple’s 2-year-old and newborn children. This week, prosecutors filed charges of abandoning a …
Chicago police say a suspect is in custody nearly three years after a 63-year-old woman was killed in a head-on collision. According to the Chicago Tribune, 23-year-old Adrian Segura was arrested this week after a warrant was issued earlier this month. Police believe the Kansas City, Missouri, man stole an SUV in December 2014, which …
Missouri prosecutors charged a daughter and father on Wednesday with assault after they allegedly beat a high school boy so badly that he was left in critical condition. New York Daily News reports that Josiah Wright, 39, and his daughter, Jonay Wright, 17, reportedly went to Ruskin High School in Kansas City to pick up Jonay’s class …
After a homeschooled child was brutally tortured and abused for years before he starved to death, a Kansas prosecutor is arguing for new regulations that better protect children who are not enrolled in school and therefore may not have outside witnesses who might pick up on abuse or neglect. The horrific abuse and murder of …
