Two teenagers are reportedly dead of suicide after the girl took her own life and her boyfriend followed just days later, announcing his intentions in a video on Facebook. According to the pop culture site GOT, Mercedes Shaday Smith killed herself in her dorm room at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, on Thursday. Just …
A former California police officer is facing charges that he sexually assaulted multiple women — including a teenager. Noah White Winchester, 32, a one-time member of the San Mateo Police Department, will stand trial for the sexual assault of five women while he was on duty. Winchester previously served as an officer with the Los …
Aaron Hernandez’s family won a court victory on Monday when a judge ordered the Worcester, Massachusetts, District Attorney’s office to release all three suicides notes reportedly found in Hernandez’s jail cell with his body — in time for the former NFL star’s burial on Monday. According to the Boston Globe, George Leontire, an attorney for …
Omaha, Nebraska, police confirmed that a 3-year-old boy is dead after a car power window rolled up and closed on his neck on April 15, as he waited inside his mother’s car in a store parking lot. According to Colfax County Attorney Denise Kracl, the young boy, identified as Everton Isay Romero, died in an Omaha hospital on Friday. …
The sister of former Tennessee teacher Tad Cummins, who was arrested last week after 39 days on the run with 15-year-old student Elizabeth Thomas, says her brother doesn’t seem to think he did anything wrong. Daphne Quinn, Cummins’s sister, revealed on the Today show Monday morning that she had been in contact with her brother …
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A Memphis, Tennessee, defense attorney drew fire for telling a jury during a Thursday rape trial that women are good at lying because they’re the weaker sex. “People can be very good at lying,” Steve Farese said during closing arguments, according to USA Today. “Women can be especially good at it because they’re the weaker sex and …
Aaron Hernandez, who committed suicide in his jail cell on Wednesday, was acquitted of the double murder of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado on April 14 — but the jury forewoman is now speaking out to clarify that the acquittal does not mean the jury believed he was innocent. Jury forewoman Lindsey Stringer told the …
Marion County, Kentucky, police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating a 17-year-old girl who disappeared on Friday. PL8PIC reports that the last time Amanda Lynn Miles’ parents heard from was when she told them she was staying the night at a friend’s house in Bardstown, Kentucky. Her friend said Amanda never made it to …
A Jefferson County, Alabama, grand jury indicted a man and woman on aggravated child abuse charges after a 3-year-old girl died from extreme abuse. The indictments were made public on Friday. Alabama Media Group reports that Johnathon Wayne Talley, 41, and Misty Lynn Wright, 25, are accused of “willfully torture, willfully abuse, cruelly beat or otherwise willfully maltreat said child …
The wife of a famed footwear maker and her grandson are still missing after they lost their footing while hiking with family in the Grand Canyon last Saturday. On Friday, after nearly a week of search efforts, the Grand Canyon National Park scaled back the search efforts. Lou Ann Merrell, 64, and her step grandson, Jackson Standefer, …
A former Kentucky district judge who currently sits on the Campbell County Board of Education was indicted on human trafficking charges on Friday. Tim Nolan, 70, is also charged with first- and third-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, according to court documents and a state Attorney General statement obtained by Cincinnati.com. Campbell County Police issued a …
