A 4-year-old Missouri girl told police she pretended to be asleep while her own father killed her family and then himself, but authorities can’t figure out why the tragedy happened to begin with. FOX News reports that Dornubari Dugbor, 31, called 911 on Thursday night and said police would soon find three dead people inside a Bellefontaine …
A father has been charged with the murder of his son — more than 20 years after causing the injury believed to have later caused his death. According to the Associated Press, Lucius Middlebrook confessed to shaking his son, then two months old, in 1996. His son, Cavelle Mena, suffered a traumatic brain injury as …
The husband accused of murdering his wife in Alabama last month after a night of drinking allegedly killed her with a bottle of absinthe. Court records obtained by AL.com accuse William Jeff West of killing his wife Kathleen “Kat” West on January 12 by bludgeoning her in the head with a bottle of Lucid brand …
A Kansas mother is behind bars on an attempted capital murder charge after she allegedly tried to poison her three young children on Monday, shortly before they were to go back to their father’s home. The Kansas City Star reports that authorities arrived to a home on Monday night, off of the 1700 block of …
A North Carolina dad and daughter who allegedly had plans for marriage after having a baby boy were arraigned only felony incest on Tuesday in a Virginia courtroom. New York Post reports that Steven Pladl, 42, and his 20-year-old daughter, Katie Pladl, appeared in a Henrico County to face incest charges at the Henrico Juvenile and Domestic Relations …
The man accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old girl reportedly admitted to police that he had sexual contact with her after she had died. KOAT has obtained search warrants connected to the investigation of Victoria Marten’s August 2016 homicide. Three suspects — the girl’s mother Michelle Martens, her boyfriend Fabian Gonzalez, and Gonzalez’s cousin …
A former child bride who helped bring down notorious cult leader Warren Jeffs opened up during an A&E interview regarding her life as a child bride, degraded because she continued to have miscarriages. FOX News reports that Elissa Wall took part in the A&E documentary, “Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil,” which details Jeffs and his thousands of followers …
UPDATE: 1 pm ET: WPTV 5 reports that the FBI filed second-degree murder charges against Lewis Bennett on Tuesday. According to the federal complaint obtained by the news station, investigators have accused Bennett of damaging the catamaran from the inside, causing it to flood and eventually sink while he and his wife of three months …
An Idaho faces life in prison after a Bonner County jury found him guilty on Thursday of numerous sexual and ritual abuses charges. The Bonner County Daily Bee reports that Dana Andrew Furtney, 49, of Sandpoint, used his religious beliefs to cause extreme mental and physical anguish on his family. According to court documents, between 2009 to …
A woman who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in her fiancé’s drowning death says she has “to let it go” now that she’s served her time. In an interview televised Friday on ABC News, Angelika Graswald, now 37, gave her first public statement since being released on parole just days before Christmas—having a served a …
The hero Florida teacher who died saving the lives of students told his fiancée what to do if he were to be killed in a school shooting. According to the New York Post, Scott Beigel’s fiancée Gwen spoke at his funeral at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton, Florida, on Sunday. She said that while …
A 12-year-old boy was hospitalized for burns after his own father allegedly advised him to set himself on fire. According to the Associated Press, Michael Joseph Jensen, 36, of Claremore, Oklahoma, has been charged with child neglect after he allegedly gave his suicidal son advice on how to kill himself. The father is accused of …
