Phoenix police say they have arrested a 51-year-old woman in the case of a newborn baby girl left in a restroom at Sky Harbor International Airport 18 years ago. Annie Anderson admitted she was the baby’s mother to investigators who questioned her in Washington state, where she now lives, KNXV reported. The baby, dubbed “Baby …
Prosecutors in Arizona say they will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man accused of stabbing a 29-year-old skin care technician to death on a hiking trail last spring. Lauren Heike’s parents released a statement saying they’d learned from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office that they had filed the notice of intent to seek …
A 20-year-old Arizona man has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder after he allegedly shot five people randomly in the Phoenix area. Iren Byers was arrested on Saturday after Mesa police identified him in video from near the scenes of several shootings on Friday and Saturday, according to …
Police in Arizona have arrested a 22-year-old man for the murder of Lauren Heike, whose body was found on a Phoenix hiking trail on Saturday. Investigators say Zion William Teasley was taken into custody Saturday night at his apartment, less than a mile from the Reach 11 trail, KTVK reported. NEW INFO ON HOMICIDE investigation. …
Police have released surveillance footage of a “person of interest” seen running along a Phoenix trail where a 29-year-old woman was found dead Saturday morning. Phoenix police have not said the man is a suspect in the death of Lauren Heike but said he “may have info” on the case. NEW INFO ON HOMICIDE investigation. …
A family of five was found dead in a Phoenix house this week, and police say they believe the 44-year-old father killed his wife and children before killing himself. Firefighters first found the presence of gas at the home on Wednesday morning, slowing their response, but Southwest Gas crews cleared the house, KSAZ reported. Inside, …
An Arizona man and woman have been arrested in connection with the vicious death of an elderly Air Force veteran who was found dead and dismembered in his home. Investigators said Thomas Wallace, 58, has been charged with murder, theft of means of transportation, trafficking stolen property, and concealing a dead body. Romana Gonzalez has …
An 8-year-old girl shot during an Arizona road rage incident last week has died, and the man police say is responsible has been charged with her murder. Sidney Garrand, 48, also faces four counts of assault and one weapons and explosives count, according to Maricopa County jail records. Court documents Phoenix police received multiple calls …
An Arizona man has been charged with kidnapping a man he said owned him money then killing and dismembering him. John Anthony Cole, of Tucson, was arrested by Arizona Department of Public Safety officers on Interstate 10 heading to toward California, KOLD reported. Officials said they found portions of Antoine Smith’s body in his vehicle. …
An Arizona man was arrested this week after he returned to Phoenix nearly two months after his wife’s body was found and he was named a suspect in her murder. Shaun Michael Schulte, 52, faces several charges, among them second degree murder and tampering with evidence, related to the death of 49-year-old Amy Jo Schulte, …
Arizona police are searching for a man they say strangled a woman on a city bus Friday morning. Phoenix police said that officers responded to a call about a person not breathing on a bus at about 8 a.m. and found 41-year-old Diane Craig with signs of strangulation. Craig was taken to a hospital and …
The Arizona parents of a 1-year-old boy have been charged with child abuse after their son overdosed on apparent fentanyl. The Phoenix Fire Department responded to a call earlier this week from Anna Chavez, who said the boy wasn’t breathing, KNXV reported. The baby regained consciousness after firefighters administered two doses of Narcan, the emergency …
