A dashboard camera appears to capture the moments when a man randomly stops a school bus on a busy Massachusetts turnpike and jumps on the hood. Kevin Crowe, 42, told news station WBZ that he hopped atop the bus Tuesday night because he thought it was “suspicious” that a school bus would have tinted side …
A Massachusetts woman is speaking out days after her accused rapist was allowed to post bond, resulting in him fleeing to Ghana to avoid prosecution. Emily Murray told WFXT that Uber driver Frederick Amfo raped her in the back of his car on April 8. Amfo allegedly had dropped off another customer and locked the car doors …
A motorist reportedly found the remains of a missing Marine recruit along the side of a road in Canton, Massachusetts, this week. According to Fox News, an announcement Thursday from the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office indicated that the remains had been identified as those of Joseph Brancato. The 21-year-old aspiring Marine had not been seen …
Onlookers reportedly watched in horror as Jeffrey Yao repeatedly stabbed the woman with a 10-inch hunting knife
Police arrest suspect who previously broke into an officer’s home while he attended his mother’s funeral
Prosecutors all over Massachusetts will reportedly throw out more than 8,000 drug-related convictions after a lab chemist admitted to using the drugs she was entrusted to test. The Washington Post reported that the cases are connected to lab chemist Sonja Farak, who admitted to using and testing drugs seized by police for eight years. Documents …
The family of a cruise ship singer found dead in her cabin almost five years ago is fighting police to reopen her case. Jackie Kastrinelis, 24, was found dead on the Seven Seas Voyager near Darwin, Australia, in February 2013. The Massachusetts-native had worked on the cruise ship for two years and planned to audition for …
A Massachusetts mother claimed that employees of a children’s group home in Dracut shaved her 7-year-old child’s hair—then told the girl that her hair would grow back straight. Speaking with WBZ-TV, Denise Robinson said her daughter, Tru, had very long hair before a clinician at the Little Heroes Home took her to a salon where a …
A Princeton, Massachusetts, man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Google executive who vanished during a jog last summer. Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, entered the plea in Worcester Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Worcester Telegram, Colon-Ortiz is accused of strangling Vanessa Marcotte, 27, who was visiting her mother and disappeared during a run on …
Massachusetts police have made an arrest in a case involving a grieving family that allegedly found their loved one’s limbs in a backpack, according to the Boston Herald. Investigators actually picked up Kathryn Podgurski, 33, prior to Monday’s discovery, as noted by The Enterprise. The medical examiner determined that Podgurski’s boyfriend, 44-year-old Joseph Shaw, was stabbed …
Police are not launching a criminal investigation “at this time”
Police found the remains of a newborn baby behind a Worcester, Massachusetts, home on Friday, after residents reported smelling an unusual and foul odor. Mass Live reports that authorities found the infant’s remains in the woods behinds a home off of Lake Avenue. When police arrived, they talked to the person who called in about …
