A North Carolina, couple is speaking out after learning that a monument company reportedly repossessed their 5-year-old son’s grave marker. Crystal and Wayne Leatherman of Hickory buried Jake almost a year ago after he lost a long battle with leukemia. However, Crystal told WBTV that she recently went to her son’s grave and was shocked to …
The FBI is asking for the public’s help in locating footage believed to show Ashanti Billie’s Mini Cooper traveling from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Charlotte, North Carolina. According to an October 12 FBI statement, Billie, 19, was driving a white or cream-colored 2014 with Maryland tag 2CX-0575. The agency is urging` anyone who might’ve seen the …
A North Carolina couple faces additional disturbing charges in connection with their arrest last year on child abuse charges. According to the Statesville Record & Landmark, Andrew Patrick Williams, 38, and his girlfriend, 37-year-old Stephanie Johanna Giddens, were charged with performing sex acts on the same child they were charged last year with physically abusing. …
A white restaurant manager in Conway, South Carolina, is accused of beating and forcing an intellectually disabled black man to work for little to no pay for five years. According to The Post and Courier, the US Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that they indicted Bobby Paul Edwards, 52, on a felony forced labor charge. The victim, John Christopher Smith, 39, reportedly …
An ex-boyfriend of murdered University of Pittsburgh student, Alina Sheykhet, was reportedly arrested Wednesday in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Myrtle Beach Online reported that a concerned resident called police around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday to report a suspicious person tampering with the window of a home. Captain Joey Crosby said responding officers approached Matthew Darby, 21, and learned …
A body found behind a Charlotte, North Carolina, church Friday morning could belong to a Virginia Beach teen who disappeared 12 days earlier. The anonymous source told The Virginian-Pilot that a landscaper discovered Ashanti Billie’s possible remains while trimming behind East Stonewall AME Zion Church. At this point, however, there is no official confirmation that the body …
A Fountain Inn, North Carolina, woman is behind bars after authorities made a shocking discovery earlier this week inside her previous apartment, reports FOX Carolina. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a deputy found sealed containers inside a clothes hamper at an apartment at the Fountain Hills apartments while serving an eviction notice to a tenant who had …
A North Carolina jury convicted a repeat sex offender on numerous charges on Wednesday, after he tied a little girl up to a tree in 2016, sexually assaulted her, and left her chained by her neck while he fled the scene. CBS reports that on Sept. 14, 2016, 47-year-old Douglas Nelson Edwards rode his moped down River …
A daycare owner arrived at a little girl’s home last week, when North Carolina police officers rescued her from a small closet. The distraught daycare owner described in detail the signs of abuse the child suffered, reportedly at the hands of her own father. FOX8 reports that Tracy Harrell, owner of the Randleman Enrichment Center, a daycare …
North Carolina police found a little girl on Tuesday, malnourished and locked in a small closet in her home, reportedly by the hands of her own father and her caretaker. FOX8 reports that authorities responded to a call for a welfare check at a home off of the 200 block of Back Street in Raleigh. The …
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A Charlotte, North Carolina, restaurant worker was caught on video appearing to prepare food on the ground outside the establishment. Footage recently provided to WJZY appears to show the at Tokyo Grill & Buffet preparing food amongst garbage cans and filth. The video was apparently taken in May. Tokyo Grill reportedly passed three health inspections this year, …
