A 2-year-old Georgia girl accidentally shot herself while playing with a gun on Christmas Day, leading to the arrest of a man after authorities determined the gun was stolen, WXIA-TV reports. The toddler discovered the firearm during a Christmas gathering at an apartment complex in the city of Macon and was playing with the gun when …
Lawyers sparred Friday over whether autism spectrum disorder could be used as a defense by a Canadian man who murdered 10 people with this van, CTV News reports. Alek Minassian, 28, confessed to running over the victims on April 23, 2018, on a Toronto sidewalk, but he has pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder charges. His …
A woman who loved to watch dismemberment scenes in horror movies has been found not guilty of murder after she decapitated her mother and carved out her eyeballs, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Instead, 27-year-old Jessica Camilleri was convicted of manslaughter this week in connection with the July 2019 death of her mother, 57-year-old Rita Camilleri. In gruesome …
A Louisiana mother is accused of killing her infant daughter by feeding her drug-laced breast milk, WWL-TV reports. Autumn Blansett, 31, was arrested Friday on a charge of suspicion of murder in connection with the death of her 3-month-old daughter.On Nov. 1, emergency crews responded to Blansett’s home in Marrero, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, …
An infant’s wailing prompted the discovery of a dead woman inside a New York City apartment, where authorities also found two children, AM New York reports. Around 2:37 p.m. Saturday, police officers from the 102nd Precinct and emergency medical crews were dispatched to a residence in Queens after a neighbor called 911. The neighbor reported hearing the …
A new YouTube video is feeding conspiracy theories that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein might have faked his own death, the Daily Star reports. Epstein died in August 2019 by hanging himself in his jail cell in Manhattan while he was being prosecuted for sex trafficking. Dozens of women have alleged that Epstein abused them when they were minors at his …
Authorities are racing to track down a man who encountered a missing British hiker in the Pyrenees mountains, raising concerns that the disappearance may not just be an accident, The Sun reports. Esther Dingley, 37, a British blogger, went missing more than a week ago while she was hiking alone in the mountain range between Spain and France. Dingley …
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The father of a Montana man accused of the cold-blooded murder of a wheelchair-bound elder says his son should be put to death for the crime, the Missoulian reports. Charles Covey, 44, is facing a deliberate homicide charge in connection with the death of Roy Lee Nelson, 65, whose body was found last week on a trail in …
Multiple people have been identified as persons of interest in connection with the slaying of a Canadian billionaire couple several years ago, the Toronto Star reports. Toronto police Detective Sgt Brandon Price told reporters on Friday that investigators are examining more than one potential suspect in the deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman, whose bodies were found hanging …
A 1-year-old Chicago boy is in safe hands Saturday after his father allegedly murdered his pregnant mother and uncle before abducting him, WBBM-TV reports. Authorities on Friday issued an Amber Alert for K’Marion Hebron after police found the bodies of his mother and brother inside a suburban Chicago home on Friday. Shortly after the Amber Alert …
A wealthy social media influencer in Hong Kong says she was brazenly robbed earlier this week by three men who broke into her home and tied her up along with her infant son and his caretaker, the Sun reports. The perpetrators are said to have escaped with about $500,000 USD in luxury goods. Police say that around 11 …
