O.J. Simpson said that recently-jailed comedian Bill Cosby will need to be placed in protective custody because convicted sex offenders don’t fare well in prison. Simpson, 71, told TMZ that the “nature of the crime” Cosby committed—sex assault—would make him a target for violence. Cosby, 81, was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years in prison …
A Texas inmate who tortured and drowned his female roommate is scheduled to die on Wednesday at 6 p.m. for her murder, officials confirmed. FOX News reports that 51-year-old Troy Clark jeered at a Smith County jury during his 2000 trial and dared them to sentence him to death. The jury did just that. Clark is …
New Jersey police are investigating after a baby boy was found to be crawling across a busy road by himself Saturday night. ABC6 reports that a driver, identified as 41-year-old Cory Cannon, told police that when he first saw the boy crawling by himself along Joe Parker Road, in Lakewood, he initially believed the baby …
The second day of testimony is under way at the murder retrial of Quinton Tellis, the man accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in Courtland, Mississippi, in 2014. When Tellis was tried last year, it ended in a mistrial when a jury couldn’t come to a decision. A key argument for the defense, then …
PLUS: Trial starts in case of teen burned alive
A North Carolina woman who was charged Tuesday with felony concealment of death reportedly told authorities that she kept her own mother’s body hidden for months so she could “see the stages of death.” Donna Sue Hudgins, 69, of Enfield, was arrested and charged for concealing the death of her 93-year-old mother, Nellie Mae Hudgins, …
Moments after a judge ordered Bill Cosby to serve a minimum of three years in state prison for a sexual assault, the former TV sitcom star burst into laughter in the courtroom. Page Six reports that Cosby was seen joking and laughing with his legal team after Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced him to 3 to 10 …
On Tuesday afternoon, the FBI announced a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the whereabout of an autistic boy who disappeared while at North Carolina park with his father. The Gastonia Police Department reports that 6-year-old Maddox Ritch disappeared on Saturday afternoon at around 1:30 p.m. from the Rankin Lake Park,off of Hwy 321 …
Authorities in Illinois have arrested a man for placing his toddler inside of a locked trunk outside of a business in Norridge earlier this month. According to the New York Post, 28-year-old Boguslaw Matlak is facing a misdemeanor count of child endangerment over what he claimed was a closely controlled experiment. He defended his actions …
By DAVE KOLPACK, Associated Press FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota woman convicted of killing her pregnant neighbor by cutting the baby from her womb testified Tuesday that her boyfriend had pressured her to “produce a baby” after figuring out she had lied about being pregnant. Brooke Crews told the court that she had concocted …
An Alabama mother, her husband, and her mother are facing criminal charges after police allegedly found her 13-year-old son chained, stripped naked, and living in a dog crate. Per AL.com, the Autauga County Sheriff’s Office got involved Thursday after an anonymous caller claimed a child living in a Prattville home was being chained and abused. …
A Texas elementary school has become the scene of an ongoing protest following the alleged sexual abuse of a 5-year-old student. According to KVEO, a 14-year-old student mentor at Tabasco Elementary School is accused of taking the young girl into a restroom at the school and sexually assaulting her in April.` A number of parents …
