A California sheriff’s deputy was killed and another deputy and a California Highway Patrol officer were wounded on Saturday when they were ambushed by an active duty Air Force sergeant at his home. Deputy Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was pronounced dead after being transported to a hospital, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported. And on Sunday, the …
A young Florida boy has permanent physical scars on his body after being abused for years by two adults, CBS Tampa Bay reports. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office announced this week that deputies arrested 26-year-old Samantha Smith and 31-year-old boyfriend, Cody Corbin, for alleged child abuse. On May 14, deputies went to Smith’s residence in …
A Utah man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly tried to force a woman to have sex with him and refused to let her leave his apartment, the Orem Daily Herald reports. Police were called to John DeHaven’s basement apartment in Orem when his upstairs neighbors called to report hearing a woman screaming. The woman …
As a strange van pulled up to an 8-year-old boy in Tacoma, Washington, he almost instinctively felt something wasn’t right. He stared at the unknown men as they opened the sliding door of the van. By pure instinct, the boy ran. Almost Kidnapped Petrified, the boy ran toward a ravine down from a bridge; he …
One of four former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd has a string of traffic violations and criminal charges before he was hired by the Minneapolis Police Department, Business Insider reports. Thomas Lane, 37, was on his fourth shift as a full-time police officer on May 25, when he and three …
A South Dakota couple allegedly abused their children for years, giving them drugs, punching them, and in some cases shocking them with a cattle prod, the Argus Leader reports. Lance Long, 36, and Crystallynn Long, 40, face numerous criminal charges, including distribution of marijuana to a minor, distributing a controlled substance to a minor, abuse or cruelty …
California authorities are searching for a nurse who has been missing for more than a week, prompting concern from her family and friends, KEYT-TV reports. Ashley Zachman, 36, was last seen on Friday, May 30, after working a shift at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, where she is a nurse in the cardiac catheterization lab. Zachman …
The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling this week, denying Joshua Miller’s attempt to have his life with parole sentence changed to allow the possibility of parole, the Hattiesburg American reports. Miller, now 38, was convicted in 1997 of killing his on-again, off-again 13-year-old girlfriend, Kristin Aultman, on August 18, 1996, when …
Sarasota police launched an investigation this week after a video was released of a mid-May incident that showed one of their officers kneeling on the neck of a 27-year-old man they were trying to take into custody, WFTS reported. The video was posted on social media on Monday by Terria Johnson, mother of the suspect …
Idaho State Police have issued an AMBER Alert for 6-year-old Leo Isador Hiibel-Cloutier, who was last seen on Sunday at Super 1 Foods in Rathdrum, KUTV reported. Police said they believe the boy was abducted his non-custodial mother, Mimi Charmayne Hiibel, 35, and that 16-year-old Gene Heckman may be with them, according to KPIC. They …
The husband of a Colorado woman who has been missing since May 10 has filed for guardianship in Indiana, where the couple lived with their two daughters until they moved to central Colorado in 2018. Suzanne Morphew, 49, was reported missing less than a month ago when she reportedly failed to return home from a …
Netflix’s new document “Filthy Rich” chronicles Jeffrey Epstein’s manipulation of power, celebrity, and wealth to build a sex abuse empire. As his victims try to get justice after Epstein’s death, the push remains to hold enablers like Ghislaine Maxwell accountable for their actions. Maxwell’s name repeatedly appears in charges from victims that she “found” the …
