Four people have been jailed in southwestern Missouri after a 4-year-old boy was found unresponsive and suffering from “extreme malnutrition” last month, the Stone County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. The boy’s mother, Dessa Barton, and her boyfriend, Dalton McLendon, both 26, were arrested on November 6, jail records show, when deputies and medical teams responded …
Chatham County Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley denied bond last month to the father and son accused of killing Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery earlier this year, and this month the judge detailed his reasons for the denial in a strongly worded order filed with the court on Wednesday. Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34, …
A Michigan mother was charged Friday with two counts of murder in the 2003 deaths of her newborn twin sons in Illinois, who were found dead by a Waste Management employee emptying trash bins in an alley, the Daily Herald reports. Antoinette Briley, 41, reportedly admitted to the “birth, death and disposal of the two …
A Los Angeles personal fitness trainer, described as “mellow” and “reliable” by a client, is behind bars on suspicion of murdering his children. The Los Angeles Times reports that the L.A. County Fire Department arrived at a home off of Century Circle a little before 8 a.m. on Friday after several of Maurice Taylor Sr.’s …
A Long Island man was arrested Friday for allegedly soliciting sexually explicit photos and photographs of feet from minors in exchange for money, the Suffolk County Police Department said. The district attorney’s office and the police department launched in investigation in the activities of Bradley Garyn, 27, when they received a report that he had …
Fatal shot believed to have been fired by another child; the owner of the gun has been arrested.
A 26-year-old ICU nurse was fatally shot while driving to work on a Tennessee highway Friday night, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reports. A Nashville Parks police officer saw Caitlyn Kaufman’s car against a guard rail on Interstate 440 on the west end of the city shortly before 9 p.m. and stopped to assist, thinking …
Authorities are racing to track down a man who encountered a missing British hiker in the Pyrenees mountains, raising concerns that the disappearance may not just be an accident, The Sun reports. Esther Dingley, 37, a British blogger, went missing more than a week ago while she was hiking alone in the mountain range between Spain and France. Dingley …
“These helpless children experienced brutal abuse over a sustained period of time,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said
US Marshals shot and killed Luis Zaragoza earlier this month while trying to take him into custody. His cell phone also provided ‘turn by turn’ directions to Jalajhia Finklea’s body.
An Idaho man was arrested this week on five counts of raping teenage girls between 2007 and 2014 in several locations, including his home and an RV camper. In addition to the five counts of rape, Trenton Jared Powell, 41, has also been charged with two counts of lewd conduct with a minor. He was …
A Vermont couple was arrested Wednesday for the death of their 1-month-old son, who reportedly died in August with extensive injuries. WPTZ and WNNE reported Leo Cushing was found dead in an infant rocking chair on August 1 after his father, Matthew Cushing, 36, called the baby’s uncle and aunt to their Swanton apartment. A …
