A Tennessee man has been arrested and charged with trying to hire someone to kill his stepfather — a Putnam County sheriff’s deputy, the sheriff’s office said. Brian Allen Hodges was taken into custody on Friday and charged with solicitation of first degree murder after he agreed to pay an undercover agent $10,000 to kill …
Guy Jr. decapitated his mother and put her severed head in a covered stockpot — which he then placed on a burning stove.
A Tennessee man was brought back from Florida last week to face charges that he raped an 11-year-old girl, who became pregnant, the Maryville Police Department said Wednesday. Mynor Leonel Jeronimo-Velasquez, 31, fled to Florida with a 9-year-old girl in September, six weeks before Maryville police conducted a wellness check on the older girl and …
The parents of a 2-year-old East Tennessee girl have been charged with child abuse and neglect after the toddler was found walking down the middle of a Greeneville street with cuts on her bare feet. Two witnesses found the littler girl shortly after 2 a.m. on Tuesday and called police, staying with her until police …
One of the children reportedly told police their mother died in 2018
A Tennessee couple pleaded not guilty Monday to various charges related to the alleged abuse of their six adoptive children. Randall and Michelle Ridenour, 53 and 48, are accused of beating, choking, and starving their children, who range in age from 6 to 14. The Roane County Sheriff’s Office zeroed in on the couple after …
A Tennessee man has been charged with beating his 14-year-old stepbrother to death while their mother watched and did nothing to stop it, NewsChannel5 Nashville reports. Rebacca Greenwood, 52, and David Matheny, 33, initially told officers that Sayeed Neilson, who had autism, fell in the shower on Thursday night and that they helped in get …
A Tennessee mom and her 17-year-old daughter were found dead on Saturday alongside her estranged husband, who apparently shot himself after killing them. According to the Bristol Tennessee Police Department, Michael Robinson, 47, was under investigation for child abuse, the Bristol Herald Courier said. Bristol police found the bodies of Kristina Robinson, 36, her daughter, …
A Tennessee couple has been charged with aggravated child abuse when they were found overdosing in their car with their 2-year-old daughter in the back seat, WKRN reports. Leslie Lucas, 23, and Lindsey Vincion, 25, were stopped Thursday at an intersection near Antioch High School in Nashville’s Antioch neighborhood, according to the arrest warrant. A …
A Tennessee man was arrested Tuesday on criminal homicide charges for allegedly fatally beating a 2-year-old boy last week. WKRN reported that Rozelle Westmoreland, 33, admitted to killing the unidentified toddler in response to the child’s whining. Nashville Metro police said Westmoreland struck the child in the head and torso before pushing him into the …
Brittany Smith, 19, pleaded guilty to child neglect after she put her 8 month old baby in a freezer and closed the lid, WBIR reports. She was sentenced to two years probation; the baby survived.
Remains found in north Georgia nearly 40 years ago have been identified and linked to Samuel Little, described by the FBI as “the most prolific serial killer in US history.” The 30-year-old woman found in Dade County on September 28, 1981, was Patricia Parker, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced. Little, 80, is a suspect …
