By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Out of a senseless tragedy, they have sought ways to find meaning in advocacy. Many relatives of the 26 children and educators killed five years ago at Sandy Hook Elementary School have dedicated themselves to charity, activism and other efforts to channel their grief and, in …
A Texas woman is behind bars after police accused her faking her son’s illness and sending him to numerous unnecessary doctor visits and surgeries. The Star Telegram reports that 34-year-old Kaylene Bowen-Wright is accused of starting the cycle of claiming her 8-year-old son was sick when he was 11 days old. Court records indicate between 2009 …
A Russian man allegedly cut both of his wife’s hands off in an attack that resulted from his accusations that she was cheating on him. According to the New York Post, Dmitry and Mararita Grachyov have been married for five years and have two children together. Prior to the gruesome physical battery, officials believe he …
Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s longtime partner said she “sensed” Hoffman had begun using heroin before he died of an overdose in February 2014. In an essay for Vogue, Mimi O’Donnell explained that she was worried about Hoffman but was confident that he would go back to rehab after filming the third installment of Hunger Games in …
Reports indicate a British woman died in what some believe was an accidental suicide during a misguided attempt to save her boyfriend from the same fate. According to testimony in a recent inquest, 23-year-old Corinne Hayes sent her suicidal boyfriend a text message threatening to kill herself in response. “If you are going to do …
Investigators said a New Jersey girl who killed herself while on time out possibly read a story about 10-year-old Ashawnty Davis’ suicide on Facebook before taking her own life in a similar manner. WNBC reported that Essex County prosecutors are determining what caused Imani McCray, 8, to kill herself in her Valisburg home on Sunday afternoon. Authorities claimed …
Since Making a Murderer premiered on Netflix in Dec. 2015, millions of people across the world felt the two centerpieces of the docu-series, Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, were wrongfully convicted. Dassey, in particular, touched the heart of many viewers, as he was a young boy with cognitive disabilities. Last Friday, as CrimeOnline reported, …
“My life is over after today,” the female suspect reportedly told police as she begged them to kill her
A Miami day care will remain closed following reports that two toddlers possibly died from meningitis within a week of each other. Dr. Alvaro Mejia, a medical epidemiologist at the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County, told WTVJ that a 22-month-old boy who died December 3 and a 2-year-old boy who died Sunday both …
In a harrowing first-person essay, Hayek details the harrowing experience of working with Weinstein, who she says tried to derail her passion project ‘Frida’ out of vengeance
Legal experts who weighed in on the recent court decision that Making a Murderer‘s Brenden Dassey’s murder and rape confession was not coerced, claim that getting his case in front of the Supreme Court for appeal is a “long shot” at best. ”Any appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court is a long shot,” said Michael …
Netflix has fired the executive who told an alleged victim of sexual assault that the company did not believe the four women who have accused Danny Masterson, co-star of the Netflix original series The Ranch, of rape. Masterson has also been fired from the show, the day after the Huffington Post reported on the conversation …
