A Tennessee teenager has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting his mother while she was sleeping more than a year ago. Shawn Willis, now 18, was 16 on April 20, 2020, when he reportedly crept into Sandy Willis’s room and took her handgun from her nightstand. He went downstairs to …
The former Minneapolis police office convicted of killing George Floyd in May 2020 filed an appeal on Thursday. Derek Chauvin filed the appeal on the last day he could have done so, 90 days after his June 25 sentencing, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree …
Robert Craig, a 10-year-old Georgia boy, was found hanging from a tree and his parents say that the social media app TikTok may be to blame. According to CBS 46, Robert’s 12-year-old sister Madison is the one that made the gruesome discovery when she found her younger brother hanging from a tree in the family’s …
State investigators in South Carolina said Thursday that their probe into the June double murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh has led to “other potential crimes that warrant further investigation.” The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division took over the investigation into the murders of Maggie Murdaugh, wife of prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh, and their …
Gabby Petito’s boyfriend Brian Laundrie did not take his wallet or cell phone with him when he left his home in North Port, Florida, on September 14, a source who knows the family has said. The unidentified source reportedly told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that they are close to the family and that Laundrie’s parents were …
Florida authorities are asking the public’s help in search of a missing Florida teen and her daughter. According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, 16-year-old Stacie Montenegro and her 1-month-old baby disappeared on September 4. They were last seen in St. Petersburg, in the Williams Park neighborhood. Montenegro is described as a Hispanic female who …
A New York man will spend 30 years in prison after pleading guilty last year to stuffing his ex-girlfriend into a suitcase and leaving her to suffocate and die on the side of a road in Connecticut. Javier Da Silva Rojas, 25, kidnapped 24-year-old Valerie Reyes on January 28, 2019, covered her mouth, bound her …
A second woman has come forward to say that she picked up a hitchiking Brian Laundrie on August 29 and that he tried to “get out of the moving car” when she got to the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping area, where he’d asked to be taken. The first woman, Miranda Baker, posted a series of …
A western Kentucky man has been charged with murder after he drove home and told relatives he had killed a woman. Denny Christopher Rumfelt, 29, has also been charged with tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse, the News-Enterprise reported. One of Rumfelt’s relatives called police and told them what he had said. …
The Navajo Division of Public Safety issued an AMBER Alert on Thursday for four young children allegedly taken by their father from Tsayatoh, New Mexico. Missing are Turquoise Sky Peshlakai, 10; Rumaldo Peshlakai Jr, 7; Coral Dawn Peshlakai, 5; and Rain Cloud Peshlakai, 2, KOB reported. Navajo Police said they responded to a domestic violence …
A body found floating in the Illinois River earlier this month has been identified as that of an Illinois State University grad student who vanished on August 24. Jelani “J.J.” Day, 25, was last seen that day on security footage at a cannabis store in Bloomington at about 9:12 a.m. His white, 2010 Chrysler 300 …
A Wyoming restaurant confirmed Wednesday that Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito were in their restaurant when witnesses saw a blowout between Laundrie and a waitress. “Yes, we can confirm Gabby and Brian were in Merry Piglets. We have already notified the FBI and they are aware,” the Merry Piglet in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, said. …
