Authorities in Texas are investigating an operation that reportedly resulted in an FBI agent fatally shooting a kidnapping victim in a Houston home early Thursday. The Houston Chronicle reports that the ordeal started Wednesday morning when a group of armed men claiming to have cartel affiliations busted into a Trinity Gardens home and bound a man …
A video captured the tense moments when a caretaker slapped and berated a dementia patient before the elder’s daughter intervened and confronted her. Per the Daily Mail, the footage shows caretaker Stacey George, 46, abusing Sabina Marsden, 78, in the elder’s Kettering, England, home on June 13, 2017. She was also filmed telling Mardsen “God you stink” …
An Alabama mother is facing criminal charges after police allegedly found her newborn son’s body in her trunk during a traffic stop. WALA reported that a grand jury indicted Jalesa Gaines, of McIntosh, on manslaughter charges Wednesday in connection with her son’s death. Gaines, 23, was originally arrested on November 14 after Jackson police pulled her …
The brother of David Turpin, the California father accused of torturing and starving his 13 children, says he wants to care for the minor siblings–sparing them from being placed into foster care. A source told CBS News that Dr. Randy Turpin, a faith healer and megachurch preacher, was looking into adopting the children. But before this …
On Wednesday, a Riverside County Superior Court judge prohibited California parents David and Louise Turpin from contacting their 13 children, who were allegedly found starved and tortured last week. According to The Los Angeles Times, Judge Emma Smith approved a three-year protective order that will ban the parents from contacting their children in any way except …
An attorney representing the Perris, California, couple accused of torturing their 13 children is reportedly setting the stage to have the high-profile trial moved out of Riverside County. According to The Desert Sun, Deputy Public Defender David Macher filed a motion ahead of Wednesday’s hearing expressing concern that the “extraordinary” media coverage will make it difficult …
A North Carolina mother’s live-in boyfriend was charged with first-degree murder on Weds. in connection with the death of toddler, Mariah Woods. In addition to first-degree murder, ABC reports that Adolphus Earl Kimrey II, 32, was also charged with felonious child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury. As CrimeOnline reported in early December, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that …
“She had this whimsical optimism to her that couldn’t be dampened, couldn’t be doused no matter what anybody threw at her”
Despite public outcry, sources revealed that the six minor Turpin children will be split up between two foster homes. Sources also told CBS News that Riverside County will be awarded conservatorship over the seven adult Turpins before they’re moved to an assisted living facility. Last week, an anonymous source close to the investigation told the network …
On Wednesday, Riverside County prosecutors will reportedly move to block Perris, California, parents David and Louise Turpin from having any further contact with the 13 children they allegedly imprisoned and tortured. Court filings obtained by the California Patch revealed that the District Attorney’s Office will push to impose protective orders barring the couple from contacting their children, …
David and Louise Turpin, the California couple accused of shackling and starving their 13 children, were reportedly days away from moving to Oklahoma before their arrest last week. Sources told ABC News that the family was “within days” of moving from Perris to Oklahoma as David Turpin had gotten a job transfer with defense contractor Northrop Grumann. …
In an eerie coincidence, the California town rocked by allegations that 13 children were found shackled and starving in deplorable conditions, was the location of a similar scandal nearly two decades earlier. Speaking with WJW, Laura Cowan recalled how police rescued her and her two children from a Perris home in 1998. When learning of the …
