A 16-month-old girl died on Friday after she was reportedly found in a car parked outside a South Carolina high school. WCIV reported that the toddler was found deceased at Bishop England High School after passersby spotted the baby alone in the car and broke in. The Berkeley County Coroner’s Office said the girl had …
An Oklahoma woman was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl in videos discovered by the victim’s father. According to KOCO, the father went to Stillwater police after finding the illicit videos and photos of his daughter on Ashlee Cheatham’s phone as she slept. Cheatham, 19, allegedly admitted to the crimes following …
A South Carolina college student is dead after he apparently tried going into the wrong house and was shot this weekend, The State newspaper reports. Shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, police in Columbia were called to a home for a reported break-in, followed by another call about gunshots being fired. When officers arrived, they found 20-year-old …
The man who gunned down three people in Florida on Saturday in what authorities say was a racially motivated act of violence had been turned away from a historically Black university just moments before the killings, CNN reports. The shooter, whose identity has not yet been released, is believed to have been on the campus …
A young Indiana boy was brutally beaten to death by his cousin because the child put his shoes on the wrong feet, the Journal & Courier reports. The older cousin was also reportedly enraged that the child sat down to use the bathroom instead of standing up. The disturbing allegations are contained in court records …
An Indiana mother will spend the rest of her life behind bars for starving, torturing and beating to death her young son, the Commercial Review reports. On Thursday, 28-year-old Chelsea Crossland was sentenced to life in prison for the death of 5-year-old Christian last year. She will not be afforded an opportunity for parole. Police in …
A California man who allegedly strangled his girlfriend to death because he believed she was pregnant and wanted to keep the children has been convicted of murdering her and discarding her body in a dumpster, KTLA-TV reports. On Friday, jurors found 33-year-old Amer Alhasan guilty of first-degree murder in connection with the death of 38-year-old …
Van der Sloot is charged with extorting money from Beth Holloway for information — which he didn’t provide — about her daughter’s death.
Last Thursday, an Idaho judge presiding over Lori Vallow Daybell’s triple murder trial decided that three relatives can provide victim impact statements before July’s sentencing hearing. KTVB reported that Kay Woodcock, Summer Shiflet, and Colby Ryan are allowed to give their statements while addressing themselves as immediate family members or a representative of a family …
A woman and her two children were reportedly found dead in a California home on Monday. The bodies of a 29-year-old woman and two children younger than 10 were discovered at a Fremont apartment. A relative told KNTV that the deceased woman is Evelyn Garcia and her two children — a 1-year-old boy and 7-year-old …
A Florida woman allegedly shot and killed a mother of four amid a dispute over the victim’s children playing outside, CBS News reports. Police are investigating the killing but so far have not arrested the shooter because she may be able to assert a self-defense claim under the state’s “stand your ground law.” According to …
Investigators zeroed in on a New Jersey corporate lawyer as the prime suspect in a string of Boston rapes 15 years ago using DNA from his family members, WCVB-TV reports. On Monday, 35-year-old Matthew Nilo was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court, where he pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated rape, two counts of …
