A Missouri woman who was arrested last year for allegedly keeping her deceased husband in a freezer recently lost a federal court battle to get his body back from officials. On November 2, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri dismissed a lawsuit Barbara Watters, 68, filed against the city of Joplin, …
Human remains found in a rural western Missouri bean field this week are those of woman who’s been missing for almost a year. Nicole Mallatt was reported missing on November 29, 2019, and was last seen three days earlier near the Butler home she shared with her boyfriend, KCTV reported. Nine days later, her phone, …
A Missouri medical technician has been charged with sexual abuse and invasion of privacy after he alleged set up a fake CT scan for a woman who’d had an x-ray earlier in the day. Ryan Williams, 39, was the x-ray technician who saw the victim when she reported to Mercy-Lincoln Hospital in Troy on October …
A junior high school physical education teacher in Missouri has been placed on leave from his job after being charged with raping a minor. Joshua Olsen, 40, has been charged with first degree rape or attempted rape and first degree sodomy or attempted sodomy. The incident took place on October 11, according to KVFS. How …
A Missouri mother’s boyfriend shot her and her 6-year-old daughter to death Saturday and wounded the woman’s two other children, police said, according to the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Joseph Jones, 40, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Bernadetta Cooper, 40, and Doryan Bryant, 6, the paper said. …
Prosecutors in the case of a Missouri man charged with killing his wife and abusing their daughter are seeking to call 40 witnesses with the case finally goes to trial, the Columbia Missourian reported Friday. Earlier this week, Columbia police resumed their search for the body of Mengqi Ji Elledge, 28, who was last seen …
Two Amish brothers in Missouri pleaded guilty earlier this month to charges that they repeatedly had sexual relations with a younger sister, who gave birth to a child by one of them a few weeks earlier. But on Thursday, a prosecutor filed a motion in a Webster County court to revoke probation for Aaron C.M. …
A federal magistrate last week recommended that federal criminal charges be dropped against three men indicted in the 2018 sinking of a duck boat in Branson, Missouri, that killed 17 people, KCUR reports. Curtis Lanham, general manager of Ride the Ducks Branson, and Charles Baltzell, the manager on duty the day of the accident, were …
The suspect allegedly shot his 12-year-old neighbor in the head as she shielded her 1-year-old niece from gunfire
A Missouri couple who were reportedly filmed in June pulling guns on protestors made their first appearance in court Monday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Mark and Patricia McCloskey’s hearing was postponed until October 6. A St. Louis grand jury will review the couple’s case and will decide whether there’s enough evidence for an …
Prosecutors have charged a Missouri man with first degree murder in the June death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, the Joplin Globe reports. Brian O’Grodnick, 22, was charged with four counts of child abuse after investigators found several videos on his cellphone showing repeated abuse of Jameson Long, who died on June 2 after he …
A Missouri sheriff’s deputy waded into a mucky, muddy pond to pluck a 2-year-old girl out of water up to the child’s neck. Cpl Nicole Collins responded to a call about a missing toddler at about 4:15 p.m. on June 22 near Knob Noster. The little girl had ben missing for about 20 minutes. According …
