An Illinois child welfare worker was killed Tuesday when she was reportedly stabbed during a home visit. Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) investigator Diedre Silas, 36, was murdered while responding to reports of children in danger at a home in Thayer. Six children, between the ages of 1 and 7, were at the …
A Washington state medical examiner’s office has identified a body found in a vehicle trunk last month as a woman who was last seen in early November. The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has not identified Patricia Soto’s cause or manner of death, but investigators said they were investigating the case as a homicide. Soto, …
Update, 2: 58 p.m. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) has responded to the report alleging the evidence ties Alex Murdaugh to the murders of his wife and son. “SLED will not comment on the potential existence of any evidence in this or any active ongoing investigation,” the lead investigating agency said in a …
A Georgia woman is behind bars facing murder charges after police say the story she gave about her deceased baby didn’t match up with the injuries. On Christmas Day, Gwinnett County police responded to reports of a deceased 1-year-old baby at a residence off of Seasons Parkway. The child’s mother, identified as Oluwadamilola Imafiabor, 29, …
A 76-year-old Louisiana man was found shot to death in his bed after his blind wife reported to police that she hadn’t heard from him in more than a day. Natchitoches Parish Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene and spoke with the woman at about 6 p.m. last Wednesday, and she told them she last …
Three people, including a mother and her 13-year-old son, were reportedly found dead after a shooting in a Pennsylvania neighborhood on Friday. Tatiana Hill, 28, Nandi Fitzgerald, 28, and Fitzgerald’s son, Denzel Nolan Jr., 13, were identified as the victims. Officers who responded to Pittsburgh’s Homewood South neighborhood found one of the women fatally shot …
The son of a Mississippi police officer was found dead on Sunday, and the young man’s mother was one of the responding officers. According to WJTV, Charles Stewart Jr., 20, was found dead at around 2 a.m. Sunday on Larkin Street. According to Dark Horse Press, Stewart’s mother was one of the responding officers. That …
A Texas man who had been wanted for the past nine months in connection with his wife’s October 2020 murder reportedly took his own life on Friday in Florida. Trent Paschal, 49, allegedly shot and killed Savannah Paschal, 30, at their Galveston County home before a police standoff which ended with him being shot and …
A convicted baby killer was captured on footage feigning shock after learning he was under arrest for the attempted murder (and later, murder) of his girlfriend’s 12-week-old son, Teddie Mitchell. During a two-part special of “24 Hours in Police Custody,” a true-crime British docuseries that takes viewers behind the scenes of investigations, police footage taken …
A body believed to be that of a woman who hadn’t been seen since early November was found Friday in Douglas County, Colorado. The Aurora Police Department said it had been investigating the case since December 16, when Fort Collins police contacted them about a missing 29-year-old woman. Fort Collins investigators had determined that the …
A Colorado woman has been charged with the stabbing deaths of her two children last week in Glenwood Springs. Claudia Camacho Duenas, 37, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder, Glenwood Springs Police said. The children, 11 and 18, were transported to a hospital, where they died “notwithstanding extensive lifesaving efforts provided …
The mother of three young sons was shot to death by her boyfriend — who then turned the gun on himself — and it was one of the boys who called 911. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt Derrick Alfred said the boys, ages 5 to 11, were running from the Temple City home when deputies …
