The family of a man beaten to death in 1979 is fighting the release of his killer under California’s Elderly Parole Law. Walter Joseph Lewis, now 76, was convicted of two murders after stabbing a man to death in 1965, when he was 18, and then beating Robert Chartier to death with a hammer in …
A Chicago-area woman who conspired to kill her mother so she and her boyfriend could steal more than $1 million should be imprisoned for decades, authorities say. This week, federal prosecutors asked a court to sentence Heather Mack to 28 years behind bars for the role she played in the murder of her mom, 62-year-old …
Loved ones of a Louisiana grandmother who died after her SUV was carjacked say the teen who violently attacked her deserves the sentence he received, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. On Friday, a judge ruled that 18-year-old John Honore should spend the rest of his life behind bars, although he will be eligible for parole …
Amanda Knox is offering some words of advice and empathy for Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Missouri woman who was recently released from prison for her role in the murder of her abusive mother, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard. In a piece published this weekend for The Free Press, Knox advised Blanchard that it may take some …
Alabama authorities are searching for a young autistic boy who vanished days ago. Phenix Wilkerson, 4, has not been seen since around midday Friday, when his mother, Shyanne Ray, briefly left the family’s camper in Clayton. Shyanne said she visited her mother’s residence nearby and left her son, who was sleeping at the time, with …
Investigators are looking into the shooting death of a 4-year-old in the Chickasaw neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville Metro Police said they were called to a home just before 4 p.m. and found the child with a gunshot wound, WLKY reported. The child died at Norton Children’s Hospital. LPMD’s homicide unit is investigating and all …
The makers of several effective drugs to treat type 2 diabetes are facing lawsuit because doctors also prescribe them for weight loss, which most of the drugs have not been approved for. Novo Nordisk, the maker of Ozempic and Wegovy — which is approved for weight loss and contains higher amounts of the active ingredient …
Three people have been arrested after apartment maintenance workers found a malnourished toddler with her ankles duct taped together in November. Court documents say that Kenry Joseph Flukers, Toniesha Deshae Perkins, and Mya Jhari Breaux-McGruder have been charged with injury to a child by omission and unlawful restraint, KTRK reported. The three are accused of …
Federal prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for the white man who gunned down 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store in 2022. Payton Gendron, 20, pleaded guilty last year in state court for the killings at a Tops supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood. He was sentenced to …
Nicolas Shaughnessy and his then wife Jaclyn Edison hired two hit men to kill his parents in 2018, then moved in with his mother — who survived the shooting — for three months before police nailed down the truth of what happened that night. Barking dogs alerted wealthy Austin jewelry Ted Shaughnessy, 55, to intruders …
