A Minnesota man who admitted killing his ex-girlfriend just days after he was released from jail for assaulting her was sentenced Friday to nearly 24 years in prison. Matthew Brenneman, 40, was under a restraining order when he killed Danicka Bergeson, 33, and left her body in her apartment, covered in abrasions and bruising and …
A New York anesthesiologist pleaded guilty to drugging his family’s nanny while she slept and raping her. Paul Giacopelli, 60, will only spend four years in prison when he’s sentenced on November 20, thanks to a plea deal agreed to by Putnam County Judge Anthony Mole, LoHud.com reports. He will have to register as a …
A Utah man who served two years in prison for breaking a child’s arm pleaded guilty last week to killing a 2-year-old boy and will spend the rest of his life in prison. Jonathan Allen Dunn, 37, also pleaded guilty to abusing the toddler’s twin sister, who was hospitalized with a brain bleed, according to …
A California man charged with killing a 16-year-old classmate because she ratted him out as having a gun while they were cutting class in 2017 was convicted Wednesday of first degree murder. Both Aranda Briones and Owen Skyler Shover, now 23, were expelled after the incident, and Shover plotted for two years for his revenge, …
On Monday, Disney withdrew its legal argument that a man’s 2019 Disney+ subscription meant he could not sue the company for his wife’s wrongful death — which reportedly occurred when she had an allergic reaction to food from a Disney World restaurant. Kanokporn Tangsuan, a family medicine specialist from New York, allegedly disclosed to Raglan …
Nearly five months after pleading guilty to killing 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith, Rashad Trice was formally sentenced the life in prison without parole. Trice entered guilty pleas for first degree murder and criminal sexual conduct relating to an assault on the little girl’s mother on July 1, the Lansing State Journal reported. In addition to life …
A Tennessee woman was sentenced to life in prison after she pleaded no contest to murder and child abuse charges in the death of her boyfriend’s 5-year-old son. Turner Simpkins was found dead in his home in Chapmansboro in July 2023, The Tennessean reported. An autopsy found bruises, cuts on his body, and bite marks …
A Florida jury convicted a 60-year-old woman of manslaughter for killing a neighbor in the midst of an ongoing dispute about the neighbor’s children playing outside. The jury deliberated less than three hours before returning the guilty verdict, CBS News reported. Susan Lorincz was initially charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Ajike “AJ” …
The case against a Utah children’s grief book author charged with poisoning her husband with fentanyl will move to a preliminary hearing after a judge last week dismissed her attorney’s attempt to disqualify the prosecution. According to KTVX, Kouri Richins’ attorney filed a motion alleging that jail staff and a prosecutor had accessed phone calls …
A Detroit judge has dismissed murder and home invasion charges against the man accused of killing Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll last year. Michael Jackson-Bolanos was convicted last month of lying to police about the case, but acquitted on a premeditated murder charge and deadlocked on felony murder and home invasion charges. Woll, the president …
Attorneys for Karen Read argued Friday for dismissal of murder and leaving the scene of an accident charges, asking the judge in the case to conduct a special hearing to confirm what they believe to be true — that jurors voted unanimously to acquit her of killing her Boston cop boyfriend. Judge Beverly Cannone declared …
An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home and stabbing her more than 30 times was sentenced this week to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 31 years. Chance Donohoe, 27, got a break from Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Kim Brown, who could have sentenced him …
