By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney was forced to sign a confidential settlement with the group that trains U.S. Olympic gymnasts to keep allegations that she was sexually abused by team doctor Larry Nassar a secret, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. Maroney, who won a team gold …
Police are searching for a man who they say strangled a convicted sex offender before dismembering his body and removing his limbs from the home. In addition to Noel Brown, 69, the suspect is believed to have also murdered Noel’s daughter, Marie. Their bodies were found next to each other in their London home on …
A New York mom has to spend Christmas without her daughter after she says cyber-bullying led her to child to take her own life. KRON4 reports that Aliyah had just turned 20 when her mother, Janette Rodriguez, found her dead in the basement of their Rochester home. Aliyah hanged herself after reported relentless bullying by several girls …
Friends and family of the couple insist there is no way Barry and Honey Sherman died in a murder-suicide
A former high school student reportedly told police that he would “no longer lie” about his sexual relationship with his English teacher after the woman allegedly said the teen “ruined her life.” Patch reported that prosecutors officially charged Samantha Ciotta, 32, of Beaumont, California, Monday with oral copulation with a minor and two counts of sexual …
The FitBit bracelet on Connie Dabate’s wrist told a story that landed her husband in jail on a murder charge. Nancy Grace updates the case against Richard Dabate, who told investigators a masked intruder tied him up and fatally shot his wife. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan, lawyer and child …
HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for an infant girl in Houston who was reported missing after her mother was found fatally stabbed. Houston police began searching for Shanally Flores after officers found her mother’s body in her north Houston apartment around noon on Tuesday. Police had initially believed the infant girl …
A second teen boy has pleaded guilty to plotting to murder a 14-year-old girl because he and the triggerman didn’t like her Snapchat posts. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Jayzon Decker, 17, pleaded guilty to to first-degree felony attempted aggravated murder and second-degree felony obstruction of justice. Colter Danny Peterson, also 17, had previously admitted to …
Body cam and bystander footage reportedly captured the moment two California police officers broke a man’s leg and slammed his head into the pavement during a forceful arrest. The City of Pasadena released six videos Friday captured by police car cameras and body cams worn by two unnamed officers who arrested Christopher Ballew, 21, at an …
An Arizona mother is behind bars and her 2-year-old son is dead after what investigators believe was an intended murder-suicide. According to the New York Post, 26-year-old Alyssa Pettibone was arrested and jailed Tuesday on suspicion of second-degree murder with bond set at $750,000. Reports indicate Buckeye police officers responded to her home on Friday …
The parents of a 13-year-old California girl who committed suicide have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District, accusing officials not doing enough to squash the relentless bullying their child experienced. Redlands Daily Facts reported that at Monday’s news conference Rosalie Avila’s father, Freddie Avila-Olague, accused the district of not doing “justice” …
A video posted on social media reportedly depicted two women trading blows in an Indiana Chuck E. Cheese’s–as families watched the whole thing unfold. Facebook user Cujo Bailey uploaded the footage Saturday, which showed the two women grappling before striking one another and pulling each other’s hair. At one point, a woman can be seen …
