An 18-year-old Oklahoma man already under investigation for the rape of a 14-year-old girl was arrested and charged last month with plotting the murders of a different ex-girlfriend and her mother. Matthew Austin reportedly told a witness he was angry with the ex-girlfriend, who he claimed was “messing with his life” by refusing to drop …
An arrest has been made in Tennessee after a woman reported missing earlier this month was found dead in a vehicle in the middle of a DeKalb County cornfield five days later. Joshua Wayne Goff has been charged with abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office said on Monday. …
A 21-year-old Ohio mother was arrested last week after “a disturbing video” went viral, showing her screaming at and hitting her months-old baby in his crib. The video was shot by the child’s father, who posted it to social media, WHIO reported. “It was one of those things that literally went viral for all the …
A Georgia sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Saturday night while responding to a domestic violence call in Hiram. The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said Deputy Brandon “Cunningham was shot as he exited his patrol vehicle, never even seeing the threat.” The suspect continued to fire at the deputies, keeping Cunningham’s partner and backup who …
Police in Texas are investigating after three dead bodies were found in a house fire in a suburban Houston community. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the fire appeared to be arson and that the victims — a woman, her son, and his girlfriend — were apparently dead before the fire was set using some …
Michigan State Police say they have found human remains on property belonging to Dale Warner, a Lenawee County man charged with the murder of his wife, who disappeared three years ago. UPDATE: This is an update to the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Dee Warner who was reported missing by her family on April …
Nearly five months after pleading guilty to killing 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith, Rashad Trice was formally sentenced the life in prison without parole. Trice entered guilty pleas for first degree murder and criminal sexual conduct relating to an assault on the little girl’s mother on July 1, the Lansing State Journal reported. In addition to life …
California investigators cracked a 51-year-old rape and murder last week after DNA led them to a suspect in Idaho. Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was arrested in Lemhi County on Wednesday and charged with the death of Nina “Nadine” Fischer in November 1973. Fischer, 31, lived with her husband and their toddler daughter in unincorporated San …
Police in Texas are looking for a 48-year-old man they say broke into his estranged wife’s home, shot dead her boyfriend, and then forced her to help him dispose of the body. Michael Maurice Mack, 48, is wanted on a charge of capital murder in the death of 53-year-old Kelvin Hinton, the Harris County Sheriff’s …
A Tennessee man and woman were arrested last week and charged with aggravated child abuse and neglect and child endangerment after law enforcement found evidence the couple had been locking a 7-year-old boy with autism in a storage trunk with urine-soaked blankets and a pillow. Carter County deputies were assisting the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation …
A Washington state man initially arrested for assaulting an emergency room nurse at a Seattle hospital was later charged with murder after he told police he “may have killed” his girlfriend at his townhome. Police had already been called to Andy Chu’s townhome in Lake City’s Olympic Hills neighborhood a day earlier, on August 10, …
A Tennessee woman was sentenced to life in prison after she pleaded no contest to murder and child abuse charges in the death of her boyfriend’s 5-year-old son. Turner Simpkins was found dead in his home in Chapmansboro in July 2023, The Tennessean reported. An autopsy found bruises, cuts on his body, and bite marks …
