The request from Los Angeles County prosecutors to resentence brothers Erik and Lyle Mendendez — currently serving life without parole sentences for the murders of their parents in 1989 — has been sent to the Van Nuys Courthouse, where it will be heard by a new judge. The case was initially to be heard by …
Midtown Atlanta erupted into chaos Tuesday afternoon when a 70-year-old man barricaded himself inside his 33rd floor apartment at the Four Seasons Hotel and began shooting. J. Stevens Berger was said to be staying in the residential portion of the hotel and not the short-term rental rooms and suites, WAGA reported. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens …
A 25-year-old Indiana woman has been charged with neglect five months after she left her 21-month-old foster daughter in a bathtub, where she drowned while the mother was chatting on the phone for 30 minutes. According to court documents, Hailynn Volpatti told investigators on May 21 that she left the little girl alone in the …
A south Georgia funeral home director is under arrest after police found 18 decomposing bodies inside his facility during an eviction process Chris Johnson, 39, has been charged with 17 counts of abuse of a dead body, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation says more charges are expected. The bureau said the investigation began on …
Police on Long Island are investigating the apparent murder of a woman found dead in a guest room at a luxury Hamptons wellness spa in Water Mill. The Suffolk County Police Department said a staff member at Shou Gugi Ban House found the body, Newsday reported. The woman, whose identity has not been released, was …
Authorities investigating the brutal murder of a Montana man found dead at his Gallatin County campsite earlier this month say they are looking for several items that appear to be missing from the scene, including an axe and guns. The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office asked the public on Thursday to be on the lookout …
A body found in a Northeast Philadelphia garage on Sunday is believed to be that of a 51-year-old mom reported missing a day earlier. Investigators say Ivelisse Lugo was last seen at her home Saturday morning, possibly with her estranged husband. Her daughters reported her missing and began knocking on neighbors doors, asking if anyone …
A Mississippi man has been charged with murder after his wife was found dead in her vehicle, which had crashed into a building. Zikoya Johnson Echols, 36, was inside her car when Hattiesburg Police responded to the crash site Saturday morning at about 10 a.m. Echols, apparently behind the wheel, was pronounced dead at the …
Police in Georgia responded to a welfare check earlier this month and found a 71-year-old man dead in a bathtub — then learned that a group of people had been living in the dead man’s home alongside his body. According to WANF, police found Robert Westbrook’s body at his home in Smyrna. “He was in …
The mother of a 4-year-old California boy was arrested on Friday after the child found a loaded, unsecured gun in her car and shot himself. Latisha Walker, 26, left her son in the car while she went inside a business, according to KCRA. Shynice Cordoba, a witness, said she was having her nails done at …
A Florida man was arrested earlier this month after a woman made a 911 call and pretended to “order a pizza” until the dispatcher understood she was about to be raped. The pizza call came in to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office at about 3:45 a.m. on October 19. The dispatcher asked further questions to …
A 19-year-old Washington state woman has been jailed on a murder charge for allegedly killing her 73-year-old landlord. The King County Sheriff’s Office said it got a call from the suspect’s brother-in-law just after 7 p.m. on Friday telling officers that the suspect had told her sister that she’d killed someone and showed her the …
