A Florida man allegedly dumped the body of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter in the woods after he kicked her in the head as punishment for getting out of a car seat, WPMI-TV reports. According to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, the body of Adelynn Merrell was found in a wooded area near a highway in …
A British antiques dealer has been charged with murder after he allegedly strangled his 7-year-old daughter to death, the Guardian reports. Authorities say Robert Peters, 55, used a dressing gown cord to kill his daughter Sophia in the family’s million-dollar residence in southwest London last week. Peters reportedly called police himself. Emergency crews later rushed …
An Alabama man is being hailed a hero for going out of his way to find a missing 3-year-old girl who got lost in the woods earlier this week, the Cullman Tribune reports. Eric Gilbreath, 37, said he felt compelled to help search for Serenity Dawn Sanders because she and his son have the same …
A southern California man has been arrested for allegedly conspiring to kill police officers and others, KNBC-TV reports. Oscar Rene Parra Rincon, 39, was “actively and imminently planning to hunt and ambush police officers,” the Desert Hot Springs Police Department announced Saturday morning. The city of Desert Hot Springs is in the Coachella Valley east …
A Texas babysitter is accused of kidnapping a 1-year-old boy and trying to pass him off as her and her ex-boyfriend’s child so they could live together as a family, KXAS-TV reports. Police told the news station that Wendy Hernandez, 35, had been babysitting the boy, Jeremias Portillo, for several months when on April 29, …
A Michigan husband and wife violently raped a young teen girl and forced her to eat cigarettes, authorities say. Prosecutors have charged Kyle David Roy, 33, and Jennifer Edith Roy, 46, with eight felony charges in connection with the alleged abuse, Mlive.com reports. The abuse allegedly occurred between November 2014 and October 2016 at their …
Two Pennsylvania women have been accused of assaulting an expectant mother and her unborn child in a violent attack, KDKA-TV reports. Authorities said Kimberly Hopf, 26, and Stefania Bishop, 27, assaulted the victim — Hopf’s sister — while she was in the shower early Friday, at her father’s Penn Hills home. The victim, Kori Hopf, …
Stranger Things cast member Charlie Heaton reportedly isn’t being allowed into the United States because he was caught with cocaine at an airport, the Associated Press reports. Heaton, 23, (pictured right), who lives in London, had been flying to Los Angeles for a launch party commemorating the second season of the show when he was allegedly …
A substitute teacher has been banned from a Texas elementary school after she allegedly duct-taped students’ mouths to keep them quiet, the Killeen Daily Herald reports. At the time of the incident, the educator was filling in for a fifth-grade class at Maxdale Elementary School in Killeen. The teacher, whose identity has not been released, …
A Los Angeles jury on Saturday convicted a soon-to-be-father of hiring a hitman to murder his girlfriend and unborn child. Prosecutors alleged that Derek Smyer, 36, was responsible for the 2001 contract killing of his pregnant girlfriend at the time, 27-year-old Crystal Taylor, because she wouldn’t have an abortion, the Mirror reports. Jurors found Smyer …
A sergeant in the U.S. Air Force killed his girlfriend and best friend before shooting himself to death in what authorities called an ambush-style attack, the Daily Mail reports. Investigators believe that Michael Zamora, 30, shot Savannah McNealy, 22, and Tristan Kemp, 26, before killing himself with a gun on Thursday in a Fort Collins, …
The woman who police believe murdered her 3-year-old daughter in England on Thursday had just recently split from her executive husband, The Sun reports. Claire Colebourn, 35, was arrested earlier this week in connection with the child’s death. Police and emergency crews descended on the family’s home in the U.K. Thursday night responding to a …
