Prosecutors say a man charged with killing the husband of a California Highway Patrol captain last year did so as part of a murder-for-hire plot involving the captain and that they intend to seek the death penalty. Cumberland County, Kentucky, prosecutors say that Thomas O’Donnell shot Michael Harding to death “in a conspiracy with the …
A Texas judge this week rejected a plea deal offered to a Waco man who admitted killing his estranged wife’s dog and laying their bodies out in her parking space at the church where she worked. The McLennan County District Attorney’s Office offered Scott Riggleman deferred probation for 10 years in return for pleading guilty …
A prominent Penn State professor is facing criminal charges after he was allegedly caught on camera having sex with his dog in a public forest, prompting him to ask police to kill him when he was confronted with evidence of the bestiality, Fox 43 reports. On Tuesday, 64-year-old Themis Matsoukas was arraigned on charges of …
A New York father was allegedly murdered by his former wife and her husband in what authorities called a “sophisticated” killing that took years to investigate, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports. On Thursday, federal prosecutors charged 36-year-old Jamie Orsini and her husband, 35-year-old Nicholas Orsini, with conspiracy and carjacking resulting in death in connection with the …
Grand jurors are reviewing the mysterious death of a South Carolina teenager whose case has received renewed attention after Alex Murdaugh murdered his wife and son, Law&Crime reports. Eric Bland, an attorney for the mother of 19-year-old Stephen Smith, told the news outlet that a grand jury has been empaneled and is receiving evidence related …
A Florida mother charged last month with child abuse has now been charged with her 2-ear-old son’s murder. Rebecca Louise Gussage-Johnston, 24, was initially arrested on May 19 after the toddler died from injuries he suffered a day before, when Gussage-Johnston admitted to “punishing” the boy because he was “acting out,” WESH reported. After the …
A Texas woman reported being kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom during Galveston County’s annual Go Topless Jeep Weekend last month. The woman said she was forced into a pickup truck on May 21 and taken into Humble, where one of the men raped her. She said her abductors demanded a ransom in order for …
A newborn baby girl was found dead in the back of an Ohio garbage truck on Thursday, the umbilical cord still attached. Plain City Police said the the city’s contracted waste management company found the infant in the back of the truck Thursday afternoon on Bluestem Lane. The baby was taken to the Montgomery County …
A Pennsylvania truck driver was found guilty Friday of gunning down 11 Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 and wounding seven more people — five of them police officers — before police shot him and ended the rampage. The jury in the federal trial deliberated for five hours over two days before returning guilty …
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The mother of a 4-year-old Tennessee girl whose remains were discovered late Thursday night allegedly told police that her daughter had been dead for weeks before she reported her missing. According to WREG, Brittany Jackson originally told Memphis police that she realized Sequoia Samuels was missing after getting text messages from her aunt about the …
Nathan Carman, a 26-year-old Vermont man accused of murdering his mother, died in jail this week, likely from suicide, sources say. According to the Boston Globe, a New Hampshire Department of Justice spokesperson issued a statement indicating the state medical examiner’s office noted that the autopsy results stated that the death is not regarded as …
