An Oklahoma mother whose daughter stabbed her younger brother to death believes the girl was having a manic episode triggered by medication, NewsNation reports. On Thursday, April Lyda described the tragic circumstances surrounding the January 5 attack at her home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Lyda told host Chris Cuomo that after her 12-year-old daughter was put …
An Alabama mother who vanished earlier this week is believed to be deceased after a burned body was found with gunshot wounds, WBRC-TV reports. Law enforcement in the state had previously issued a missing persons alert that said 31-year-old Jermiera Ivory Fowler was in danger. Fowler had been last seen on Wednesday around 4 p.m. in …
The son of an elderly Home Depot worker who was fatally attacked late last year is pleading for something to be done about a growing scourge of retail theft, ABC News reports. “There has to be consequences in my mind, and the consequences have to fit the crime,” Jeff Rasor told the network’s “Nightline” program …
Residents of a Pennsylvania community came together Friday to remember the abbreviated life of an infant who was killed this week at the hands of his father, Fox 29 reports. “We have to do something for this mother and her family,” Stephanie Scancella told the television station. “It’s heart-wrenching.” Scancella was among the community members …
Federal authorities found 225 missing children over a recent 10-week span across the United States, U.S. territories and Mexico as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation, Fox News reports. This week, the United States Marshals Service announced the results of the effort, dubbed operation “We Will Find You.” Of those children found, 169 were …
The former lovers of a Maryland woman have been sentenced to decades behind bars after they murdered her, dismembered her body, and dumped her remains in the Chesapeake Bay, the Baltimore Sun reports. On Friday, a judge sentenced 45-year-old Christina Stallings Harnish and 47-year-old William Rice each to 40 years in prison in connection with …
A German sex offender who is a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann is asserting that he had nothing to do with the girl, who vanished 16 years ago in Portugal, the Daily Mail reports. This week, the news outlet published a bombshell story revealing that 45-year-old Christian Brueckner has written various letters disputing …
Lawyers for Lori Vallow Daybell have filed papers seeking a new trial, alleging that jurors were confused and improperly relied on information outside the court proceedings, KTVB-TV reports. Earlier this month, Vallow Daybell was convicted in Idaho of murdering two of her kids in addition to conspiring to murder the wife of her then-lover and …
Last month, the father of an upstate New York woman who was shot and killed after turning in the wrong driveway called on the homeowner who killed his daughter to spend the rest of his life behind bars. “For this man to sit on his porch and fire at a car with no threat is …
South Carolina authorities are asking for the public’s help to locate a woman who has gone missing after finding her car, WYFF-TV reports. Casey Lavonne Young, 44, was last heard from around 4:30 p.m. on Monday, May 15, after she left work, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators presume that Young was heading …
A California “teacher of the year” is accused of having sex with a teenage student, and police say there could be more than one victim, KTLA-TV reports. On Thursday, 38-year-old Tracy Vanderhulst was charged with unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor as part of an investigation into allegations that she had an improper relationship with …
A California woman who fatally shot her husband in the forehand allegedly by accident was sentenced this week after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter, KEYT-TV reports. Skylar Marie Marshall must serve seven years for the crime, which resulted in the death of her 35-year-old husband, Alexander Hagist. Duffy will be required to serve two years …
