A southwest Virginia man pleaded guilty Wednesday to second degree murder in the fatal shooting of his wife earlier this year, the Roanoke Times reports. Gerard Patrick Tompkins, 58, shot Michelle Tompkins, 51, seven times on May 20 as she sat in the driver’s seat of her car, apparently attempting to flee her husband. Prosecutors …
A California couple passed away on Tuesday after an alleged repeat drunk driver crashed into their vehicle, injuring their three children. Fox 11 reports 22-year-old Grace Elizabeth Coleman is accused of crashing a Range Rover into a Nissan Versa with a family inside. The incident happened Tuesday night at around 7:45 p.m., off of Newport …
On Wednesday, a jury convicted an Oregon woman of second-degree manslaughter for last year’s death of a 1-year-old boy. Asher Carter died five days after Lebanon fire crews found him unresponsive while in Amber Scott’s care. An investigation revealed that Carter’s breathing had been restricted, leading to his death, KEZI reported. According to the Corvallis …
Michigan officials agreed to reinstate the licenses of two paramedics who allegedly erroneously pronounced a woman dead if they pass a national medical exam. The Associated Press obtained documents that detailed the state health department’s settlement with suspended Southfield Fire Department paramedics Michael Storms and Scott Rickard. In addition to passing the national exam, Storms …
Authorities in Colorado announced Wednesday that they identified the person who likely killed a hospital employee in November 1999. According to KCNC, Jennifer Watkins, 21, was reported missing by her husband after she failed to come home after her shift at Memorial Hospital, where she worked as a food service aide. Two days later, a …
Members of the Manson family are known for horrendous murders. At one home, pregnant actress Sharon Tate and four others were butchered. The following day, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were also brutally killed. Leader Charles Manson was convicted of nine murders but confessed to 35 while in prison. Today, over half a century later, investigations …
An obsessive man was found inside his ex-girlfriend’s home after she had made repeated complaints to police about the suspect’s alleged stalking and threats. According to Fox 4 News, police responding to a call about possible suspicious activity at a home in Naples, Florida, found Brendon Dawson, 32, under a blanket on a couch in …
A Colorado woman who was found stabbed to death in July is reportedly the daughter of a murder victim killed by Charles Manson’s “family.” The Mercury News reports that 40-year-old Ariana Wolk was found dead in her Denver apartment on July 3. Suzan Struthers La Berge is reportedly Wolk’s mother. La Berge’s mother, Rosemary LaBianca, …
A former assistant principal in Louisiana was indicted on various criminal charges Tuesday in the 2016 shooting death of a pregnant colleague and her unborn child. Robert Marks, 42, is accused of fatally shooting Lyntell Washington, 40, leaving her body in a ditch in Rosedale, and abandoning her vehicle — with her 3-year-old daughter inside. …
Prosecutors on Wednesday provided chilling details in connection with a California fitness trainer accused of killing his two children. Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., 34, has been charged with murder and child abuse, according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. He is accused of killing his two oldest children, identified by the L.A. County Coroner’s Office …
Millionaire pharmaceutical executive and socialite Gigi Jordan will be going home after a federal judge tossed out her conviction for killing her son with a lethal medication dose. New York Post reports that Jordan has been sentenced to home confinement after US Magistrate Judge Sarah Cave granted her a $250,000 bond. Jordan was given a …
The family of a Missouri woman who has been missing for seven months is offering a reward for information that might lead to 47-year-old Echo Lloyd. According to CNN, Lloyd was first discovered missing on Mother’s Day, when her daughter Kelsey Smith, 28, went to her home in Edwards to deliver a Mother’s Day card …
