Star broadcaster Piers Morgan calls police after death threats
Celebrity
British television personality Piers Morgan reported this week that he and his son Spencer had received online death threats and that police were looking into them.
Child sex crimes
February 18, 2021
‘MADAME PERV’ Ghislaine Maxwell claims she’s going bald, abused by guard behind bars
Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer told a judge that Jeffrey Epstein’s one-time gal pal and regular pimp is “withering to a shell” in jail awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and perjury charges, the New York Post reports. Attorney Bobbi Sternheim wrote in a letter to US District Court Judge Alison Nathan that Maxwell is served inedible food and …
Murder
February 18, 2021
Cancer suicide pact? 3 found shot to death – including 5-month-old infant
Three people — one of them a 5-month-old infant — were found shot to death Wednesday in southeastern Arizona in an apparent double-murder suicide, the Cochise County Herald/Review reports. Sierra Vista police identified the adult victims as Gerardo De La Torre, 47, and Raquel De La Santos De La Torre, 30, and said all three …
Murder
February 18, 2021
Alabama governor doubles reward for toddler shot dead while snuggling on couch with his mom
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has added $5,000 from the state to the reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting death of Birmingham toddler Major Turner earlier this month, WIAT reports. The 2-year-old was lying on the couch with his mother in the evening of February 4 when someone fired nearly …
Coronavirus
February 17, 2021
Feds looking into NY Gov Cuomo’s handling of long-term care facilities during pandemic
The US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, along with the FBI, are looking into New York state’s handling of nursing homes and other long-term facilities during the coronavirus pandemic, the Albany Times Union reports. The investigation is examining the work of some of the members of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus task force, someone with direct knowledge …
Murder
February 17, 2021
2 men jailed for shooting death of Alabama teen last year
Two men were charged with murder Wednesday in the death of an Alabama teen last September in Auburn. Marcus Okeef Wigley, 35, and Tahara Jaquay Brunson, 41, were already charged with kidnapping 18-year-old Thomas Anthony Green early in the morning on September 5, 2020, along with Timez Williams, . Green’s body was found five days …
Murder
February 17, 2021
Ne’er-do-well son charged with brutal murder of his parents
A 27-year-old Michigan man has been charged with the murder of his parents, whose bodies were found buried in the woods at Gourdneck State Game Area last Friday, MLive reports. Nicholas Alexander Johnson was already in jail on outstanding warrants and additional weapons charges from his arrest on February 9, when police found him hiding …
Murder
February 15, 2021
Report of shooting, empty apartment lead cops to woman’s body in the river
DeAngelo Bonds has been charged with fatally shooting the woman he lived with and dumping her body in the Roanoke River.
Attempted Murder
February 15, 2021
Husband intentionally hits pregnant wife with a car
An Alabama man has been jailed after witnesses said he intentionally hit his pregnant wife with a car, Tuscaloosa News reports. Canaan Johnson, 22, was charged with kidnapping and attempted murder and is being held on a $180,000 bail. Johnson’s 23-year-old wife was taken to DCH Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, Tuscaloosa Police …
Assault
February 15, 2021
Michigan man is dead after ex-girlfriend fights back when he and 3 others break into her house
A Michigan man is dead and three of his friends are in jail after they broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home early Sunday morning and attacked her and her boyfriend, WNEM reports. Burton police said Johnathan Skaggs, 25, was pronounced dead at the scene. The two victims were treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Hurley Medical Center …
Murder
February 15, 2021
Fight over political sign leaves Washington state woman dead
A 55-year-old Washington state woman and her husband are in jail after a shooting over the alleged theft of a political sign left another woman dead, the Skagit Valley Herald reports. Skagit County Sheriff’s deputies came to the home in Big Lake late Saturday afternoon after being called to investigate a fight. A second call …
Manslaughter
February 14, 2021
Toddler wanders into pool and drowns while mom and boyfriend sleep
A Florida couple was arrested Saturday and charged with aggravated manslaughter after they reportedly slept through the drowning of the woman’s 23-month-old child, Florida Today reports. Titusville police said that Amanda Paige Davis and her boyfriend, Charner Leon Williams IV, both 30, didn’t wake up until paramedics responded to a 911 call about a drowning. …
