A San Jose, California, man who killed 21 cats and sexually abused one of their carcasses was sentenced to 16 years in jail on Friday. Prosecutors claimed that Robert Roy Farmer, 26, lured, tortured, and killed the cats over a two-month period in Fall 2015. Last year, the 26-year-old pleaded guilty to 21 counts of animal …
An Oregon woman was arrested on Wednesday after she towed three small children in a plastic wagon while driving her vehicle down a roundabout filled with heavy traffic. The Oregonian reports that Alana Nicole Donahue, 27, is accused of putting her two children, ages three and five, and her 8-year-old nephew in a tiny, red plastic …
Georgia newlyweds who were on their honeymoon in Miami are behind bars after allegedly kidnapping a random woman and forcing her to participate in sexual activity inside a motel on Sunday. Crimesider reports that a 27-year-old victim was driving out of a Publix grocery store on Sunday afternoon when Rashada Horsley, 32, approached her as she was putting her …
HONOLULU (AP) — Karen Hastings was in her 31st floor Honolulu apartment when she smelled smoke. She ran out to her balcony, looked down, and saw flames five floors below her. “The fire just blew up and went flying right out the windows,” the 71-year-old Hastings said of the first moments of the high-rise blaze …
A Florida man is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison after he pleaded guilty this week to brutally killing and disemboweling his girlfriend. Fidel Lopez, 26, admitted to police that he murdered his then 31-year-old girlfriend, Maria Nemeth, after she said the name of her former husband while she and Lopez …
Staffers of a New York City after-school program repeatedly locked a 6-year-old boy into a tiny, dark hole to punish him — and now his mother is suing over the abuse. The boy would be lifted “by the crotch” and placed headfirst into the compartment, which was within a closet, “kicking, screaming and crying,” the …
Police have arrested an Ohio woman who allegedly ran over two middle school girls, killing them and critically injuring a third child. The woman was allegedly texting at the time of the incident, according to the Akron Beacon. According to the Canton Repository, Natasha Boggs, 24, was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and …
Police have alleged that an Easley, South Carolina, mother found dead with her two kids in her SUV fatally shot another woman near her estranged husband’s apartment hours earlier, in addition to killing herself and her children, according to The Washington Post. Amid a custody dispute, Jessica Edens, 36, (pictured left) told police a day before the …
The courts have indicted three Maryland men and charged them in the fatal shooting of two teens on the eve of their high school graduation, as reported by Germantown Patch. A Montgomery County grand jury indicted Jose Ovilson Canales-Yanez, 25, Edgar Garcia-Gaona, 24, and Roger Garcia, 19, on murder, robbery, and weapons charges on Thursday, according …
The family of a man who died after his car collided with Venus Williams’s SUV in a Florida intersection is asking for phone records they believe may help determine the cause of the fatal auto accident. TMZ reports that an attorney for Jerome Barson’s estate has requested bills for all of the tennis star’s smartphones …
Rapper DMX was arrested Thursday on fourteen counts of federal tax fraud for allegedly hiding income to avoid paying $1.7 million in taxes. In a statement released along with the indictment by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, authorities accused the 46-year-old performer, whose legal name is Earl Simmons, of …
A Georgia woman who went to say her final goodbyes to her family home before it was sold found a family of squatters living there, and now can’t get them out. Dena Everman of Marietta, Georgia had lived in her home for 11 years, reports USA Today. She had sold the house and was expecting …
