The Arkansas state medical examiner’s office found that 25-year-old Sydney Sutherland, the Jackson County nurse whose body was found two days after she didn’t return from an afternoon jog, died from multiple blunt force injuries, KATV reports. Quake Lewellyn, 28, faces charges of kidnapping, rape, and capital murder in Sutherland’s disappearance and death. Sutherland was …
One of two Wisconsin girls convicted of nearly stabbing a classmate to death to appease the fictional horror character “Slender Man” in 2014 asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to toss out her conviction in adult court, the Associated Press reported. Morgan Geyser, now 18, pleaded guilty to attempted first degree homicide in 2017 …
A 17-year-old Indiana girl was charged this week with murder for the shooting deaths of Domino’s employee Joshua Ungersma and her boyfriend, Alberto Vanmeter, who was shot and killed by Ungersma when he tried to rob the pizza man. Eyewitness Patrick Gibson said he went outside when he heard gunshots at about 11:15 p.m. on …
Crime has shaped American history just as music, food, modern medicine, inventions, politics. America gave the world Elvis, anesthesia, corn dogs, the lightbulb, and John F. Kennedy. We also gave the world Bonnie & Clyde, Ted Bundy, Meyer Lansky, and Charles Manson. Who are the people devoted to keeping this history preserved and accessible to …
A Georgia man told police he was playing with his handgun, something he claimed he often does, when he shot and killed a 19-year-old girl. AJC reports that the incident happened on September 7 in Panama City, Florida, after Spencer Chase Pruitt, 24, of Douglasville, Georgia, shot and killed 19-year-old Victoria “Tori” Lynn Busch, of …
Authorities in California are searching for a teenager believed missing for nearly 10 years — an investigation prompted after her adoptive parents were accused of harming her siblings, The Press Democrat reports. On August 19, police arrested Jose and Gina Centeno in Rohnert Park, California, alleging that they have abused their children for years. A complaint …
A missing Alabama teen has been found dead and two people have been arrested in connection with the case, AL.com reports. On Thursday, the body of 18-year-old Thomas A. Green was found in a wooded area in Waverly, Alabama. Caretakers of the property came upon the remains. Investigators could not locate any identification information on the …
An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his 2-month-old son in July after an autopsy revealed the boy died from blunt force trauma to the head, WIAT reports. Jefferson County deputies responded to a call about an unresponsive child on July 29 and found Amari Ruffin not breathing. The boy was taken …
“Operation Home Alone 2” nabbed five men on charges related to child sexual exploitation in Arizona — including a former detective who was out on bond after he was arrested on the same charges in February, Homeland Security Investigations reports. The week-long action was the culmination of a months-long action in Pinal County, similar to …
A South Dakota man was indicted on first-degree murder charges Wednesday, months after he allegedly fatally shot his girlfriend and staged her death to look like a suicide. The Rapid City Police Department said in a statement that an investigation revealed Dion Bordeaux, 25, shot Jeanette Jumping Eagle, 22, at the Microtel Inn and Suites …
Authorities have identified the 23-year-old California man they believe made a 3,400-mile round trip over 72 hours last month to kill another man he met via an online game, the Flower Mound, Texas, Police Department announced Friday. Flower Mound police found Matthew Thane, 18, dead from a gunshot wound outside his home early on August …
The Detroit Police Department announced Friday that a mother and her 2-year-old boy have been missing since Tuesday. Fox Detroit reports that 2-year-old Carson Hayes may be in the company of his non-custodial biological mother, Asia Sturgis, 25 who reportedly took the child without permission. The boy’s father reportedly said he dropped his son off …
