The judge in cult mom Lori Vallow’s Idaho court case withdrew on Friday, at the request of her defense attorney Mark Means, and another of her lawyers said that he planned to withdraw from the case. Judge Farren Eddins approved Means’s request during a hearing held by phone, East Idaho News reported. Court administration must …
A jury in Chicago on Friday found a small-time drug dealer guilty of first-degree murder and armed violence for shooting a police commander to death in a downtown stairwell in 2018, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Shomari Legghette, 44, was wearing body armor when he shot Cmdr Paul Bauer, 53, seven times with a semi-automatic handgun. …
Robert Durst’s younger brother testified under subpoena on Wednesday at his brother’s murder trial, saying the real estate heir was cruel and he was terrified of him. “This is a horrible experience and I’m fearful of my brother,” Thomas Durst, 70, said at the trial in Los Angeles, the New York Post reported. The elder …
New Jersey prosecutors on Tuesday announced they had arrested a convenience store owner for selling homemade spray hand-sanitizer that left several young boys with burns. The River Vale Police Department launched an investigation on Monday evening when photos of a boy with burns on his leg were posted to social media. The investigation led to …
Just as he did after a jury found him guilty of rape and a criminal sex act, disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein experienced “chest pains” on Wednesday after he was sentenced to 23 years in prison and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital. “He was having chest pains and the Rikers staff decided for safety to …
A north Georgia man was charged Tuesday with murder in the death of his “on-and-off” girlfriend, whose body was found after a fire gutted her cabin in the woods, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Habersham County coroner ruled Alecia Grace Stover’s death a homicide after an autopsy revealed she had died of blunt trauma …
An Alabama judge granted bond on Tuesday to the man charged with abuse of a corpse following the death and disappearance of Paighton Houston earlier this year. Frederick Hampton, 50, has been held without bond since he was captured in Ohio on January 29 and subsequently extradited to Jefferson County, Alabama, Al.com reported. The judge …
A Minnesota woman was jailed last week after she allegedly shot and killed her boyfriend after he allegedly assaulted her, KARE 11 reported. Stephanie Louise Clark, 29, knocked on a neighbor’s door in her apartment building on Thursday, crying and with her 5-year-old son in hand. “He’s dead,” she allegedly told the neighbor. “I shot …
A Connecticut woman faces murder and other charges related to a fatal fire in a Hartford apartment building early Sunday morning, the Hartford Courant reported. Police said Destiny Waite, 28, lit a bottle of hand sanitizer on fire and threw it at her girlfriend during a fight, sparking the 3-alarm blaze at the 5-story Charter …
A fisherman found the body of a woman Monday morning in East Tennessee’s Fort Loudon Lake, and later in the day, the Knoxville Police Department confirmed it was that of a woman reported missing more than a week ago. A car belonging to Tiffany Trull, 48, was found on February 29 on the University of …
An Alabama city councilman who reported his wife missing two weeks ago led police to her body on Saturday and now sits in jail awaiting charges. Robert Warren reported Lisa Warren, 51, missing on February 25, Carbon Hill Police Chief Eric House said at a news conference late Saturday afternoon, and multiple agencies launched a …
Police in central Florida arrested three people on Saturday and charged them in the deaths of a married couple killed 2 1/2 weeks ago, their bodies dumped into “a swampy area” behind their home. Acting on a tip, deputies found the bodies of Raymond Mark Cline, 33, and Crystal Ann Cline, 37, on Friday, the …
