Three Mississippi men were charged this week with the shooting death of a co-founder of the Stop Abuse Campaign, a New York-based not-for-profit organization that worked to prevent child abuse, the Clarion-Ledger reports. Ken Mason, who returned to his native Mississippi this spring, was found dead on the side of a rural stretch of road …
A Mississippi judge was reportedly found fatally stabbed Wednesday — moments before police officers shot and killed her adult son. WLOX reported that Moss Point police initially responding to a welfare check at 11:30 a.m. attempted to make contact with someone at Sheila Osgood’s home but were unsuccessful. An hour later, officers returned to the …
A former employee of Mississippi Child Protective Services was charged this week with multiple counts relating to alleged inappropriate conduct with juveniles under her care. A Tishomingo County grand jury indicted Lauren Rose Cavness, 26, after a months-long investigation by the Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office, the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services, and the Mississippi …
A 15-year-old Mississippi boy is being held on a $2 million bond, charged with the rape, beating, and stabbing of a 91-year-old woman with dementia, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported. Tydarius Wade has been charged as an adult with rape, burglary, breaking and entering, and attempted murder in the brutal attack against the woman, who was …
The “victim” of a kidnapping is behind bars in Mississippi after investigators determined there had been no abduction — just an attempt to extort money from the alleged victim’s father. The story began late Thursday night when a Virginia man contacted the Lee County Sheriff’s Department and said he had received a Facetime call showing …
A 3-year-old in northwestern Mississippi tested positive for amphetamines and methamphetamine, prompting an investigation that has landed a woman in jail and a man on the run. Cassie Neely, 35, and Paul Eric Leathers, 47, were the caretakers of the toddler, and there were other children in the home, the Lee County Sheriff’s Department said. …
Georgia detectives used top end technology to track a homicide suspect Sunday night as he fled across Alabama and into Mississippi, where he was arrested, the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office said. Just before 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Munteshia Brown, 38, was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound in the parking lot of Macedonia Baptist Church, …
A 28-year-old Black man is missing in southern Mississippi, and police are searching for a white couple in connection with his disappearance. Willie Ray Q. Jones, 28, was last seen on July 6 wearing a black shirt and gray and white shorts. He is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, 216 pounds with black …
The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling this week, denying Joshua Miller’s attempt to have his life with parole sentence changed to allow the possibility of parole, the Hattiesburg American reports. Miller, now 38, was convicted in 1997 of killing his on-again, off-again 13-year-old girlfriend, Kristin Aultman, on August 18, 1996, when …
Just hours after US Marshals named him to their Top 15 Most Wanted List, Jacob Blair Scott was arrested on charges related to the rape of a 14-year-old Mississippi girl in 2018. A tipster recognized him as a man called “Luke,” living in an RV camper in Oklahoma, where he’d been since faking his death …
A woman has sued Mississippi officials, claiming jailers denied her incarcerated mother insulin before her death in September 2018. According to the Biloxi Sun Herald, Kayla Rush filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in connection with the September 10 death of her mother, Cindy Michelle, 38, who had Type 1 diabetes. Michelle was arrested on …
A Mississippi woman who was last seen leaving her job at Domino’s on Friday was found dead on Tuesday, according to reports. Citing police, the Mississippi Clarion Ledger reported that Hilereca Dortch’s body was discovered near the intersection of Old Yazoo City Road and Heindle Road in Madison County. Her body was located roughly five …
