A dramatic night in South Florida began with a 911 caller who reported witnessing a shooting — and that the shooter and an accomplice were trying to drag the victim’s body into a canal. Palm Beach County deputies set out for the location, but before they could arrive, the 911 caller told dispatchers that the …
A man and a woman in Massachusetts have been arrested for kidnapping a four-day-old baby girl Saturday morning in Worcester. The mother reported that a woman she’d met on Facebook and been in frequent communication with — identified as Kassidy Lauziere-Cuevas, 19 — picked her and the baby up Saturday morning for coffee shortly before …
A California man who spent nearly four decades in prison for two murders he did not commit has offered a $50,000 reward for evidence leading to the conviction of the real killers. Craig Coley, now 74, was convicted in 1980 of raping and killing his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Rhonda Wicht, and smothering her 4-year-old son Donnie …
A Louisiana man was arrested this week and accused of killing his infant son, who died last week from apparent child abuse. And it’s the not first time Leon Arnold, 36, has faced child abuse charges, the Advocate reported. Baton Rouge police investigated after Arnold’s 3-month-old child was found unresponsive on August 14, when he …
An Illinois man has been charged with first degree murder after the stabbing death of his landlord on Friday. Belleville Police Department officers found Arthur Parris, 48, in a nearby apartment covered in blood, KMOV reported. Police said Parris and the landlord, who has not been named until notifications are complete, got into an argument …
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for a 26-year-old Indiana man who shot and killed a woman and her grandmother outside an auto seat manufacturing plant where all three worked. The shooting happened shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, during shift change at NHK Seating of America in Frankfort, the Lafayette Journal & Courier …
Police in an Ohio suburb are investigating reports that a high school football player was attacked by teammates in the locker. Genoa Township police said the victim reported he was knocked to the floor and kicked by several players — and that one player “assaulted him in a sexual manner” during the attack. The incident …
A missing lesbian couple was found shot to death Wednesday near a camping area in Grand County, Utah. Kylen Schulte, 24, and Crystal Turner, 38, also known as Crystal Beck, were last seen Saturday when they left a tavern in Moab. One of the women failed to show for work the next day, and friends …
A Long Island man was indicted this week on charges that he raped a tortured a woman he met for a date. Yossef Kahlon, 55, was arrested on Thursday for the incident, which took place in January. The indictment says that the victim met Kahlon at his home and consented to be bound for a …
An Iowa woman already sentenced to 25 year for intentionally running over a 14-year-old Latina girl and a 12-year-old Black boy with her SUV was sentenced Thursday to the same amount on federal hate crimes charges stemming from the incidents. Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, was given two concurrent 25 year sentences in May after pleading …
Twin 5-year-old girls were shot this week in Tucson, Arizona, during a road rage incident. One of the girls was hospitalized with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, and the other was treated at the scene. Tucson police said that the suspect nearly collided with a vehicle driven by the twins’ father Tuesday afternoon, KVOA reported, and …
Investigators say 18-year-old Shmuel Silverberg’s death was part of a violent spree of random crimes and not bias-related.
