Year: 2020

WATCH LIVE: Court hearing for father & son suspects accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery

 Ahmaud Arbery
Court

-The preliminary hearings for Greg and Travis McMichael for the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery began Thursday morning.
-The suspects are facing murder and aggravated assault charges after following Arbery through a Brunswick neighborhood before Travis McMichael shot Arbery three times.
-Gregory McMichael would later tell investigators that they brought guns because they thought Arbery was armed, although an investigation determined that Arbery was unarmed.
-The suspects purportedly said they were attempting to make a citizen’s arrest when Arbery was killed.

Murder
June 3, 2020

George Floyd: All four ex-cops now behind bars and charged with Floyd’s death

Three more former Minneapolis police officers have been charged as accomplices in connection with George Floyd’s death and are now in jail in Hennepin County, according to jail records. Former officer Derek Chauvin, who was seen in videos with his knee pressing into Floyd’s death, was arrested last week and charged with third degree murder …

Murder
June 3, 2020

24-year-old Utah police officer shot in head answering domestic violence call

A Utah police officer was shot in the head while his back was turned to the man who killed him, according to a report from the Weber County Attorney’s Office released on Wednesday. Ogden City Officer Nathan Lyday, 24, died instantly on May 28 while he and another officer were responded to a domestic abuse …

Aniah Blanchard: Murder case against Ibraheem Yazeed can go to grand jury, judge says
Court
June 3, 2020

Aniah Blanchard: Murder case against Ibraheem Yazeed can go to grand jury, judge says

An Alabama judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors have enough evidence to take the murder case against Ibraheem Yazeed, accused of kidnapping and killing college student Aniah Blanchard last fall, to a grand jury. Judge Russell Bush had already found probable cause to send the kidnapping charge to a grand jury, WTVM reported. Blanchard, a 19-year-old …

Police
June 3, 2020

BREAKING: All four Floyd cops charged

Three additional officers at scene of George Floyd’s killing to face criminal charges as jailed officer sees upgraded murder charge [Report]

Podcast
June 3, 2020

Wednesday Crime Stories: Crime fighter Tim Miller suspected in teen daughter’s murder

16-year-old Laura Miller’s body was found in what is considered the “The Texas Killing Fields.” Four bodies were found in the same remote area. Her murder 30 years ago remains unsolved, and now her father Tim Miller says he has learned he may be considered a suspect. Miller is suing the Galveston County Medical Examiner’s …

Family Crime
June 3, 2020

‘Tiger King’: Police knew Carole Baskin missing husband’s will was forged, sheriff confirms

Florida authorities already knew that the will of Carole Baskin’s missing husband had been forged, according to a new statement from the Hillsborough County sheriff. Carole Baskin, the centerpiece of the popular Netflix show, “Tiger King,” gained the estate of husband Don Lewis, a multimillionaire whose assets were valued at around $10 million. Lewis’s will …