A Texas man is facing murder charges after allegedly beating his father to death on Monday. Todd Jackson Jr., 24, allegedly killed his father, Todd Jackson Sr., 46, with a glass beer mug in their Houston apartment. KTRK reported that responding officers found Jackson Sr. with blunt-force trauma before he was pronounced dead at the …
A 13-year-old girl is abducted as she walks from her bus stop to her home. There, she is jumped by four men, dressed all in black. The men tape her eyes and mouth shut, throw her in the trunk of a car, and drive off. The teen is taken to a rural area 20 miles …
Pennsylvania authorities have charged a woman with murder after her 3-month-old daughter reportedly died in a hot car on Tuesday. Police responded to Emily Weaver’s Columbia home after learning she had not picked up her two children from school. Responding officers found Weaver, 32, unresponsive in a second-story bedroom while her infant daughter was discovered …
New York police say they have an 18-year-old teen suspect in custody for allegedly stabbing and killing Brooklyn activist Ryan Carson. New York Post reports that police arrested Brian Dowling Thursday in connection with Carson’s death. During the search of a Lafayette Avenue home near the crime scene, police found a knife and sweatshirt believed …
New York authorities justified the actions of a state trooper who failed to follow Craig Ross Jr., a man arrested in the Charlotte Sena kidnapping, after he left a ransom note at the Sena family’s home Monday morning. NYSP public information officer Stephanie O’Neil said it wasn’t unusual for Ross Jr. to drop a note …
Nassau County is investigating a cache of weapons seized from accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann’s New York home, after Suffolk prosecutors say police discovered that dozens of firearms were obtained illegally. According to court documents filed Tuesday, over 40 firearms and 10 high-capacity magazines were seized from Heuermann’s Massapequa Park residence earlier this …
A California mother and her boyfriend have been chargedin the death of her 1-year-old son was found unresponsive and with severe burns on Sunday. Sergio Mena, 32, and Samantha Garver, 33, were charged on Wednesday with murder and child abuse that detectives say occurred over the past several months, KABC reports. Additionally, Mena has been …
A family of four — including two young children — was found dead in a New Jersey home on Wednesday in what is being investigated as a murder-suicide. The four bodies were discovered at a Plainsboro home following a welfare check. Law enforcement sources told WABC that a man is believed to have killed his wife, …
Lori Vallow Daybell’s new public defender filed an amended notice of appeal on Wednesday, listing 16 questions he wants answered. The questions are identical to the ones filed by Vallow Daybell’s former attorney on August 31, but that notice was suspended a week later when the case was reassigned by the Office of the State …
Baltimore police have released surveillance footage asking for help identifying people who may have been involved in the this week’s mass shooting on the Morgan State University campus. Four people were wounded in the shooting — four men and a woman — and all but one of them were students at the historically Black college. …
A 14-year-old Alabama boy has been arrested for the murder of his 17-year-old brother and had a “hit list” of other family members he planned to kill. Pike County Sheriff Russell Thomas said that the 17-year-old victim was found dead outside the family’s home Tuesday afternoon, WSFA reported. He had been missing since Monday, although …
