Exclusive: Police say body discovered is likely Oralia Mendoza; granddaughter’s body found last week in suspected murder
Violent Crime
‘We finally got a confession out of them’
Teacher Scandals
June 15, 2018
Mom walks in on 9th-grader son in bed with married school counselor: Report
A married school counselor in Texas who allegedly had sex with a ninth-grade student nearly a dozen times was arrested after the boy’s mother reportedly caught the pair naked in bed together. Shannon Hathaway, 33, a former school counselor at Harwood Junior High School, turned herself in Thursday on charges of improper relationship between an educator …
Homicide
June 15, 2018
‘Stepmom’ kills little boy, 4, then claims innocence while police say it was ‘not accidental’: Cops
A California woman is behind bars after police say she killed her 4-year-old stepson then claimed it was accidental. On Thursday she pleaded not guilty to the charges against her. Daily Press reports that officers with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department arrested 24-year-old Rose Marie Schmittle and charged her with murder and “assault on a child …
Celebrity Justice
June 15, 2018
BOMBSHELL NOW! Bill Cosby fires all his lawyers
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby has ousted the high-powered defense team whose aggressive tactics failed to sway jurors from convicting him of sexual assault in April. Cosby’s spokesman Andrew Wyatt said Thursday that Tom Mesereau and the rest of the retrial team have been replaced by a Philadelphia-area defense attorney with experience handling sex crimes …
Kidnapping
June 15, 2018
Career criminal accused of trying to snatch toddler from stroller: ‘I was just playing with the baby. I’ve done this before’
A Brooklyn man with a lengthy rap sheet was arrested Thursday after allegedly trying to snatch a 2-year-old boy from a stroller as his mother pushed him across an intersection. WPIX reports that Matthew Waly, 27, approached the 32-year-old mother at Prospect Park at around 9 p.m. and grabbed her stroller. The toddler’s father was nearby at the time …
Sex Crimes
June 15, 2018
‘A monster took me’: Stranger allegedly abducts & sexually assaults 4-year-old girl
A Pennsylvania man is facing criminal charges for allegedly snatching a 4-year-old girl from her home in the middle of the night and sexually assaulting her. According to the WPVI, prosecutors said Humberto Guzman-Garcia, 35, knocked on the door of the victim’s Avondale apartment at around 3:30 a.m. on June 10. The girl slightly opened the door, …
Violent Crime
June 15, 2018
UPDATE: Family ‘more understanding’ with police after being led to location of Elizabeth Salgado’s remains
The family of Elizabeth Salgado, a Mexican woman whose remains were discovered under suspicious circumstances May 18 in Utah, reportedly expressed frustration with the investigation and made claims to local media outlet Fox 13 that there are suspects who need to be looked into, according to the station. The 26-year-old beautiful woman’s remains were discovered …
Politics and Crime
June 15, 2018
Judge jails ex-Trump campaign chair Manafort ahead of trial
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is going to jail.
Famous Murder Cases
June 15, 2018
EXCLUSIVE: Tot mom Casey Anthony ‘throws pencil down’ & ‘storms to her room’ when asked to search for 2-yr-old daughter
‘I knew beyond a shadow of any doubt that Casey had everything to do with little Caylee’s disappearance’
Celebrity Justice
June 15, 2018
Asia Argento posts Instagram story addressing boyfriend Anthony Bourdain’s death
Asia Argento, the actor and director who was dating Anthony Bourdain when he died of an apparent suicide last week, has claimed to be “fine” in an Instagram story posted on Thursday. The New York Post reports that Argento published an Instagram story on Thursday geotagged in Berlin. She is shown with an identified female …
June 15, 2018
Body of 13-year-old girl found, grandmother missing and in extreme danger: Police
Two suspects have been arrested in the alleged murder of 13-year-old Mariah Lopez, of Huntsville, Alabama. Yoni Martinez Aguilar, 26, and Israel Gonzalez Palomino, 34, are being held without bond at the Madison County Jail on charges of capital murder, AL.com reports. According to a Madison County Sheriff’s Office press release, Lopez’s body was discovered …
Murder
June 15, 2018
‘Are you hit?’ Surreal Las Vegas shooting police bodycam footage shows chaos, injured concertgoers [VIDEO]
Las Vegas authorities have released police bodycam footage from the night of the deadly October 1 shooting at Route 91 Harvest Festival, which killed 58 people and injured hundreds more. The footage is from the bodycams of responding officers who reported directly to the outdoor concert venue that Stephen Paddock showered with bullets from his …