A Florida man shot and killed his son-in-law Tuesday night in a birthday surprise gone tragically wrong, police said. Christopher Bergan, 37, and his wife flew from Norway to Florida Tuesday to surprise Richard Dennis, his wife’s father, for his 61st birthday. Bergan knocked on Dennis’s back door then hid in some nearby bushes. When …
A shooting in the lobby of a Vancouver, Washington, senior living facility lobby left one person dead and several wounded Thursday afternoon, The Columbian reported. The 80-year-old suspect, a resident of the facility, was taken into custody after an hours-long stand-off with law enforcement. The Vancouver Fire Department said that one person was killed and …
A California high school has cancelled the remainder of its varsity football schedule for the year after one of its players accused four teammates of a sexual assault, and police “determined there was evidence to support a criminal complaint,” the Mercury News reported. The Gilroy Unified School District had said Monday, when the incident was …
Convicted family-killer Chris Watts reportedly revealed in a prison letter that he had been thinking about killing his wife Shannan Watts for weeks before her murder, and described her final moments in gruesome detail. Watts, who is serving multiple life sentences in a Wisconsin prison for the murder of his pregnant wife and two young …
A North Carolina man wanted for the alleged rape of a 5-year-old he was babysitting was captured Wednesday in West Virginia, the Craven County Sheriff’s Office said. Police had been looking for Michael Brandon Bryan, 37, since Monday. “A sigh of relief,” said Sheriff Chip Hughes. “We got this chump.” How do you protect your …
A Nevada teen who was severely disfigured in a 2003 fire that killed his 4-year-old cousin is accused of fatally shooting his live-in landlord and having his uncle help move the body. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Michael Miller, 19, killed Raul Salazar, 47, days after he served Miller and his family an eviction …
A North Carolina man could be $750,000 richer after he successfully sued his ex-wife’s lover for ruining their 12-year marriage. Kevin Howard told WITN that his then-wife claimed he worked too much and wasn’t around before seeking a divorce. Though the pair sought marriage counseling, Howard eventually hired a private investigator who uncovered that his …
The body of an infant baby girl was found in a metal trash can. Who left her there? Nancy Grace talks with a panel of experts on an arrest in the case of Baby Jane Doe of Lousiana. Our panel includes: Ashley Wilcott, Judge and trial attorney Joseph Scott Morgan, Forensic Expert Dr. Michelle Dupre, …
Three Louisiana women have been criminally charged for allegedly sawing off a 2-year-old dachshund’s hind legs in what authorities called a “horrific” case of animal abuse. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the dog, named Buddy, was shot in February. The dog’s owners—a 50-year-old woman, her 17-year-old daughter—reported the incident at …
The mother of an elementary school student in Chicago says a school staff member tossed her son into freezing weather before the school reported the boy missing and lied about what happened, according to court documents recently filed. CNN reports that according to a lawsuit filed by the fourth-grade student’s mother, Yvonne Pinkston, a school …
A North Carolina man is behind bars after police say he sexually assaulted a little girl he was in charge of babysitting. WRAL reports that 37-year-old Michael Brandon Bryan was captured on Wednesday in Summersville, West Virginia, after a nationwide manhunt. He was taken into custody without incident. According to police, Bryan was wanted on …
The mother of a 2-year-old girl who died after she was left in a car with the heater on has been arrested. KTLA reports that Lacey Mazzarella, 34, was arrested and taken into custody on suspicion of murder Wednesday night. Her daughter, June Love Agosto, died on September 23 after Mazzarella left her alone in …
