A 13-year-old girl reported missing early Sunday morning in South Dakota was found hours later in Wyoming, and her alleged abductor was arrested. Sean Payne, 33, is a registered sex offender in Nebraska, where he is also wanted on multiple charges, including domestic violence assault, assault by strangulation or suffocation, terroristic threats, and probation violation, …
An investigation is underway in South Dakota after a deceased infant was discovered at a recycling plant on Tuesday. Sioux Falls police told the Argus Leader that staff at Millennium Recycling found the dead baby at their facility. Right now, it is unclear how long the baby was at the recycling facility. “We’ve never had …
A former South Dakota mayor and law enforcement officer has been charged with murder in the small town he once served. Jay Ostrem, 64, appeared in court Wednesday to face three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Paul Frankus, Zach Frankus, and Timothy Richmond on Monday night, the Argus Leader reported. Ostrem did …
A Michigan woman was found dead at a South Dakota truck stop this week, and a man, also from Michigan, was arrested in Washington state for her murder. Anthony Harris, 50, has also been charged with improper disposal in the case involving 57-year-old Melody Fae Gooch, DRGNews reports. Both Harris and Gooch were from Detroit. …
Six teenage South Dakota baseball players pleaded not guilty this week to charges that they raped two 16-year-old boys earlier this summer while their team was in Rapid City for a tournament. In August, a Pennington County grand jury charged Hudson Haley, 18; Karter Sibson, 17; Carter Miller, 18; Lincoln Bates, 18; Peyton Mandel, 17; …
A South Dakota woman was found dead in her apartment on Wednesday, and investigators say they’re now looking into a “suspicious death.” Family and friends identified the woman as 23-year-old Jordan Beardshear, mother of a 1-year-old son. South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said in a statement that “a young child was found safe by …
On Thursday, an unlicensed daycare operator in South Dakota was charged with second-degree murder for the death of a 16-month-old boy who died in July. The South Dakota Attorney General’s Office said Amanda Walder, 30, was also charged with first-degree manslaughter and aggravated battery of an infant in connection with the July 14 death of …
Jason Ravnsborg, who was never charged with killing Joe Boever on September 12, 2020, avoid trial by taking a plea deal.
Police in South Dakota announced Thursday that they have suspended the search for a 9-year-old girl who vanished from a children’s home nearly two years ago. The Pennington County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that they are discontinuing the search for Serenity Dennard as they have received no new information in her case. …
South Dakota police issued an endangered missing advisory Friday for a Sioux Falls girl who disappeared Thursday morning, the Argus Leader reports. Nakia Jackson, 11, walked out of her home at about 6:30 a.m. after an argument, Lt Terrance Matia said. She was not appropriately dressed for the weather and may have been picked up …
Police in South Dakota reportedly hauled a man out of a school board meeting Monday because he refused to wear a mask. According to the Mitchell Republic, roughly 20 people attended the Mitchell Board of Education meeting, which was held in Mitchell High School’s library. Reed Bender, who reportedly sat in the front row, declined …
A South Dakota man was indicted on first-degree murder charges Wednesday, months after he allegedly fatally shot his girlfriend and staged her death to look like a suicide. The Rapid City Police Department said in a statement that an investigation revealed Dion Bordeaux, 25, shot Jeanette Jumping Eagle, 22, at the Microtel Inn and Suites …
