A grand jury in Texas has indicted a Baytown police officer for a fatal crash that killed two children in October. KPRC reports that Michael Hightower, 28, has been charged with two counts of manslaughter and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The crash took place on October 23 as Hightower was …
A Texas man has been charged with tampering with a corpse after he allegedly hid his girlfriend’s body earlier this month — and he may soon be charged with murder after a body was found in the search for Christelrose Angel Ramirez. Ramirez’s family say investigators told them Jesus Varela shot Ramirez in her sleep …
A Texas mother and her boyfriend have been charged with capital murder in the death of her 3-year-old son, who was taken off life support on Sunday after two months in the hospital. Chelsea Rene Berg and Christopher Thomas Alexander were arrested Monday and charged with capital murder of a person under 10, according to …
A Texas mother and grandmother were arrested last week after a toddler was seen on camera roaming in the woods wearing only a dress and no shoes. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said it was called by a property owner who saw the little girl on a game camera in the early hours of December …
An elderly Texas couple who disappeared on their way home from spending Thanksgiving with relatives have been found dead in New Mexico. Gary Lightfoot, 82, and Linda Lightfoot, were found Tuesday, still in their car in a pasture near Tucumcari, KVII reported. Law enforcement believe they died from hypothermia. The Lightfoots left their relatives’ home …
A Texas woman has been charged with locking her 22-year-old special needs daughter in a cage in her backyard. Kandy Thompson, 60, was arrested Saturday after a neighbor called police and recorded video as he confronted Thompson over the action, according to KTAB. She was initially charged with injury to a child, but on Tuesday …
A federal grand jury has indicted two Texas men in a plot to invade an island off the coast of Haiti, kill all the men, and use the women and children as sex slaves. Gavin Rivers Weisenberg, 21, and Tanner Christopher Thomas, 20, were charged with conspiracy to murder, maim, or kidnap in a foreign …
A Texas man tracked his girlfriend to a Dallas Walmart on Wednesday and shot her and a bystander before killing himself. WFAA reported that both victims were not critically hurt, but an off-duty officer found the shooter in his car, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident took place just before 3:30 p.m. when …
A Texas daycare worker was sentenced this week to a decade in prison after she was seen on video kicking and shoving children in her care more than 100 times. Catherine Guziejka, 45, pleaded guilty in September to six counts of injury to a child, as CrimeOnline reported. She was sentenced to 10 years on …
Texas authorities are searching for primary care nurse practitioner and US Army veteran who was reported missing on Tuesday when she failed to board a scheduled flight to Atlanta. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said that Anita Elizabeth Gould, 56, was last seen Monday morning between 5 and 6 a.m. and had been scheduled to …
A San Antonio police officer was arrested this week and charged with multiple counts of injury to a child for several incidents that took place in 2024. Jacob Ryan, 24, turned himself in on Tuesday after he was indicted and an arrest warrant was issued, KSAT reported. He faces three counts of injury to a …
A Texas mom pleaded guilty on Monday to charges in connection with the death of her 2-year-old daughter more than seven years ago. Sarah Elizabeth Newsom pleaded to a charge of injury to a child by failure to protect in the death of Scarlette Oliva Newsom in October 2018, KFDX reported. She was sentenced to …
