The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling this week, denying Joshua Miller’s attempt to have his life with parole sentence changed to allow the possibility of parole, the Hattiesburg American reports. Miller, now 38, was convicted in 1997 of killing his on-again, off-again 13-year-old girlfriend, Kristin Aultman, on August 18, 1996, when …
Sarasota police launched an investigation this week after a video was released of a mid-May incident that showed one of their officers kneeling on the neck of a 27-year-old man they were trying to take into custody, WFTS reported. The video was posted on social media on Monday by Terria Johnson, mother of the suspect …
Idaho State Police have issued an AMBER Alert for 6-year-old Leo Isador Hiibel-Cloutier, who was last seen on Sunday at Super 1 Foods in Rathdrum, KUTV reported. Police said they believe the boy was abducted his non-custodial mother, Mimi Charmayne Hiibel, 35, and that 16-year-old Gene Heckman may be with them, according to KPIC. They …
Alabama’s Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed the death sentence for James Osgood, who was convicted of beating and raping a 46-year-old woman and then slitting her throat in 2010. The unusual aspect of the case is that Osgood asked for death penalty, WSFA reported. Osgood, 50, was initially convicted and sentenced to death in …
A two day search for a woman who reportedly fell into the New River Gorge in West Virginia ended on Tuesday with the arrest of the woman and her husband on a variety of charges, including conspiracy, fraudulent schemes, and obstructing an officer, The Beckley Register-Herald reported. Julie Wheeler, 44, and Rodney Wheeler, 47, faked …
Three more former Minneapolis police officers have been charged as accomplices in connection with George Floyd’s death and are now in jail in Hennepin County, according to jail records. Former officer Derek Chauvin, who was seen in videos with his knee pressing into Floyd’s death, was arrested last week and charged with third degree murder …
A Utah police officer was shot in the head while his back was turned to the man who killed him, according to a report from the Weber County Attorney’s Office released on Wednesday. Ogden City Officer Nathan Lyday, 24, died instantly on May 28 while he and another officer were responded to a domestic abuse …
An Alabama judge ruled Wednesday that prosecutors have enough evidence to take the murder case against Ibraheem Yazeed, accused of kidnapping and killing college student Aniah Blanchard last fall, to a grand jury. Judge Russell Bush had already found probable cause to send the kidnapping charge to a grand jury, WTVM reported. Blanchard, a 19-year-old …
An attorney for California killer Scott Peterson, convicted of murdering his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn son, asked the state Supreme Court for a new trial on Tuesday, arguing that the trial judge made crucial errors that prevented Peterson from getting a fair trial, the Modesto Bee reported. Peterson, 47, is currently on death …
An Alabama man and woman were arrested late last month and charged with sexual abusing a young boy, the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office said. Amy Nicole Lovell, 29, and Justin Anthony Jeffries, 26, have been charged with aggravated child abuse, sexual torture, sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12, and assault. Jeffries …
A Memphis man has been jailed on murder and child abuse charges after a toddler in his care was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and later died. Staff at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital contacted Memphis police on Thursday about the 23-month-old girl after Victor Williams, the mother’s boyfriend, said he found the child …
Federal prosecutors have taken over the case of an upstate New York woman who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at a police van in Brooklyn during protests early Saturday morning against the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the New York Post reported. Samantha Shader, 27, was initially charged by NYPD with four counts …
