Indiana state investigators arrested two teen girls Friday for making threats against students at a St Joseph County junior/senior high school. According to Indiana State Police, they were contacted by LaVille Junior/Senior High School officials at about noon Friday about a list of student’s circulating on social media that the two 13-year-olds intended to harm …
Three young Indiana children “got hold” of a baggie of fentanyl pills this week and ingested them, leaving one toddler dead and two others hospitalized. Six people have been arrested in relation to the incident, including 3-year-old Kamari Opperman’s mother and grandparents. Emergency crews were called to the Evansville home Wednesday morning, the Courier & …
An Indiana couple has been arrested after a hospital called police and reported a 3-year-old with critical injuries inconsistent with the story told by the child’s father and girlfriend. Derek Pierce, 31, and Dakota McHenry, 25, have been charged with neglect of an infant causing serious bodily injury and obstruction of justice; Pierce also faces …
An Indiana woman reported missing last month has been found dead, buried in a shallow grave. The Coroner’s Office determined that Heather Ann Steuver, 37, died from blunt force trauma to the head, Bartholomew County Sheriff Matt Myers said on Saturday. Steuver was reported missing on August 26 and was last seen on August 21, …
An Indiana toddler was shot and killed during a domestic dispute Friday, and an Elkhart police officer shot and killed the suspect minutes later. Elkhart police were called to the scene at about 10:30 a.m. on reports of a “verbal altercation” between a man and a woman outside a home. Police said the man fired …
Ryan Zimmerman’s remains weren’t identified until last year. Officials said a second suspect committed suicide as officers moved to arrest her.
Employees at a Lafayette, Indiana, building supplies store found a copious amount of blood inside their dumpster after it had been emptied Monday by the weekly trash truck and called police to investigate. Officers stopped the trash truck and diverted it to a transfer station, where they sifted through the trash and found the body …
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for a 26-year-old Indiana man who shot and killed a woman and her grandmother outside an auto seat manufacturing plant where all three worked. The shooting happened shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, during shift change at NHK Seating of America in Frankfort, the Lafayette Journal & Courier …
An Indiana man goes on trial next month in Tennessee, charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of 19-year-old Grace Anne Sparks two years ago — while he was 300 miles away at his home. Hayden Berkebile, 29, also faces a charge of false reports because he called 911 to report that Sparks had …
An Indiana woman was charged this week with killing her husband, cutting off his legs, and getting her children to help her hide the body. Thessalonica Allen told police she shot him after he grabbed her by the neck while they were arguing and then came at her again after he let her go, ABC …
An Indiana woman has been charged with raping a 16-year-old boy with autism while she was baby-sitting him. In an arrest report, police said they boy’s parents contacted them on Monday after they noticed suspicious activity on a surveillance camera in his room. In the video, Stephanie Bradshaw, 47, is seen taking her pants off …
Indiana police are looking for a 77-year-old man who hasn’t been seen since just before 9 a.m. Sunday and may require medical assistance. Wayne Willis disappeared from Lawrenceburg, the Dearborn County Sheriff’s Department said, according to WCPO. Willis is described as 6 feet tall and about 200 pounds with gray hair and brown eyes. He …
