A 13-year-old Virginia child has been charged with murder after the teen allegedly confessed to suffocating their 4-year-old sibling last August. The Danville Police Department said its officers responded to a call in August about a child who had been found in a room with no pulse and not breathing. The child was taken to …
A Missouri county sheriff and two of his deputies have been arrested, charged with helping a resident of the county to kidnap his daughter from their mother during a domestic dispute. The father. Donald “Rick” Gaston, was also arrested, along with Iron County Sheriff Jeff Burkett and Deputies Chase Bresnahan and Matt Cozad, according to …
Six women who vanished in Mexico are believed to have been murdered and burned in a horrific act of brutality possibly tied to warring drug gangs, ABC News reports. Details of the slayings come as American authorities are warning against traveling to Mexico because of an apparent uptick in kidnappings and cartel violence. The warnings …
A Nebraska school district has agreed to pay the parents of an eighth grader $1 million after a teacher gave the boy a granola bar and he died from an allergic reaction, the Omaha World-Herald reports. This week, the Papillion La Vista Community School Board publicly acknowledged the payout in exchange for releasing the district …
Loved ones of a Connecticut mother allegedly murdered by her former boyfriend in front of her young child say authorities botched efforts to protect the woman and have taken the first step toward filing a lawsuit against police, the Connecticut Post reports. The allegations stem from December 6, when 43-year-old Ewen Dewitt allegedly attacked 40-year-old …
An Alabama man has been charged with shooting to death is father and his dog this week. Investigators found 55-year-old Tracy Poling dead at his home in Hamilton on Wednesday, AL.com reported. Marion County Sheriff Kevin Williams said Hamilton police officers and firefighters and Marion County EMS were on scene when deputies arrived. As deputies …
A Nebraska man has been charged with child abuse resulting in death after a 22-month-old boy, hospitalized with obvious signs of abuse on Sunday, died Friday morning. The boy’s mother told police on Sunday that she had noticed bruises and other injuries on her son almost daily since she had begun dating 32-year-old Josh Tackett …
On Tuesday, a Louisiana man who raped a child received a 35-year prison sentence and was ordered to undergo chemical castration. According to WVUE, in 2020 police were alerted to illicit incidents involving Ryan Clark, 34, and a juvenile younger than 13. It is unclear how the victim and Clark are connected, but as part …
An Ohio woman has been arrested after she allegedly posed as a social worker to kidnap a 3-week-old infant from the child’s mother. Sapphire McDoughleh, 31, has been charged with felony kidnapping, Canton police said. They also arrested Brandon Savage, 21, and charged him with felony complicity to commit kidnapping, the Canton Repository reported. The …
The other mysterious deaths connected to the Alex Murdaugh family are now back in the news. As convicted killer Murdaugh, await his prison designation, we learn that Stephen Smith’s mother has raised enough money to pay for her son’s body to be exhumed. In 2015 Stephen Smith was found dead in the middle of the …
A 21-year-old Illinois woman was found dead Friday, and according to her family, not far from where she was last seen in January. Rosa Chacon was found tied up and wrapped in a sheet in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago, in a shopping cart located in the 2300 block of West 24th Place, Fox …
The family of a South Carolina man who was reportedly found dead near the Murdaugh’s property in 2015 said they plan to exhume his body. Stephen Smith, 19 — who reportedly attended high school with Buster Murdaugh — was found dead on a road in Hampton County in a suspected hit-and-run. No arrests have been …
