Texas officials announced Friday that they’ve declined to reverse the 2016 firing of an ex-police officer who allegedly gave a homeless man a feces sandwich. According to the San Antonio Express-News, San Antonio officials said an independent arbitrator upheld Matthew Luckhurst’s second termination, citing his especially appalling conduct. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus had …
Grieving family members and doctors in California have said they suspect a spate of sudden deaths in late 2019 and early 2020 may have been undetected cases of COVID-19. According to the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Deirdre Amaro, the forensic pathologist for the Shasta County Sheriff in Northern California, is troubled by the sudden deaths, …
Pennsylvania authorities are searching for a teen who left for church Sunday morning but never returned home. Penn Live reports that 18-year-old Linda Stoltzfoos was last seen in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, on a farm on Stumptown Road. According to the East Lampeter Township Police Department, the teen attended church services, then vanished. Stoltzfoos was last seen …
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A body was found near the area where a missing Oregon woman was last seen, and investigators believe the remains are that of 20-year-old Allyson Watterson. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Watterson went missing in North Plains, Oregon, in December, and the circumstances of her disappearance have remained murky. She was last seen 30 hours before …
An exploration app led some Washington teenagers Friday to Seattle’s waterfront, where they found a suitcase containing a black plastic bag and a very bad smell. The smell, they learned later from a Seattle police announcement, came from decomposing human remains. The teens were using an app called Randonautica, which generates random coordinates for a …
Police in New Hampshire have arrested a man and are looking for a woman they believe kidnapped a man and left him tied naked to a tree. The incident began at the unnamed victim’s Manchester home Friday night, police said, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader. The alleged kidnappers, identified as Ronald Betances, 37, …
Deputies in North Carolina have charged a Lincoln County man with murder in the death of his two-year-old son earlier this month, WCNC reports. Baron Gerod Charles Sr. 54, is being held without bond at the Harven A. Crouse Detention Center, the station said. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said paramedics were called to the …
A Missouri couple abandoned a 12-year-old boy with cerebral palsy when they moved and monitored him from their new home with an in-home video system, the Kansas City Star reports. Janine Allen, 30, and Brendon Luke, 29, have been charged with felony abuse or neglect of a child after they allegedly left the boy, identified …
Tipster leads investigators to skeletal remains of soldier missing since August
Seattle police have released edited video, mostly from officers’ body cameras, showing their attempt to gain access to the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) Saturday night in response to a fatal shooting. After the shooting, police “were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers’ safe access to the victims,” the Seattle Police Department said …
A young child is dead in western New York after an incident involving a lawn mower, WKBW-TV reports. Around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, a 5-year-old child was riding a lawn mower without adult supervision. The child was thrown from the mower and subsequently run over by it. The mower fatally injured the child, who was pronounced …
