The death of a Missouri podiatrist at her fiance’s apartment last month has brought renewed attention to the death of fire captain Robert Daus’s previous fiancee, Grace Holland, who allegedly shot herself in front of him. Dr. Sarah Sweeney, 39, was found dead at Daus’s apartment on January 13, and her death is being treated …
A 12-year-old Missouri boy shot his mother’s boyfriend in the head early Tuesday morning while the couple was arguing. St. Louis County police said the boy grabbed a shotgun, walked into the room where his mother and the man were arguing, and shot him. He fled the home after the shooting, KSDK reported. The man …
A Missouri couple has been charged with child endangerment resulting in the death of 21-month-old boy who found a loaded gun and shot himself in the head. Police said Alea Little, 24, and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Donnell Straughter, were in bed with the toddler at Little’s home at about 1 p.m. on August 31. The …
A Missouri man convicted in April in the brutal 2019 beating death of his pregnant wife was sentenced to life in prison without parole last week. Jennifer Rothwell, who was six weeks pregnant when she was killed, had looked up “what to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant” on her phone shortly …
A Missouri man has been charged with beating to death an elderly woman on her front porch in Berkeley Wednesday morning. Prosecutors said that Eileen Schnitker was found dead with blunt force injuries to her face and head and stab wounds to her stomach, KTVI reported. Isaac Heath, 31, has been charged with first degree …
A Missouri mother’s boyfriend shot her and her 6-year-old daughter to death Saturday and wounded the woman’s two other children, police said, according to the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Joseph Jones, 40, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Bernadetta Cooper, 40, and Doryan Bryant, 6, the paper said. …
