A Utah mother has been jailed for investigation of aggravated murder and child abuse after Uintah County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a shooting and found her toddler son dead. Valerie Peck, 40, also apparently shot herself after killing 2-year-old Zack, the sheriff’s office said. Peck and her son were found near Fantasy Canyon …
A Utah man was shot with a pellet gun and his wife stabbed early Thursday morning during a home invasion in which one of the perpetrators pointed his gun at a toddler and threatened to shoot him, the Deseret News reports. Colton Skeet Wilkin-McBride, 27, and Monique Nichole Quintana Briceno, 33, were arrested and charged …
A Utah man wanted for shooting his wife to death earlier this week was found dead Thursday in his SUV, the result of a crash off Utah Route 39 near Pineview Reservoir, the Weber County Sheriff’s Office said. Scott William Russell, 53, hadn’t made it very far from his Huntsville home, where police found the …
A Utah woman will spend time in jail over a sexual relationship with a teenage boy in 2016, but she won’t have to register as a sex offender after a plea deal took a sex crime off the table, East Idaho News reports. District Judge Darren Simpson sentenced Amanda Katherine Steele, 35, to 90 days …
The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments this week in connection with a Salt Lake City girl who said she was raped and forced to listen to the recording of the incident. Deseret News reports that a woman now in her 20s asserted that the male leaders of a Jehovah’s Witnesses forced her to listen to …
A Utah man was charged Monday with stabbing his wife to death nearly two weeks earlier. John Erickson, 41, was charged with murdering Utahna Erickson, 41, at their Salt Lake County home on October 28. Responding officers observed blood all over the home and discovered Utahna Erickson’s body in a master bedroom, according to The …
A babysitter kidnapped a 4-month-old Utah boy and fled with him to Colorado, where she was taken into custody 580 miles away in Denver. Peyton Everett Caraballo-Winston’s mother called Cedar City police at about 10 p.m. Friday, telling them that she had allowed all three of her children to stay the night with their babysitter, …
A Ugandan activist’s widow filed a $270 million wrongful death lawsuit against the National Park Service last month, claiming they were responsible for his wife’s decapitation at a Utah park. As NBC News reports, Ludovic Michaud, 26, and Esther Nakajjigo, 25, were reportedly exiting a parking lot at Arches National Park on June 13 when …
A Utah man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly seriously burning two toddlers with hot water. Austin Woolsey, 24, is accused of intentionally burning the two boys, ages 2 and 3, while watching them on October 1. Hurricane Police Officer Ken Thompson told St. George News that their investigation began the following day when someone who …
The man who admitted earlier this month that he killed of 23-year-old University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, KSL reported. Third District Judge Vernice Trease delivered the sentence to Ayoola Ajayi, who pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and abuse of a human body …
A six hour standoff ended early Sunday morning when police shot and killed a Utah man who had taken a woman and a boy hostage after violating a protective order, KSL reported. Tooele Police Lt. Jeremy Hansen said that the man, who has not been identified, released the boy “several hours” before the situation ended. …
The slain woman’s family had offered a $100,000 reward for information
