A mother found dead Wednesday in a trash compactor at her luxury Manhattan apartment building apparently appeared drunk before she made the 27-story descent. On Tuesday afternoon, surveillance cameras at the Zeckendorf Towers caught Lara Prychodko, 48, stumbling out of an elevator stopped on the 27th floor. Thirty minutes later, Prychodko is believed to have slid down a …
Cruz Rivera, son of famed former talk show host Geraldo Rivera, escaped jail time after taking a plea deal in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday for assaulting his ex-girlfriend during two different altercations at his home. Authorities arrested Rivera, 30, in early May for attacking Meghan Burke, 26, on April 28, after she announced she …
A small-town, Kansas councilwoman is capturing national headlines after allegedly biting an officer’s thumb so hard that she broke his bone earlier this month. The bizarre events began to unfold on June 29, when authorities tried arresting 48-year-old Carol Fowler, of Huron, on a failure to appear warrant. The warrant stems from a December incident …
A Missouri mom who found her two young daughters mysteriously unconscious last Wednesday has reportedly explained her version what happened the day they died. Kansas City Star reports that Jenna Boedecker allegedly told authorities that she fell asleep in her car on July 4 after she lost her house key. She said her daughters, 2-year-old Ireland …
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. The Justice Department told Congress in a report in March it is reinvestigating Till’s slaying …
A North Dakota woman who claimed last week she couldn’t remember where she last saw her infant son after reportedly being lost in the woods for four days, was charged with manslaughter and child neglect on Wednesday. Grand Forks Herald reports that although the cause of death on her 4-month-old son Tyr is still pending, …
Authorities in Florida say a homeless man missing both of his arms stabbed a tourist walking early Tuesday morning in the Miami Beach area. According to Fox News, 46-year-old Jonathan Crenshaw was arrested after he allegedly used his feet to grip a knife and stab 22-year-old Cesar Coronado in the arm. The incident took place …
A family was committed to commemorating a murdered New Orleans teen at his wake—so much so, that they reportedly propped him up in front of a television screen and posed him to play video games. WGNO reported that Renard Matthews, 18, was laid to rest Tuesday in a traditional jazz funeral in his Upper Ninth Ward …
Authorities in Florida say a kidnapping suspect was taken into custody after the alleged victim made a daring move that was caught on a veterinary clinic’s surveillance camera. According to the U.K. Independent, the unidentified woman passed a message to staff at the DeLand clinic informing them of her situation. “Call the cops,” she wrote. …
A Washington man confessed to a 32-year-old unsolved murder, claiming that he wanted to “right the wrong.” Fox News reports that Glenn Adams, 58, walked into Cowlitz County Hall of Justice in Kelso, Washington, on Friday and confessed to killing Russell Haines in a hotel room in Longview in 1986. Adams, who has lived itinerantly and is …
A Florida man was caught on tape running from his elderly neighbor who was allegedly trying to run him over with his tractor during a dispute. According to WJXT, Scott Lynch told deputies that a disagreement over property led Howard Lamar Morris to hop onto his tractor and drive on Lynch’s property to mow him over. Lynch can …
Police have arrested the mother of two Oregon brothers who allegedly lured a 16-year-old boy to the woods and beat him to death. The Olympian reports that Kindra Rose Adamson, 43, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with first-degree rendering criminal assistance. In a statement, the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office said her arrest was based …
