Friends of a missing New York college student used a phone app to find her body and help bring her killer to justice thousand of miles away. CBS News’ “48 Hours” on Saturday night will profile the case of Haley Anderson, a nursing student at Binghamton University who was murdered two years ago. On March …
Authorities may have finally solved a decades-old cold case involving a 16-year-old girl who was raped and murdered at a Colorado Girl Scout camp, KDVR-TV reports. Margaret “Peggy” Beck was found dead at the Flying G Ranch in Jefferson County, Colorado, on Aug. 18, 1963. She was a camp counselor and had been alone on the …
A Texas police officer was shot and killed and two other officers were injured Saturday night in what authorities say was an ambush, KXAN-TV reports. San Marcos officer Justin Putnam (pictured center), 31, died at the scene of the shooting, while the two other officers, Justin Mueller (left) and Franco Stewart (right), are in the hospital …
The parents of three young Utah children were murdered in what authorities describe as a violent home invasion, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Tony Butterfield, 31, and his wife and Katherine Butterfield, 30, were found shot death early Saturday at their home in West Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. A neighbor had …
A North Carolina mother of three was allegedly murdered by her husband, who is now in police custody, WRAL-TV reports. Jasmina Almendarez Zelaya, 30, was reported missing April 14 after her sister and other family members said they had not seen or heard from her in several days. Authorities have now charged Zelaya’s husband, Jose …
A man in Connecticut is accused of breaking into a shuttered restaurant and binging on thousands of dollars of food and alcohol, the Hartford Courant reports. Police earlier this week arrested 42-year-old Louis Angel Ortiz at the downtown New Haven eatery Soul De Cuba Café, which had been closed because of the coronavirus. Authorities believe Ortiz broke into …
A New York father died from coronavirus on this twin daughters’ birthday after he had been turned away by doctors multiple times, CBS 46 reports. Rolando “Sonny” Aravena, 44, died last week in the upstate New York town of Windsor, where he lived with his wife, Melody, and their five children. As a Verizon field technician, …
Unusual text messages sent to family and friends of a missing Florida woman came from her own phone, police have concluded. That’s one of several new details in a Palm Beach Post report about the case of 51-year-old Gretchen Anthony, whose husband, 43-year-old David Anthony, is accused of kidnapping and murdering her. Gretchen Anthony was …
A man in New York City allegedly gunned down his ex-lover’s boyfriend after encountering the pair on the street, the New York Post reports. Around 7:45 p.m. Friday, Police say a 23-year-old man and his girlfriend were outside of a building in East Harlem when they ran into the woman’s previous boyfriend. Emergency crews arrived to find the …
A Georgia teen is accused of murdering a 14-year-old girl in cold blood so he could be part of the MS-13 gang, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution repots. Brayan Segura, an El Salvador native, admitted to police that he stabbed the victim multiple times on Wednesday and then left her in a creek. An unknown individual reportedly …
An Illinois man allegedly killed his wife and then himself amid concerns that they had contracted coronavirus, the Chicago Tribune reports. Authorities in Lockport Township, about 30 miles southwest of Chicago, discovered 54-year-old Patrick Jesernik and 59-year-old Cheryl Schriefer dead Thursday night. Deputies from the Will County Sheriff’s Office found the couple with gunshot wounds to their heads …
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