Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of Robert Bowers, a Pennsylvania truck driver accused of killing 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. Bowers faces 63 counts, including obstruction of free exercise of religion resulting in death and hate crimes resulting in death, in the federal trial. Bowers, 50, could be sentenced …
Authorities in Pennsylvania are looking for a couple seen walking hand in hand just after a 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed Friday night in Upper Darby. Officials said Michael Garr, a 10th grader at Upper Darby High School, was stabbed in the neck just after 9:30 p.m. and died after he went into cardiac arrest, …
A Pennsylvania mother charged with killing her 11-year-old son did it so the boy didn’t have to grow up under the stress of “the family’s financial difficulties.” Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead, 50, strangled her son Matthew as he slept with her husband’s belt, then locked the bedroom door and drove to Cape May, New Jersey, where she …
Update 9:45 a.m.: Ruth White-DiRienzo has been charged with first and second degree murder in the death of her 11-year-old son, WCAU reports. Original story: An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy is dead and his mother in custody after the child’s father found him dead Tuesday morning. Daniel Whitehead called 911 when he woke up around 7 …
A Pennsylvania mother and school teacher was shot to death in the drive-thru lane of a Cheltenham Township Dunkin’ Tuesday morning, while he 11-year-old son watched from the back seat. Rachel King’s son was not hurt in the shooting, WTXF reported. The station said that King, 35, had taught for more than a decade at …
A 28-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with criminal homicide and kidnapping in the death of his mother, whose body was found in a shed outside a Philadelphia behavioral center. The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said that Sean Rivera is accused of drugging 72-year-old Carol Clark with fentanyl and then driving her 30 miles …
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with rape and murder in the assault and death of a 70-year-old woman who was found dead along a bike trail last month. Marcy Suzette Nellis went missing while out on a routine walk on March 27. Her body was found later that day, WTAE reported, and an autopsy …
Human remains found in Pittsburgh last weekend have been identified as those a woman who disappeared in January 2020. Kaylene Oehling, 20, was last seen at a friends house on January 9, 2020, when she left to meet someone. She was expected to return but did not, and she was supposed to babysit younger siblings …
A Pennsylvania tattoo artist spotted a vehicle posted in an Amber Alert Thursday and took off after the car while on the phone with dispatchers. Inside the stolen gold Chevrolet Suburban: two young boys, 3 and 1. The saga began earlier in the day and 100 miles away in Ohio. A woman who was caring …
A Pennsylvania mother of two was mauled to death by her neighbor’s Great Danes, and one of her sons saw at least the beginning of the attack. Perry County Coroner Robert Ressler said the neighbor had asked 38-year-old Kristin Potter to feed the dogs while they were away — something Potter had done before with …
A babysitter has been charged with shoving an 18-month-old baby into a crib face-first, causing multiple injuries, including two collapsed lungs. Police in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, said that they were called to Wayne County Memorial Hospital on March 1 for the baby, who had broken and fractured ribs and bruising to the face, according to PAHomePage.com. …
Pennsylvania officials have revealed what Idaho college murders suspect Bryan Kohberger was doing when police raided his parents’ home and arrested him early in the morning on December 30. Kohberger, 28, had been under surveillance for some time — in fact, agents had tracked him as he and his father drove from Washington State University, …
