Beth R. waited nearly 30 years to confront the man who sexually abused her from the time she was 11 years old until she was 16, and she did so bravely, reading her 11-page victim impact statement in full during the sentencing hearing for Charles LeRoy Rutledge in San Diego.
A grand jury in East Tennessee has indicted Megan Boswell, mother of deceased toddler Evelyn Boswell, on 19 counts, including two counts of felony murder, WJHL reports. Boswell, 19, has also been charged with single counts of aggravated child abuse, aggravated child neglect, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse, and failure to report a …
An Arizona man was arrested last week on a string of charges relating to his increasingly bizarre behavior over money he and his brother inherited from their grandparents. Mesa police said they began their investigation in March when the victim contacted them to say he was being threatened by his brother, Ross Paul Emmick, despite …
North Carolina police have arrested four people in connection with the death of a 17-year-old girl shot to death inside her car outside a Raleigh Bojangles restaurant over the weekend, WRAL reports. Devin Cordell Jones, 17, has been charged with the murder of Veronica Lee Baker Saturday night. Keyshara Michelle Deans, 19; Nezyiha Zamir Collins, …
Federal agents were seen Wednesday morning sifting through a Kentucky storage unit belonging to Crystal Rogers, the Bardstown mother of five who vanished in July 2015, according to WLKY. The FBI took over the investigation into Rogers’s disappearance after human remains were found on the Washington-Nelson County line — a few miles east of Bardstown …
A special prosecutor found nothing worthy of criminal charges in his investigation of State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of actor Jussie Smollett’s case, but Dan Webb said he would be reporting possible ethics violations to the Illinois attorney disciplinary board, the Chicago Tribune reported. Webb’s investigation led to Smollett’s indictment by a Cook County grand …
Houston police are looking for a suspect who stole a car with a 2-year-old girl sleeping in the back seat, KTRK reports. The car was running and likely unlocked, parked in front of the Speed Queen Laundry in the shopping center at Mi Tienda while the mother was inside. “She was sleeping in the car. …
A Minnesota couple have been charged with murder in the death of the husband’s 8-year-old daughter, who weighed just 45 pounds at the time of her death. The Minneapolis Star Tribune said an autopsy revealed that Autumn Hallow had atrophied muscles and significant hair loss, puncture wounds on her head, bleeding on the brain and …
UK tabloid the Daily Mail published photographs Tuesday showing former President Bill Clinton getting a shoulder massage from a 22-year-old massage therapist because he complained of a stiff neck after falling asleep on convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet. Clinton was on a humanitarian trip to Africa in 2002 for the Clinton Foundation’s AIDS project …
Family members gave conflicting information about what happened in early morning shooting.
Three teens charged in a crime spree that ended with the killing of a recently retired college provost last month should be tried as adults, a Charleston, South Carolina, solicitor argued Monday in court, the Charleston Post and Courier said. Tom DiLorenzo, 63, was walking with his wife, recently appointed College of Charleston provost Suzanne …
Dallas police arrested a man over the weekend they were questioning about a stalking incident when he admitted he had killed another man who went on a date with the woman he was stalking, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported. Jorge Esparza, 22, told detectives he shot and killed Ricardo Medina-Madriz, 27, just before midnight …
