A Florida man is accused of sexually assaulting a 78-year-old woman while her young granddaughter looked on, WPLG-TV reports. Authorities told the news station the attack occurred Wednesday, when the victim found 32-year-old Cidoine Petit Beau standing in the living room of her Lauderdale Lakes residence. The victim had left her apartment front door unlocked …
A Texas man allegedly shot up his wife’s laptop computer because he thought she was playing music too loudly, prompting a stand-off with police as he barricaded himself inside his home, the Dallas Morning News reports. Around 2 a.m. Saturday, authorities responded to a home in northwest Fort Worth where 44-year-old Gary Lee Lykins was …
A 12-year-old boy and his father are accused of murdering a woman in Colorado. KRQE-TV reports that New Mexico authorities on Thursday morning arrested Heith Gleason and his 12-year-old son, Gage Gleason, at a McDonald’s in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Both were wanted by police in connection with the death of a woman in Colorado, …
A Texas couple whose daughter died after they left her in the backseat of a vehicle could face decades in prison, the Houston Chronicle reports. Olga Esquivel and Angel Esquivel-Blanco, of Humble, Texas, were charged earlier this week with child abandonment in connection with the death of their 2-year-old daughter, Alicia Esquivel. The girl died …
A Minnesota man has been criminally charged in connection with the death of a young foster child, KSTP-TV reports. Authorities on Friday announced that a grand jury had indicted Charles Wayne Homich, 28, with multiple counts of first- and second-degree murder. The charges include murder while committing child abuse, murder with a history of child …
A man accused of murdering an American student in the Netherlands this week allegedly expressed a desire to kill others just days earlier, ABC News reports. Minnesota native Sarah Papenheim was fatally stabbed on Wednesday inside the Rotterdam apartment she shared with the suspect, 23-year-old Joel Schelling. Police were called to the apartment after “neighbors heard …
A Montana man who murdered and dismembered two people before attempting to dissolve their bodies in acid could spend the rest of his life in prison, the Missoulian reports. Augustus Standingrock, 26, pleaded guilty Friday to deliberate homicide for stabbing 15-year-old Marilyn Pickett and 24-year-old Jackson Wiles to death in August 2017. After the slayings, …
Two people have been arrested after an infant was discovered unconscious in a Manhattan hotel and later died, the New York Post reports. According to police, an employee of the Hotel Pennsylvania observed a woman holding a 4-month-old baby in a hallway around 1:10 a.m. Saturday. The baby appeared unresponsive, prompting the worker to call 911. …
A man who helped a teenage girl commit suicide in Utah will spend a significant amount of time behind bars, a judge ruled Friday. The Deseret News reports that 19-year-old Tyerell Joe Przybycien was sentenced to at least five years but could serve up to life in prison. Przybycien expressed remorse for his involvement in …
Seven children were rescued from a Missouri home where they were wearing urine-soaked clothes and had feces caked onto their feet, KMOV-TV reports. Last month, neighbor Pat Abney reportedly encountered two of the children, an 8-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy, after they had exited the residence in the November cold with bare feet and without …
Genealogy and DNA technology has once again solved a decades-long cold case, this time in Indiana. John D. Miller pleaded guilty Friday to the 1988 abduction, molestation and murder of 8-year-old April Marie Tinsley in Fort Wayne, WISH-TV reports. Tinsley, who was in first grade at the time, disappeared after walking to a friend’s house …
Family and friends are desperately trying to find a Florida woman they say has disappeared in Costa Rica. The Miami Herald reports that Carla Stefaniak, 36, has not been heard from or seen since Tuesday and failed to board a plane back to her home in Miami the following day. Stefaniak’s loved ones are pleading …
