A Utah death row inmate who killed his sister-and-law and her child is reportedly months away from being executed by a firing squad after a federal court rejected his latest appeal on Monday. After breaking into their sister-in-law and her husband’s home, Ron Lafferty and his brother, Dan Lafferty, reportedly beat and strangled Brenda Lafferty, …
The guards assigned to monitor accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein lied about checking in on the inmate in the hours before he died, the New York Times reports. Multiple law enforcement sources and prison officials reportedly told the New York Times that two guards tasked with monitoring Epstein while he was being held in a …
A Texas mother is behind bars after she refused to get treatment for a little girl who accidentally burned herself with scalding water. ABC reports that police arrested 42-year-old Juana Marquez for failing to seek medical attention after her 4-year-old stepdaughter, Amberly Quiroz, grabbed boiling water from the stove on Saturday morning and accidentally dropped …
A 6-year-old Minnesota girl is dead and her sister badly injured after a man in a Walmart parking lot accidentally set his van on fire after cooking, police say. Star Tribune reports that Roberto L. Hipolito, 70, was cooking on a portable stove early Wednesday morning, that he placed on a Fridley Walmart parking lot …
Two young cousins out picking vegetables for their family were found dead and violently tortured on Thursday, police say. Hindustan Times reports that two girls, both 13, were found deceased by their family in Katihar, a village in Bihar, India. According to authorities, the children left their home early Wednesday afternoon to pick gourds for …
A father in Minnesota is facing second-degree murder charges for the death of his 4-month-old son, who died in late April. According to a criminal complaint obtained by the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Matthew Hoisser, 35, told investigators that he dropped his son, Gus Hoisser, on his head because he “was crying and fussy and …
U.S. Justice Department officials have reportedly placed two guards on leave and reassigned the warden in the jail where Jeffrey Epstein is believed to have taken his own life this past weekend. “Today, the Attorney General directed the Bureau of Prisons to temporarily assign the warden at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York to …
After months of investigations, police arrested an Ohio teen accused of making online threats of mass shootings. According to an arrest affidavit, the FBI in Anchorage, Alaska, began the investigation six months ago after an online user named “ArmyOfChrist” allegedly posted numerous comments on the “iFunny” site, in support of mass shootings, assaulting police, and …
UPDATE, 2:25 p.m. ET: A spokesperson for the Fire Department of New York told BuzzFeed News that the FDNY has reviewed the posts made on the 4chan message board about the apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Facility on Saturday morning. The spokesperson said that the information shared on 4chan “does not …
An NYPD officer reportedly took his own life Tuesday morning, marking the eighth officer in the police department to die by suicide this year. Unnamed officials told the New York Post that the 35-year-old officer died from self-inflicted injuries at his Yonkers home at around 3 a.m. The unidentified officer, who worked in the Bronx …
“Nick knows a heck of a lot about what went on,” the lawyer said about the former police officer now accused of murder
Three children have died after a pleasure boat they were traveling on reportedly capsized in France. Citing a French newspaper, the New York Post reports that three children — ages 7, 9, and 13 — died on the scene after a speedboat they were riding on in Normandy, France, capsized on Monday afternoon. According to …
