A Florida mother who reportedly confessed to killing a male teenager accused of raping the woman’s 6-year-old daughter, is being charged with murder, according to prosecutors. MSN News reports that on on July 7, 2016, Connie Serbu allegedly chased Xavier Sierra, 18, into a secluded, wooded area in Naples, where she and her brother confronted the teen …
A 20-year-old New Jersey man allegedly beat his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter to death because she wouldn’t eat dinner, NJ.com reports. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Najuquan Ross with murder in connection with the July death of the girl, Natalise “Kayla” Gunter. The girl’s mother, Lucy Gunter, told investigators that she had returned from work when she …
A Massachusetts man who kidnapped a seven-year-old girl from a cookout at her grandparents’ home and threw her from a bridge into a lake has been charged with attempted murder. NBC News reports that Joshua Hubert, 35, is behind held on $1 million bail on an attempted murder charge. When he was arrested earlier this …
‘Her eyes were huge; she was fixated on my daughter’
An Illinois mother and her 5-year-old twin daughters are dead in an apparent murder-suicide that has shocked their suburban neighborhood and left a father and husband grieving. CBS Chicago reports that Celisa Henning, 41, and her 5-year-old twin daughters, Addison and Makayla, were discovered dead in their suburban Joliet home Monday afternoon. According to People magazine, …
A Michigan man accused of shaking his girlfriend’s 4-month-old daughter to death has taken a plea deal and now could spend the rest of his life in prison. Richard Watson, 46, pleaded guilty this week to second-degree murder and first-degree child abuse, Midland Daily News reports. Under the deal, prosecutors dropped other counts of felony murder …
The Florida State Attorney’s Office recently released photos of accused killer Russell Tillis’ now-demolished Florida home, where a woman was reportedly killed at in 2016. ABC First Coast News reports that 30-year-old Jodi Lynn Gunter’s dismembered remains were found at 3551 Bowden Circle in Jacksonville in 2016, a home where accused murderer Russell Tillis, 55, lived in …
Authorities found an Ormond Beach, Florida, woman dead Sunday after her daughter received an ominous letter detailing her death. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that an officer discovered the decomposing body of Debra Jean Place, 62, during a 10:41 a.m. wellness check. The officer went to the Ridgecrest Mobile Home Park after Place’s daughter, Millisi Wells, reportedly got a letter from …
The couple accused of killing Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind allegedly provided police with conflicting stories about how they ended up with the missing woman’s baby. WDAY has reported that William Henry Hoehn, 32, and Brooke Lynn Crews, 38, are charged with conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and providing false information to law enforcement. The pair appeared in Cass …
A grand jury will be utilized to determine if there is enough evidence to formally charge a teen accused of stabbing a Keansburg, New Jersey, girl to death. Andreas Erazo, 18, is facing murder and weapons charges for the stabbing death of Abbiegail “Abbie” Smith, 11. Though a brief court hearing occurred Monday, the Asbury Park Press noted …
The body of a missing pregnant woman has been found in North Dakota. KSTP reports that kayakers found the body of 22-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind wrapped in plastic in a river north of Fargo. The police department announced on its Facebook page that the body had been positively identified as Greywind on Sunday night. The police …
North Carolina police arrested a teen in connection with the early Wednesday morning death of his father and another man. FOX 8 reports that Sean Tyler Simmons, 19, is facing two first-degree murder charges. At around 1:35 a.m. on Wednesday, officers arrived at 2406 Flora Vista Circle in Greensboro, where they found two men with gunshot wounds, …
