A 28-year-old Missouri woman was arrested Friday and charged with first and second degree murder in the death of her newborn baby earlier this month. Missouri State Highway Patrol investigators said that Makuya Stephanie Kambamba gave birth in a toilet at the Smithfield Foods plant in Milan where she worked and then allowed the infant …
Police in northern Washington state are investigating a double murder and suicide that left a brother and sister dead along with a man police say sought a relationship with the sister, the Sequim Gazette reported. Law enforcement responded to the home in Sequim, a town on Sequim Bay in the far north of the state, …
A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper stopped his car, barely believing what he saw: an emaciated boy, carrying a bag, walking along a lonely rural highway in the middle of the night. His face, legs, and arms were covered with bruises. Beneath his shirt, bruises covered his torso, in various stages of healing. But it …
The ex-wife of a man charged with killing his former girlfriend was arrested and charged as an accessory this week as police in central North Carolina search for the body of the 23-year-old mother who hasn’t been seen in more than a year, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Monica Moynan’s mother reported her missing …
A Georgia woman has been charged with seven counts of aggravated assault for shooting at her girlfriend and hitting two apartments where people were sleeping instead. Nikeitta M. Chappell, 31, was arrested by Flowery Branch police and Hall County sheriff’s deputies after she allegedly fired five shots at her girlfriend, who was driving through the …
A Tennessee judge dismissed an aggravated burglary charge against the grandmother of deceased Tennessee toddler Evelyn Boswell but left standing a theft charge and added several others, WJHL reported. Angela Boswell was out on bond in March for allegedly trying to steal items from a Walmart store with her boyfriend, William McCloud, when she was …
A Pennsylvania mother whose 3-year-old son died from suspected abuse after nearly a month in the hospital has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment, aggravated assault and other charges related to the body’s death, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Mikel Fetterman was taken to UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on March …
A Wisconsin man reportedly pointed a gun at a newborn’s head before punching the child’s mother in the face and fleeing when police were called, NBC 15 reported. Larry Simmons was taken down by Town of Madison K-9 officer Tonto after the dog located him hiding beneath a pile of clothing in in another town. …
An elderly couple shot and killed at a veterans cemetery in Delaware has been identified by police. Paul C. Marino, 86, was initially admitted to a hospital in critical condition but died from his injuries, Delaware State Police said Monday. His wife, Lidia Marino, 85, was pronounced dead at the scene. Both were from Elkton, …
A Nashville Uber driver jumped out of her own vehicle while speeding down a busy north Georgia highway to escape a kidnapper who had commandeered her SUV and ordered her to drive south at knifepoint. Carolina Vargas, 26, suffered life-threatening injuries in the May 8 incident, police said, but is recovering in the hospital, WSMV …
Florida police are looking for an 11-year-old boy and his biological parents, who are considered “potential persons of interest” in an interference with custody case involving the boy, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. Keavon Washington, also known as Keavon Cue, reportedly ran away from home early Sunday and may have been picked up by someone …
A grandmother and her boyfriend have been arrested in Texas for locking a 6-year-old boy in a shed with his hands tied behind his back, KTVT reported. Police found the boy in a shed behind the home at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday night, the station said. Police did not say what brought them to the …
