Two children foiled an attempted carjacking Sunday night in Chicago, choking the would-be thief and pounding him over the head with an computer tablet. Police said a 49-year-old man left his SUV running with his three children inside when he went into a Domino’s pizza in Rogers Park, according to WGN. A car pulled up …
An Arizona man convicted of sexual abuse in Iowa 15 years ago has been charged with threatening an Iowa legislator over a requirement in the state’s sex offender registry law the he register in Arizona, where he has lived since 2016. According to a federal complaint, Cody Ray Leveke, 36, had been communicating with state …
Two more women have filed suit against disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, charging that the convicted pedophile raped them when they were young teenagers. The women, identified as Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4, join a lawsuit already filed on behalf of Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 by attorney Lisa Bloom. Epstein died …
The baby found at the Houston home where Heidi Broussard was found murdered and stuffed into the trunk of a car is “fine, happy and healthy,” a spokeswoman with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) said on Monday. Tiffani Butler of DFPS told ABC 13 that the results of a DNA test …
A Utah woman is being accused of trying to buy an illegal biological agent to harm her sick roommate — and it wasn’t the first time she’d tried. Janie Ridd, 50, is her roommate’s caretaker and the beneficiary of her life insurance policy, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. Additionally, the roommate’s will stipulates that Ridd …
Police investigating a suspected child pornographer on Friday found a teenage boy missing for two-and-a-half years in the man’s cupboard, solving a missing persons case that had plagued investigators from the start. The 15-year-old boy, known as Marvin in the German press, vanished without a trace from a supervised group home in Recklinghausen in 2017, …
Detectives in south Florida are investigating after a 9-month-old baby drowned when his mother left him unattended in the bathtub and took a nap, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said the child’s parents, identified as Heather Clifford, 29, and Shawn Stewart Davis, 30, found the boy face down in the water …
Police in two Idaho jurisdictions investigating the mysterious death of a woman in October are now looking for two missing children, their mother, and the dead woman’s husband, who married the children’s mom two weeks after his wife’s death, EastIdahoNews.com reports. The FBI is assisting in the search for Joshua Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, …
A pair of fugitives wanted in a multi-state crime spree that included murder, kidnapping and assault were captured Thursday night in Hazelwood, Missouri, the Tennessean reported. Investigators say Brady Witcher, 41, and Brittany McMillan, 28, committed a string of violent crimes in a four-state spree that started in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 13, when police …
A Colorado man has been charged with killing a 9-year-old girl with chloroform while raping her, the Grand Junction Sentinel reported on Friday. Jeffrey Beagley, 34, was arrested on December 13 and charged with first-degree murder, child abuse resulting in death, reckless manslaughter, attempted sex assault on a child by a person in a position …
A North Carolina man has been charged with killing his wife with eyedrops for a substantial insurance pay out. Stacy Hunsucker’s death on September 23, 2018, in Mount Holly was originally attributed to natural causes, but her mother pushed the issue with the North Carolina Department of Insurance, telling investigators she thought her son-in-law, Joshua …
The owner of an unlicensed day care has been charged with the death of an 11-month-old in her care after she strapped the fussy baby into a car seat and went outside. While she was there, the baby girl slid down in the car seat, and its strap choked her to death. Lauren Landgrebe, 48, …
