Texas authorities believe they’ve found the body of a Christoval woman missing since February 26, the Kirbyville Banner reported on its Facebook page, citing a news release from the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said it has sent the body for an autopsy and positive identification, but it was found in the same …
A Texas police officer was shot and killed and two other officers were injured Saturday night in what authorities say was an ambush, KXAN-TV reports. San Marcos officer Justin Putnam (pictured center), 31, died at the scene of the shooting, while the two other officers, Justin Mueller (left) and Franco Stewart (right), are in the hospital …
The parents of three young Utah children were murdered in what authorities describe as a violent home invasion, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Tony Butterfield, 31, and his wife and Katherine Butterfield, 30, were found shot death early Saturday at their home in West Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. A neighbor had …
Five people who attended a high school basketball game in Indianpolis have died after contracting coronavirus. According to the Indianapolis Star, five men who attended a sectional semifinals game at Lawrence Central High School in Indianapolis on March 6 have since died after contracting coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19. Earlier that Friday, state health …
A northwestern Indiana man has been charged with murder and aggravated assault in the death of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son, according to the Northwest Indiana Times. Michael J. Tunstall, 26, told police the boy woke up Thursday from a nap vomiting and became unresponsive after he carried the child to a bathtub. Tunstall said he …
Birmingham police captured a suspect wanted for murder in Auburn, Alabama, after an hours-long manhunt that included a brief shoot-out with officers. The as yet unidentified suspect was wounded in the shoot-out and is receiving treatment, Deputy Chief Scott Praytor said. Praytor said the ordeal began late Friday night in east Birmingham when officers responded …
A licensed physician in California has been charged with mail fraud for selling “COVID-19 treatment packs” he said would “100%” cure the disease caused by the novel coronavirus and give customers immunity to the virus for six weeks, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California. Jennings Ryan Staley, 44, who …
A 20-year-old south Texas man has been arrested and charged with the murders of four members of a Laredo family, including a two-year-old child. Police were called to a residence in the southern part of the city at about 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, the Laredo Police Department said. Upon arrival, officers saw “visible signs of …
A North Carolina mother of three was allegedly murdered by her husband, who is now in police custody, WRAL-TV reports. Jasmina Almendarez Zelaya, 30, was reported missing April 14 after her sister and other family members said they had not seen or heard from her in several days. Authorities have now charged Zelaya’s husband, Jose …
A man in Connecticut is accused of breaking into a shuttered restaurant and binging on thousands of dollars of food and alcohol, the Hartford Courant reports. Police earlier this week arrested 42-year-old Louis Angel Ortiz at the downtown New Haven eatery Soul De Cuba Café, which had been closed because of the coronavirus. Authorities believe Ortiz broke into …
A 3-year-old boy drowned in a manmade lake in Texas, and his mother was hospitalized in critical condition after being pulled out of the lake herself. Beaumont Police spokesperson Haley Morrow told the Beaumont Times that police were called to the scene on Wednesday afternoon, with a witness reporting what appeared to be an adult …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace takes a look at the case of Alison MacKenzie, an Arizona mother of two who vanished in January while vacationing in Belize and reportedly looking for a second property to buy there. “I’ve been studying the case very carefully,” Grace said on Fox Nation’s “Crime Stories.” “And so far, I alone — at …
