Virginia authorities arrested a man they say tried to abduct a 9-year-old girl on Friday afternoon. The Office of the Stafford County Sheriff said that Steven Randall Williams, 34, stopped the girl just before 3 p.m. as she was walking home from a bus stop in Stafford and initially asked for directions, then grabbed her …
An Ohio couple was arrested across state lines in West Virginia this week after they were indicted for their infant child’s fentanyl overdose death in September. Robert L. Filius, 29, and Michaela R. Hupp, 25, were charged with involuntary manslaughter endangering children, possession of fentanyl related compound, aggravated possession of drugs, and being a fugitive …
A Kansas construction company owner has been arrested in Maryland and charged with threatening to kill US President Joe Biden, who, he said, was the AntiChrist. Scott Merryman, 37, called police in Independence, Kansas, on January 25 and said he was driving to Washington, D.C., to see the president. Independence police contacted the US Secret …
A grand jury in Louisiana has indicted a woman who allegedly threw her two young children into a lake, killing one of them and severely injuring the other. Prosecutors in the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that 33-year-old Ureka Rochelle Black has been charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, KSLA-TV reports. …
The accused killers of a young Chicago girl allegedly got sandwiches and drinks after gunning down the child, what a judge described as an “absolute disregard for human life,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports.On Thursday, 16-year-old Emilio Corripio and 27-year-old Xavier Guzman were in court for a bond hearing in connection with last Saturday’s murder of 8-year-old Melissa …
A fugitive who escaped from an East Tennessee jail last summer was found dead in Mexico this week, and suspected cartel members allegedly contacted the man’s family seeking a ransom for the return of his body. Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton said that someone in Mexico sent the family a video of 35-year-old Charles Kennedy’s …
Police in South Florida are searching for a woman who’s been missing for almost six weeks. The Davie Police Department says that Haneul Oh disappeared “under suspicious circumstances,” although they didn’t provide further elaboration on the investigation, WPLG reported. Oh, who turned 22 on Friday, is described as 5 feet tall and about 105 pounds …
On Friday, a Wisconsin judge approved a measure to destroy the gun Kyle Rittenhouse used in the August 2020 protest shooting that left two people dead. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Rittenhouse, 18, agreed to the arrangement — which entails authorities destroying the Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle at the state crime lab …
An Arizona couple has been sentenced to probation after their guilty pleas in a case involving the deaths of three children, who drowned when the family drove into a flooded wash. Lacey Rawlings, 34, was formally sentenced to four years probation on Thursday, while her husband, 38-year-old Daniel Rawlings, was sentenced to five years of …
The body of 13-year-old Minnie Soriano is found by a homeless man in a dumpster. The girl has been sex abused and strangled. Now after 22 years, 49-year-old Joseph Martinez has been arrested. Officials allege that Martinez, who teaches astronomy on the street, knew Soriano because he lived in her building. The teen also had …
The lawyers for Damien Echols, one of the centerpieces of the “West Memphis Three” case, have filed a motion to have evidence tested after the state of Arkansas previously refused the testing, according to reports. Echols’ lawyer petitioned for the new DNA by using an MVAC, a wet vacuum system that can find more DNA …
Four family members are dead in Tennessee after a father reportedly shot his wife and two daughters before turning the gun on himself. According to the New York Post and The Tennessean, an unidentified man called 911 early Friday from his home in Goodlettsville and told the dispatcher that he had shot his wife, 32, …
