The wife of a convicted killer is urging the public to stop accusing her husband of murdering the four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death last month, telling the Daily Mail that the harassment is endangering her family. The plea comes after the woman’s husband, 39-year-old James Curtis Leonard, was arrested this …
A northeast Alabama man has been arrested and charged with killing his 62-year-old mother. DeKalb County emergency officials responded to a home in Collinsville Tuesday night and found Sandra Jelks dead in her living room, WDEF reported. Jelks was the mother of a DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office employee, so Sheriff Nick Welden asked deputies in …
A Florida woman was arrested this week on charges of child neglect and animal cruelty after deputies saw the “deplorable conditions” of her home, which include trash, fecal matter, urine, rotten food, rats, and a variety of insects. The Citrus County Sheriff’s Office said it arrested Shannon Marie Morgan, 38, on Wednesday after they received …
State Attorney: “Every incident of alleged elder exploitation or abuse touches our heart and never fails to shock us. It seems particularly harder to understand when the alleged perpetrator of the exploitation is a daughter, or a son or another blood relative”
A Louisiana Uber driver was stabbed to death in the parking lot of a hotel by a rider who “decided he was going to kill someone.” Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said that 54-year-old Yolanda Dillion picked up Brandon Jacobs, 29, in New Orleans on Thursday and drove him to a Travelodge in Harvey at …
Records from the June 2021 arrest, which charged Anderson Lee Aldrich with five felonies, were unsealed this week.
With winter graduation taking place on the University of Idaho’s Moscow campus on Saturday, Moscow Police urged vigilance for the influx of people joining students for the weekend. Moscow Police Chief James Fry said patrol officers would be on hand in downtown Moscow and around the school’s campus, four weeks now after four students were …
A Florida man is accused of violently stabbing to death a woman whom he was trying to date, FOX 4 reports. On September 26, police were called to a residence on South Haberland Boulevard in Port Charlotte, where they found a bloody and gruesome scene. Officers found a woman whose hands were tied behind her back, …
James Leonard’s attorney is Latah County coroner Cathy Mabbutt, who confirmed the cause and manner of death of the four slain students.
Authorities continue searching for an Iowa newborn who was allegedly drowned by her parents and then discarded in garbage bags, the Des Moines Register reports. On Wednesday, police arrested the child’s mother and father, 24-year-old Taylor K. Blaha and 31-year-old Brandon D. Thoma, who are in jail on $1 million bail each. Multiple agencies are working …
A man found dead in upstate New York this week had been missing for almost 10 years and was living under an alias, a development that has devastated his family, the News Times reports. On Monday, first responders were dispatched to a 911 call involving a 59-year-old man in Rock Hill. The person who called …
Prosecutors this week revealed a possible motive for why South Carolina legal scion Alex Murdaugh allegedly murdered his wife and son, WCSC-TV reports. In a court filing on Thursday, lawyers for the government alleged that Murdaugh committed the murders to divert attention away from his theft of almost $9 million from clients. Because of that …
