An Oklahoma mother-of-seven involved in a counterfeit check ring reportedly underwent sterilization at the suggestion of a federal judge. The Oklahoman reported that Summer Thyme Creel, 34, was sterilized in November after U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot indicated that he would consider giving the mother a lighter sentence if she would undergo the surgery. Friot made the …
A jury in Oklahoma this week found 63-year-old Stanley Vernon Majors guilty of first-degree murder, elevated by additional charges making the 2016 shooting a hate crime. According to CNN, Majors was convicted of a number of counts related to the death of his neighbor, Khalid Jabara. During the trial, prosecutors presented evidence that the Tulsa …
“I birthed my daughter and love every little thing about her and these so called women took it upon themselves to correct the way my daughter should look.”
A second person is facing criminal charges months after a Texas mother allegedly left her two toddler children in a hot car for more than 15 hours. The San Antonio Express-News reported that Amanda Hawkins was indicted in August on two charges of injury to a child and two charges of endangering for the deaths of …
The revelation of a body camera video in a deadly officer-involved shooting has resulted in a federal lawsuit filed by a dead man’s widow. On April 13, 2017, Michael Dial—driving a 1976 pickup truck and hauling a trailer with a suspended license—refused to pull over for Tenn. police. According to a report by The Guardian, …
About 115 Americans die each day from opioid overdoses, a frightening statistic for parents. When Rick Van Warner’s son went missing, the father’s battle to save his son from becoming one of the countless victims began. Warner and shares his story in a book “On Pills and Needles: The Relentless Fight to Save My Son …
A Georgia woman who poisoned her disabled toddler son to death learned on Wednesday that she will spend the rest of her life behind bars. A Cobb County jury found Erica White guilty of murder earlier this week, along with numerous other charges. On Wednesday, Judge Mary Staley Clark sentenced White to life in prison, …
Local activists say Jalen Vaden’s confession was coerced and accused police of compromising the crime scene
An Ohio girl’s father and stepmother are under investigation after the girl’s mother took to Facebook on Jan. 31, to post a photo of the girl’s previous long locks, now completely chopped off after she was reportedly forced to get a haircut as punishment. FOX8 reports that Christin Johnson, of Fostoria, shared photos of her daughter’s new …
A Michigan man is behind bars after he allegedly doused his wife with gasoline on Monday and set her on fire, causing significant burning. ABC reports that the incident happened on Monday night inside the couple’s home in Holly, off of Grange Hall Road. After a 55-year-old man, whose name hasn’t yet released, allegedly set …
Authorities in California have arrested a man on suspicion of killing an individual before dismembering the victim’s body, transporting it by train to another location and burning the remains. According to Fox News, 56-year-old Valentino Gutierrez is accused of killing the unidentified victim last week. Police say the murder occurred inside an abandoned restaurant in …
Los Angeles sheriff’s investigators go on the record with their suspicions about how Natalie Wood died in 1981, naming the legendary actress’s husband Robert Wagner a “person of interest” in their suspicious death investigation. This is a case Nancy Grace has followed closely for years. In this Crime Stories episode, she digs into the …
