The husband of an Alabama nurse practitioner jailed for the attempted murder of her adopted daughter has now been arrested on the same charge. A grand jury indicted Bartley Blakely, 42, this week, and he was arrested on Friday and released after paying a $150,000 bond, WIAT reported. His wife, Trussville nurse practitioner Kala Blakely, …
An Alabama man has been jailed on charges of sexually abusing a child under 12 years old dating back to 2013. Tomas Juan Francisco, 47, is being held at the DeKalb County Detention Center in northeastern Alabama on a $2 million bond, AL.com reported. The sheriff’s office said Francisco may face more charges. “I can’t …
A 2-year-old Alabama girl found dead in her family’s apartment last week died from multiple blunt force trauma Ivy Baker was found dead in her family’s Opelika apartment early Friday morning when first responders responded after her mother, Chasity Umeko Baker, 28, found the little girl unresponsive. Baker and her boyfriend, 28-year-old Jamario Emanuel Mitchell, …
An Alabama man is being held on a $10 million bond after his infant son was hospitalized with severe head trauma and other injuries earlier this week. Marterrius C. Moore, 22, has been charged with aggravated child abuse, WAFF reported, and he reportedly admitted to detectives that he injured the child on multiple occasions because …
A 27-year-old Alabama woman last seen getting into a rideshare in June was found dead over the weekend in Birmingham. Jefferson County Coroner Bill Yates, who identified the skeletal remains using dental records, said that Angela Michelle Roberts’s cause of death may never be known. “When you have skeletal remains, it hampers our ability to …
An Alabama woman out on bond has been charged with the murder of a US Army veteran found dead in his home last week. Johnnie Will Anderson III was found strangled on September 10. The state of decomposition suggested to investigators that he had been dead for several days, AL.com reported. Homewood Police charged Alexandria …
A 3-year-old Alabama boy died Sunday after he was found unresponsive inside a car. Cullman County Coroner Jeremy Kilpatrick identified the toddler as Johnathan Milam, known to his family as LJ, AL.com reported. Sheriff’s officials declined to provide details. There was an incident involving a small child on Sunday, August 22nd, 2021,” Cullman County Sheriff …
A young mother in Mobile, Alabama, has been charged with murder in the death of her 3-year-old son. Officers responded to USA Children and Women’s Hospital on August 8 when hospital staff alerted them to a possible case of child abuse, Fox 10 reported. The toddler had been brought to the hospital by Mobile Fire …
The children’s parents, who have been arrested, were found sleeping in a nearby van.
Alabama deputies on Sunday rescued a 39-year-old woman on Sunday who said she had been held prison for 24 hours by a man who raped her, beat her repeatedly, and warned her he was going to make her dig her own grave. Joseph Ryan Byram, 37, has been jailed in Jefferson County on multiple charges. …
An Alabama police officer was shot and killed Tuesday when he went home for his lunch break. A suspect approached Selma Officer Marquis Moorer, 25, and opened fire between 3:30 a.m. and 4 a.m., according to Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson. Jackson said the suspect also wounded a woman who was with Moorer, identified …
An Alabama postal worker was shot while out on his route in Tarrant Wednesday afternoon, and investigators are still sorting through clues and seeking witnesses this weekend. According to AL.com, the unnamed postal worker had just hand-delivered mail to a resident and gotten back into his truck when a car pulled up and someone opened …
