Two correctional officers who had been guarding convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein the night he died have declined a plea deal offered them by federal prosecutors, the Associated Press reported Friday. Although the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan declined to comment, the AP said the news likely means the US Justice Department is considering filing charges …
An Iowa court ruled Wednesday that Benjamin Schreiber did not finish his life sentence for first degree murder just because his heart stopped during an illness and he was resuscitated. The Iowa Court of Appeals was the latest court to rule against Schreiber, who was sentenced to life without parole in 1996, upholding an earlier …
Police in Alabama announced they have apprehended a missing teen girl and a registered sex offender who escaped from prison last week. From AL.com, Bessemer and Hoover police captured John Gillespie, 30, and Peyton Ledlow, 16, in Bessemer on Monday morning. Authorities said the pair was taken into custody after they crashed on Interstate 459. …
An inmate who escaped the Morgan County Jail in Alabama on Sunday may be with a 16-year-old girl who hasn’t been seen since Monday, authorities say, according to WHNT. While they have no confirmation that Kaleb Gillespie, 30, and Peyton Ledlow are together, Moulton Police Chief Lyndon McWhorter and Morgan County Sheriff Ron Puckett have …
Convicted killer Jake Patterson apparently got into a fight over Jayme Closs, the young girl he kidnapped last year after killing her parents in their Wisconsin home. Patterson is serving a life sentence for the murders of Barron couple, James and Denise Closs, and for kidnapping their only daughter, Jayme. Officials transferred Patterson from Wisconsin …
Authorities in Georgia are looking for Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez, 31, who was released “in error” from Rogers State Prison in Reidsville at about noon on Friday, according to the state Department of Corrections, which reported the release on Monday. Munoz-Mendez had been serving three life sentence after he was convicted in March 2015 for the …
A California woman who live-streamed the 2017 DUI crash that killed her 14-year-old sister was paroled earlier this month after serving a 26-month prison sentence. Last February, Obdulia Sanchez was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for causing a single-vehicle wreck near Los Banos which killed Jacqueline Sanchez and injured her sister’s …
A Utah death row inmate who killed his sister-and-law and her child is reportedly months away from being executed by a firing squad after a federal court rejected his latest appeal on Monday. After breaking into their sister-in-law and her husband’s home, Ron Lafferty and his brother, Dan Lafferty, reportedly beat and strangled Brenda Lafferty, …
Authorities in Arizona say two former correctional officers have resigned amid claims that they participated in a recent assault on an inmate. According to KPHO, Alfredo Reyes and Javier Chavez are accused of playing a part in staging the scene for a brutal beating inside a Tucson prison. Among the alleged acts investigators say helped …
An Alabama woman who was imprisoned for fatally shooting her husband in 2015 was reportedly placed in a work-release program less than three years into her 40-year sentence. Two months ago, Cindy Kaye Henderson Reese was moved from the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women to the Birmingham Work Release Center. AL.com reported that the facility …
Everett Palmer Jr.’s family alleged they received his body badly bruised and without his heart, brain, and throat
A former sergeant at a Rosharon, Texas, prison is set to go to trial later this year on charges of aggravated assault in connection with the death of inmate David Witt, pictured above, in 2017. According to Fox News, the incident was caught on surveillance footage and Lou Joffrion received a recommendation to be fired …
