A former Georgia district attorney appeared in court Wednesday for the first time since she was accused of putting a thumb on the scale in favor of the defendants accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger chased down and murdered in a largely white coastal neighborhood in 2020. Jackie Johnson was the district attorney …
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg says that accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione could face additional charges as his office delves further into the murder of UnitedHealthcare chief Brian Thompson. Bragg told WABC his office charged Mangione with second degree murder because he wanted to bring charges quickly. “Murder 2 is the intentional killing of a …
The remains of a South Carolina woman missing since September were found in Hartsville last week The Darlington County Coroner’s Office on Monday identified the remains, which were found on December 4, as Shamra Hope Cassidy Felkel, 49. The coroner ruled the death a homicide, WPDE reported. WBTW reported that Daniel Peele was arrested that …
A Florida police officer has been accused of engaging in “sexual acts” with a minor in the Miramar Police Explorer program. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office arrested George Frederick Richardson on Wednesday, charging him with use of a child in sexual performance, lewd or lacisvious written solicitation of certain minors, and harmful communication to minors, …
A retired Detroit police sergeant shot his tenant to death Tuesday afternoon in an apparent dispute over an eviction. Sources say the landlord, who was not identified, went to the home earlier in the day to serve an eviction notice, WXYZ reported. Court records show a court case between the two dating back to August, …
An Arizona judge ruled last week that “cult mom” Lori Vallow Daybell can represent herself in her trial for the murder of her fourth husband and attempted murder of her niece’s ex-husband. Lori Vallow Daybell was previously convicted in Idaho on the murders of two of her children, 7-year-old JJ Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, …
A Wisconsin man who faked his own death and left his wife and four children behind to be with a woman in eastern Europe is now back in the United States and in jail. Ryan Borgwardt was returned to the United States on Tuesday and charged with a misdemeanor obstruction of justice charge after prompting …
A 262-word “manifesto” published online “largely resembled” the handwritten document found when Luigi Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday, law enforcement sources told at least one other media outlet. A “spiral notebook,” referenced in the “manifesto,” provides more details about Mangione’s plans, a law enforcement source told CNN, including his specific plan to target …
A former Oklahoma deputy sheriff was sentenced to life without parole in the shooting death of his wife, who as also a deputy in the same department. Vaughn Cannon and Jordan Pile both worked for the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office at the time of the shooting in August 2023, KOKO reported. Pyle’s 17-year-old son was …
An 8-year-old Ohio boy found a loaded, unsecured handgun at his home in Akron Monday afternoon and shot himself with it. The boy, identified as D’Angelo Darrell Alcorn, was rushed to Akron Children’s Hospital, where he died, the Akron Beacon Journal said. The newspaper said the boy’s mother was home at the time of the …
A court has awarded custody of the twin children of slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan to the parents of his ex-wife — who remains in jail charged with killing him. The 12-year-old children had been living with Sterling and Shelli Gardner since their daughter, 37-year-old Shanna Gardner, was arrested in the twisting plot to kill …
A 37-year-old Maryland woman has been arrested for allegedly drowning her 3-month-old infant in a bath. Mackenzie Rose Colgan called 911 and said she had killed the baby, Montgomery County Police said. First responders arrived and took the child to a hospital, but the baby was ultimately pronounced dead. Colgan has been charged with first …
