An Illinois man has been charged with the murder of his missing uncle a day after he barricaded himself inside the uncle’s house and held police at bay for six hours. WJOL reported that police were called to a home Joliet’s Cambridge neighborhood on a report of a domestic disturbance. Officers met with a woman …
A Pennsylvania mother has agreed to a plea deal in the gruesome shooting deaths of her two children last February. Krisinda Bright is expected to plead guilty to two counts of first degree murder for killing 16-year-old Jeffery Bright and 22-year-old Jasmine Cannady. Both were shot in the head, according to the Beaver County Times. …
The parents of a missing Washington girl are now facing charges in connection with their other daughter. On Friday, police dropped the manslaughter charges against Jordan Bowers and Andrew Carlson, identified as the parents of 5-year-old Oakley Carlson, who was reported missing Monday. They were initially charged with suspicion of manslaughter after they failed to …
“She had lived that life for a couple of years and basically just ruined her daughter’s credit.”
A jury found “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett guilty of staging a racist, homophobic hate crime against himself. Smollett was convicted of five out of the six counts of felony disorderly conduct for making false reports to Chicago police in January 2019. Smollett’s attorney says he is certain that the actor will be vindicated on appeal. …
The trial for accused murderer Letecia Stauch could possibly face another trial delay after the defense requested another mental health evaluation. During a court hearing Thursday at the El Paso County courthouse in Colorado, Judge Gregory Werner approved the defense’s request to have Stauch evaluated, marking the third time she will undergo a mental health …
An Illinois man has been charged with first-degree murder for shooting an elderly man 22 times on Tuesday. WBBM reported that Alphonso Joyner, 23, killed Woom Sing Tse, 71, in Chicago’s Chinatown district as Tse walked from his home to get a newspaper, which he did often. Surveillance footage shows Tse walking on the sidewalk …
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced a bevy of charges contained in seven new indictments against suspended attorney Alex Murdaugh Thursday, and sources told WCIV a bond hearing scheduled for Friday had been postponed until next week.
Police in Rio de Janeiro announced that three young boys who’ve been missing for nearly a year were beaten and tortured for reportedly stealing a bird. According to the Guardian, Lucas, Alexandre and Fernando, ages 9, 11, and 12, were last seen on December 27, 2020, after leaving their Morro do Castelar home to go …
A New Jersey man was charged Thursday with killing an 84-year-old woman and critically injuring her 53-year-old son in a brutal attack late last month. Police responded to a call about an assault at the home of Elaine Trachin in Washington and found her dead from blunt force trauma. Her son, who is in a …
*Editor’s Note*: Initial reports indicated that the missing child was not given medication. The information has been updated and corrected to reflect that the suspects are accused of withholding medicine from their other child only, a 6-year-old, according to the Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office. Details continue to emerge in the case of a Washington state …
The Florida wife of a Coast Guardsman was arrested Thursday and charged with the murder of a father of two found shot to death in an Ohio national park earlier this year, federal authorities said. Chelsea Denise Perkins, 31, was arrested at her home in Pensacola and charged with the murder of Matthew John Dunmire, …
