A man in Texas turned himself in on Thursday, a day after he allegedly shot into the wrong apartment and killed a 9-year-old girl. Tyrese Simmons, 19, is charged with the capital murder of Brandoniya Bennett, who KTVT reported was sitting on a couch in her Dallas apartment when she was shot in the head. …
No matter what the circumstances, anything that stopped Jeffrey Epstein’s federal sex trafficking case from going to trial was bound to prompt speculation of foul play. But since his death at a Manhattan federal jail last weekend, every new reveal about the circumstances of his reported suicide is more suspicious than the one before: One …
A Hazelwood, Missouri, police officer saves a 3-year-old girl and her grandmother from a burning home.
Two women in Pennsylvania were arrested Wednesday on attempted homicide and arson charges for allegedly setting fire to a home early Tuesday—nearly killing one person who was sleeping inside. Misty Dunbar and Michelle Rhoads, both 23, are accused of setting the Mount Carmel home ablaze with a can of kerosene they found under the porch. …
A Pennsylvania couple faces numerous charges after police say they faked the birth and death of a child who never existed, in an attempt to scam people out of charitable donations. According to a criminal complaint, Kaycee and Geoffrey Lang claimed their newborn son died hours after birth at the Conemaugh Health System in Johnstown …
A Kentucky mother was arrested after police say her three children were found inside a filthy home with nothing to eat besides Pop-Tarts. Lexington Herald Reader reports that an officer was dispatched to a Georgetown home off of Military Street on Saturday after a neighbor called in about three children who were kept outside for …
A 15-year-old California girl said she really didn’t want to shoot up her school, but posted terror threats online to gain traction on her social media account, police say. ABC 30 reports that Fresno police arrested the high school teen after receiving tips that she made a disturbing threat on Snapchat about shooting up Edison …
Michael Gargiulo, the California man known as the “Hollyknown Ripper,” was found guilty Thursday of murdering two women and trying to kill another. A Los Angeles jury convicted Gargiulo, 43, for the 2001 slaying of Ashley Ellerin,22, in her Hollywood home and killing Maria Bruno, 32, in her El Monte home in 2005. Gargiulo was …
Five Ilinois teens are facing murder charges after a 14-year-old boy who was with them during an attempted robbery was shot and killed by the homeowner, according to police. According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, six teens traveled together in a stolen Lexus on early Tuesday morning, then stopped at a home in Old …
An officer in South Carolina was reportedly arrested in a sex sting operation that was carried out by his own police department, officials announced this week. According to NBC News, Derek Vandenham, 34, was immediately fired from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department following his arrest on Tuesday. Vandenham, a deputy who had been with the …
A Louisiana woman accused of orchestrating a murder that left her infant son dead will face the death penalty if she’s found guilty. According to Town Talk, the state of Louisiana intends to seek death against Hanna Nicole Barker in connection with the 2018 murder of her 6-month-old son, Levi Cole Ellerbe. Barker, who pleaded …
