New suspect in the search for little Madeline McCann
Missing
Police have been given additional funding to extend the investigation
Violent Crime
March 11, 2017
Vet released on bail after ordering murder hit on ex
Updated March 17, 5 p.m. A woman charged with murder-for-hire is out on bail awaiting trial for plotting to kill her ex-husband along with her boyfriend’s ex. Valerie McDaniel, 48, a veterinarian, and Leon Jacob, 39, who lived together in a River Oaks high-rise, were arrested on March 10 and charged with solicitation of capital …
Child Abuse
March 11, 2017
Two prosecutors out of a job after allegedly sabotaging abuse investigation of “secretive religious sect”
The AP’s 18-month investigation, supported by on-the-record interviews with 43 members of the sect, found decades of physical and emotional abuse inside the church.
Celebrity Justice
March 11, 2017
NO! Child rapist movie director Roman Polanski says he’s already served enough time for attack on 13-year-old girl. He thinks six weeks is enough?!
Polanski served only 42 days behind bars while awaiting sentencing for raping a 13-year-old girl
Missing
March 11, 2017
Unidentified body found inside missing co-ed’s submerged car during search
Toni Anderson, 20, vanished in January
Politics and Crime
March 11, 2017
White House intruder loaded with mace stalks President INSIDE White House grounds
Trump praises arrest of ‘troubled person’ at White House
Animal Crimes
March 11, 2017
Pet pig starts legal battle!
A New Carlisle, Ohio resident, Misti Hedrick, was informed by city officials that she has less than a month to get rid of her family’s 100-pound pot-bellied pig, Olive. The city’s position is that the pig is considered livestock, and zoning ordinances prohibit Olive from living inside city limits. WHIO reports that Hedrick is one of …
Juveniles
March 11, 2017
Texas soccer mom pulls a gun in kiddie car pool
There were children in the car
March 11, 2017
Family of solitary confinement inmate who died of dehydration accuses jail of torture
Fellow inmates “heard his cries for water for days,” the lawsuit alleges
Child Abuse
March 10, 2017
Mother of tortured, raped, murdered, and dismembered teen pleads NOT GUILTY in face of possible death penalty
The D.A. characterized the heinous crime as a “murder-rape fantasy”
Weird Crime
March 10, 2017
Police: Man stages girlfriends murder, texts ‘victim’s’ photos to friends and family
Police say an Ohio man and woman staged a murder scene so realistic that they fooled people into believing the woman was dead, and that the man killed her. They now face a misdemeanor charge each of inducing panic. The Sandusky Register reports that shortly after 9 p.m. on on Thursday night, police were dispatched to …
Child Abuse
March 10, 2017
UPDATE: 5-month-old thrown into playpen dies; ‘frustrated’ sitter charged with murder
A Florida woman who admitted to forcefully throwing an infant into his playpen is facing murder charges after the baby died from his injuries. Barbara Kendrick, 65, was originally charged with aggravated child abuse as Cooper Dubovik was hospitalized for a fractured skull. However, the charge was upgraded to murder following the 5-month-old’s death late …