A Missouri foster mother faces four counts of felony child abuse after two young sisters in her care were found with multiple injuries, including one with a lacerated spleen and liver. Jennifer L. Chambers, 42, took the youngest girl, whose age was not given, to Freeman Hospital in Joplin on November 23 at the insistence …
Four people have been jailed in southwestern Missouri after a 4-year-old boy was found unresponsive and suffering from “extreme malnutrition” last month, the Stone County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. The boy’s mother, Dessa Barton, and her boyfriend, Dalton McLendon, both 26, were arrested on November 6, jail records show, when deputies and medical teams responded …
A suspect was arrested on Thursday in the death of a pregnant Missouri woman who was reportedly stabbed more than 20 times. Amethyst Killian, 22, was found dead at Old Towne Park on Friday, a day after she vanished while walking to a gas station, as CrimeOnline previously reported. St. Charles prosecutor Tim Lohmar said …
A 22-year-old Missouri mother of two — who recently learned she was pregnant with her third child — was found dead in a wooded area near her home on Friday, St Peters police said. Amethyst Killian was reported missing at about 8 p.m. Thursday night by her family, who said the last reported sighting of …
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 …
