A Texas man arrested in September for the 1974 death of a teen girl has been indicted on a capital murder charge. NBC 5 reports that 77-year-old Glen Samuel McCurley was indicted this week in connection with the death of Carla Jan Walker, a 17-year-old Western Hills High School junior who was kidnapped and murdered …
Update: 10: 45 a.m. ET The suspect in the fatal shooting of an on-duty officer has been captured after an overnight manhunt. Helena-West Helena Police Chief James Patrick Smith tol WREG that Latarius Howard was captured in Mississippi, apparently having crossed state lines after fleeing the scene of the fatal shooting in an Arkansas motel …
A baby girl who tested positive for heroin and had injection marks on her head and extremities has died, San Angelo, Texas, police said Thursday. Two-month-old Brixlee Marie Lee died at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth on Tuesday, police said. Police said they responded to a call about an unresponsive infant early Saturday …
Travis and Gregory McMichael, the father and son accused of killing Arbery in February, are seeking bond while they await trial. The bond hearing will continue Friday.
A 32-year-old South Carolina man who called 911 in September to say he’d found his 16-year-old girlfriend dead was charged this week with killing her, the Island Packet reports. Cypress Noonan was found fatally shot in a room at the Forest Motel in Ridgeland on September 6 after Brian Jemal Redding called in tears to …
A Wisconsin woman has been charged with allowing her adult, at-risk son to die on their bathroom floor after he fell out of his wheelchair and broke several bones, the Journal Times reports. Cheryl Christensen, 60, reportedly dragged her 46-year-old son to the bathroom and left him there for days after the fall. She told …
The lone Kentucky police officer charged in connection with the raid that killed Breonna Taylor was sued Tuesday for an alleged sexual assault that occurred in 2018. Louisville attorney Margo Borders wrote in the lawsuit that then-officer Brett Hankison left her “physically injured and mentally battered” after “willfully, intentionally, painfully and violently” sexually assaulting her …
The Utah Supreme Court heard arguments this week in connection with a Salt Lake City girl who said she was raped and forced to listen to the recording of the incident. Deseret News reports that a woman now in her 20s asserted that the male leaders of a Jehovah’s Witnesses forced her to listen to …
Two 15-year-old boys were arrested in Mexico City this week after police apprehended them while they were carrying a suitcase through the Guerrero neighborhood — and discovered the body of a younger boy in the luggage. Citing Mexican news sources, the Daily News reports that police stopped the two teen boys who were dragging a …
Prosecutors presented racist messages reportedly written by the youngest accused killer
Authorities arrested an Illinois man Tuesday for allegedly murdering a 14-year-old girl who was found fatally shot in Indiana last year. Lake County, Indiana, police told the Chicago Sun-Times that Deon Simmons, 35, is charged in connection with Takaylah Tribitt’s death. Simmons is awaiting extradition to Lake County, where he is expected to face murder …
Police in Chaffee County, Colorado, marked the six-month anniversary of Suzanne Morphew’s disappearance with an announcement that the missing persons investigation remains very active, and a call for anyone familiar with Morphew’s social media activity to come forward. Morphew, now 49, was reported missing from her home in Maysville on Mother’s Day, the same weekend …
