South Dakota authorities are pursuing charges against a man suspected of killing his wife at her home this week. According to KDLT, police say they found 36-year-old Marie Brinker dead at her home in Mitchell Thursday evening after her 39-year-old husband, James, convinced one of the couple’s children to call 911 to report her death. …
A woman admitted at a pretrial hearing in court on Wednesday that she killed her grandfather when she was 19, after the popular television show, American Horror Story, inspired her. New York Post reports that Brittany Jane Dwyer, 20, appeared in an Australian court on Wednesday in connection with the murder of her grandfather, Robert Whitwell, 81. …
A Louisiana man allegedly confessed to the brutal murder of his toddler Tuesday morning, telling police that “God made him do it.” According to New Orleans Police Supt. Michael Harrison, police received a call from the suspect, identified as 45-year-old Mark Hambrick, from his Bywater residence in which he admitted to stabbing and suffocating his …
At Atlanta mother is accused of killing her two young children by burning them alive in the oven. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lamora Williams, 24, was charged with deaths of the children, 1-year-old Ja’Karter Penn and 2-year-old Ke’Yaunte Penn, after they were found dead Friday with burns on their bodies. The earlier reports indicated that …
A Florida woman is accused of child abuse after she allegedly stuck her newborn daughter in a garbage can and covered the infant with bloody paper towels, the Sun Sentinel reports. Rubi Ramirez, 25, of Fort Lauderdale, was in a hospital for abdominal pain when her mother found her in a bathroom bleeding and called …
An Alabama grand jury indicted a man police say shot his mother earlier this year during an argument. According to the Florence Times Daily, 40-year-old Lee Allen Martin Jr. was arrested and charged with attempted murder after his mother was shot once in the leg in February. If convicted of the felony, he could face …
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 …
