Criminal proceedings against a man who allegedly kidnapped a young boy from his bed and stabbed him to death have been halted indefinitely after a judge’s ruling, the Dallas Morning News reports. On Friday, Magistrate Judge Farrel Chapman found Darriynn Brown incompetent to stand trial on a capital murder charge in connection with the death …
Actress Lindsey Pearlman, who starred in “General Hospital” and other shows, was found dead this week in the Los Angeles area, KTLA-TV reports. Pearlman, 43, had been last seen about 9 p.m. Tuesday, according to her husband, Vance Smith, Newsweek reports. In a press release, the Los Angeles Police Department said that Pearlman had “failed to return home …
A police officer is accused of the kidnap, rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl whose body was found in a Florida drainage ditch nearly 40 years ago, WKMG-TV reports. On Thursday, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara announced that investigators have uncovered evidence that James Harrison, a former deputy, was responsible for the attack. The …
A teenage social media influencer is opening up about a terrifying ordeal when a stalker fired a shotgun through her family’s front door and was later killed by her father, The New York Times reports.The influencer, Ava Majury, who has more than a million followers, started posting on TikTok in 2020 when she was just 13 years …
A drunk woman led police on a slow-speed chase through the Orlando International Airport while riding a motorized suitcase in a bizarre incident captured on police body cameras, WKMG-TV reports. Video of the interaction, which occurred in April, was recently obtained and broadcast by the television station. The kerfuffle started when Southwest Airlines would not let …
An Ohio mother is accused of killing her young daughter on Saturday, but police have released limited details about what happened or why, WOIO-TV reports. Around 6:30 p.m., emergency crews responded to an apartment building in Bedford Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, and found a 5-year-old girl dead on the floor of a bathroom, according to …
A missing California woman whose body was found earlier this month was brutally raped, sodomized and murdered by a homeless man in what authorities described as “a very gruesome crime,” the Sacramento Bee reports. Emma Roark, 20, went missing January 27 in Rancho Cordova and her body was found five days later near the American …
The head caddie of an exclusive country club in the Hamptons was allegedly choked to death by a colleague after watching golf on television, The Southampton Press reports. The victim, 45-year-old Kevin Somers, died February 5 at the Long Island home of 34-year-old Marc Dern. Authorities allege that Somers and Dern were watching a golf …
A Pennsylvania man allegedly murdered his former girlfriend and then dismembered and beheaded her body with a machete, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Around 4:15 a.m. Friday, a neighbor called authorities to report screaming at an apartment building in Clifton Heights, a suburb of Philadelphia. Arriving officers initially knocked on the home’s front door, but no …
Authorities have arrested a man suspected of opening fire Monday at a Washington grocery store, where one person was killed and another critically injured, the Tri-City Herald reports. Police identified the suspect as 39-year-old Aaron Christopher Kelly (pictured right), who was detained on a highway 130 miles away from the shooting at a Fred Meyer …
Sara Otero said she was going to work out with a friend, but she never showed up to the gym and the friend had no idea of the plans. Now, loved ones of Sara Celeste Otero are asking for the public’s help with finding the 28-year-old, who has been missing for 11 days, KNSD-TV reports. …
A man who gruesomely murdered two women with a meat cleaver while his wife and son were just steps away will spend the rest of his life behind bars, KTTV reports. Christopher Ken Ireland, 42, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the chance of parole for killing 59-year-old Yolanda Holtrey and 49-year-old Michelle …
