An elderly Vietnam War veteran beat down a home invader who had attacked his wife, ultimately leading to the intruder’s death, WACH-TV reports. Around 2 p.m. Monday, 82-year-old Herbert Parrish and 79-year-old Lois Parrish heard a knock on their back door at their home in Columbia, South Carolina. There they found 61-year-old Harold Runnels, who asked whether …
A Michigan judge revoked bond this week for the estranged son of a Portage couple charged with their murder, MLive reports. Nicholas Alexander Johnson was already in jail when authorities found the bodies of his parents, 65-year-old Gary Johnson and 64-year-old Laura Johnson buried in Gourdneck State Game Area, just a few miles from their …
A man who murdered a teacher he met on a dating app is dead after apparently slashing his throat in prison, The Sun reports. Carl Langdell, 30, died last week after guards found him on the floor of his cell with severe injuries to his neck, which investigators believe were self-inflicted. The prison cell was reportedly covered …
It’s been five months since South Dakota’s attorney general struck and killed a man while driving, but the victim’s family says they still don’t have answers as to whether the state’s chief prosecutor will be criminally charged, KOTA-TV reports. Joseph Boever, 55, died in September after state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg hit him with his vehicle while driving back at …
An Arkansas man accused in the gruesome killing of a jogger is fit to stand trial, KARK-TV reports. A psychologist has determined that 28-year-old Quake Lewellyn is competent to be tried in connection with the murder, kidnapping, and rape of 25-year-old Sydney Sutherland. Authorities believe Lewellyn rammed his pick-up truck into Sutherland while she was jogging on …
Indigenous communities are working together to address what they say has become a growing problem: violence against American Indian women, girls, and non-binary persons, the Traverse City Record-Eagle reports. Advocates say not enough is being done to track the issue and hold offenders responsible. The murder rate of Indigenous women is more than 10 times beyond the national …
An Illinois man allegedly murdered his young daughter and then killed himself in a horrific set of events this week, the Daily Herald reports. Authorities on Thursday afternoon discovered the bodies of 9-year-old Adrianna Anderson and her father, 36-year-old Christopher Anderson, inside the father’s Lake Villa, Illinois, home. Both died from what the Lake County coroner’s office described …
A young Alabama boy was fatally shot this week while lying on the couch with his mother, prompting outrage in the community as a family grieves the senseless loss of a child, the Birmingham News reports. Shortly after 2-year-old Major Turner and his mother finished dinner on Thursday night, someone fired nearly a dozen bullets toward the family’s …
The West Virginia mother who allegedly murdered five children and killed herself was deeply interested in witchcraft, occult practices and had even performed some rituals, The Sun reports. The new revelations emerge after the newspaper spoke with the stepmother of some of the children killed and a local law enforcement officer. Investigators believe that 25-year-old Oreanna Myers murdered the …
Upheaval continues in the jail where notorious sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein died, the Associated Press reports. For the fourth time since Epstein’s August 2019 death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, a new warden will be brought in to manage the facility. The high-security federal jail continues to face mounting hurdles, including the spread of …
Family members are shocked after a Kentucky man allegedly plotted to kill his mother in a murder-for-hire scheme thwarted by the person he paid to carry out the execution, WSAZ-TV reports. Kentucky State Police and the FBI on Thursday arrested 41-year-old Billy Reynolds after he allegedly paid someone $10,000 to kill his mother, as CrimeOnline …
An American soldier stationed overseas is raising money to transport her rescued dog to the United States, the New York Post reports. The nonprofit group Paws of War announced this week that a U.S. Army soldier, who has been identified publicly only as Sgt. Char, is concerned that the dog would not survive on its own. The sergeant is stationed …
