‘Sorry for what happened’: State pays $8M to developmentally disabled man who lived with HUNDREDS of rats despite multiple calls for help
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Vernon Gray was nearly blind and covered in lice by the time officials intervened
Drug Crime
May 23, 2019
13-time felon shoots himself in testicles, bag of drugs falls out of rectum during surgery: Cops
Authorities in Washington state say a man was in the hospital after shooting himself in the groin when a surgical team noticed he had something stashed nearby. As the New York Daily News reported, 27-year-old Cameron Jeffrey Wilson allegedly stashed illegal narcotics in his rectum prior to inflicting the serious injury to his own testicles. …
child endangerment
May 19, 2019
Baby dies in hot vehicle parked outside of AutoZone while mom sat nearby, cops say
Authorities in Indiana say a baby died in a hot car this weekend — while the child’s mother reportedly sat in the same SUV. According to Fox News, temperatures in Indianapolis reached highs in the mid-80’s on Saturday when the vehicle pulled into an AutoZone parking lot. One occupant exited to go inside the store, …
Child Abuse
May 15, 2019
Dad beats & waterboards crying daughter, tells her to ‘shut up before the neighbors hear’: Police
Police in Washington state arrested a man Sunday on suspicion of repeatedly beating his 7-year-old daughter with a belt and waterboarding her for misbehaving. Officers responded to a 7-Eleven in Lakewood after a woman claimed her boyfriend, Matthew Farrar, 27, had spanked his daughter with a belt approximately 13 times and waterboarded her at their …
Cold Cases
May 1, 2019
DNA from tossed cigarette cracks mysterious cold case rape, murder of mom found dead in bed: Report
Suspect Richard Knapp was convicted of sexual assault in 1986 but his DNA was never entered into a database
Sex Crimes
April 23, 2019
Lyft driver kidnaps, sexually assaults multiple passengers, cops say
Authorities in Washington say a driver in the Seattle area has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman earlier this year and is facing additional allegations from behind bars. According to Fox News, Ghassan Shakir was arrested in Bellevue last week after police spotted his vehicle. He was wanted in connection with an …
AMBER Alert
April 23, 2019
DEVELOPING: ‘Dad’ barricaded inside home after stabbing ex and abducting their young son, who is alive, cops say
A Washington man accused of stabbing his estranged wife and abducting his own young son in an Amber Alert announced this week is barricaded inside of a home in St. John as of the latest updates available. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 5-year-old Ethan Robertson was found safe after 41-year-old Justin Robertson allegedly broke into Melissa …
April 21, 2019
Drunk driver with two kids on board rams another motorist in hit-and-run crash, cops say
Authorities in Washington say a woman was arrested on suspicion of causing a hit-and-run collision while driving drunk with two small children in the vehicle. According to KIRO, Kennewick police officers arrived on the scene of the crash near the intersection of North Irving Place and West Clearwater Avenue on Saturday. “The driver of one …
Murder
January 11, 2019
Felon drug addict beheads 2 women, then has teen nephew help light crime scene ablaze
A Washington man who admitted to killing two women and lighting the home he murdered them in on fire learned his fate in court this week. Matthew Ryan Leupold was sentenced to nearly 61 years on Thursday for the January 2017 slayings of Theresa Greenhalgh, 31, and Mary Buras, 22. The News Tribune reported that Leupold …
Animal Crimes
December 10, 2018
UPDATE: Two more sea lions found shot in head, bringing number to 18 dead since September
Authorities in Washington have confirmed that two more sea lions were found dead in Puget Sound last week—bringing the number of sea lions found dead in the area since September up to 18. KIRO reported that 12 of the 18 sea lions found dead in King and Kitsap counties were shot. Casey Mclean, from SR3, a local …
Sex Crimes
November 16, 2018
‘It’s a joke’: Outrage after man who admitted to raping dying teen gets less than 3 years behind bars
A Washington man who confessed to raping an 18-year-old woman as she suffered a deadly drug overdose was sentenced to less than three years in prison on Thursday. Per The Everett Daily Herald, Brian Varela, 20, will spend 34 months behind bars in connection with February’s death of Alyssa Noceda. Noceda overdosed after snorting crushed pills Varela, then 19, …
Murder
November 6, 2018
VIDEO: Father lunges at convicted felon accused of beating his young daughter to death
The father of a murdered 5-year-old girl was hauled out of a Washington court Monday after he reportedly lunged at his daughter’s accused killer. Ryan Burge, 37, is accused of causing severe head trauma that eventually killed his girlfriend’s daughter, Hartley Anderson, on Friday while her mother worked and her siblings were at school. Though Burge …
