An eastern Kentucky woman was arrested last week for child abuse after reports said her son “showed signs of torture.” The returned to school on Tuesday after not attending since before Christmas and appeared to have “chipped front teeth and a busted nose,” WYMT reports. A school official called police, and the boy told investigators …
A 14-year-old Alabama boy who had a reported “hit list” of family members has been arrested for fatally shooting his 17-year-old brother in Pike County. According to CBS 3, the Pike County Sheriff’s Office received a call October 3 to Banks, where a man told officers that a 14-year-old shot his 17-year-old brother. The father …
A 14-year-old Alabama boy has been arrested for the murder of his 17-year-old brother and had a “hit list” of other family members he planned to kill. Pike County Sheriff Russell Thomas said that the 17-year-old victim was found dead outside the family’s home Tuesday afternoon, WSFA reported. He had been missing since Monday, although …
A Kentucky prosecutor was indicted last week for the murder of his wife and tampering with evidence after the fact. Judith Dawn Deskins, 46, died from blunt force trauma on April 24, 2021. According to the indictment against Donald Kyle Deskins, a grand jury in that county determined that the former Pike County assistant prosecutor …
The first of two Ohio family members accused of planning for months to slaughter members of another family went on trial this week, more than six years after the grotesque slayings in Pike County. George Wagner IV has pleaded not guilty to the murders of members of the Rhoden family, as has his father, George “Billy” …
A man and a woman in Mississippi have been charged with child abuse — and the man with first degree murder — after a 2-year-old boy died of blunt force trauma earlier this week. The child and another boy who was 2-months-old were under the care of Demeatrice Ashley, 22, who was the father of …
One of four suspects charged with killing a family of eight in April 2016 pleaded guilty to murder charges on Thursday to save his own life. The Columbus Dispatch reported that Edward “Jake” Wagner, 28, will testify against his mother Angela Wagner; his father, George “Billy” Wagner III; and his brother, George Wagner IV. Prosecutors …
Authorities in Georgia say a man set up a fake online fundraiser he claimed would benefit relatives of a local teen who died on while playing football earlier this year. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 17-year-old Pike County High School football player Dylan Thomas collapsed on the field in September and died a short …
