On Thursday, the New York District Attorney released crime scene photos showing blood spatter and the knife allegedly used by nanny Yoselyn Ortega to kill two young children in her care. According to the Daily Mail, the District Attorney publicized the gruesome photos a week after they were presented to a jury. Ortega, 55, is charged …
‘A stun belt is a device meant to ensure physical safety; it is not an collar meant to punish a defendant until he obeys a judge’s whim.’
A Cobb County judge denied bond on Friday for Brad Clement, a Georgia man accused of concealing the death of Army veteran Chase Massner, after he reportedly buried the solider in the backyard of his Kennesaw home. Although Clement’s defense lawyers argued that their client should be in rehabilitation with an ankle monitor while awaiting …
A Grand Junction, Colorado, man who was condemned to more than 300 years behind bars for child sex crimes was freed less than three years into his lengthy sentence. The Mesa County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to KREX that Michael Tracy McFadden, 46, was released from Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Ordway on Tuesday. According to the …
A 5-year-old girl with a history of asthma died mere hours after a doctor turned her away for being minutes late to an appointment, according to officials. An inquest determined that Ellie-May Clark was not seen at Grange Clinic in Newport, Wales, for an emergency appointment because they enacted a “10-minute rule.” As a result, a coroner testified that an opportunity …
An Alabama couple accused of taking their 7-month-old daughter to a bar last summer was found not guilty Thursday in an Indianapolis court. Michael Trosclair, 46, and Shari Treba, 42, of Mobile, Alabama, were cleared of felony neglect of a dependent and misdemeanor public intoxication charges. Their attorney, Marc Lopez, said that inconsistent witness testimony played …
A Duvall County, Florida, jury unanimously decided on Wednesday afternoon that convicted child killer, Donald Smith, will face death. On the third day of the penalty phase for 61-year-old Donald Smith, both the prosecution and defense made closing arguments before the jury left the courtroom for deliberations. The jury decided that the prosecution provided enough …
The third day of the penalty phase for the man who killed, beat, and raped Florida girl Cherish Perrywinkle begins on Thursday morning and will likely end with a Duvall County jury’s decision on whether Donald Smith will get death or life without parole. On Wednesday, a neuropsychologist explained that Smith was indeed a “psychopath” who …
The victim contracted a venereal disease from the 2010 attack, the lawsuit also alleged
Day two of the penalty phase for the man accused of kidnapping, beating, raping, and killing 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle resumes on Wednesday in a Duvall County, Florida, courtroom. He’s facing a sentence of either life in prison without parole or the death penalty, depending upon the jury’s unanimous decision. The first day of the penalty …
The penalty phase for the man convicted of kidnapping, raping, beating, and killing a little girl in Jacksonville, Florida, starts on Tuesday. The same jury that found 61-year-old Donald Smith guilty of the brutal rape, kidnapping, assault, and murder of 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle returns to court on Tuesday morning to decide what the convicted murderer’s …
An Ohio woman who attempted to hire an undercover cop to kill the mother of her stepdaughters has a new trial after already receiving a seven-year prison sentence in 2016 for the same murder conspiracy crime. Last year, an appeals court overturned that ruling, admitting that the original indictment contained an error. The Columbus Dispatch …
