Kentucky officials said Wednesday night they believe a decomposing body found near Interstate 75 — where a shooting earlier this month wounded five people — is that of the suspect, Joseph Couch. Kentucky State Police Commissioner Phil Burnett Jr. said the London post was notified at about 3:30 p.m. of the discovery “in the deep …
Authorities paused the hunt for a man who wounded five people on Interstate 75 on Saturday as the sun fell over the southeastern Kentucky mountains Sunday night with plans to return to the hunt Monday morning. Kentucky State Police have taken the lead on the manhunt for Joseph Couch, a former National Guardsman believed to be …
Investigators recovered an AR-style rifle off a Forest Service road near where a gunman opened fire Saturday on vehicles traveling on Interstate 75 in eastern Kentucky. The rifle was found Sunday afternoon not far from where deputies found a silver Toyota SUV registered to the man the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office has now named a …
Interstate 75 in eastern Kentucky has been reopened after it was closed for several hours when a gunman opened fire on vehicles traveling the highway. The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office identified 32-year-old Joseph Couch as a person of interest and cautioned people not to approach him. Couch is considered “armed and dangerous” and still at …
Three people — including a prominent Kentucky dentist and his son — were arrested last month in connection with the fatal stabbing of 38-year-old Amber Spradlin, found dead in the dentist’s home more than a year ago. Michael McKinney III, 24, is charged with murder and multiple counts of tampering with evidence and is being …
One of three men charged in connection with the disappearance and presumed murder of a Kentucky mom in 2015 fired his attorney at a hearing on Thursday, reportedly because he found out the attorney met with a co-defendant’s attorneys behind his back. Steve Lawson appeared before Nelson County Judge Charles Simms III for a hearing …
A Kentucky woman was arrested on Sunday afer her 20-month-old child overdosed on drugs. Jasmine Bartolo was charged with four counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, first degree criminal child abuse 12 or under, possession of marijuana, and trafficking in carfentanil or fentanyl derivative, the Hopkinsville Police Department said in a statement. Police said they were …
A Fort Campbell soldier and mother of a 4-year-old son found dead in her home earlier this year died from nearly 70 stab wounds. The Montgomery County Medical Examiner said that Pfc. Katia Dueñas Aguilar, 23, was stabbed 68 times in her neck and upper body, the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle reported. Police said on Wednesday that …
An uninvited guest opened fire at a Kentucky birthday party early Saturday morning, killing four people and critically injuring three more. The killer fled the scene as police arrived and led officers on a chase that ended when he crashed into a ditch, WLWT reported. Police found him suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and …
Two people were shot, one of them fatally, inside a Kentucky game shop Saturday morning. Louisville Metro Police said they were called to a shooting in the 8800 block of Dixie Highway just before 11:30 a.m. Police did not say what business was the scene of the shooting, but WLKY reported that the Valley Station …
A Kentucky man has been arrested nearly a year after a tire rolled off his truck and smashed through the window of car on Interstate 75, killing the 18-year-old woman driving. Ricky Raider, 37, has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident/failure to render aid with death or serious physical injury and persistent …
A Kentucky man has been charged with the murders of his wife and mother-in-law last week after telling law enforcement he “had a job” to kill them. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said it responded to the home in Pleasureville at about 8:30 p.m. on Friday and found two women — 56-year-old Beth Simmons and …
