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UPDATE: Parents to face death penalty in case of abused toddler girl who reportedly resembled a ‘Holocaust victim’ when she died

 UPDATE: Parents to face death penalty in case of abused toddler girl who reportedly resembled a ‘Holocaust victim’ when she died
Child Abuse

Utah prosecutors will seek the death penalty against two parents who allegedly starved their 3-year-old daughter to death last year and filmed themselves taunting her with food before she died. In recently filed court papers obtained by The Associated Press, the state filed a notice seeking the death penalty against Odgen parents Miller Costello, 25, and …

BREAKING: Mother of abducted baby boy lit on fire and murdered is arrested for his death
Murder
July 25, 2018

BREAKING: Mother of abducted baby boy lit on fire and murdered is arrested for his death

The biological mother of a 6-month-old little boy found burned and killed last Tuesday was arrested in connection to her infant’s death on Wednesday. According to the Natchitoches Police Department, Hannah Barker, 22, mother of 6-month-old Levi Cole Ellerbe, has been charged with principle to first-degree murder, meaning the “actual perpetrator of a crime,” according to Law Shelf. Barker …

April Tinsley: Suspected killer taunted police for years with cryptic messages, left notes in baggies with used condoms
Murder
July 18, 2018

April Tinsley: Suspected killer taunted police for years with cryptic messages, left notes in baggies with used condoms

A suspected murderer’s taunts and cryptic messages are in part what helped detectives capture him on Sunday, more than 30 years after he reportedly murdered and raped 8-year-old April Tinsley in 1988. CNN reports that authorities used DNA testing while piecing together several disturbing notes to connect John D. Miller, 59, to the Good Friday murder …

Man said to have fathered 43 children found beaten to death inside his home: Police
Unsolved
July 17, 2018

Man said to have fathered 43 children found beaten to death inside his home: Police

A Chicago man found beaten to death inside his home on Sunday was said to have fathered 43 children. ABC7  reports John Hearring, 63, was beaten over the head and left for dead in his apartment off of North Leamington Avenue in Chicago’s South Austin neighborhood. He was well-known around the neighborhood and no one could …

Monday Crime Stories: An old VHS tape offers new clues in Sylvia Salinas murder
Podcast
July 16, 2018

Monday Crime Stories: An old VHS tape offers new clues in Sylvia Salinas murder

Sylvia Salinas was working behind the counter at her family’s grocery store in Galveston, Texas, when she was fatally stabbed through the heart on Halloween day in 1989. The investigation of the 30-year-old’s murder turned cold decades ago, but the work of a TV reporter and Salina’s great niece has revealed new clues in an …

Teen dad smothers 2-month-old daughter because he wanted to go to sleep, then tries to revive her by SHOCKING her with extension cord: Cops
Murder
July 12, 2018

Teen dad smothers 2-month-old daughter because he wanted to go to sleep, then tries to revive her by SHOCKING her with extension cord: Cops

An Arkansas teen is facing capital murder charges after last month’s smothering death of his infant daughter—who he reportedly tried to shock with an extension cord after she lost consciousness. Police were reportedly called to a Van Buren home on June 12 following reports of an unresponsive baby. The 2-month-old at the home was transported to …

Family props up murdered teen, poses him to play video games for wake service
Murder
July 11, 2018

Family props up murdered teen, poses him to play video games for wake service

A family was committed to commemorating a murdered New Orleans teen at his wake—so much so, that they reportedly propped him up in front of a television screen and posed him to play video games. WGNO reported that Renard Matthews, 18, was laid to rest Tuesday in a traditional jazz funeral in his Upper Ninth Ward …