Authorities in Chester, Virginia, say a local youth pastor murdered three members of his family on Thanksgiving. According to WTVR, 58-year-old Christopher Gattis was arrested at the home where he and the three victims had lived. He is accused of shooting Jeanett Gattis, 58, Candice Kunze, 30, Andrew Buthorn, 36, identified as his wife, her …
A 15-year-old teen who pleaded guilty to manslaughter earlier this year was sentenced to life in prison on Friday, by a judge at Leeds Crown Court in England. The Guardian reports that the teen, whose name remains disclosed due to her age, admitted to manslaughter in July, and appeared in front of the judge via …
Multiple fights—and a baby getting hit with a shoe—forced police to shut down one Alabama mall a half hour early Thursday night. WBRC reporter Steffany Means took to Facebook and revealed that someone threw a shoe over a railing, striking a baby. About 15 Hoover police officers responded to the Riverchase Galleria, following reports of multiple brawls …
Uma Thurman posted a photo on Instagram Thursday that suggested she may have been yet another victim of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein. The Thanksgiving message directly addressed Weinstein and included the hashtag “metoo” in reference to the social media campaign launched by women telling their stories of sexual harassment. “I am grateful today, to …
An Indiana couple was arrested Monday for allegedly giving their 10-month-old daughter marijuana to treat her broken leg. The Muncie Star Press reported that Tessa Rose Murray, 23, and Nerrell McCoy, 20 are accused of drugging their child before getting her medical attention. Police got involved on June 18, after the baby was brought into IU Health Ball …
An Indiana high school teacher was arrested Wednesday after students allegedly filmed her doing drugs in an empty classroom. Students at Lake Central High School spotted English teacher Samantha Cox, 24, allegedly snorting what police believe to have been a mixture of cocaine and heroin, CBS News reports. The students went straight to the principal, …
Pedophile Ricky Langley is serving a life sentence in a Louisiana prison for strangling 6-year-old Jeremy Guillory in 1992 and hiding him in his closet, and the case still haunts those associated with it. Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, whose book, “The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir,” explores the case, visits with Nancy Grace in …
The family of a cruise ship singer found dead in her cabin almost five years ago is fighting police to reopen her case. Jackie Kastrinelis, 24, was found dead on the Seven Seas Voyager near Darwin, Australia, in February 2013. The Massachusetts-native had worked on the cruise ship for two years and planned to audition for …
Police in China are investigating an elite Beijing nursery school after parents alleged that the school was giving their children drugs and sexually abusing them. New York Post reports that staff members and teachers at a nursery school operated by RYB Education Inc., are accused of abusing numerous kids at the school after they were “reportedly …
By GERALD IMRAY, Associated Press SOMERSET WEST, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius’ prison sentence was more than doubled to 13 years and five months on Friday, a surprisingly dramatic intervention by South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal in the Olympic athlete’s fate after the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. In an announcement that took a …
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and LUIS ANDRES HENAO, Associated Press MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (AP) — An apparent explosion occurred near the time and place an Argentine submarine went missing, the country’s navy reported Thursday — an ominous development that prompted relatives of the 44 crew members to burst into tears, and some to say they had …
Natalie Wood’s death 36 years ago has been one of Hollywood’s biggest mysteries, but the Los Angeles Sheriff’s department has restarted its investigation as new evidence came to light in recent years. It was ruled an accidental drowning soon after the actress’s body was found along a Catalina Island beach on November 29, 1981, but …
