A 21-year-old Ohio mother was arrested last week after “a disturbing video” went viral, showing her screaming at and hitting her months-old baby in his crib. The video was shot by the child’s father, who posted it to social media, WHIO reported. “It was one of those things that literally went viral for all the …
A Georgia sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Saturday night while responding to a domestic violence call in Hiram. The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office said Deputy Brandon “Cunningham was shot as he exited his patrol vehicle, never even seeing the threat.” The suspect continued to fire at the deputies, keeping Cunningham’s partner and backup who …
Nearly five months after pleading guilty to killing 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith, Rashad Trice was formally sentenced the life in prison without parole. Trice entered guilty pleas for first degree murder and criminal sexual conduct relating to an assault on the little girl’s mother on July 1, the Lansing State Journal reported. In addition to life …
California investigators cracked a 51-year-old rape and murder last week after DNA led them to a suspect in Idaho. Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was arrested in Lemhi County on Wednesday and charged with the death of Nina “Nadine” Fischer in November 1973. Fischer, 31, lived with her husband and their toddler daughter in unincorporated San …
Police in Texas are looking for a 48-year-old man they say broke into his estranged wife’s home, shot dead her boyfriend, and then forced her to help him dispose of the body. Michael Maurice Mack, 48, is wanted on a charge of capital murder in the death of 53-year-old Kelvin Hinton, the Harris County Sheriff’s …
A Tennessee man and woman were arrested last week and charged with aggravated child abuse and neglect and child endangerment after law enforcement found evidence the couple had been locking a 7-year-old boy with autism in a storage trunk with urine-soaked blankets and a pillow. Carter County deputies were assisting the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation …
A Washington state man initially arrested for assaulting an emergency room nurse at a Seattle hospital was later charged with murder after he told police he “may have killed” his girlfriend at his townhome. Police had already been called to Andy Chu’s townhome in Lake City’s Olympic Hills neighborhood a day earlier, on August 10, …
A Tennessee woman was sentenced to life in prison after she pleaded no contest to murder and child abuse charges in the death of her boyfriend’s 5-year-old son. Turner Simpkins was found dead in his home in Chapmansboro in July 2023, The Tennessean reported. An autopsy found bruises, cuts on his body, and bite marks …
A Washington state man already wanted for questioning in connection with a deadly fire in Concrete earlier this month is now wanted for murder after the three victims were found to have died from gunshot wounds. Mount Vernon Police had identified Jason M. Birman, 49, in connection with the fire, saying they believed he had …
A former south Alabama beauty queen awaiting trial in a murder-for-hire plot against her husband in the Bahamas has accused her latest boyfriend of abusing her. In a protection order filed against 35-year-old Dorsey Ryan Love last month, Lindsay Shiver accused him of throwing her onto a bed, choking her, and putting a pillow over …
A Florida jury convicted a 60-year-old woman of manslaughter for killing a neighbor in the midst of an ongoing dispute about the neighbor’s children playing outside. The jury deliberated less than three hours before returning the guilty verdict, CBS News reported. Susan Lorincz was initially charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Ajike “AJ” …
A pair of 14-year-old Kansas girls were arrested this week for the Labor Day weekend murder of a 93-year-old woman last year. Joanne R. Johnson was found dead in her Augusta home, were she lived alone, and her death was ruled a homicide, KWCH reported. Eight months later, Governor Laura Kelly and Johnson’s family offered …
