Prosecutors have charged a California couple with a toddler’s murder for supplying drugs to another couple who are already facing charges in the 18-month-old girl’s death. Phil Ortega, 31, and his girlfriend, 32-year-old Paige Vitale, “facilitated repeated narcotics” use by toddler Winter Rayo’s parents, Derek Rayo, 27, and Kelly Richardson, 28, who were charged in …
“Poor parenting … is not criminal,” the judge said.
Bryan Kohberger’s defense plans to provide testimony from a cell phone tracking expert to prove the suspected murder’s alibi for the night four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus housing. Judge John Judge had previously given public defender Anne Taylor until Wednesday to file a notice she intended to …
A San Diego County woman was found shot to death in her home and the suspect in her murder — her estranged husband — was found dead in a neighboring county shortly afterward. The couple’s 9-year-old child, who lived with the mother, was initially considered missing, but deputies later located the child and determined they …
The father of one of the murdered women had to be restrained Wednesday as the four suspects in the murders of two women in the Oklahoma panhandle made their first court appearances, each wearing a bulletproof vest over their orange and white striped jail uniforms. Tifany Adams, 54; Tad Cullum, 43; Cole Twombly, 50; and …
Florida police announced a second arrest Wednesday in the murder of a 15-year-old girl who was shot dead while walking from a movie to McDonald’s with friends last month. Christopher Devon Horne Jr., 16, was charged with principal of homicide while engaged in a robbery, joining fellow 16-year-old Thomas Stein, Cape Coral Police Chief Anthony …
A young Missouri boy shot and killed himself after getting his hands on a loaded, unsecured gun . The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department was initially called Tuesday night for a “sound of shots,” but the call was upgraded to a shooting, KMBC reported. By the time they arrived, a family member had already taken …
Bryan Kohberger’s defense team has until end of the day Wednesday to file a notice that it intends to present an alibi for their client, but the stipulations Idaho law gives for that declaration leave open many questions. Kohberger is accused of stabbing to death four University of Idaho students on the night of November …
Los Angeles police are investigating an apparent homicide after a woman’s body was found in garbage can that had been zip tied shut in a residential neighborhood. A homeowner found the garbage can lying on its side Tuesday morning and picked it up, AOL reported. He called the police non-emergency line because it was heavier …
A high speed chase from Pittsburgh into Ohio Tuesday night ended with the recovery of a missing Pennysylvania girl and the arrest of the man she was with. The 14-year-old girl was last seen in New Castle at about 8:30 p.m. and was reported as missing and endangered. She was reported to be with John …
Texas police are investigating after three dogs attacked a toddler at his babysitter’s home, killing him. Investigators were called to the Duncanville home at about 11 a.m. on Monday and found the 1-year-old boy unconscious. He was rused to Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, where he died, WFAA reported. Police said there were other children …
Oklahoma’s chief medical examiner on Tuesday positively identified two bodies found in Texas County over the weekend as Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley, two women who disappeared while traveling from Kansas to Oklahoma on March 30 to pick up Butler’s children. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation made the announcement in a Facebook post that …
