UPDATE: 2:35 p.m.: According to an update on the Monticello Police Department’s Facebook page, Chyna Davis has been located, presumably unharmed. Authorities have not yet released any further details. ORIGINAL STORY: Police in Iowa are looking for a 12-year-old girl who reportedly vanished from her home on Tuesday. As KRGC-TV reports, the Monticello Police Department …
An Arkansas home school teacher was sentenced on Monday to four months in jail for sexually assaulting her student, a 17-year-old girl, last year. Alisa Andrews, 52, was arrested in October after a pastor reported that a parent told him Andrews was in a secret relationship with a student. The affidavit reportedly stated that the …
A Florida couple were arrested last week for repeatedly providing their 17-year-old babysitter with marijuana and alcohol over the course of two years. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office announced in a news release that Adam Thayer, 38, and Misty Mitchell-Thayer, 37, were arrested on child neglect charges on Thursday and Friday, respectively. Police’s investigation began …
A Minnesota judge ruled Monday that the ex-officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd’s death will stand trial alone. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that the trial for Derek Chauvin, 44, the police officer accused of putting his knee on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes, is scheduled for March 8. The other three cops, Thomas …
Florida officials announced Monday that they are offering a $5,000 reward for information after a manatee was reportedly spotted Sunday with the word “TRUMP” carved into its back. The Center for Biodiversity said in a statement that they are offering the reward after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife indicated that someone scratched the word into …
Footage of a California woman’s DUI arrest in October has surfaced days after she was taken into custody for assaulting a 14-year-old boy she falsely accused of stealing her phone at a New York hotel. TMZ obtained a video that apparently shows Miya Ponsetto, 22, fighting Ventura County police as they take her into custody …
A couple was arrested in California on Wednesday, a day after they allegedly robbed and fatally shot a man in a hotel room in Oregon. The Grants Pass Department of Public Safety said in a statement that officers responded to a Red Lion Inn on January 5 after an employee found Ryan Dutra, 42, on …
Police in Maryland are looking for a man who reportedly has not been seen or heard from since Christmas. According to WJZ, relatives last saw Jerome Fortune, 47, on North Central Street in Baltimore. Additional details surrounding his disappearance were not made available. Doomsday death & deception: Nancy Grace investigates “Cult Mom” Lori Vallow. Inside …
A California woman was reportedly attacked and robbed of her dog while on a stroll near her home on Tuesday. Sarah Vorhaus, 30, told SFGATE that she was walking her two dogs in Russian Hill when someone wearing a hoodie and black facemask held her at gunpoint and took Chloe, her 5-month-old French bulldog. She …
A Colorado man allegedly fatally shot his estranged wife on New Year’s Eve — days after he was arrested on domestic violence charges and bailed himself out of jail. Damon Mathews, 44, allegedly confessed to strangling and shooting Rachel Ream, 47, in the head at her home in Ignacio. He said they were celebrating the …
A West Virginia woman who sexually abused her 18-month-old granddaughter in 2015 was sentenced Friday to at least 30 years in prison. WCHS and WVAH reported that Roseanna Thompson, 47, helped her boyfriend, Richard Smith II, sexually abuse the victim at a South Charleston. Investigators zeroed in on the couple in 2018, after someone informed …
An upcoming episode of “20/20” will analyze how detectives linked “Dating Game” serial killer Rodney Alcala to eight murders in the 1970s. Scheduled to air on Friday, the “20/20” episode will detail how Alcala’s arrest for Robin Samsoe’s July 1979 murder exposed the photographer’s secret life as a serial killer. According to ABC, Samsoe, 12, …
