A Florida man is facing a first-degree murder charge for allegedly killing a foster child who was part of his extended family, WJXT-TV reports. This week, a grand jury indicted Alex Pino in connection with the death of 4-year-old James Reese, Jr. In April, the boy was rushed to Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville, where doctors discovered multiple injuries …
Heather Mack says she is considering leaving her daughter in Bali with a foster family
A dramatic night in South Florida began with a 911 caller who reported witnessing a shooting — and that the shooter and an accomplice were trying to drag the victim’s body into a canal. Palm Beach County deputies set out for the location, but before they could arrive, the 911 caller told dispatchers that the …
A man and a woman in Massachusetts have been arrested for kidnapping a four-day-old baby girl Saturday morning in Worcester. The mother reported that a woman she’d met on Facebook and been in frequent communication with — identified as Kassidy Lauziere-Cuevas, 19 — picked her and the baby up Saturday morning for coffee shortly before …
A California man who spent nearly four decades in prison for two murders he did not commit has offered a $50,000 reward for evidence leading to the conviction of the real killers. Craig Coley, now 74, was convicted in 1980 of raping and killing his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Rhonda Wicht, and smothering her 4-year-old son Donnie …
A Louisiana man was arrested this week and accused of killing his infant son, who died last week from apparent child abuse. And it’s the not first time Leon Arnold, 36, has faced child abuse charges, the Advocate reported. Baton Rouge police investigated after Arnold’s 3-month-old child was found unresponsive on August 14, when he …
An Illinois man has been charged with first degree murder after the stabbing death of his landlord on Friday. Belleville Police Department officers found Arthur Parris, 48, in a nearby apartment covered in blood, KMOV reported. Police said Parris and the landlord, who has not been named until notifications are complete, got into an argument …
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for a 26-year-old Indiana man who shot and killed a woman and her grandmother outside an auto seat manufacturing plant where all three worked. The shooting happened shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, during shift change at NHK Seating of America in Frankfort, the Lafayette Journal & Courier …
Authorities in northern Minnesota are searching for an 11-year-old girl who has gone missing, KSTP-TV reports. The Moorhead Police Department on Saturday morning issued a news release asking for the public’s assistance in finding Isabelle Storey, who was last seen by her family Wednesday morning around 11 a.m., according to WCCO-TV. At the time, she was wearing a black …
A 6-year-old Texas girl allegedly died at the hands of her cousin, who is facing a murder charge in connection with her death, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. The victim, Isabella Courtney, was found “severely injured” Wednesday evening outside her home in River Oaks, a suburb of Fort Worth, according to WBAP. Police responded to a call …
Police in an Ohio suburb are investigating reports that a high school football player was attacked by teammates in the locker. Genoa Township police said the victim reported he was knocked to the floor and kicked by several players — and that one player “assaulted him in a sexual manner” during the attack. The incident …
A missing lesbian couple was found shot to death Wednesday near a camping area in Grand County, Utah. Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Turner, 38, also known as Crystal Beck, were last seen Saturday when they left a tavern in Moab. One of the women failed to show for work the next day, and friends …
