A junior high school physical education teacher in Missouri has been placed on leave from his job after being charged with raping a minor. Joshua Olsen, 40, has been charged with first degree rape or attempted rape and first degree sodomy or attempted sodomy. The incident took place on October 11, according to KVFS. How …
The New York woman caught on film in May calling police on a Black birdwatcher in Central Park made a second phone call to police in which she accused Christian Cooper, a member of the city’s Audubon Society board of directors, of trying to assault her, Manhattan prosecutors said Wednesday. Amy Cooper, not related to …
Luis Olivo was finally arrested for child molestation last year, but released when a bail reform group paid his bail — and he did it again!
A white Texas man may have disguised himself as a Black man to ambush his ex-girlfriend at her workplace, where he shot her in the head and repeatedly stabbed her, according to the Dallas Morning News. Alyssa Burkett, 24, died at the scene from her injuries, an affidavit says. Andrew Charles Beard, 33, turned himself …
A Missouri mother’s boyfriend shot her and her 6-year-old daughter to death Saturday and wounded the woman’s two other children, police said, according to the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Joseph Jones, 40, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Bernadetta Cooper, 40, and Doryan Bryant, 6, the paper said. …
Human remains found in a secluded, wooded area near Snohomish, Washington, are believed to belong to a 25-year-old Monroe woman who disappeared on March 31. The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said the remains were located Saturday morning during a planned search for Kenna Harris that took place in an area that had not been searched …
Two 13-year-olds were arrested this weeks for the murder of 20-year-old Rene Ray Rodriguez Jr., who was shot four times while in his bed and then collapsed dead on the floor. One of those arrested is Rene Rodriguez’s sister, and the other is her boyfriend, family members told KSAT. Police said the two teens were …
Detectives in the Florida Keys say they’ve solved an eight-year-old cold case, charging 54-year-old Hugh Timothy Blanton with the murder of Ronald Silvia, 65, in 2012. Monroe County investigators say that Blanton and Silvia were lovers and that Blanton was upset because Silvia was showing a photo of his genitals around the campground where they …
A days long search for a missing North Carolina woman ended Thursday night when the Wilmington Police Department said she had been found safe, the Port City Daily reported. Kristin Glass, 43, was last heard from on Tuesday before heading to Topsail Beach that morning, and was last seen on security footage at a bank …
An 18-year-old south Georgia man has been charged in the brutal stabbing death of 9-year-old Alazia “Ally” Johnson earlier this week in Tifton. Semaj Antonio Moss was arrested Saturday in Lowndes County, about 50 miles south of Tifton, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced late Saturday. Moss has been charged with malice, murder, felony murder, …
Prosecutors in the case of a Missouri man charged with killing his wife and abusing their daughter are seeking to call 40 witnesses with the case finally goes to trial, the Columbia Missourian reported Friday. Earlier this week, Columbia police resumed their search for the body of Mengqi Ji Elledge, 28, who was last seen …
Brittany Smith, 19, pleaded guilty to child neglect after she put her 8 month old baby in a freezer and closed the lid, WBIR reports. She was sentenced to two years probation; the baby survived.
