Daughter kills herself in office complex where mother found shot to death in a locked closet
Family Crime
Police say the woman may have taken her own life because of “the stress of finding out her mother was dead.”
Juveniles
July 23, 2017
Horrific Human Trafficking: Children among nine people found dead in tractor-trailer outside Walmart in stifling 100-degree heat
Dozens more are in serious or critical condition
Juveniles
July 22, 2017
Happening Now: Crews search for missing 13-year-old at Gloucester Point Beach
UPDATE: The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a 13-year-old boy who went missing while swimming with his family at Gloucester Point Beach in Virginia. According to WAVY, the Abington Fire and Rescue also suspended their search Saturday afternoon, after the teen boy had been missing for a day. The Coast Guard had searched 44 …
Police
July 22, 2017
Pizza parlor owner who shot at police before dramatic rooftop standoff threatened to kill entire police department: Prosecutor
The owner of a popular Massachusetts pizza parlor is in custody after a dramatic police standoff from the roof of his business Thursday night, when authorities issued a shelter-in-place order for local residents. As reported by Framingham Source, Justin Breakspear, 31, was arraigned Friday at the district courthouse in Framingham, 20 miles west of Boston. …
Celebrity Justice
July 22, 2017
Great artist Salvador Dali’s body exhumed for DNA paternity test, signature mustache still intact at ‘ten past ten’ position
By HERNAN MUNOZ and ARITZ PARRA, The Associated Press FIGUERES, Spain (AP) — Forensic experts in Spain have removed hair, nails and two long bones from Salvador Dali’s embalmed remains to aid a court-ordered paternity test that may enable a woman who says she is the surrealist artist’s daughter to claim part of Dali’s vast estate. …
Juveniles
July 22, 2017
Police: Little girl, 7, takes over driving when dad overdoses behind the wheel
A quick thinking 7-year-old girl likely saved her unconscious father’s life when she took over the wheel on Friday in New York, catching the attention of first responders. New York Daily News reports that Eric Roman, 37, was driving a Lexus with his daughter in Brooklyn on Friday afternoon, when he reportedly passed out from …
Family Crime
July 22, 2017
Dead infant found buried at honor student, cheerleader’s home was born alive: Police
A former high school honors student could face prison time after the skeletal remains of an infant were found buried behind her home earlier this month. Brooke Skyler Richardson, 18, was arrested Thursday night and later charged with reckless homicide in connection with the case, WCPO reports. The discovery was made after a doctor notified …
Weird Crime
July 21, 2017
‘You can’t control me!’: Woman with ‘blank stare’ randomly breaks in house via doggy door, attacks two kids
An Arizona woman was arrested after allegedly breaking into a doggy door at a random Arizona home and attacking two young girls on Tuesday. FOX News reports that Kristen Marie Anderson, 34, snuck through through the doggy door of a Happy Valley neighborhood home on Tuesday morning. Two young girls, ages 10 and 12, were inside the …
Family Crime
July 21, 2017
Stepdad slashes daughter’s throat, butchers niece, stuffs body in freezer of multi-million dollar home: Police
A 19-year-old woman dead and her 21-year-old cousin severely injured after they were allegedly attacked by homicidal family members. The Sun reports that two men and a woman have been arrested in what police are investigating as a possible honor killing in southwest London, after the teenage girl was found dead in a freezer in …
Court
July 21, 2017
BREAKING: Dalia Dippolito to serve 16 years for hiring hit man to kill former husband
After almost four hours of listening to lawyers on both sides battle it out, a Palm Beach County judge sentence Dalia Dippolito to 16 years in prison. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley denied the request by prosecutors to exceed the 20-year sentence previously handed down to Dippolito during her 2011 trial, which ultimately got thrown …
Bullies
July 21, 2017
‘You might want to check on your daughter’: Grieving mother claims 32-year-old daughter killed herself because of ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ suicide game
Sandy Cadena claims the woman who pushed her daughter to kill herself called to tell her she was dead
Animal Crimes
July 21, 2017
Elite university professor leaves dog to die in a hot car — for the SECOND time
Police arrested a retired Wesleyan University professor after his dog died after being left in his hot car on Tuesday. David Beveridge, 79, told authorities he intended to take his 3-year-old Labradoodle, Jennie, to doggie day-care on his way to work around noon. He forgot, however, and it was 2:30 before he realized his oversight, …