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 …
Joel Guy Jr was found guilty Friday of the gruesome murders.
A Tennessee couple and their adult son have been indicted on child sex abuse charges after Georgia investigators tipped their Tennessee counterparts to the case. Jeffrey Wade Howell, 58; Glenda Sue Howell, 61; and Donnie Wayne Jackson, 47, were jailed last week, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday. Jeffrey Howell was indicted in …
A Tennessee man set to go on trial for the murders and dismemberment of his parents is giving the court permission to impose the death penalty if he’s found guilty, despite the prosecution’s decision not to seek execution, WBIR reported. Joel Michael Guy Jr., 32, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder, …
An hours-long search and chase in Middle Tennessee on Sunday ended with three people shot dead — including a husband who was executed in front of his pregnant wife. The suspect, Dangelo Dorsey, was among the dead, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. He shot and killed himself after leading police along Interstate 24 at …
A North Carolina man who police say hit a Black Lives Matter protester Saturday night returned to Tennessee on Monday to turn himself in, the Johnson City Police Department says. Jared Benjamin Lafer, 27, has been charged with aggravated assault in the incident, which reportedly left Jonathan Bowers in a wheelchair with two broken legs, …
