The latest installment in Oxygen’s docuseries, The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway, features an interrogation of John Ludwick, the man who claims he helped suspected killer, Joran van Der Sloot, re-bury the Alabama woman’s remains after burning and crushing her skull. Investigative reporter Art Harris and forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan join Nancy Grace in a …
A South Carolina landlord fled an apartment crying on Monday after a Lawrence County deputy made a gruesome discovery in a tenant’s Fountain Inn apartment while serving eviction papers. Remains of a deceased infant were found in sealed containers, inside the apartment. WSPA reports that Fountain Inn authorities arrived at the Fountain Hills Apartments on Chapman …
Police in Columbus, Ohio, are asking the public’s help in locating a high risk missing girl. The police department reported in a Facebook post that 11-year-old Emily Jeans has gone missing from her home on 3223 Morse Road. The girl’s mother told police that her daughter disappeared late Wednesday afternoon. Investigators launched a search effort …
By JOHN O’CONNOR, Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The use of hearsay testimony to convict former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson in the death of his third wife was proper, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday in upholding the conviction. The high court, in a unanimous decision , found that hearsay testimony from Peterson’s dead …
Missouri prosecutors charged a daughter and father on Wednesday with assault after they allegedly beat a high school boy so badly that he was left in critical condition. New York Daily News reports that Josiah Wright, 39, and his daughter, Jonay Wright, 17, reportedly went to Ruskin High School in Kansas City to pick up Jonay’s class …
A Hooks, Texas, couple allegedly locked a 7-year-old boy out of the family home last month and told him to never return. Now they face child endangerment charges. Texarkana Gazette reports that Ronald “Keith” Wright, 56, and Rendy Jo Wright, 39, allegedly kicked a 7-year-old boy out of their Hooks home, off of 400 block of County Road …
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Breakfast Club” actor Anthony Michael Hall has pleaded no contest to shoving a neighbor who fell and broke his wrist. The 49-year-old Hall entered the plea in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday to one misdemeanor count of assault likely to produce injury. He was immediately sentenced to 40 hours …
Two Muskogee, Oklahoma, women beat a young boy so badly that he suffered two strokes while hospitalized. Tulsa World reports that Rachel Jean Stevens, 29, and Kayla Ann Jones, 26, (pictured left and right) pleaded no contest Friday to child abuse and child neglect charges and were both sentenced to two 20-year prison sentences to be …
A man who won one of New Jersey’s largest Powerball jackpots allegedly sexually assaulted a young girl for at least three years. Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes accused Pedro Quezada, 49, of sexually assaulting a girl between the ages of 11 and 13 when he lived in Passaic. NJ.com reports that Quezada is charged with …
A Mason, Michigan, substitute teacher is accused of sexually assaulting a teen student and sending the teen nude photos over social media. The Lansing State Journal reports that Allyson Brittany Moran, 26, allegedly assaulted the teen—younger than 18—twice in her Dansville home in April. A detective testified that the victim came forward in August, leading Moran to admit to police …
A Salem, Wisconsin, man accused of fatally running over a cyclist and leaving the scene was reportedly turned in by his wife. WITI reports that Ryan Peterson, 39, was charged with hit-and-run resulting in death and homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle in connection with the death of Jackie Hutcheson Jr., 29. Prosecutors said Peterson admitted to …
