A Wyoming man suspected of killing his girlfriend’s son has been officially charged with the boy’s murder. The Laramie County District Attorney’s office announced charges against Wyatt Dean Lamb on Monday, nearly four months after 1-year-old Athian Rivera was found dead in an apartment complex dumpster in Cheyenne. At the time of Athian’s death, on …
A 19-year-old Massachusetts teen is behind bars after he allegedly killed his father during an “exorcism” Sunday night. The incident happened at the Island Creek Pond in Crocker Park after Jack Callahan led his father there, police said. Earlier that night, Callahan allegedly went inside a bar to get his father, Scott Callahan, 57, who …
Phil Boyle is calling for a special prosecutor to ‘investigate the investigation’
A Kentucky man is accused of fatally beating his 7-week-old daughter earlier this month while the girl’s mother was hospitalized. Cortney Jones told WAVE that she was being treated for postpartum complications on June 17 when Del’Shawn Banks, 23, called her in hysterics. Jones said Banks was in an ambulance at the time with their …
An author who sparked a friendship with convicted murderer Chris Watts claims in an upcoming episode of “Cellmate Secrets” that Watts admitted to dosing his wife with oxycodone — in an attempt to end her pregnancy. Shanann Watts was 15 weeks pregnant with the couple’s third child when Chris Watts murdered his family in August …
A deadly incident in a Boston suburb Saturday is being investigated as a hate crime after detectives found “troubling white supremacist rhetoric” written in the suspect’s handwriting. Nathan Allen, 28, allegedly stole a box truck and crashed it into a Winthrop home, then shot and killed two people before he was shot dead by Winthrop …
“Nothing about this case from the very beginning pointed towards it being a hit and run.”
A Maine woman charged with depraved indifference murder in the death of her 3-year-old son appeared in court Friday and was given a $150,000 bail. Jessica Trefethen — who also goes by Jessica Johnson and Jessica Williams — was arrested on Wednesday, following the death of 3-year-old Maddox Williams on Sunday, WCSH reported. Police said …
A North Carolina man was arrested in Tennessee this week and charged with abuse of a corpse after Carter County deputies found his girlfriend’s body in a storage tote in the car he was driving. Authorities were tipped off by a friend of 24-year-old Michael Louis Cadogan who said he called her and told her …
The father and stepmother of slain Minnesota girl Autumn Hallow admitted in court this week that they killed the child while doling out punishment. As CrimeOnline previously reported, an autopsy revealed that 8-year-old Autumn had atrophied muscles and significant hair loss, puncture wounds on her head, bleeding on the brain and in the abdomen, and …
The father of a missing Tennessee girl has come under scrutiny after court records showed that he has a previous domestic assault arrest. But Don Wells suggested in a recent interview that he was not responsible for an October incident that led to criminal charges and his wife’s request for an order of protection. Summer …
An 18-year-old Michigan man was ordered held without bond on Wednesday when he appeared in court on charges that he shot and killed his father. Hayden Jagst is charged with open murder, two counts of felony firearm, carrying with unlawful intent, and carrying a concealed weapon in the death of Edward Jagst at the family …
