A Connecticut man will likely spend much of the rest of his life behind bars for murdering his wife, thanks in part to the wrist pedometer Fitbit she was wearing. On Thursday, a judge sentenced 40-year-old Richard Dabate to 65 years in prison after he was convicted in May of murdering his wife, 39-year-old Connie …
Attorneys representing a Texas woman who allegedly fled to Costa Rica after fatally shooting her boyfriend’s love interest in May filed documents on Wednesday which would suppress evidence in her upcoming murder trial. Kaitlin Armstrong’s attorneys alleged that Austin police arrested their client based on false statements. Attorneys also said that police failed to investigate …
On Wednesday, lawyers representing disbarred attorney Alex Murdaugh alleged that South Carolina prosecutors are withholding evidence related to the murders of Murdaugh’s wife and son. According to South Carolina Public Radio, Murdaugh’s lawyers requested the prosecution’s evidence immediately after Murdaugh was charged with murder in mid-July. The deadline to turn over the evidence was Monday, …
The rape and murder of an 11-year-old Illinois babysitter has gone unsolved for three decades, but police say there is reason for hope that the perpetrator will be caught, WFLD-TV reports. Holly Staker was babysitting two children on the evening of August 17, 1992, in the Chicago suburb of Waukegan when an intruder entered the …
The Tennessee man accused of beating his bride to death during their honeymoon last month at an exclusive Fijian resort reportedly confessed to the killing when he was first arrested but changed his story once he acquired an attorney. Bradley Robert Dawson, 38, is charged with murder in the death of Christe Chen, a 36-year-old …
Virginia authorities arrested a man last week in connection with July’s fatal shooting of a pregnant woman. U.S. Navy Lieutenant Emmanuel Coble, 27, was reportedly in a relationship with Raquiah King, 20, when she was found dead on the side of the road in Hanover County on July 21. King was three months pregnant at …
A Florida personal trainer has admitted to having an affair with the ex-wife of a man who was mysteriously gunned down earlier this year in front of his young daughter, Fox News reports. The victim, 33-year-old Jared Bridegan, was found dead on a street in south Jacksonville Beach with several gunshot wounds to his body …
The mother of a 6-month-old Louisiana girl who died in a hot car on Sunday allegedly left another child in a hot car in 2019. Ivy Lee, 22, allegedly left Carissa Lewis in her SUV for approximately five hours. Lee then flagged down two Calcasieu Parish deputies, one who was off duty, and told them …
An Arizona fast-food worker who brutually punched an elderly customer has been charged with murder after the victim died, KNXV-TV reports. Around 4:45 p.m. on July 26, police officers responded to a report of an injured person at a Wendy’s restaurant on Glassford Hill Road in Prescott Valley, Arizona. Investigators determined that a 67-year-old customer …
A Louisiana mother and her live-in boyfriend have been indicted on charges relating to the murder of her 2-year-old son, whose body was found in a trash can last month. Ezekiel Harry was reported missing in Houma on July 12 at about noon, and his mother — 28-year-old Maya Jones — told authorities someone in …
A Florida man was killed Sunday in an attempted robbery while he and his girlfriend were visiting Alabama’s Talladega National Forest before they returned to college. Adam Simjee, 22, and Mikayla Paulus, 20 — both University of Central Florida students — had been driving and hiking hear Cheaha Mountain when they were flagged down by …
Four people have been indicted in connection with the murder of a North Carolina mother whose badly decomposed body was found earlier this year, WLOS-TV reports. On Monday, authorities in Macon County, North Carolina, confirmed the identity of the victim as Tina Walkingstick Frizsell, whose remains were found in a burn pit at an encampment …
