A Connecticut woman was arrested on suspicion that she killed her son prior to setting a residential fire last year. According to WTIC, Karin Ziolkowski is facing charges of murder and arson in connection with the November 2016 blaze in which 8-year-old Elijah Ziolkowski died. At the time, WTIC reported that Karin Ziolkowski was inside …
A Somerset, Kentucky, grandmother died Wednesday night after a teenage relative reportedly shot her from the back seat. One of her grandsons, an 18-year-old, was driving as another grandson and their cousin were in the backseat. The boys, ages 12 and 17, were playing around with a muzzle-loading pistol when it went off and shot Eutta Phelps, 68, …
A mother and father in Porterville, Calif., were arrested this week on suspicion of providing their young son access to narcotics. According to The Fresno Bee, a family member brought the 1-year-old boy to the Sierra View Medical Center emergency room, where an exam revealed the child had ingested methamphetamine. Authorities confirmed the child was …
A toddler’s birthday party was interrupted Sunday when an adult attendee was stabbed in the back with a knife being used to cut the cake, KOKH reported. Police say witnesses recalled seeing a dispute between the male victim and 40-year-old Alenea Bright during a party being held for a 1-year-old child in Oklahoma City. Bright …
Prosecutors have dismissed a capital murder charge against a Texas father who had been accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter after the man’s son admitted to causing the girl’s death, the Star-Telegram reports. Anthony Sanders, 33, had been charged with suffocating his daughter, Ellie Sanders, while at the family’s home in December 2015. Police had …
A Minnesota man is facing charges more than a year after authorities found the dead and extensively decomposed bodies of his mother and brother inside his home. In September 2016, police responded to Robert James Kuefler’s White Bear Lake residence in response to a neighbor’s complaint that his lawn had become overgrown. According to court …
An Idaho man allegedly beat, strangled and stabbed his parents to death and then tried to hide their bodies in a shed. William Taylor, 48, faces two counts of first-degree murder as well as two counts of failure to notify of a death in connection with the killings, KTVB-TV reports. The charges come after authorities …
A Ferndale, Michigan, mother who reportedly refused to get her son vaccinated will spend seven days behind bars. Judge Karen McDonald handed down the sentence to Rebbecca Bredow for ignoring a court order to vaccinate her 9-year-old son. A judge previously required the mother to have her son vaccinated by Wednesday, according to The Detroit News. “If my …
Authorities arrested a Houston man on Friday after they said he decapitated his own mother and stabbed his father numerous times after the elderly couple bailed him out of jail on assault charges. Houston Chronicle reports that the parents of Kyriakos Savvas Georghiou, 27, bailed him out of jail after an arrest for assault charges. …
David Creato Jr., the New Jersey man whose relationship with a teenage girl reportedly led him to kill his own 3-year-old son, will face a decade behind bars for the 2015 crime. On Oct. 13, 2015, Creato called police to report his son, Brendan, missing. About three hours later, the boy’s dead body was found …
A woman with a history of mental illness has been charged with killing her mother with a crossbow and hiding the body under a rug for days, the Morning Call reports. Authorities say Lisa Caplan, 51, murdered her 71-year-old mother, Sandra Barndt, at a duplex in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. Caplan allegedly shot her mom …
A 15-year-old Wisconsin boy has been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide for allegedly punching and choking his mother as she tried to order him a pizza. Police in the village of Eagle in Waukesha County were called to the home of Andrew Romagna last month after a frantic 911 call reporting that the teen …
