An 8-year-old boy in Illinois died earlier this month from injuries he suffered when his mother — pregnant with him — was fatally shot in 2011. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Kahmani Mims-Jefferson died on March 8 from being born premature and multiple gunshot wounds he suffered before his birth. The boy’s mother, Charinez Jefferson, …
An Ohio man learned on Monday that he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his 1-year-old son in 2018 amid a custody dispute with the toddler’s mother. To avoid the death penalty, Jason Shorter, 42, pleaded guilty in January to aggravated murder and kidnapping charges related to Nicholas Shorter’s …
Lori Vallow married Chad Daybell just weeks after their respective spouses died. Tammy Daybell, a healthy, 49-year-old runner, died mysteriously in her sleep and the family refused an autopsy. Now, her body has been exhumed and examined. What will the new autopsy show? Joining Nancy Grace to discuss: Darryl Cohen – Former Assistant District Attorney, …
New documents appear to show that the husband of Lori Vallow’s niece was concerned for the safety of Vallow’s two children after learning about his wife’s religious beliefs. East Idaho News obtained court documents connected to a custody case involving Brandon Boudreaux and his ex-wife Melani Boudreaux Pawlowski, Vallow’s niece. Melani had asked a judge …
A Connecticut man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly beating his 2-year-old stepson to death in June. Citing an arrest warrant, the Hartford Courant reported that Hayden Campbell screamed, cried, and clung onto a female relative before going with his stepfather, Jeremiah Beason, 24. Less than five hours later, Campbell reportedly suffered a skull fracture and …
Authorities believe they have found the remains of Colorado boy, Gannon Stauch, who mysteriously disappeared in January According to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, remains that are likely of Gannon were found in Pace, Florida, roughly 1,377 miles away from the area he disappeared from. The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office in Florida contacted …
The hunt for missing Madeline McCann could be put on hold as officials say they expect up to 38,000 police officers to be sidelined amid the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. McCann, the daughter of two British doctors, was almost four years old when she disappeared in 2007 during a family holiday in Portugal. Citing an unnamed …
*This is a developing story and will be updated and more information becomes available* Massachusetts authorities are searching for a 13-year-old boy who disappeared last Friday and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. The Eagle-Tribune reports that Sophonnut Dy, a student at UP Academy Leonard, was last seen in the Lawrence area at Duck …
An Ohio mother is awaiting extradition from Louisiana to Mississippi, where she will face charges that she killed her 11-year-old son and left his body in a Laurel hotel room, the Hattiesburg American reported. Latina Oates, 33, was arrested Wednesday morning in New Orleans, where she was accompanied by her two other children. Authorities had …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace takes on the coronavirus and those who would take advantage of it to scam the unsuspecting in the latest episode of Crime Stories on Fox Nation. “Online scams, jacking up the prices of Purell to $48 a bottle, people losing money, Jim Bakker, the televangelist on TV, offering a cure for coronavirus …
A Syracuse police officer was stabbed in the neck by a burglary suspect on Sunday before he opened fire and killed the man. Officer Walter Brainerd was rushed to Upstate University Hospital and was later released, CNYCentral reported. He’s expected to recover. The suspect, Darrell Mobley, 48, died after he, too, was taken to the …
On Wednesday, police in Florida arrested a man for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing a woman in 1985. The Northwest Florida Daily News reported that investigators in Pensacola used familial DNA to identify Daniel Wells, 57, as a suspect in Tonya Ethridge McKinley’s murder. A family walking their sick dog to an all-night clinic discovered …
