a second Michigan man has been charged with murder of a 21-year-old woman found shot to death in a state game area more than 40 years ago. DNA tied both Anthony Harris, 63, and Douglas Laming, 70, to the death of Karen Umphrey, whose body was found in the State Game Area in Beards Hills …
A Michigan father has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped his 2-year-old child and held Washtenaw County deputies at bay at an Ann Arbor hotel for several hours early Wednesday morning. The Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office said the man another person forced their way into a home while armed just before 3:30 a.m., assaulted the …
Two years after their daughter was found dead in her Michigan home, the family of 31-year-old Megan Drumhiller is hoping to bring a new awareness to the unsolved case. “We were always careful not to disrupt the investigation,” Megan’s father, Tim Drumhiller, said. “But we finally got to the point where we — we’ve gotta …
A missing 14-year-old girl was found this week at the home of a convicted sex offender in Michigan nearly a month after she vanished from her Seattle-area home. Keith Freerksen, 30, has now been charged with two counts of trafficking a minor for commercial sexual activity, two counts of using a computer to commit a …
A 79-year-old former Michigan middle school paraprofessional has been charged with sending inappropriate messages to a minor. Michigan State Police launched an investigation last September when the child, whose name and age was not disclosed, reported the texts and Snapchats. “The victim knew the suspect, identified as 79-year-old Sue Ann Asch from Kalkaska,” state police …
A Michigan man has been charged with stabbing his teenage brother to death during a weekend altercation. Macomb County deputies were called to a Lenox Township home Sunday night at about 10:30 p.m. and assisted a witness with CPR for the victim until emergency medical personnel arrived and pronounced him dead, WJBK reported. Nathan Land, …
A Michigan mother is accused of being on the phone for 20 minutes while her 8-month-old son drowned in the bathtub. Olivia MIller, 23, was arraigned on Friday on charges of involuntary manslaughter and child abuse in the death of Asher Johnson last November, WOOD reported. Police said Miller told investigators “varying stories” in the …
The parents of the Michigan teen sentenced to life in prison last month for a school shooting that left four of his classmates dead don’t want details of the killing revealed in court to avoid “inflaming the passions” of the jury hearing the involuntary manslaughter case against them. James and Jennifer Crumbley want a judge …
A 43-year-old mom of three was found dead in her Detroit home on Tuesday, and police are investigating the death as a homicide. Quana Foster’s 11-year-old daughter crawled in through an open window and found her mother’s body on Tuesday, WJBK reported. “Today her job said she (was) ‘no call no show.’ I stay down …
A Michigan jury deliberated for about an hour on Friday before returning a guilty verdict for a mother accused in the torture killing of her 15-year-old son. Shanda Vander Ark was found guilty of open murder and first degree child abuse in the death of Timothy Ferguson, WZZM reported. Timothy weighed 69 pounds when he …
Prosecutors in Michigan say they are reviewing a warrant request from Detroit police in the fatal murder of Jewish community leader Samantha Woll in October. a man was taken into custody over the weekend, the second person to be detained in connection with the October 21 stabbing. The first, taken into custody on November 8, …
Arrest warrants have been issued against two Michigan couples accusing them of conspiring to adopt dozens of children that they then abused, “all for personal financial gain.” Jerry and Tamal Flore and Joel and Tammy Brown have until Friday to surrender on the charges, brought by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, the Lansing State Journal …
