Actor Jussie Smollett spends more than six hours on the stand during his first day testifying in his Chicago trial on charges that he faked a hate crime attack on himself. Today, again, 39-year-old Smollett faces prosecutors who say the “Empire” actor was the mastermind of an orchestrated attack. Smollett claimed he was attacked by …
Ethan Crumbley’s parents have joined him in jail, just not in the same cell. The mother and father of the teen charged in the school shooting at Oxford High School have been charged involuntary manslaughter after taking no action when called to the school. A teacher saw a disturbing drawing made by the boy, and …
The sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell continues. The wealthy socialite is accused of being a central player in Jeffrey Epstein’s decades of sexual abuse of minors. Defense attorneys say Maxwell is a scapegoat taking the fall for a man’s misdeeds. The defense portrays Maxwell as a victim, and the accusers as basically in it …
Actor Jussie Smollett’s Chicago trial on charges that he faked a hate crime attack on himself has begun. 39-year-old Smollett was starring in the television show “Empire” when he claimed he was attacked by two men who hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him. They also left a noose around his neck. Two brothers who …
Tammy and Dr. Jeffrey Harris had been married for 11 years when Tammy was diagnosed with lupus. Doctors begin a treatment regimen but her health did not improve. Harris was wheelchair-bound, her weight dropped to just 70 pounds, and her hair and fingernails fell out. The couple traveled from Moscow, Idaho to New York in search of a holistic doctor, when Tammy suddenly …
A Washington doctor is charged with attempted kidnapping after police say he reached out to “hitmen” on the dark web. Investigators got a tip about a scheme to kidnap Dr. Ronald Craig Ilg’s wife. A woman who received the tip-off told investigators that Ilg wanted someone to kidnap his wife while he was away in …
Allison Foy was last seen alive while leaving a Wilmington, North Carolina, bar. Two years later, her skeletal remains were found a mile from that nightclub. Foy’s killer has never been proven. Foy, 34, and a friend have a celebratory drink for Foy’s promotion at work. Her friend asks a bar worker to call a taxi …
Two-year-old Teekah Lewis disappeared from a local bowling alley in Tacoma, Washington. She was there with her family: her mom, aunts, uncles, friends were all there bowling in lanes 7 and 8. It was league night at Frontier Lanes bowling alley, so there were tons of people there. But amidst all her family, Teekah seemingly vanished …
Michelle Parker is a loving, hardworking mother of three. She’s also a student and a business owner, but one night this reliable employee did not show up for work. Her 11-year-old son, home alone after school couldn’t find his mom. Michelle Parker disappears. The same day on “The People’s Court,” an episode featuring Parker and …
Faith Hedgepeth, 19, is found by her roommate, covered in blood, inside her North Carolina apartment. Autopsy reports show the college student was beaten to death, sustaining severe head injuries. Investigators said an empty liquor bottle found near the body is used in the crime. For nine years, the investigation yields no suspects, but now …
Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Watkins and her 2-year-old daughter, Nicole, are found bludgeoned to death in their apartment in 1995. Clues have been hard to find in this case. The sliding glass door to the first-floor apartment was open. No prints are reported. The bodies were found in the kitchen area of the apartment. Watkin’s ex, Nicole’s …
Registered nurse Cristen Giangarra, 31 is among hundreds of women reporting rapes and assaults by their lift drivers. Giangarra called for a Lyft after a night of celebrating with friends. The ride to her home should have lasted six minutes but was instead was 51 minutes of terror. Giangarra says she fell asleep in the …
