The Alabama nursing student who drew national attention when she faked her own kidnapping a year ago spoke out this week on her now private Instagram account, for the first time since she was sentenced to a year’s probation, community service, and mental health counseling. Posting for her 27th birthday, Carlee Russell wrote that she …
A 41-year-old Washington state woman was taken into custody this week on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of her newborn in February 2023. The womanbut was ordered held Wednesday on a $150,000 bail, KOMO reported. An arrest report says she did not know she was pregnant and began having labor pains while riding her …
A 17-year-old Georgia girl was found dead over the weekend, and the man suspected of killing her is in critical condition with a gunshot wound. Savannah Police said they were called to the home of Maria Pollock Saturday night on a report of gunshot, WJCL reported. Maurice Pollock, 43, was found at the scene with …
An Alabama man awaiting trial in the death of his son, whose decomposing body was found in a non-function freezer, has died. Court records say Michael Halstead, 44, was out of jail on bond when he died on July 7, death. A cause of death was not released. Halstead and his wife, 44-year-old Karen Halstead, …
A woman scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday for her husband’s murder was found dead in her Connecticut home. Connecticut State Police went to Linda Kosuda-Bigazzi’s home in Burlington shortly after 10:30 a.m. after someone reported they were unable to contact her, The Associated Press reported. Troopers were also unable contact anyone inside, and they entered …
A Kentucky woman was arrested on Sunday afer her 20-month-old child overdosed on drugs. Jasmine Bartolo was charged with four counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, first degree criminal child abuse 12 or under, possession of marijuana, and trafficking in carfentanil or fentanyl derivative, the Hopkinsville Police Department said in a statement. Police said they were …
Georgia sheriff’s deputies are investigating after a fetus was found in a dumpster at a Grovetown Walmart on Tuesday. Columbia County Sheriff’s Major Steve Morris told the Augusta Chronicle the department was called shortly before 6 p.m. The fetus is being sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for an autopsy, he said. Officials know …
An 18-year-old man has been charged with multiple counts, including driving while intoxicated and driving without a license, in a fatal crash that killed two Louisiana 18-year-olds and injured two others early Sunday morning. The Louisiana State Patrol said that Axel Fores-Cordova was found to have a blood alcohol concentration of seven times the legal …
Police in California are investigating after a day-old baby girl was found dead in a trash bin outside a home in Los Angeles’s Woodland Hills neighborhood. Police told KTLA that they were notified after a 23-year-old woman, bleeding extensively, arrived at a hospital. Doctors determined she had just given birth. Officers went to her home …
A 20-year-old Georgia man has been charged with murder in the death of his pregnant ex-girlfriend, 16-year-old Mia Campos. Gwinnett County Police upgraded charges against Jesus Monroy on Tuesday to malice murder, felony murder, feticide, and aggravated assault, WXIA reported. Monroy was initially charged with lying to police after Campos’s family found her body on …
A North Carolina woman has been arrested for the “mercy killing” of her 9-month-old daughter. Megan Stack Sattizahn, 39, was arrested on Friday, a week after deputies found her walking naked and disoriented near her home in Catawba County, WSOC reported. The deputies followed her when she ran off to her home, where she stopped …
Three Massachusetts state troopers involved in the case against Karen Read for the death of her police officer boyfriend are now under an internal affairs investigation. All three of the troopers communicated with Trooper Michael Proctor, who admitted in court sending disparaging messages about Read to friends and colleagues. Proctor was suspended without pay earlier …
