Teen boy brutally murders mother with hammer, knife — and texts photos of her corpse to a friend before drinking bleach
Family Crime
The suspect texted his friend to say that his life was over
Weird Crime
July 27, 2017
Police: Woman hears footsteps, learns man living in attic
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A woman in Virginia who heard noises in her home in the middle of the night soon learned that a man was living in her attic. NBC Washington reports that police made the discovery early Tuesday morning at the home in Arlington. The woman heard footsteps in the attic above her. …
Family Crime
July 26, 2017
Teen pleads not guilty in fatal crash of younger sister streamed on Instagram
By SCOTT SMITH, Associated Press LOS BANOS, Calif. (AP) — A California teenager pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges of vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving after she lost control of her car while livestreaming on Instagram and recording a crash that killed her younger sister. Obdulia Sanchez, 18, appeared via remote camera in Merced County …
Murder
July 26, 2017
Delivery driver pleads not guilty to strangling Google executive Vanessa Marcotte [UPDATE]
A Princeton, Massachusetts, man has pleaded not guilty to the murder of a Google executive who vanished during a jog last summer. Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 31, entered the plea in Worcester Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon. According to the Worcester Telegram, Colon-Ortiz is accused of strangling Vanessa Marcotte, 27, who was visiting her mother and disappeared during a run on …
Sex Crimes
July 26, 2017
Court upholds maximum sentence for self-admitted rapist who claims he ‘enjoys the hunt’
A Pennsylvania appeals court upheld the maximum 10- to 20-year prison sentence for an attempted rapist who bragged in his diary that he “truly enjoy[s] the hunt.” A court rejected that Frank Yeager’s attorney was not effective at challenging his confession to police, according to WCAU. This comes after a judge in a Superior Court in Lehigh …
Child Abuse
July 26, 2017
Missing Robert Bee Jr. likely a homicide victim, person ‘involved’ in investigation has ties to property where bones were found: Report
Police in central Illinois are confronting a new reality that Robert Bee, Jr., will most likely not be found safely, and appear resigned to the strong possibility that it was the missing 13-year-old boy’s remains found on a property near a wooded area in Pekin earlier this week. Peking Police Detective Seth Ranney told the …
Sex Offenders
July 26, 2017
Disturbing: Odd job worker rapes disabled girl and gets only six months in jail!
A Minneapolis man convicted of raping a vulnerable 14-year-old girl was sentenced to 180 days and has less than 100 days left to serve. Nineteen-year-old Demarlo R. Crawford pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct and received a 180-day sentence in the rape of a 14 year-old-girl with an IQ of 57. The average score …
Family Crime
July 26, 2017
Police investigate drowning death of 3-year-old autistic twins who snuck out while mom was sleeping
Twin three-year-old boys drowned in their family’s backyard pool in Long Island, New York, Wednesday morning. The Daily News reports that firefighters responded to a home in Melville where the boys’ mother was administering CPR to one of the twins. She reportedly told first responders she did not know where the second twin was. “Four …
Family Crime
July 26, 2017
Police: Mom straps baby in carseat, kills him after leaving him without food or water for days
A Michigan woman is facing felony child abuse and murder charges after she allegedly killed her own baby earlier this month. Detroit Free Press reports that on Monday, authorities charged Lovily Johnson, 22, with first-degree murder and felony child abuse. Prosecutors alleged that on July 17, Johnson put her 6-month-old baby boy, Noah Johnson, into his carseat …
Police
July 26, 2017
A woman ‘slapped’ police cruiser just before officer shot unarmed Justine Damond: Report
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Justine Damond may have been startled by the sound of someone “slapping” the police cruiser that arrived to the scene last Saturday night after Damond called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. According to a search warrant obtained by Minneapolis news …
July 26, 2017
Police: Creepy older brother uses younger brother to meet teen girls to sleep with
A Bay City, Michigan, man has been charged with two felonies following sexual encounters with underage girls. Twenty-one-year-old Spencer C. Wells is accused of having sex with two 15-year-old girls that he reportedly met through his little brother, reports MLive. Court records show Wells has been charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct and was …
Unsolved
July 26, 2017
Is the wrong man charged with killing Tara Grinstead? Family’s detective talks to Nancy Grace
The case against Ryan Duke for the 2004 murder of Ocilla, Georgia, teacher Tara Grinstead is built largely on what his roommate Bo Dukes told investigators. Bo Dukes, no relation to Duke, was charged with concealing a death, tampering with evidence, and hindering apprehension of a criminal after he told detectives he helped his roommate …
