A Florida woman has been charged with first degree murder after she alleged stabbed her husband more than 140 times with a meat cleaver. Joan Burke, 61, was arrested on Saturday and made her first court appearance on Sunday. She was ordered held without bail. Palm Springs police said they were called on the evening …
Authorities in Dallas, Texas, announced Friday they’d made an arrested in the 38-year-old rape and murder of Mary Jane Thompson. Thompson, 21, was found dead behind a Dallas warehouse on February 13, 1984, but her killer had never been found. Advanced DNA techniques led investigators to Edward Morgan, now 60, who has been jailed on …
A Chicago college student pulled up a hoodie and a facemask and robbed a Metra train conductor of $110 this week before class — but he didn’t get far after his mother recognized him in surveillance footage and dragged him to a police station herself. Zion Brown, 18, had been a passenger on the Metra …
A 14-year-old Louisiana teenager allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her former boyfriend and is now facing criminal charges, WWL-TV reports. The ninth-grader is accused of arranging the murder through the website Rentahitman.com, which is a prank site designed to catch would-be killers. Authorities in Baton Rouge have not released the identity of …
A college music student in upstate New York who was on the cusp of graduating is dead after being found shot near campus, WWNY-TV reports. Elizabeth Howell, 21, a music education student at the State University of New York at Potsdam, was found lying along College Park Road – just off campus – around 6 …
The sister of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff is said to have died in a murder-suicide earlier this week in Florida, BocaNewsNow.com reports. The news outlet says 86-year-old Sondra Wiener and her husband, Marvin Wiener, were found dead Thursday evening at their home in Boynton Beach. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has reportedly confirmed a …
A Texas couple was indicted this week in the death of an 8-year-old boy who investigators say was beaten, handcuffed, and bound with duct tape. Kayla Holzendorf, 25, and her boyfriend, 29-year-old Dominique Lewis, were arrested in March 2021 after they called 911 to report that Hozendorf’s son, Keyontae Holzendorf, drowned in the bathtub at …
A Pennsylvania man accused of shooting an Uber driver and dumping her body in a wooded area was ordered held without bail on Friday pending a preliminary hearing later this month. Christine Spicuzza’s dash cam video shows Calvin Crew pulling a gun on her 10 minutes into the ride and ignoring her pleas for her …
The body of a 4-year-old Kentucky girl last seen more than a year ago has been located. Authorities said Serenity McKinney was found in a wooded area in West Point, not from from the Jefferson-Bullitt County line, at about 2 p.m. on Friday, WHAS reported. Catherine McKinney, Serenity’s 21-year-old mother, and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Dakota …
A former Louisiana teacher pleaded guilty to “horrific crimes” against children and will testify against her now ex-husband — a former sheriff’s office SWAT team member — in his upcoming trial on child sex crime charges. Cynthia Perkins, 36, and 44-year-Dennis Perkins were arrested in 2019 on charges of rape, sexual battery, video voyeurism, mingling …
A man with a history of assaulting strangers was arrested this week for slugging a 4-year-old boy in the head, prompting the toddler’s mother and another women to take the assailant down themselves in busy Times Square. The incident took place at about 3:20 p.m., police said, when 34-year-old Babacar Mbaye cold-cocked the boy as …
