A Michigan father who claimed he gave his three sons to a family more than seven years ago said in a jailhouse interview that he regrets his decision and misses his boys. Speaking with WDIV from an Ionia County prison, John Skelton cried as he recounted how he gave his sons, Andrew, 9, Alexander, 7, …
Authorities in Michigan arrested a 19-year-old woman accused of fabricating allegations that she was kidnapped from an area shopping mall. According to the New York Post, Alexis Marie Bradish told a friend about the alleged crime. When that individual contacted authorities, she reportedly repeated the claims in conversations with investigators. “The allegation she made is …
A Michigan woman has learned her fate after admitting to recording herself sexually assaulting a four-year-old boy and sending the footage to her drug dealer. According to MLive.com, U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff sentenced Kailee Marie Perez, 25, on January 11 to 20 years in federal prison. Perez pleaded guilty in September 2017 to recording the sexually-explicit video …
A Michigan woman who drowned her 50-day-old daughter five years earlier is facing murder charges following the death of her second infant daughter. According to UpNorthLive.com, Lisa Bryan, 32, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the November 1, 2016, death of her daughter, Isabella Powrozek. Court documents obtained by the publication indicated that Bryan had changed her story …
A Michigan mother who fabricated a story about being abducted and raped by four black men will spend time behind bars for attempting to escape from custody. MLive reported that Leiha Ann-Sue Artman, 27, was sentenced to 13 months to four years in jail after pleading guilty to resisting and obstructing police. Artman made headlines in …
A Michigan mother was reportedly forced to throw her three daughters from a top-floor window to allow them to escape from an apartment fire that left seven children and a firefighter injured. WDIV reported that the blaze broke out Wednesday morning at an apartment building on Detroit’s west side. Though the fire was extinguished shortly after …
No arrests have been made nearly five years after Eastern Michigan University student Julia Niswender was found dead with her clothes cut off in the bathtub of her off-campus apartment. According to M Live, authorities determined the 23-year-old’s cause of death was asphyxiation associated with drowning. Police noted that Niswender was deprived of oxygen before being placed in …
A 14-year-old boy is facing criminal charges for allegedly raping a female classmate in the stairwell of their Warren, Michigan, high school. According to WDIV, Khymani Jamal Tolbert is accused of raping a freshman girl at Lincoln High School on November 28. Officials revealed that the entire incident was caught on school surveillance cameras. Authorities claimed …
A Michigan woman pleaded guilty Friday to the 2015 murders of her husband and their dog. Yvonne Helen Cortis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and killing/torturing an animal in the beating deaths of her husband Gregory Cortis and their 11-year-old yellow Labrador retriever. She admitted to beating them with a metal bar to put “them …
A Michigan Arby’s employee chased a man down Monday morning after he allegedly robbed one of her managers. Marcia Rabideau, the director of operations for the Sterling Heights Arby’s, said when one of her managers beat on the door of the building and yelled that they had been robbed, she “didn’t think, [she] just reacted,” MLive …
In the middle of a bitter divorce, Tanya Zuvers waited for her three sons, Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton, to return from a Thanksgiving outing with their father, John Skelton. Seven years later, John still claims he gave the children to a “group” to protect them from their mother—and Zuvers is left wondering if her …
A Michigan woman who was 17 when she sexually assaulted her ex-boyfriend at knifepoint has avoided prison. MLive reports that Lestina Marie Smith, now 18, was sentenced Monday to five years’ probation and will spend the next 25 years on the sex offender registry. The teen originally faced life in prison for the January 11 incident that …
