Six Missouri residents have been indicted in the kidnapping and murder of another Missouri man whose body was found a year ago after a violent standoff with one of the suspects. Acting on a tip that there was a body in the woods near a house outside Joplin, Newton County deputies and Joplin police showed …
Seventeen people — including nine members of a single family from Indiana — died on July 19, 2018 when Scott McKee piloted Stretch Duck No. 7 into Table Rock Lake during a severe thunderstorm warning and the boat was subsequently swamped by high winds and rains. One of the dead was a member of the boat’s crew.
A Missouri nursing assistant has been accused of sexually abusing a 75-year-old patient who cannot move without assistance. Calieb Chase Craft, 24, was arrested on Thursday and charged with sodomy, sexual abuse, and elder abuse, according to court records. His employer, CoxHealth, said Friday it had fired him. According to the Springfield News-Leader, a 75-year-old …
The remains of a Missouri woman missing for more than a month were located this week on the property of a man who has now been charged with killing her. The Bollinger County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that the remains found on Wednesday were those of Jennifer Porzeinski, who was reported missing on March 16 …
A Missouri woman has been charged with murder after an 8-month-old girl died in her care. According to court documents, the baby’s parents left her and two other children in the care of Jennifer Johnson, 44, at about 5 p.m. Saturday. After returning home, the mother said she found the child unresponsive and cool to …
Two people, an adult and a juvenile, have been charged, while a second juvenile could be charged later.
A Missouri man was arrested after he called 911 early Saturday evening to report that he’d just killed three family members at his home. Greene County deputies arrived and took Jesse Huy, 50, into custody without incident, charging him the with murders of his wife and her parents. Tonya Huy, 48, Ronald Koehler, 71, and …
A Missouri man suspected of killing and decapitating his mother last year has been found dead in Arkansas, the Vernon County Sheriff’s Office says The Sheriff’s Office named Aaron Goodwin, 38, the sole suspect in the death of 63-year-old Connie Goodwin, who was found dead in her southwestern Missouri home on October 28, as CrimeOnline …
Authorities in southwest Missouri have asked for help identifying a woman who ran into oncoming traffic on Interstate 44 last week and was struck and killed, the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office says. The woman was seen walking around a rest area near Mile Marker 52 east bound on March 6 before taking off headlong into …
Authorities in Missouri are looking for a 1-year-old girl who was reportedly abducted on Thursday. KMOV reported that Royalty Miller’s mother called Grenale Henderson, 35, on Friday morning and asked for her daughter back. Henderson allegedly told her she would never see her daughter again — and threatened to shoot at police who approached him. …
Leigh Ann Bauman allegedly texted her children, saying, ‘Your grandmother will die.’
A Missouri man was arrested early Monday and charged with killing two people he believed killed his girlfriend. Newton County deputies were investigating the death of 25-year-old Brylee O’Banion, whose body was found just after 4 p.m. Saturday in a ditch in Loma Linda. According to Newton County Sheriff Ken Jennings, investigators considered Mason McClure, …
