Former American Idol Contestant Caleb Kennedy Remains Behind Bars Pending Psychiatric Evaluation
Court
Kennedy, 17, was charged with DUI resulting in death in a vehicle crash in February.
Murder
April 30, 2022
Murder in an Vacant Apartment: Carpet Installer Finds Victim Shot to Death
A Florida carpet installer found a dead man Friday inside morning what was supposed to be a vacant apartment in Jacksonville. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Steve Rudlaff told WJXT that deputies were called to the apartment complex at about 10 a.m. after the installer reported finding the body of a man who had been shot. …
Murder
April 30, 2022
Mom Who Admitted To Throwing Infant Son in Dumpster Is Stabbed to Death by Baby’s Dad: Reports
A Washington, D.C., woman who faced murder charges last year for the presumed death of her 2-month-old son was reportedly stabbed to death on Wednesday by the baby’s father. The Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to a residence and found LaDonia Boggs, 39, deceased with an apparent stab wound. Later …
Jail Breaks
April 30, 2022
Sheriff: Evidence Indicates Corrections Officer Helped Murder Suspect Escape
An Alabama sheriff says evidence suggests that one of his corrections officers helped a capital murder suspect escape. Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton provided more information about the disappearance of assistant director of corrections Vicky White and suspect Casey Cole White, who was also serving 75 years for a string of violent crimes in 2015. …
Vehicle crash
April 30, 2022
Head-On Crash Kills 2 teens in SUV; Driver of Other Vehicle Flees on Foot
Dallas police are looking for the driver of a pickup truck that rammed head-on into an SUV Friday night, killing two minors and injuring three others. The crash took place just after 9 p.m. near Carolyn G. Bukhair Elementary School in north Dallas. Police said the 2009 GMC Sierra pickup was traveling south at a …
Attempted Murder
April 30, 2022
Mom Drops Infant Boy From 2nd Floor Balcony, Charged With Attempted Murder
A Brooklyn mother who allegedly dropped her 6-month-old son from her second-floor balcony has been charged with attempted murder. Police said that Breindy Meisels, 29, has also been charged with attempted manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child, and abandonment of a child in the early Thursday morning incident, The New York Daily News said. …
Missing
April 30, 2022
Missing: California Woman Vanishes After Going on OkCupid Date
Loved ones of a California woman are pleading for the public’s help to find her after she went missing following a date two weeks ago, KTXL-TV reports.Leslie Ben-Iesau of Sacramento vanished April 15 after reportedly meeting someone she met on the dating app OkCupid.There has been no activity on the woman’s phone since 8:45 a.m. that …
April 30, 2022
Toddler Raped and Murdered Found Floating in Hotel Pool with Shorts Around Neck
A man with a history of kidnapping allegedly raped and murdered a 2-year-old girl at an Oklahoma hotel, where her body was found floating in a pool with shorts around her neck, KFOR-TV reports.Michael S. Geiger, 51, has been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree rape, kidnapping and burglary in connection with the death of the girl, …
Unsolved
April 30, 2022
Why Did Alex Murdaugh Buy a Funeral Home? Purchase Now Coming Under Scrutiny Amid Murder Investigation.
Ever since Alex Murdaugh’s wife and son were murdered last year, the South Carolina lawyer has been the subject of increasingly bizarre and brazen accusations, including fraud, embezzlement, and a failed suicide-for-hire plot.As authorities inch closer in the murder probe — reportedly finding high-velocity impact splatter on Murdaugh’s clothes, suggesting that he was at the scene of …
National
April 30, 2022
Tammy Daybell: Initial Cause of Death Was Ruled Cardiac Event, But Investigators Are Suspicious
Authorities investigating the death of Tammy Daybell, the former wife of Lori Vallow’s current husband, initially determined that she died from a “cardiac event,” KSAZ-TV reports. That’s according to court records obtained by the television station, which show Fremont County Coroner Brenda Dye determined Daybell’s death was caused by pulmonary edema or an accumulation of …
Prison
April 29, 2022
MANHUNT: Alabama Murder Suspect Disappears With Corrections Officer
Police in northern Alabama are searching for a capital murder suspect and a corrections officer who have been missing since they left the detention center for the courthouse at 9:30 a.m. Friday morning. No one noticed suspect Casey Cole White and Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White (no relation) were missing for six hours, according …
Unsolved
April 29, 2022
93-Year-Old Woman Found Dead in Freezer in Garage
Marie Hoskins’ 64-year-old daughter told police she hadn’t seen her mother in some time.
