Fort Worth firefighters responded to a dumpster fire in the western part of the city early Wednesday morning, and when they’d extinguished the blaze, they found three dismembered bodies. One of the bodies was that of a child, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported. The others were a young woman or a teenage girl and …
Police in Georgia have listed gospel and R&B singer Kelly Price as a missing person after being unable to find her during a welfare check last weekend. Price, 48, posted a video on July 29 saying she had COVID-19 and was having trouble with the symptoms. Her family told TMZ she was admitted to a …
A young child is dead and another seriously injured after they were apparently thrown from a bridge into Cross Lake in Shreveport, Louisiana. Initial reports said the children, believed to be siblings, were thrown into the water from the Interstate 220 bridge over the lake, but Shreveport police later said they may have gone into …
A Tennessee teenager has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting his mother while she was sleeping more than a year ago. Shawn Willis, now 18, was 16 on April 20, 2020, when he reportedly crept into Sandy Willis’s room and took her handgun from her nightstand. He went downstairs to …
The former Minneapolis police office convicted of killing George Floyd in May 2020 filed an appeal on Thursday. Derek Chauvin filed the appeal on the last day he could have done so, 90 days after his June 25 sentencing, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Chauvin was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree …
State investigators in South Carolina said Thursday that their probe into the June double murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh has led to “other potential crimes that warrant further investigation.” The South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division took over the investigation into the murders of Maggie Murdaugh, wife of prominent attorney Alex Murdaugh, and their …
A New York man will spend 30 years in prison after pleading guilty last year to stuffing his ex-girlfriend into a suitcase and leaving her to suffocate and die on the side of a road in Connecticut. Javier Da Silva Rojas, 25, kidnapped 24-year-old Valerie Reyes on January 28, 2019, covered her mouth, bound her …
A second woman has come forward to say that she picked up a hitchiking Brian Laundrie on August 29 and that he tried to “get out of the moving car” when she got to the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping area, where he’d asked to be taken. The first woman, Miranda Baker, posted a series of …
A western Kentucky man has been charged with murder after he drove home and told relatives he had killed a woman. Denny Christopher Rumfelt, 29, has also been charged with tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse, the News-Enterprise reported. One of Rumfelt’s relatives called police and told them what he had said. …
The Navajo Division of Public Safety issued an AMBER Alert on Thursday for four young children allegedly taken by their father from Tsayatoh, New Mexico. Missing are Turquoise Sky Peshlakai, 10; Rumaldo Peshlakai Jr, 7; Coral Dawn Peshlakai, 5; and Rain Cloud Peshlakai, 2, KOB reported. Navajo Police said they responded to a domestic violence …
A body found floating in the Illinois River earlier this month has been identified as that of an Illinois State University grad student who vanished on August 24. Jelani “J.J.” Day, 25, was last seen that day on security footage at a cannabis store in Bloomington at about 9:12 a.m. His white, 2010 Chrysler 300 …
A California judge ruled Wednesday that Scott Peterson must be re-sentenced after the state supreme court overturned his death sentence last year. Peterson, convicted of murdering his pregnant wife Laci and sentenced to death in 2005, will be resentenced in November to life without parole, Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo said, according to KRON. Peterson’s …
