A man in Ireland was acquitted of raping a teenage girl after his defense attorney told jurors they should consider what kind of underwear she was wearing, The Irish Examiner reports. The defendant, a 27-year-old man, was accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in Cork, Ireland. In closing arguments, defense lawyer Elizabeth O’Connell said the …
A 77-year-old Georgia grandfather beloved by his friends and family was allegedly murdered and then gruesomely dismembered by a neighbor, WXIA-TV reports. Authorities this week located parts of Robert Page’s body in a cooler inside his next-door neighbor’s residence and found other body parts under tarps in the yard. The macabre discoveries came after Page’s …
Three people in upstate New York allegedly scammed residents out of hundreds of dollars by pretending to fundraise for a girl stricken with cancer, WSYR-TV reports. Police in Syracuse on Thursday arrested the suspects, identified as 44-year-old Roger Dunn, 34-year-old Nicole Dunn and 27-year-old Earl Woodridge. Each faces charges of first-degree scheme to defraud, first-degree attempt …
A Florida mom let her 6-year-old son go trick-or-treating alone on Halloween and is now facing a criminal charge, WESH-TV reports. Police arrested Jessica Anne King on a charge of child neglect stemming from the incident, which the 38-year-old said happened only because she was ill. King and the boy live in Maitland, Florida, a …
The Saudi Arabian sisters whose bodies were found taped together in the Hudson River in late October stayed in nice hotels, ordered room service and went shopping just prior to their deaths, the New York Post reports. The new details come as investigators seek to understand how and why the sisters died, although suicide appears …
An Illinois sex offender is accused of murdering a young mother whose burned remains were discovered in a barrel, WLS-TV reports. Prosecutors on Friday charged 42-year-old Peter Zabala with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the death of 25-year-old Ashley Tucker. Zabala also faces two counts of concealing a homicide. Authorities reportedly found …
Six teens have been arrested in connection with a fatal July shooting of a 16-year-old in North Carolina, the Wilson Times reports. The victim, Luis Flores-Bravo, was shot to death at a Speedway convenience store on July 20. Flores-Bravo was in high school and a cadet in the Junior ROTC. Authorities on Friday announced that they …
Disturbing new details have emerged about the murder of Lauren McCluskey, the University of Utah student who was killed earlier this month by a man whom she had stopped dating after catching him in a web of lies, Rolling Stone reports. Authorities believe Melvin Rowland shot McCluskey to death in a car on the evening …
A person of interest has been detained after authorities say a young California mother was murdered, KOVR-TV reports. The body of the victim, 26-year-old Candice De Anda, was discovered Friday in her vehicle near her home. Police arrested someone on an unrelated charge and described this individual as a person of interest in De Anda’s death, …
Two California men are facing significant prison time after they were convicted Friday of killing three people in a 2016 home invasion, the Sacramento Bee reports. After two weeks of deliberations, jurors found David Nguyen, 26, and Elijah Johnson, 24, guilty of robbery and murder. Authorities alleged that Nguyen was a drug dealer who intended …
A Pennsylvania man with a history of violent behavior could be tied to as many as 16 murders, WPXI-TV reports. Authorities say Regis Andrew Brown, currently serving prison time because he killed his wife and stepdaughter, is a suspect in at least seven other killings and may have knowledge of up to eight additional homicides. …
Before Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students in Parkland, Florida, he told a 13-year-old girl he was distraught over bullying and was contemplating suicide, the Miami Herald reports. Cruz fatally gunned down 17 people and injured another 17 in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where he had been a student before enrolling in …
