Washington authorities are investigating the death of a man who was found dead on Monday in a tent full of improvised explosive devices. A driver called 911 and claimed they were flagged down by a woman who said her boyfriend was unresponsive in a tent near Chelatchie Prairie off US Forest Service Forest Road 54. …
On Wednesday, lawyers for jailed film producer Harvey Weinstein asked a California judge to allow him to see a private dentist for fake teeth before he stands trial in October for sex crimes. According to the New York Post, prison dentists will pull Weinstein’s decayed molars without replacing them. Weinstein’s attorney, Mark Werksman, said dentists …
On Wednesday, R. Kelly was convicted in Illinois of federal child pornography charges for filming himself sexually abusing his 14-year-old goddaughter in the 1990s. The Chicago Tribune reported that Kelly, 56, and his co-defendants, Milton Brown and Derrel McDavid, were acquitted of obstructing Kelly’s 2002 child pornography trial in Cook County. Kelly was also found …
An Iowa teen who was reportedly being sex trafficked when she killed her rapist was sentenced on Tuesday to five years of probation and was also ordered to pay $150,000 to the slain man’s family. Pieper Lewis, 17, also received a deferred judgment, meaning her voluntary manslaughter conviction could be expunged when she completes her …
On Monday, North Carolina police charged a man for last week’s drunk-driving golf cart accident that killed a passenger. Gaston Gazette reported that Derek Helms, 19, was drunk when he was driving a golf cart that Gabby Carrigan, 18, fell off of on September 5, leading to her death the following day. Gaston County police …
Ohio police announced on Tuesday that bones discovered last month belong to a woman who vanished in 2017. Youngstown police Chief of Detectives Captain Jason Simon said that someone looking for their dog found the skeletal remains, wrapped in a cloth, in a wooded area of Thorn Hill. The Mahoning County Coroner’s Office assembled the …
Louisiana police arrested a substitute teacher on Monday for allegedly paying students to assault a classmate. On August 23, Aadrina Smith, 24, reportedly offered five students $5 each to tackle their classmate at North Caddo Elementary Middle School. Three of the students accepted Smith’s offer, and Smith congratulated them afterward, according to Louisiana Radio Network. …
An Ohio man who was out on bail for raping a 9-year-old was found dead on Sunday alongside the victim’s family member, according to reports. WOIO reported that highway patrol discovered the bodies of Wesley Thomas, 34, and Samantha Faidley, 31, with gunshot wounds in a minivan at the New Lyme Wildlife Area in Ashtabula …
On Monday, a woman sued California police for using her DNA from a rape kit to charge her last year with an unrelated burglary. In 2016, the unidentified woman reported to San Francisco police that she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Cops took her DNA, but they did not disclose that it would be …
New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said on Monday that a parole board rejected Mark David Chapman’s latest request for release. It is the 12th time Chapman, 67, has been denied parole since he became eligible in 2000. The Albany Times-Union reported that his next parole hearing is scheduled for 2024. Convicted of …
A lawyer said on Monday that an Alabama inmate could be killed next week via nitrogen hypoxia, marking the first time this method would be used to carry out an execution. Alan Miller, 57, requested to die via nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection in 2018, when inmates were allowed to challenge the manner in …
An inmate who sued an Oklahoma jail — alleging he was tortured by “Baby Shark” being played on repeat — was reportedly found dead in a cell on Sunday. The Oklahoman reported that John Basco, 48, was pronounced dead after being found unresponsive at the Oklahoma County jail. Basco had been booked into jail on …
