An investigation is underway in California after a body was discovered on Tuesday in a suitcase. A volunteer told KTVU that he was cleaning Lake Merritt when he spotted the suitcase, which he described as heavy. The cleanup crew reportedly pulled the suitcase in and opened it up and discovered an adult man apparently wrapped …
Opening statements began on Wednesday in the trial of a Texas woman who allegedly fled to Costa Rica after killing her boyfriend’s love interest last year. Prosecutors said they will present audio of Moriah “Mo” Wilson, 24, screaming before shots ring off. They claimed the audio also caught suspect Kaitlin Armstrong, 34, fire again while …
Los Angeles police’s robbery homicide division is reportedly investigating the death of “Friends” star Matthew Perry, who was found dead at his home on Saturday. TMZ reported that foul play is not suspected in Perry’s death, and that police involvement is standard protocol for a high profile case. Perry, 54, was found dead in a …
An Alabama couple was arrested on Sunday, the same day their son’s body was reportedly discovered in a freezer at their former home. Sources told WTVY that Michael Halstead, 44, told Headland police about abandoning Logan Halstead’s body weeks earlier but officers did not find it in the freezer at that time. He and Karen …
On Monday, Texas police announced that a grand jury has indicted the mother of a disabled 6-year-old boy who is presumed dead following his disappearance in November. Everman police said Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez’s mother, Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, was charged with capital murder, injury to a child, and abandoning without the intent to return even though her son’s …
A hearing was held on Friday for the 13-year-old Florida boy who was charged as an adult for allegedly killing his mother earlier this month. Derek Rosa reportedly stabbed Irina Garcia, 39, on October 12. Garcia was found dead next to the crib where her 14-day-old daughter was sleeping after Rosa called 911 and admitted …
An Alabama couple was arrested after their son’s body was reportedly found in the freezer of their former home on Sunday. According to WDHN, the apparent body of Logan Halstead, 19, was found in an overturned freezer in the backyard of a Henry County home. A source told the news outlet that the teen’s parents, …
On Monday, Joran van der Sloot will be moved back to a Peruvian prison — days after he confessed in an Alabama court to killing Natalee Holloway in 2005 and extorting her family. AL.com reported that U.S. Marshals escorted van der Sloot, 36, from Shelby County Jail to Birmingham International Airport. Once in Peru, officials …
Nebraska police have identified a man who was found dead in a chimney earlier this month. The Norfolk Daily News reported that Zachariah Andrews, 29, was found dead at a Norfolk apartment building on October 19 after a maintenance worker discovered a shoe while investigating a foul odor. Andrews identification was found on him, and …
A body discovered on Saturday in Tennessee has been identified as an Oklahoma woman who was arrested days earlier for repeatedly calling 911. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said Hailey Silas, 22, was found deceased on a barge in the Mississippi River by crew members conducting a routine inspection. Silas’ partner told WMC that Silas …
On Wednesday, authorities arrested an Oklahoma man in connection with last month’s murder of his wife. On September 20, Makayla Fay Meave-Byers was found shot twice in the head and wrapped in carpet in a drainage ditch in Pottawatomie County. Meave-Byers vanished five days before her body was found. Investigators believe her husband, Frank Byers, killed …
Six people have been indentified as among the 17 men and one woman killed on Thursday in two mass shootings in Maine. Suspect Robert Card, 40, is wanted for allegedly opening fire at Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley and Schemengees Bar and Grill in Lewiston. Only eight of the 18 victims have been identified — and …
