Three men have been arrested for allegedly murdering a 33-year-old mother whose decapitated corpse was found in a plastic container floating in Puget Sound 16 years ago, KING-TV reports. On January 15, 2006, police responded to a report of a suspicious object seen floating between Blake Island and Manchester outside of Seattle. Two months later, a …
Loved ones will gather Saturday to say goodbye to a New Hampshire mother and her two young sons who were allegedly killed at the hands of a juvenile, WMUR-TV reports. The case has shaken the community of Northfield, New Hampshire, where 25-year-old Kassandra Sweeney and her two boys, 4-year-old Benjamin Sweeney and 1-year-old Mason Sweeney, …
Author Salman Rushdie is on a ventilator after a stabbing attack Friday morning in western New York and may lose an eye. “The news is not good,” Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said in an update on his condition to the New York Times. “Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were …
A Texas man “chugged” a cloudy liquid from a water bottle just after a jury found him guilty of child sexual assault Thursday afternoon and later died. Edward Peter Leclair, 57, was tried on five counts of sexual assault involving one victim in 2016, the Denton Record-Chronicle reported. He was arrested in 2018 and released …
Three young eastern North Carolina men, all members of the same family, were arrested and charged Friday with sex crimes against two young children. Ethan Jones, 18, and his 20-year-old brother, Brandon Jones, have both been charged with statutory rape and statutory sex offense with a child, the Craven County Sheriff’s Office says. The brothers’ …
Two women are missing, one from Atlanta, Georgia, and one from Truckee, California. Allahnia Lenoir was last seen on July 30th. Her mother says she went to an apartment on Peachtree Street to visit friends and hasn’t been seen since. Kiely Rodni was last seen on August 6th after going to a party with about …
Author Salman Rushdie is undergoing surgery in New York after a 24-year-old New Jersey man jumped onto a stage where he was speaking and stabbed him in the neck. Rushdie’s condition was not known, although a doctor who had been in the audience at the Chautauqua Institution described the writer’s wounds as “serious but recoverable.” …
An Indiana man was sentenced on Friday to 120 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend and their 3-year-old daughter last year. Devonta Roberts, 28, confessed in May to fatally shooting Victoria Moore, 22, and Datoria Roberts in a Romney Meadows apartment on July 5, 2021. Moore was holding the toddler when Devonta fired at …
Actress Anne Heche reportedly died on Friday, a week after she drove her car into a home in California. Heche’s rep. told TMZ that machines are keeping her heart beating for organ donation but she has no brain function. In California, brain death deems someone legally deceased. Heche, 53, was hospitalized in Los Angeles. The …
South Carolina officials are investigating the death of a woman who was reportedly impaled by a beach umbrella on Wednesday. WMBF reported that an umbrella that took wind struck Tammy Perreault, 63, in Garden City. Perreault suffered chest trauma as a result; she died at a hospital in Waccamaw less than an hour later. “A …
An Arizona man is facing assault charges after hitting a Wendy’s restaurant customer, knocking him unconscious. According to AZ Family, security footage from a Prescott Valley Wendy’s restaurant shows 35-year-old Antoine Kendrick, identified as a restaurant employee at the time, taking a 67-year-old man’s order on July 26. When the customer complained, Kendrick walks around …
A California dermatologist accused of poisoning her husband with Drano in his lemonade says she did nothing of the sort and that her husband made up the accusations to get custody of their children. Emily Yu, 45, was suspended from her job after her arrest last week, KCBS reported. Her husband — radiologist Jack Chen …
