A court has awarded custody of the twin children of slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan to the parents of his ex-wife — who remains in jail charged with killing him. The 12-year-old children had been living with Sterling and Shelli Gardner since their daughter, 37-year-old Shanna Gardner, was arrested in the twisting plot to kill …
A 37-year-old Maryland woman has been arrested for allegedly drowning her 3-month-old infant in a bath. Mackenzie Rose Colgan called 911 and said she had killed the baby, Montgomery County Police said. First responders arrived and took the child to a hospital, but the baby was ultimately pronounced dead. Colgan has been charged with first …
New York officials have filed second degree murder charges against 26-year-old Luigi Mangione for the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The charges were filed late Monday, WABC reported. Mangione was also charged with possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a forged instrument, and criminal possession of a weapon, court dockets say. The Manhattan …
An Houston lawyer has been charged with fatally shooting his 20-year-old son, burning his body, and cleaning up the crime in scene in what he told deputies was a “horrible accident.” Michael C. Howard is being held in the Sabine County jail on bonds totaling $20 million after he called police a week ago to …
A Kentucky judge shot and killed in his chambers by the county sheriff earlier this year was part of a sex-for-favors scheme, according to a witness in the case against a deputy convicted in January of raping a prisoner in 2022. Sabrina Adkina, 43, told investigators that the deputy, Ben Fields, had videos of “girls, …
Divers returned to Central Park on Monday as they search for clues to the fatal shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week. The 50-year-old executive of the world’s largest private health insurance company was shot dead shortly before 7 a.m. as he walked from his hotel to the Hilton Midtown Hotel across the …
A lawsuit now accuses rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z of raping a 13-year-old girl alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2000. The anonymous accuser says the sexual assault happened as she was driven to a party following the MTV Video Music Awards that year, according to NBC News. The lawsuit was originally filed in federal court in …
An Arizona man who pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering his roommate was sentenced Friday to 31 1/2 years in prison. Timothy Sullivan, 66, apologized in court but attributed his actions to a “traumatic brain injury,” KPNX reported. “I take full responsibility for my actions,” said Sullivan, who described Amy “Ruby” Leagans as a good …
Florida deputies shot and killed a man last week who threatened to kill a neighbor and then held a woman at knifepoint inside his apartment. Jason Douglas Paul, 47, called 911 himself on Thursday in the midst of a dispute with his neighbor at a Tampa apartment complex, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. When …
A Florida man died in a car crash early Friday while fleeing police after allegedly stabbing his estranged girlfriend “up to 70 times.” Deputies responded to a home in Chuluota at about 12:45 a.m. and found Kristin Stevens, 40, dead from multiple stab wounds, WFLA reported. Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said she was stabbed …
A woman was found dead alongside Interstate 95 in Miami-Dade early Saturday morning after police received multiple 911 calls about two people arguing in the area. The Florida Highway Patrol responded to the calls just after 6 a.m. and found the woman on the grass between the highway and an onramp, according to WTVJ, which …
Five people, including two children, were found dead Saturday night in Georgia in what police say is a murder-suicide. Dekalb County Police responded to an apartment complex just outside Atlanta’s East Atlanta neighborhood at about 7:30 p.m. for a welfare check and found the victims inside, WANF reported. They said the victims were a 43-year-old …
