A 61-year-old Florida woman has been arrested after her 72-year-old roommate was found dead and wrapped in a tarp at their Inverness home. Tracy Lee Stanley has been charged with second degree murder and is being held without bond, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies were called to the home Saturday night after a …
An Ohio woman pleaded guilty this week to the aggravated murder of her 4-month-old son and was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison. Melissa Thorp, 40, entered the guilty plea on Thursday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. Judge Julie Lynch then handed down the sentence of life in prison with the possibility …
New DNA procedures have cracked a 25-year-old murder of a Florida woman, leading to the arrest of her long-time boyfriend. The Sanford Police Department said that Gary Durrance, 73, has been charged with second degree homicide in the 1999 murder of Sherry Holtz, WKMG reported. Holtz was 50 when she was last seen on December …
A 25-year-old Arizona woman reported missing earlier his month was found shot to death in a car next to the body of a man her family said had been stalking her. Doris Maricela Aguilar was reported missing on July 1, after she told family she was heading to the store and didn’t return, KPNX reported. …
A missing Georgia woman was found dead in the back seat of a car at an Atlanta transit station on Friday, nearly two years after the unsolved murder of her 13-year-old son in neighboring DeKalb County. Chanell Crosby, 35, was reported missing by Atlanta Police Thursday night. Investigators said her family had last seen her …
Four members of an Uzbeki family, including two women and two children, were stabbed and killed Friday night at their home in Brooklyn, allegedly by the son of one of the slain women. Police said 56-year-old Fayzieva Mavlyuda, 27-year-old Maftuna Khakimova, and her two children — Kamila Shavkatova, 5, and Timur Shavkatov, 4 — were …
A 29-year-old Utah man was arrested Friday night for allegedly trying to kidnap a 12-year-old girl. Salt Lake City police said the incident happened shortly before 11 p.m. when Mason Andrew Musser allegedly grabbed the 12-year-old by the wrist as she walked in the Sugar House neighborhood with a friend and tried to pull her …
A Michigan jury on Thursday found the man accused of killing beloved Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll not guilty of premeditated murder but deadlocked on counts of felony murder and home invasion. The jury also convicted 29-year-old Michael Jackson-Bolanos of lying to police about his role in Woll’s death last year in her Detroit home, …
An Arkansas man charged with drowning his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son in a toilet two years ago pleaded guilty this week to first degree murder and first degree battery. Nathan Bridges, 34, was promptly sentenced to 60 years in prison for the death of Blu Rolland, WMC reported. The boy was found buried under the floor …
A Las Vegas man was indicted Thursday on charges that he killed the mother of his children last September, a murder court documents say those children witnessed. But 39-year-old Elmer Manzanarez, who was initially arrested on charges of domestic battery and child abuse, was released on a $100,000 bond, reportedly with an ankle monitor, KLAS …
An Alabama man has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of a woman and four children. Bibb County Sheriff Jody Wade said that Brandin Kendrick, 32, was arrested and charged with five counts of capital murder, WBRC reported. Wade said deputies were called after 8 p.m. Thursday to a home West Blocton. WBMA identified …
A Tennessee mom charged in her toddler son’s death has been extradited from Texas to stand trial. Sharday Bakare’s boyfriend, 23-year-old Anthony Andrews, was arrested last year and indicted in May in the September 2023 death of 2-year-old Anthony Bakare, WMC reported. Bakare has been charged with first degree murder, aggravated child neglect, and aggravated …
