Federal officials reportedly issued an alert to law enforcement warning that white supremacist groups were encouraging members who’ve contracted the novel coronavirus to spread the disease to police, racial minorities, and Jewish people. The Federal Protective Service, which is a division of Homeland Security, wrote in an intelligence brief for the week of February 17-24 …
Police in Ohio have arrested three women who allegedly sexually abused several boys and girls as young as 3 years old. Magan Richmond, 32, Tasha Stringer, 37, and Kathryn McMullen, 36, were charged with felony rape. The Scioto County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted to Facebook that the women molested several children, between …
An 8-year-old boy in Illinois died earlier this month from injuries he suffered when his mother — pregnant with him — was fatally shot in 2011. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Kahmani Mims-Jefferson died on March 8 from being born premature and multiple gunshot wounds he suffered before his birth. The boy’s mother, Charinez Jefferson, …
An Ohio man learned on Monday that he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his 1-year-old son in 2018 amid a custody dispute with the toddler’s mother. To avoid the death penalty, Jason Shorter, 42, pleaded guilty in January to aggravated murder and kidnapping charges related to Nicholas Shorter’s …
A Connecticut man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly beating his 2-year-old stepson to death in June. Citing an arrest warrant, the Hartford Courant reported that Hayden Campbell screamed, cried, and clung onto a female relative before going with his stepfather, Jeremiah Beason, 24. Less than five hours later, Campbell reportedly suffered a skull fracture and …
On Wednesday, police in Florida arrested a man for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing a woman in 1985. The Northwest Florida Daily News reported that investigators in Pensacola used familial DNA to identify Daniel Wells, 57, as a suspect in Tonya Ethridge McKinley’s murder. A family walking their sick dog to an all-night clinic discovered …
An Indiana woman was arrested on neglect charges a day after Tuesday’s death of her 11-month-old daughter. WRTV reported that Emmarie Pablo died shortly after being transported to a hospital in Elmwood. As of Thursday, her mother, Anna Pablo, 22, is facing preliminary charges in connection with her death. Danielle Noone, the Madison County Coroner, …
A New York daycare provider allegedly admitted to police that she killed a 23-month-old boy last year by swinging him into a coffee table by his legs. Jessica Sims, 24, was charged Thursday with first-degree manslaughter in the death of Lennox Santiago in July 2019. Two days before Santiago’s death from severe brain trauma, Sims …
A former MMA fighter who was arrested last year in Texas for murdering his ex-girlfriend and her friend was charged in Minnesota Tuesday for killing another ex-girlfriend in 2009, according to reports. Cedric Marks, 45, and Kellee Kristine Sorensen, 34, were charged with the second-degree murder of April Pease. Sorensen reportedly told authorities that they …
A mother and daughter who ran a Colorado funeral home were arrested on federal charges Tuesday for allegedly selling body parts — often without or against the families’ approval. Megan Hess, 43, and Shirley Koch, 66, owners of the since-closed Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors, were indicted on charges of mail fraud and illegal transportation of …
A Texas man learned that he will spend the remainder of his life in prison for a slew of sex-related crimes — including sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl. Billy Ryan Devenport, 36, was sentenced to life plus 370 years after confessing to repeatedly assaulting the victim and possessing sexually-explicit images of children. Authorities began investigating …
A Tennessee woman believed to have fatally stabbed her toddler son last Wednesday died Tuesday from injuries she sustained in the apparent murder-suicide. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Melani Sue Brown, 38, died after undergoing emergency surgery for self-inflicted injuries she sustained at her Lenoir City apartment. The mother allegedly killed her son, King Brown, …
