A woman and three children were found shot to death in a car in a city in northern Utah Tuesday night. The Weber County Sheriff’s Office told the Gephardt Daily that the four were found by a family member just before 10 p.m. in a neighborhood in West Haven. “When deputies arrived, they confirmed four …
A Utah woman was found dead and her husband arrested just hours after a 911 caller requested a welfare check for her. An affidavit says that St. George police responded to the home but were unable to contact anyone, KSL reported. The caller was so concerned, however, he went to the house himself and found …
A Utah couple is in jail after police found their 13-year-old son locked in an alcove under the stairs in their home, and they say they’d do it again because they’re nothing wrong with it. Travis Peterson, 49, and Melissa Gray, 42, were arrested Tueday and charged with aggravated child abuse, KSTU reported. Gray, the …
Kouri Richins, the Utah grief book author accused of killing her husband with a fentanyl-laced drink, will finally go on trial next April. Judge Richard Mrazik ruled Tuesday, after a two-day preliminary hearing, there was enough evidence to try the case and set a start date for April 28, KTVX reported. The trial is expected …
A 5-year-old boy somehow found an loaded, unsecured gun in a Utah home on Thursday and shot himself with it. Santaquin Police said that medics tried to save the boy’s life, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, KSTU reported. Police were called to the scene just after 2 p.m., KTVX reported. Santaquin Police …
A Utah man who served two years in prison for breaking a child’s arm pleaded guilty last week to killing a 2-year-old boy and will spend the rest of his life in prison. Jonathan Allen Dunn, 37, also pleaded guilty to abusing the toddler’s twin sister, who was hospitalized with a brain bleed, according to …
The case against a Utah children’s grief book author charged with poisoning her husband with fentanyl will move to a preliminary hearing after a judge last week dismissed her attorney’s attempt to disqualify the prosecution. According to KTVX, Kouri Richins’ attorney filed a motion alleging that jail staff and a prosecutor had accessed phone calls …
A Utah man was arrested after an investigation uncovered hundred of images and videos of child pornography. An affidavit filed with the arrest of 43-year-old Justin McKay Anthony says that the investigation began in early May when the National Center for Missing Exploited Children submitted a referral about an upload of a “child exploitation video,” …
An Ohio man was arrested in Utah this week after he allegedly kidnapped a 15-year-old girl in California. An affidavit says Ryan Gray Patch, 27, was booked into the Iron County Jail for investigation into aggravated kidnapping, endangerment of a child, possession of drugs, and possession of drug paraphernalia, KSL reported. Patch was arrested Tuesday …
A 29-year-old Utah man was arrested Friday night for allegedly trying to kidnap a 12-year-old girl. Salt Lake City police said the incident happened shortly before 11 p.m. when Mason Andrew Musser allegedly grabbed the 12-year-old by the wrist as she walked in the Sugar House neighborhood with a friend and tried to pull her …
A Utah man was arrested Friday in Alabama on child sex crimes in his home state. Police in Sheffield said they were notified by the Vernal City Police Department in Utah of warrants for the arrest of Damien Zachary Marshall on two counts of sodomy of a child and one count of sexual abuse of …
A Utah woman arrested for the murders of her parents reportedly told police she hated them and “would do it again.” Mia Bailey, 28, allegedly shot and killed Joseph and Gail Bailey at their home in Washington City Tuesday night, KSL reported. Her brother fled the home after the shooting and called 911 from a …
