Two Alabama brothers are accused of murdering a college student in what police say believe was a drug deal gone awry, WALA-TV reports. Authorities on Saturday arrested 20-year-old Warren Burrell and 18-year-old Dentzes Burrell, each on a charge of felony murder. A search for a third person remains underway, according to WKRG-TV. Investigators believe the pair are …
A Utah man has pleaded guilty to murdering his wife aboard a cruise ship in front of his kids, the Desert News reports. Kenneth Manzanares, 42, confessed to authorities that he killed his wife during a July 2017 family vacation on an Alaskan cruise. Kristy Manzanares told Kenneth she wanted a divorce on the trip and asked that he leave …
John Kercher was the father of Meredith Kercher, who was brutally murdered in 2007
A New York man was released from custody after allegedly mugging an elderly woman because of a new state law, the New York Post reports. Video obtained by the newspaper shows the suspect, 56-year-old Dana White, attacking an 83-year-old woman early Monday morning on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. White can be seen wrapping his arms around the petite …
Texas police arrested the mother of a girl who was found dead inside her home on Friday, hours after she posted a joke on Facebook about killing a spouse. Authorities in Bay City, Texas, were asked to perform a welfare check around 2:30 p.m. Friday at the apartment of 26-year-old Lauren Kay Dean, KTRK-TV reports. Inside, officers …
A woman was arrested Friday after crashing through security near the president’s estate in Florida, prompting the Secret Service to shoot at her vehicle, WSVN-TV reports. Authorities say Hannah Roemhild, 30, of Middletown, Connecticut, was driving a black SUV in an erratic manner and refused to stop at checkpoints around Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. The …
A woman who alleges she was raped by Harvey Weinstein told jurors this week that when she first saw Weinstein naked, she thought he had a vagina, Page Six reports. Jessica Mann, 34, a hairstylist and former actress, testified Friday at the Manhattan Supreme Court that she was raped twice by Weinstein. “The first time I saw …
After 3-month-old Annalise Murphy died in January 2019, investigators found she suffered from fatal head injuries and had six broken ribs. Now more than a year later, Ohio authorities believe they know who is responsible for the toddler’s death, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Amie M. Wright, 38, was arrested Friday by Columbus police and charged with …
Authorities in New Zealand confiscated a fake gun from a woman who was allegedly having an affair with Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock before the 2017 massacre, the New Zealand Herald reports. The woman, whose identity has not been released, is living in Auckland and had been carrying a phony pistol until police seized it this week. The mistress had …
A Massachusetts man could spend the rest of his life behind bars after admitting to murdering his wife, a transgender woman and activist. The Berkshire Eagle reports that 49-year-old Mark Steele-Knudslien pleaded guilty this week to beating and stabbing his wife, 42-year-old Christa, two years ago. Judge John Agostini sentenced Mark to life in prison, …
A West Virginia man who strangled his infant daughter to death confessed to trying to kill her four times previously — and showed police how he did it using a teddy bear, WSAV-TV reports. Now, Jeffrey Hoskins, 26, is facing charges of first-degree murder and death by child abuse. Prosecutors allege that in October 2018, Hoskins strangled his …
A Chicago teen was shot to death on the city’s South Side Friday, prompting police to search for three males believed to be involved in the case. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the victim, 17-year-old Camerie Crawford, was in a vacant lot in Englewood Friday evening when the killing occurred. Around 6:30 p.m., three males exited a silver …
