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 …
A second woman has come forward to say that she picked up a hitchiking Brian Laundrie on August 29 and that he tried to “get out of the moving car” when she got to the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping area, where he’d asked to be taken. The first woman, Miranda Baker, posted a series of …
A body discovered in a car earlier this month has been identified as a Wyoming woman who was reported missing a day earlier. The Sublette County Sheriff’s Office said that on June 7, a friend of the family found Mary Latham’s body inside her SUV, which was parked alongside a local road. Latham, 60, was …
A former long-haul trucker suspected of killing at least three women in Wyoming and Tennessee nearly 30 years ago made his first court appearance Thursday in Iowa, where he waived extradition. Clark Perry Baldwin, 58, told the court an Iowa investigator spoke with him after his arrest and asked about a local case, according to …
A Pennsylvania woman who vanished last Friday was reportedly found Thursday morning wandering in a park across the country in Washington. KOMO reported that Jordan Lampus, 22, of Erie, Pennsylvania, was found in Seward Park in Seattle after calling 911 and claiming she had been assaulted by someone at the park. Seattle police detective Mark …
A car belonging to a missing Pennsylvania woman was reportedly found on Sunday morning on the side of a road in Wyoming. Police in Cheyenne, Wyoming, revealed in a Facebook post that Jordan Lampus’ 2006 Toyota Sienna van (with Pennsylvania license plate GGL1167) was found near mile marker 374. Lampus, 22, was reportedly nowhere to …
A Wyoming couple is facing criminal charges after their 10-day-old baby and the baby’s mother allegedly tested positive for methamphetamine during labor and delivery at the hospital. Buckrail reported that Aube Ringer, 35, and Tosha Scott, 34, were arrested on child endangerment charges Thursday after a blood test performed on the baby and Scott at St. John’s Medical Center …
A Wyoming animal shelter is at the center of controversy after staff reportedly pepper sprayed a pit bull puppy a day before they euthanized him. The incident reportedly involved an 8-month-old, 70-pound pit bull named Tanner housed at Cheyenne Animal Shelter. According to WLS, the dog bit shelter volunteer Marissa Cox several times on her …
