Mom stabs young son as she drags him by a sweater wrapped around his neck: Cops
Child Abuse
Police say the 7-year-old victim said, “Mom, Mom, it’s me” as Whitney Romero repeatedly stabbed him with a pen
Animal Crimes
November 9, 2018
Father of 4 dies from rabies weeks after removing bats from home: Reports
A Utah man reportedly died from rabies Sunday, weeks after handling bats at his family home. Per KSL, Gary Giles, 55, died after the slow—but devastating—virus infected his brain and other vital organs. His wife told the news station that they would often remove bats from their home, not realizing that they were possibly a vector …
Suicide
October 24, 2018
Teen admits to buying rope, tying noose & filming classmate’s hanging suicide
A Utah man has admitted to not only helping but filming his 16-year-old friend die by suicide in May 2017. Tyerell Przybycien, now 19, agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of child abuse homicide in connection with Jchandra Brown’s death. Przybycien provided the rope Brown would use to hang herself—and also tied the noose and set up the makeshift …
Animal Crimes
October 20, 2018
Man beats girlfriend’s dog in the head with a hammer after it snatches food from his plate, cops say
Authorities in Utah arrested a man on suspicion of beating his girlfriend’s dog with a hammer earlier this year. According to Fox News, 50-year-old Millcreek resident Stanley Jocelyn allegedly reacted to the dog, named Temper, snatching food off of his plate as he ate in the living room of his home in August. KUTV cited …
Murder
October 15, 2018
‘Monster’ abducts little girl from bed, sexually assaults & beats her before leaving her to drown in canal: Prosecutors
A Utah man suspected in the 2012 abduction, rape, and murder of a 6-year-old girl learned his fate in court last week. Deseret News reports that a judge sentenced 47-year-old Terry Lee Black on Thursday to 25 years to life for aggravated murder, 15 years to life for child kidnapping, and 25 years to life …
child endangerment
August 23, 2018
‘What a predator looks like’: Mom shames man in viral video for allegedly peeping on 12-year-old girl in changing room
A Utah woman wasted no time intervening when she says she saw a man attempt to capture cellphone images of her 12-year-old daughter in a Salt Lake City store’s dressing room. According to Fox News, it was Doris Stiles-Scown who ended up capturing someone’s image at the Rue 21 location recently. The mother posted footage …
Missing
August 15, 2018
Mom reports longtime partner and dad of 2 missing, finds out he’s in another country with a new wife: Cops
A woman in Scotland says she discovered a shocking secret about her longtime partner and the father of her two children after she reported him missing recently. Far away from their hometown of Motherwell, 38-year-old Malcolm McGregor was reportedly in the United States with a woman he had since married, according to the New York …
Murder
August 10, 2018
Man guns down city official, torches neighbor’s home over code violation complaints: Cops
Authorities in Utah say a 64-year-old man shot and killed a code enforcement officer before burning her truck and his neighbor’s home. The incident was allegedly rooted in a series of complaints about apparent code violations on Kevin Wayne Billings’ West Valley City home as reported by the Miami Herald. Emergency personnel responded to the …
Child Abuse
July 26, 2018
UPDATE: Parents to face death penalty in case of abused toddler girl who reportedly resembled a ‘Holocaust victim’ when she died
Utah prosecutors will seek the death penalty against two parents who allegedly starved their 3-year-old daughter to death last year and filmed themselves taunting her with food before she died. In recently filed court papers obtained by The Associated Press, the state filed a notice seeking the death penalty against Odgen parents Miller Costello, 25, and …
Missing
July 25, 2018
Steve Powell: Sex offender father-in law of missing mom Susan Powell dies
Steve was considered the last person who had information regarding the mother-of-two’s disappearance
Murder
July 22, 2018
Dad says he stabbed infant son to death & threw him in trash after finding ‘666’ written on him: Report
Police arrested a Utah father early Sunday in connection with the fatal stabbing of his 10-month-old son whom he allegedly stuffed into a trash bag before fleeing their Odgen home. According to KSL, Alex Hidalgo, 37, was booked into jail on suspicion of aggravated murder, obstruction of justice and abuse or desecration of a dead human body …
Violent Crime
July 21, 2018
[GRAPHIC VIDEO] Pawn shop owner guns down would-be armed robber
Authorities in Utah released surveillance footage from a pawn shop in Bountiful that they say shows the moment an attempted robbery ends with the store owner opening fire and killing the suspect. According to KSTU, the incident occurred in May and the news outlet received a copy of the video from the Bountiful Police Department …
