Illinois police have made an arrest after a man allegedly shot and killed his wife and 16-year-old sister-in-law in, all while two children hid in another room, as reported by ABC 7. Crystal Lake police announced that Ryan Yarber, 31, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Allania Yarber, 31, …
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Noura Jackson was 18 when her mother was fatally stabbed 50 times in her Memphis home in June 2005. She was 30 when she walked out of a Tennessee prison in August 2016, a year after the state Supreme Court overturned her second-degree murder conviction. The Tennessee justices ruled that the prosecutor violated Jackson’s constitutional …
A court has convicted a Canada man of using a crossbow to kill his mother and two brothers, just because he feared that lies he told his fiancée would come to light, as reported by The Toronto Star. Brett Ryan, 36, went on a murderous rampage after suspecting that his mother, Susan Ryan, would reveal that he …
A Palm Beach, Florida, woman suddenly died from complications of giving birth to twins. The young mother’s tragic death comes weeks after the children’s father was fatally shot, as reported by WPTV. Stephanie Caceres’ 2-year-old daughter, as well as the two newborns, are left without a mother or father. A GoFundMe revealed that Cacares gave birth to twins …
More information on Kristy Manzanares, the Utah realtor killed Tuesday on an Alaska cruise, has been released, as reported by CBS News. According to the news network, she was described as a trusted and valuable sales associate by her employer. “Kristy [Manzanares] was a dedicated and loving mother who juggled her business schedule to make her children …
An Oklahoma mother is behind bars after police say she killed her own child and left him rotting in a dumpster. NewsOK reports that Katherine Green allegedly dumped her newborn baby boy into a trash can at her Enid mobile home after the infant died from a methamphetamine overdose. Authorities found the boy on April 9th, …
A Princeton, Massachusetts, man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Google executive who vanished during a jog last summer. Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, entered the plea in Worcester Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Worcester Telegram, Colon-Ortiz is accused of strangling Vanessa Marcotte, 27, who was visiting her mother and disappeared during a run on …
A Michigan woman is facing felony child abuse and murder charges after she allegedly killed her own baby earlier this month. Detroit Free Press reports that on Monday, authorities charged Lovily Johnson, 22, with first-degree murder and felony child abuse. Prosecutors alleged that on July 17, Johnson put her 6-month-old baby boy, Noah Johnson, into his carseat …
The case against Ryan Duke for the 2004 murder of Ocilla, Georgia, teacher Tara Grinstead is built largely on what his roommate Bo Dukes told investigators. Bo Dukes, no relation to Duke, was charged with concealing a death, tampering with evidence, and hindering apprehension of a criminal after he told detectives he helped his roommate …
Massachusetts police have made an arrest in a case involving a grieving family that allegedly found their loved one’s limbs in a backpack, according to the Boston Herald. Investigators actually picked up Kathryn Podgurski, 33, prior to Monday’s discovery, as noted by The Enterprise. The medical examiner determined that Podgurski’s boyfriend, 44-year-old Joseph Shaw, was stabbed …
A Georgia man appeared in a Gwinnett County court on Monday for the death of his wife on their one-year wedding anniversary. The Gwinnett Daily Post reports that Walter Lowe, 51, turned himself in to authorities over the weekend after his wife of one year, Erica Powell, 46, was found with a gunshot wound to her head. According to …
