An Indianapolis man was arrested on Saturday for the murder of his kindergarten teacher wife after he allegedly confessed to police officers arriving on the scene. Inside the home, officers found Amber Cooley, 26, with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead on the scene, Indianapolis Police said. Officers also found a baby, unharmed, inside. …
A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly gave a relative a baby bottle of bleach to feed her 13-month-old daughter. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said it began a lengthy investigation on January 2 when the relative reported the incident. The relative found 22-year-old Melissa Barnes and the baby living in a shed …
Houston police are looking for a gunman in a clown mask who shot dead a father of 5 in the parking lot of a southeast Houston hotel early Monday morning. Veronica Robertson identified the victim as her son, 31-year-old Liquorian Traveon Robertson, LHOU reported. Police said the shooting took place just before 1:30 a.m. at …
Years after she was exonerated of the brutal murder of her roommate, Amanda Knox returned to Italy this week and was found guilty of slander for accusing an innocent man of killing Meredith Kercher. Knox, 36, was sentenced to three years in prison for the false accusation of Congolese bar owner Patrick Lumumba in 2007, …
A Pennsylvania couple has been accused of locking two children inside dirty dog crates as punishment in a home that was ultimately deemed unfit for human habitation. The two children, ages 11 and 12, were placed in foster care after a code enforcement officer found they were living in “unsanitary and deplorable living conditions” that …
Authorities in north Georgia are looking for a 12-year-old girl who disappeared from her Gainesville home last week. Maria Gomez-Perez is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall about 100 to 110 pounds with long black hair and brown eyes, according to the Hall County Sheriff’s Office. She was last seen at her home at …
An Ohio woman stabbed another woman and her 3-year-old son Monday afternoon in a random attack that killed the toddler. Emergency medical services responded to the parking lot of a Giant Eagle grocery store in North Olmsted and took Julian Wood and his 38-year-old mother, Margot Wood, to St. John Medical Center, according to WOIO. …
An Ohio teen and her 33-year-old boyfriend were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the murder of the man’s mother when she objected to their relationship. Kaitlyn Coones, now 18, and Jonathon Jones took plea deals on June 4, pleading no contest to charges of aggravated murder and abuse of a corpse, WTVG reported. …
New Jersey prosecutors have charged a 25-year-old man with stabbing his mother to death while she slept. Howell Township police responded to the home around 1:30 a.m. on Monday and found Loretta Parody, 61, stabbed in the chest, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said. She was taken to a hospital, where she died. “The first …
The special prosecutors in the New Mexico trial of actor Alec Baldwin on involuntary manslaughter charges want a judge to force “Rust” movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, already convicted on the same charge, to testify against him. Gutierrez-Reed is already on Baldwin’s witness list for his trial, set to begin July 9. Baldwin is charged in …
A judge on Monday flatly rejected a defense motion for a new trial for the 60-year-old millionaire convicted of running down two young brothers while they were walking with their family nearly four years ago. Rebecca Grossman, the 60-year-old co-founder with her plastic surgeon husband of a Losa Angeles burn center, was convicted in February …
Long Island media outlet Newsday reports that suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is expected to be arraigned this week on a fifth murder. Multiple sources told the outlet that Heuermann, 60, will be arraigned on the new charge on Thursday before State Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei. The new indictment follows some fresh …
