The man who claimed Asia Argento sexually assaulted him when he was a minor has been accused of stalking a former girlfriend and pressuring her into sex when she was underage. The Daily Beast obtained court documents showing that Argento accuser James Bennett’s ex-girlfriend sought a restraining order against him and claimed he coerced her …
Elizabeth Smart was shocked to learn her kidnapper, Wanda Barzee, is set for prison release in less than week. On Thursday, she pleaded with officials to keep Barzee behind bars for the sake of “any vulnerable person in our community.” Barzee, whose been in prison for the past 15 years for kidnapping then-teen Elizabeth Smart in …
A Georgia man who Tased his 1-year-old daughter and 5-month-old son, in addition to his battering ex-girlfriend and her great-grandmother, was sentenced for his crimes on Wednesday. Per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Antonio Maurice Gee, 21, was sentenced to life plus 192 years for December 7, 2016, attack that transpired after he broke into his ex-girlfriend’s Mableton …
A Pennsylvania man who used his shotgun to drunkenly shoot at non-existent clowns in his second-floor apartment was sentenced to prison this week. Nathan A. Matthias, 35, will spend 22 months to five years behind bars for a December 2016 incident that occurred in his Reading apartment. At the time, Matthias told responding officers that …
The lawyer for the family of an unarmed Dallas man shot to death in his apartment by an off-duty female police officer, said that police investigation into the matter was done in a way to “smear” the reputation of the victim. According to an arrest affidavit released Thursday by the Dallas Police Department, investigators found …
An Oregon woman who wrote a novel called “The Wrong Husband” is now accused of killing her own husband of 27 years, who was found dead from a gunshot wound in June. Romance novelist Nancy Crampton-Brophy, 68, was charged with gunning down Daniel Brophy in a classroom at the culinary school he ran. Nancy’s expert …
A reported drug-addicted Missouri mother was charged Wednesday for allegedly stealing her terminally ill daughter’s pain medications police say. After responding to a report of a drug offense, authorities arrested Carol Ballweg, 46, of Troy, on four counts of stealing a controlled substance and two counts of abuse of a vulnerable person, the Troy …
An Arizona man is accused of pretending to have Down syndrome and hiring caregivers to change his diapers and bathe him over the summer, police say. Paul Anthony Menchaca, 30, was arrested September 6 at his parent’s Gilbert home, where he also resided, ABC15 reports. He was reportedly working for a local school district when …
Virginia police confirmed on Thursday that a missing 3-month-old baby was likely dead. The announcement came after a Wednesday night arrest of a man charged with illegally disposing of a body. “The investigative focus has now shifted to the realistic possibility that circumstances related to Arieanna Day indicate that she is most likely deceased,” Roanoke …
Prosecutors in the Chris Watts murder case have requested DNA and fingerprints from the triple homicide suspect, in what appears to be an effort to determine his involvement in the alleged strangulation of his wife and daughters. Watts is charged with nine felony counts, including three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his …
Georgia police are searching for a man accused of attempted robbery at a Villa Ricca Waffle House restaurant on Thursday, who dropped a BB gun and managed to escape after a customer shot him. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the incident occurred at the Highway 61 Waffle House a little after midnight, when a would-be robber entered …
In an extended preview clip of Oxygen’s upcoming series “Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers,” residents of the tiny Mississippi town where 19-year-old Jessica Chambers was burned alive talk about their shock and grief at the horrific crime that claimed the life of a former cheerleader whose “smile would light up a room.” Four …
