An investigation is underway in Texas after a missing 12-year-old girl was found dead in a lake on Thursday. Aisha Adebayo is believed to have wandered from her Fulshear home on Wednesday night, eight hours before her body was found in a nearby lake. Adebayo’s parents said their daughter was autistic and nonverbal — and …
A man convicted of killing an Illinois family learned his fate Thursday, more than two years after the murder. Malcolm Hardy, who was 16 when the murders occurred, pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder for the February 2022 deaths of Aaron Benson, LaShon Marshall, and her son, Caleb Harris, 5. During court Thursday …
A 1-year-old boy believed to have been abducted by his mother in Massachusetts has been found safe in Alabama. The Fall River Police Department said that Genezza Packett, the boy’s 22-year-old mother who does not have legal custody of him, visited the child where he lives with her aunt, who does have legal custody, in …
Police found the cellphone of a Chicago woman who inexplicably vanished while on a yoga retreat in the Bahamas. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said Taylor Casey, 41, was last seen on June 19 near Paradise Island in Nassau. A friend posted on Facebook that Taylor attended a yoga retreat before she “mysteriously …
Florida jurors on Wednesday recommended the death penalty for the former prison guard trainee who gunned down five women in a Sebring bank in 2019 because he “always wanted to kill people.” The jury voted 9 to 3 in favor of execution for Zephen Xaver, WFLA reported. Because Florida legislators were angry that Parkland high …
A Florida woman was arrested this week after she allegedly ran over her boyfriend and their 16-month-old son, who remains hospitalized with severe injuries. Aaliyah Ross, 27, was charged with aggravated child abuse, aggravated domestic battery, negligent child abuse, domestic battery, and leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, WWSB reported. The infant …
An Alabama mother wanted in the death of her son in March was found dead last week in Texas. The medical examiner of the Southwestern Institute of Forensics Science in Dallas, Texas, told detectives in Alabama that 53-year-old Serena Starkey died on June 21, WVTM reported. Foul play is not suspected, but cause and manner …
Two people were shot dead inside a Texas Chick-fil-A restaurant Wednesday afternoon in what police say was a targeted killing. The suspect, identified as 37-year-old Oved Bernardo Mendoza Argueta, was later captured and booked into jail at about 3 a.m., KXAS said. Dozens of police units responded at about 4 p.m. to the fast food …
A Missouri woman has been charged with spiking her husband’s Mountain Dew with the pesticide Roundup because he didn’t appreciate the 50th birthday party she threw him. Michelle Y. Peters, 47, is charged with domestic assault and armed criminal action and is being held without bond, KYTV reported. Leclede County Sheriff’s Office investigators say that …
A West Virginia couple charged with locking their adopted children in a shed and forcing them to do farm labor saw their bond more than doubled last week after they were indicted on new charges in May. Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather were initially arrested in October 2023 after deputies were called to check on …
An Ohio man was arrested on Tuesday after he left his 2-month-old daughter in his parked car while he went donate plasma. Staff at CSL Plasma in Akron called the Summit County Sheriff’s Office at about noon on Tuesday. Deputies arrived and found the infant in the parked car. The doors were unlocked. Deputies found …
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