A western Kentucky man has been charged with murder after he drove home and told relatives he had killed a woman. Denny Christopher Rumfelt, 29, has also been charged with tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse, the News-Enterprise reported. One of Rumfelt’s relatives called police and told them what he had said. …
An 8-week-old baby girl reporting missing on Sunday has been found safe, but a man she was believed to have been with has not been located. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an endangered child alert of Zolliee Jean Standafer on behalf of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday. TBI updated their Facebook post …
An 8-week-old baby girl from Jefferson County, Tennessee, is missing and believed to be in the Corbin, Kentucky, area. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an endangered child alert for Zolliee Jean Standafer on behalf of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Zolliee has a medical condition, TBI said, and may be with 37-year-old Travis Wayne …
Federal investigators completed a third day of searching Thursday in connection with the disappearance of Crystal Rogers, a 35-year-old Kentucky mom who vanished in 2015, and released a statement saying it would keep searching “for as long as it takes.” The FBI, which took over the case a year ago, narrowed its focus to s …
Jamir Strane, 16, said the chemistry teacher objected to his neck gaiter and told him he’d “end up in the streets dead” like all his friends.
A federal jury deliberated for six hours on Wednesday before finding a Kentucky man guilty of killing a drug dealer during a robbery in 2014. The verdict will send Patrick Baker, 43, back to prison after then-Gov Matt Bevin pardoned him at the end of his term as governor in 2019, when Baker had served …
Kentucky police have arrested a third suspect in a gruesome torture and murder case in Louisville last fall. Daniel E. Rosselot, 36, was arrested Friday and charged with complicity to murder, two counts of complicity to first-degree unlawful imprisonment, complicity to abuse of a corpse, and complicity to tampering with physical evidence, the Louisville Courier …
A Kentucky man is accused of fatally beating his 7-week-old daughter earlier this month while the girl’s mother was hospitalized. Cortney Jones told WAVE that she was being treated for postpartum complications on June 17 when Del’Shawn Banks, 23, called her in hysterics. Jones said Banks was in an ambulance at the time with their …
A Kentucky woman was last seen more than two weeks ago in a cellphone video that shows her wandering in a stranger’s back yard before jumping into a creek and disappearing. Kandi Gonzalez, 36, was along Abbott Creek Road, less than a half mile from her home in Prestonburg on June 1 when she was …
A Kentucky woman left her 4-year-old son behind a Lexington social services organization and took off in one of the facility’s vans. Jahaira Rivera had been charged with abandonment of a minor and theft by unlawful taking of a vehicle, LEX18 reported. The Lexington Police Department said the incident took place at about 5:30 p.m. …
A body found in a ditch in rural Kentucky has been identified as a 21-year-old Murray State University student from Virginia, according to Kentucky State Police. Sarah Townsend died from multiple gunshot wounds, the Lexington Herald-Reader reported. Julius Sotomayor, 22, has been arrested and charged with killing Townsend, state police said. A motorist found Townsend’s …
A Kentucky mother has been charged with murder after her 2-year-old son ingested her fentanyl while she was sleeping. First responders found the boy in respiratory distress when they responded to a call in Ludlow at about 3:300 Thursday afternoon. He was taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His mother, 33-year-old …
