The Austin Police Department is searching for a woman and a 2-year-old child who haven’t been seen since Monday. Gloria Moore, 72, and Journey Johnson, 2, were last seen at around 4:30 a.m. Monday morning, in the 4000 block of River Place Boulevard. They were last seen in a 2019 blue or gray Honda Civic, …
A woman and her 1-year-old son were found dead on Saturday in what Texas police are investigating as a murder-suicide. Briana Monroe, 26, and Giavon August were reported missing after a man called the police claiming Monroe had sent him a text message about killing her son and herself. Police and Monroe’s family had tracked …
Tampa police issued a Purple Alert for a missing Florida woman who hasn’t been seen since Sunday. Kiyunii Myers, 26, reportedly made statements that concerned her family before disappearing, the Tampa Free Press reported. Police located her car Monday morning, abandoned in Ballast Point Park. A Florida Purple was subsequently issued, following information from family …
A woman found dead near a dumpster on Saturday was dumped there by her boyfriend after he shot her in the head, Utah police said. KTVX reported that Esperanza Chavez’s body was discovered leaning against a dumpster in Millcreek. Unified police said surveillance footage showed Fred Edwards, 46, pulling Chavez’s body out of a truck …
Accused Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann reportedly remains in a secure housing unit as he awaits trial for killing four women in New York. Last week, Heuermann, 60, was formally charged with the 2007 slaying of Maureen Brainard-Barnes, 25, whose remains were found near Gilgo Beach in 2010. Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon …
A Miss Donalsonville beauty queen title holder in Georgia is behind bars after allegedly killing an 18-month-old toddler. According to News 4, 18-year-old Trinity Madison Poague was arrested in Americus on charges that include felony murder, aggravated battery, and cruelty to children charges. It’s currently unclear how the defendant knew the victim. The Georgia Bureau …
A Missouri woman who taught at a Lutheran school allegedly poisoned her husband’s food multiple times while she was having a relationship with someone halfway around the world, KMIZ-TV reports. Sarah Scheffer, 37, faces charges of first-degree domestic assault, first-degree attempted murder and armed criminal action in connection with the allegations. On Tuesday, Scheffer’s husband …
A Rhode Island woman has filed a lawsuit against Panera Bread, claiming that the restaurant chain’s caffeinated lemonade led to “permanent cardiac injuries.” NBC News reports that 28-year-old occupational therapist and former athlete Lauren Skerrritt had no preexisting health issues, and regularly participated in obstacle course races. The complaint, filed on Tuesday afternoon, asserts that …
An Oklahoma woman who vanished last week was reportedly found dead on Thursday. The Muskogee Phoenix reported that Amanda Harms, 46, was last seen on foot a mile from Honor Heights Park in Muskogee. It was cold when Harms vanished, and temperatures continued to drop in the following days. Harms’ family told KOKI that she …
A South Carolina judge on Tuesday ordered the court clerk involved in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial to testify in an upcoming hearing regarding jury tampering. Murdaugh’s legal team has accused Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill of rushing jurors to reach a guilty verdict for a book she was writing and self-publishing on …
State officials have released the names of all 18 victims of the deadly mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, earlier this week, and they range in age from a 14-year-old boy who died with his father to a 73- and 76-year-old couple. Michael Sauschuck, commissioner of the Maine Department of Public Safety, said the families had …
South Carolina authorities announced on Thursday that they are investigating allegations by Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys that a court clerk committed jury tampering during the disbarred lawyer’s murder trial. In a joint statement to Greenville News, the S.C. Attorney General’s Office and the S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) said Attorney General Alan Wilson requested SLED …
