A retired mother in California has won child support from her ex-husband nearly 50 years after the man left the relationship, KGTV reports. Toni Anderson, of Carlsbad, says she isn’t sorry for pursuing the money from her former husband, who she said left her and their 3-year-old daughter in the early 1970s. Anderson, 74, said her …
An 80-year-old Queensland man will spend 27 years, should he live that long, in prison for the brutal rape and torment of his daughters, who he abused over the course of at least 20 years. According to the Townsville Bulletin, the man, whose identity has been withheld to protect the victims, told police that he …
An Alabama man accused of killing an 11-year-old girl apparently joined the search team and helped look for her after she was reported missing. Al.com reports that Christopher Madison, currently behind bars in DeKalb County, pretended to search for 11-year-old Amberly Barnett, according to testimony by Investigator Davis during a preliminary hearing on Monday at the DeKalb County …
An Illinois judge ruled Friday that cameras will be allowed to roll inside a courtroom for singer R. Kelly’s criminal trial later this month. The Chicago Tribune reported that Cook County Judge Lawrence Flood greenlit the cameras, noting that two of the four alleged victims objected to being filmed during court proceedings. However, Flood, who’s presiding …
A California mother is suing several celebrity parents at the center of the college admissions scandal for a total of $500 billion, claiming their actions robbed her overachieving son of a fair shot into college. According to Variety, Jennifer Kay Toy filed a lawsuit Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court which listed 45 people—including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman—as …
A New York court viewed surveillance footage which apparently showed a jailed Rod Covlin demonstrating a chokehold on another inmate before he was to stand trial for his wife’s strangulation death. The footage was reportedly shot in November at the Brooklyn Detention Center’s law library. According to the New York Daily News, prosecutors accused Covlin of bragging …
A New York jury heard a secret recording where an accused murderer’s parents are apparently heard evicting him from their home and chastising him for stealing money from his two children’s college funds. According to the Daily Mail, Rod Covlin had his then-girlfriend, Debra Oles, covertly record the heated 2012 exchange between him and his parents. In …
Legal experts said a botched criminal investigation might result in an acquittal for a New York man on trial for killing his estranged wife in 2009. Shele Danishefsky’s 9-year-old daughter reportedly found her mother face-down in a bathtub at their New York City apartment on New Year’s Eve. The girl alerted her father, Rod Covlin, …
A Texas judge was officially disciplined for instructing a jury to continue deliberating as God told him that the defendant—accused of sex trafficking—was innocent. The San Antonio Express-News reported that the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a public warning to Comal County Judge Jack Robison for a January 12, 2018, outburst which resulted in 18 complaints. Robison reportedly …
A South Carolina judge unloaded on a man convicted of kidnapping a 4-year-old girl and severely beating her mother during an incident in February 2018. According to WCBD, Thomas Lawton Evans Jr. was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences and U.S. District Court Judge David Norton made it clear what he thought of the someone …
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A graphic novelist who tortured and killed his fiance in 2016 must now pay her family $41.6 million, a California judge ruled. The Los Angeles Times reports that Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon delivered the ruling on Friday, after a wrongful-death lawsuit bench trial concluded. The lawsuit, filed by victim Iana Kasian’s family against author Blake Leibel, …
