How the state failed little Adrian Jones, who was tortured and starved before his parents fed him to pigs
Child Abuse
Listen to our latest “Crime Stories” podcast with Nancy Grace, about one of the most shocking child murder cases in history
Consumer
May 10, 2017
IHOP waitress pulls steak knife on family with special needs children, claims customer [VIDEO]
A waitress at a Long Island, New York, IHOP after she allegedly threatened a family of diners with a steak knife. The mother of two special needs children under the age of four told NBC New York that her family dined at a Massapequa IHOP on Friday, and that some employees responded with hostility when she …
Violent Crime
May 10, 2017
Alabama man who claims he accidentally shot woman during hunting accident gets hit with murder charge
Alabama resident Shannon Heath Bell, 31. has been indicted on murder charges in the December 2 shooting death of 36-year-old Donna Loraine Martin. The victim was shot in Escambia County last year in what Bell claimed was a “hunting accident.” According to U.S.News, Bell told authorities he and Martin struggled over the gun while hunting …
Police
May 10, 2017
Customs officers accused of sexually hazing coworkers, duct-taping them to ‘rape table’
An investigation is underway after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Newark Airport claim to have been subjected to sexually abusive hazing by their superiors, which included being duct-taped to a “rape table.” Three officers with the agency’s Passenger Enforcement Roving Team have recently come forward to speak on the alleged hazing rituals, which …
Technology and Crime
May 10, 2017
Alleged kidnapping streamed on Facebook Live: “Why me?”
Police have apprehended the suspect in an armed abduction who is believed to have streamed the alleged kidnapping in multiple Facebook Live videos. According to ABC News, West Virginia State Police arrested Justin Green, 31, of Chapmanville, West Virginia, on Monday, after a nearly 60 mile chase that began when the alleged victim’s mother called 911 …
Celebrity Justice
May 10, 2017
Aaron Hernandez fiancee thought suicide was a hoax: Shayanna Jenkins breaks silence
“I thought someone was playing a trick on me,” she said.
Celebrity Justice
May 10, 2017
Aaron Hernandez wrongful death suit to go forward, but is there money to award murder victim’s family?
The family of Odin Lloyd has vowed to move forward with the wrongful death suit against Aaron Hernandez despite the fact that his criminal murder conviction was vacated on a legal technicality on Tuesday. According to the Boston Globe, the family’s attorney Douglas K. Sheff said on Tuesday that the civil wrongful death suit will …
Violent Crime
May 10, 2017
Violent fight on Southwest flight caught on video
It was another day in the unfriendly skies when passengers on a Southwest flight from Dallas to Oakland witnessed a violent fistfight between passengers. ABC News obtained video of the throw-down, which took place on Sunday. In the brawl, one man can be seen pummeling the other while a woman desperately tries to break it …
Juveniles
May 10, 2017
Ivy Yurkus: 4-year-old dead after blunt force trauma to stomach; ruled as homicide
“This is not the result of an accident or a simple fall”
Missing
May 9, 2017
Kidnap teen Elizabeth Thomas refuses to move back with family, says she’s ‘in love’ with Tad Cummins: Report
The 15-year-old girl who was taken from home by her 50-year-old high school teacher is reportedly refusing to go back to her family, and insisting that she can be in a relationship with the man more than three times her age who is facing felony kidnapping charges. A new report in the Daily Mail citing …
Sex Offenders
May 9, 2017
FBI arrests 19-year-old male babysitter on child porn charges
Ryan Michael Spencer, a 19-year-old childcare provider and overnight camp counselor in Aptos, California, was arraigned on possession of child pornography charges Tuesday morning in Federal Court in San Francisco. Spencer, a resident of Aptos, CA, a town in Santa Cruz County an hour south of San Francisco, was employed by the Santa Cruz County …
Missing
May 9, 2017
Man guilty of killing missing teen Sierra LaMar whose body was never found
“It’s not closure, but it’s a good first step.”