Court martial proceedings at a Wyoming Air Force base this month revealed a cover-up of an airman’s shooting death earlier this summer. The fellow airman accused of killing Airman Brayden Lovan on July 20 was found dead in his dormitory at F.E. Warren Air Force Base on October 8, Military.com reported. Court martial proceedings for …
A district fire chief in a Wyoming county and his wife have been arrested after their adopted son was dropped off last month at a youth development center and told to “knock and say he needed a place to live.” Darrick and Angela Mittlestadt, both 49, surrendered on Monday, KGWN reported. They have been charged …
Two teenagers have been charged with in connection with the murder of a Wyoming man they decided was a pedophile. The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office said that Dakota Farley, 23, was found dead with significant injuries at his home in Big Piney on Wednesday afternoon last week. In the course of their investigation, deputies identified …
Two children abducted from Alabama earlier this month have been found in Wyoming and their parents arrested. The 9-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy were given to a family member late in January after the Decatur Police Department said it received a report of child abuse and launched an investigation. But on February 3, the children’s …
A 13-year-old girl reported missing early Sunday morning in South Dakota was found hours later in Wyoming, and her alleged abductor was arrested. Sean Payne, 33, is a registered sex offender in Nebraska, where he is also wanted on multiple charges, including domestic violence assault, assault by strangulation or suffocation, terroristic threats, and probation violation, …
A 17-year-old Wyoming boy has been charged with murder and stalking in the death of a 17-year-old girl on Tuesday. The boy, identified only as E.C., appeared by video in Natrona County Circuit Court on Wednesday and was given a $1 million bail, Oil City News reported. E.C. is charged with killing Lenea Brown early …
The murder was caught on video, police say.
A popular self-published romance novelist has been missing since she was released from jail last month in Teton County, Wyoming, where she had led police on a high speed chase. Faleena Hopkins, 52, has been missing since January 30, a friend told the Jackson Hole Daily on Friday. She was arrested on January 27 after …
A Wyoming man pleaded guilty Wednesday to second degree murder and child abuse in the death of his ex-girlfriend’s toddler son last year. Wyatt Lamb initially pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and 10 counts of child abuse relating to the death of 2-year-old Athian Rivera. The boy’s mother reported him missing on February …
A Michigan man accused of shooting to death a mom of five and fleeing to Mexico is back in Michigan to stand trial. According to jail records, 44-year-old Yenly Garcia was booked into the Kent County jail on Friday, MLive.com reported. Garcia is charged with murder in the death of 33-year-old Mollie Schmidt, who was …
Update: Two little girls believed abducted by a non-custodial parent in Wyoming were found safe in Texas, KUSA reported. No other information was available. Original story: Investigators in Colorado and Wyoming have issued missing children alerts for two young girls believed to have been abducted by a non-custodial parent. Aspen Roth, 4, and Serenity Naslund, …
Teton County, Wyoming, Coroner Brent Blue has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday to talk about Gabby Petito’s autopsy. Blue’s preliminary report on September 21 confirmed Petito’s identity and said the manner of death was homicide but withheld the cause of death for the final report. Petito’s body was found two days earlier, in a …
