A Wisconsin man is facing decades in prison after allegedly shooting his own son to death amid an argument over cleaning his room, WITI-TV reports. Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged 47-year-old Randell Wright with first-degree reckless homicide in connection with the death of his son, 21-year-old Jakari Wright. “I lost my son on some bull …
Police have detained a Las Vegas woman after the body of a child who could be her 3-year-old daughter was found in a duffel bag inside her apartment, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The 29-year-old woman, Aisha Thomas, telephoned authorities on Thursday night reporting that her 3-year-old daughter had disappeared while grocery shopping with her …
A New York college student is being sent to prison for falsely accusing two peers of rape, the New York Post reports. The sentence comes nearly two years after Nikki Yovino, 19, alleged she was coerced into having sex with two Sacred Heart University football players in a bathroom at a party. Her story changed …
New details have come to light about two women who savagely tortured and killed a man with Asperger’s syndrome in Australia, the Daily Mail reports. This past November, 26-year-old Jemma Victoria Lilley and 43-year-old Trudi Lenon were convicted of murdering 18-year-old Aaron Pajich-Sweetman. According to recent reporting by the Australian news program “Sunday Night,” Lilley …
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A series of vicious and shocking attacks carried out decades ago have been solved, thanks to DNA evidence. Police in Aurora, Colorado, announced Friday they had identified a suspect in a 34-year-old set of cold cases involving the gruesome murders of a family and grandmother. “This case haunted the officers who responded that night,” Aurora …
A woman was shot to death at a Florida McDonald’s on Friday morning, the Florida Times-Union reports. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office, the victim was in the process of ordering a meal in the drive-thru of the fast-food restaurant in Jacksonville when the assailant walked up to her and fired a gun. Police officers …
A manhunt is underway in New York after an attempted rapist attacked a woman early Friday, WCBS-TV reports. Just before 4 a.m. Friday, a 21-year-old woman was trying to enter her apartment in Queens when an unknown assailant approached her. A surveillance camera captured the encounter and shows the man grabbing the woman’s arms and pulling …
Eleven children were rescued Saturday from squalid living conditions with little food and no water in a remote New Mexico compound, the Associated Press reports. “It was the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen,” Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said. Five adults – two men and three women – were accompanying the children. …
A Michigan couple has been accused of homicide after their 10-month-old daughter died of dehydration and malnutrition, WOOD-TV reports. Police on Friday asked prosecutors to charge the couple – Seth Welch and Tatania Fusari, both 27 – in connection with the Thursday death of the girl, named Mary. Welch had posted on Facebook about his …
The children of accused “House of Horrors” defendants David and Louise Turpin have asked for their birth certificates and IDs, another indication that the abuse victims are seeking to reclaim their lives. KABC-TV reports the judge presiding over the case approved the request during an arraignment on Friday. Attorneys on both sides stipulated that they …
A new book details how a British woman solved the gruesome murder of her brother and his girlfriend decades earlier, the Daily Mail reports. Penny Farmer writes her first-hand account of the case in the forthcoming book “Dead In The Water,” which is set to be released early next month. Farmer was just 17 in …
