A Texas man killed his mother and her dog, then held police at bay for seven hours before, police say, he “surrendered peacefully.” Gerald Wayne Powell, 45, reportedly told his sister he was going to kill their mother and the dog, prompting Van Zandt County deputies to head to the scene just outside Wills Point …
Police are not saying if they know where Justin Smith is, but he’s not been seen or heard from since March 30.
A Los Angeles grand jury has returned an indictment against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, already serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault in New York. Fox News reports that the indictment is identical to a criminal complaint filed last year by then-District Attorney Jackie Lacey, charging Weinstein with 11 counts, including rape …
A 9-year-old Texas boy found a handgun inside a vehicle and used it to shoot an 11-year-old boy to death. Both children had been left alone in the vehicle, in the parking lot of a Dallas Walmart Neighborhood Market, by a 32-year-old woman who went inside the store, CBS DFW reported. Police said they responded …
Police outside Philadelphia have arrested a woman on charges connected with the death of a 21-year-old pregnant woman who was found dead in a pile of debris earlier this week. Tylydiah Garnett was seen on video helping dispose of Dianna Brice’s body, police sources told CBS3, and officers recovered clothing with burn marks. Garnett has …
Crews searching along the Mississippi River for missing Louisiana State University student Kori Gauthier found something else instead this week: a passenger van riddled with bullet holes. Officials said they didn’t believe it was connected with Gauthier’s disappearance. Her wrecked car was found early Wednesday near an I-10 bridge over the river in Baton Rouge. The person involved in the crash said the car was empty when he struck it, although police found her cell phone and wallet inside. The United Cajun Navy, whose crews found the van in the river, said they took some photos and passed them along to Baton Rouge police.
A career criminal busted Friday for yelling anti-Asian threats at an undercover cop was released on his own recognizance on Saturday, prompting a retired NYPD detective to complain about the city’s “revolving door justice system.” Following a bail reform law enacted by the state legislature last year, certain misdemeanors — those that cause no injury …
A California mother who is the “sole suspect” in the deaths of her children was involved in a contentious custody dispute with the children’s father. Eric Denton told the Los Angeles Times that he filed for custody on March 1, when Liliana Carillo began exhibiting signs of mental instability. Carillo, 30, responded by requesting a …
Colorado investigators used DNA from a water bottle used during a cross-country flight to nab a suspect in a decades old murder. Roger Dean, then 51, was shot and killed at his home on November 21, 1985, when a masked intruder entered his house and forced him to tie up his wife, according to 9 …
A Florida man was charged with manslaughter Saturday morning after he allegedly beat a 2-year-old boy when he urinated on a couch. Alegray Damiah Jones, 30, is being held without bond at the Polk County Jail on a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child, the Lakeland Ledger said. Jones, the boyfriend of the boy’s …
A South Carolina child care employee has been charged with multiple counts relating to child abuse after she was caught on video shaking and hitting three infants this week. Tina Rose Nye, 55, was seen on video holding children ranging in age from 3 months to 5 months upside down and violently shaking them and …
A former Oklahoma attorney and her boyfriend have been arrested for killing the boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend and her parents in 2019. The deaths of 65-year-old Jack Chandler, 69-year-old Evelyn Chandler, and their daughter, 43-year-old Tiffany Eichor, came just months after Keegan Harroz began defending Barry Rowland Titus II in a domestic violence case involving Eichor, who …
