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Authorities in Illinois say a technical malfunction led to a frightening near miss at a railroad crossing last month. As the Chicago Tribune reported, Mokena police officer Peter Stranglewicz was one of a few vehicles nearly struck by an oncoming Metra commuter train on the morning of November 9. He posted footage from his cruiser’s …
Authorities in Michigan say a suspect has been arrested for the murder of a Muskegon man with a crossbow earlier this week. According to Fox News, 20-year-old Maxwell Olmstead arrived at his twin brother’s residence in Norton Shores on Wednesday to find Marcus Olmstead dead. Authorities launched an investigation that pointed to 20-year-old Grant resident …
A YouTube bodybuilder who severely injured a woman has died after being Tasered by officers who were trying to rescue the victim, WBTS-TV reports. Police arrived to home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on Thursday night, where 25-year-old Erich Stelzer was attacking 24-year-old Maegan Tapley. Stelzer was reportedly stabbing and slashing Tapley with a knife when officers deployed …
Wanda Barzee, a registered sex offender convicted of participating in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart in 2002, is apparently living in a dilapidated home in Utah following her early prison release, only blocks from an elementary school. According to the Utah Department of Corrections’ sex offender registry, 73-year-old Barzee is living less than a mile …
A Florida man is accused of sexually assaulting a 78-year-old woman while her young granddaughter looked on, WPLG-TV reports. Authorities told the news station the attack occurred Wednesday, when the victim found 32-year-old Cidoine Petit Beau standing in the living room of her Lauderdale Lakes residence. The victim had left her apartment front door unlocked …
George Anthony, father of notorious killer, Casey Anthony, was released from the hospital on Thursday following a fiery one-person car crash in November, and an insider says the near-fatal crash left him with injuries that could possibly be permanent. People reports that a source close to the Anthony family revealed that the 67-year-old may not …
A man who worked with suspected murderer Patrick Frazee has given another media interview in support of the Colorado father accused of killing Kelsey Berreth, the mother of his child. Frazee is a farrier, someone who cares for equestrian hooves, and worked with Clinton Cline on a herd of donkeys who live free in a protected …
Authorities in Minnesota say a respected local professor was arrested on suspicion of brutally attacking his fiancee during an altercation at an apartment they shared in Minneapolis. The suspect was identified as 47-year-old Aaron Herbert Doering, a climate change expert who serves as the director of the University of Minnesota’s Learning Technologies Media Lab, according …
Police in California have announced the arrest of a suspect in Wednesday’s fatal shooting death of Newman Police Officer Ronil Singh. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that police arrested Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 33, in Bakersville on Friday. Arriaga, an undocumented immigrant, was reportedly attempting to flee to his native country of Mexico when he was apprehended. Arriaga …
Authorities in Illinois are pursuing criminal charges against a woman accused of hiding her teen daughter’s medical condition from others in the family, resulting in the girl’s death last month. According to Fox News, the 14-year-old was diagnosed with diabetes in 2013. Prosecutors claim Amber Hampshire was aware of the girl’s diagnosis but did not …
A new report in the Sun Sentinel details the critical minutes leading up to and during February’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; when former student Nikolas Cruz was able to get inside a building at the school and open fire in multiple locations, killing 17 people before escaping the …
A mother in Russia avoided jail despite killing her adult son by hitting him over the head with a frying pan and using a power saw to cut his body into more than 70 pieces. According to Metro News, a 63-year-old woman, identified only as Lyudmila R, was convicted of murder but was spared jail as …
