Police in Elkhart, Indiana, are looking for a man driving a late model GMC Safari van who allegedly tried to kidnap two children while their mother was washing her car at a car wash, WSBT reported. The man was described as between 60- and 70-years-old with a gray beard and pock marks on his face. …
An Indiana man was fatally shot on Friday night as he attempted to stop a gunman during his bachelor party, according to reports. Christopher Smith, 41, was one of two people shot at Jake’s Pub in Indianapolis shortly before 10 p.m. Smith was to be married in two weeks, and his fiancée’s sister told WXIN …
A body that was found in Indiana in mid-September has been identified as a teen girl who was reported missing in Illinois, authorities announced on Sunday. According to the Times of Northwest Indiana, the Lake County, Indiana, Sheriff’s Office said Takaylah Tribitt, 14, was the girl utility workers found dead on September 16 in an …
A mother in Indiana is speaking out after she says high school administrators ignored football players assaulting and bullying her son with Down syndrome. Lesli Woodruff told WXIN that her son Jack is “forever changed” after being the student manager of Roncalli High School’s football team. Woodruff claimed she informed the school of the alleged …
Former soap opera star Tyler Christopher was arrested in Indiana on Monday for public intoxication after he allegedly lost consciousness and urinated on himself in the back seat of an Uber. Christopher, 47, was booked into Morgan County Jail on his birthday. TMZ reported that responding officers took the actor into custody after finding him …
A 36-year-old woman was found dead Wednesday with an 8-foot python wrapped around her neck, lying of the floor of a house owned by by a county sheriff with 140 snakes inside, the Lafayette Journal & Courier reported. Twenty of the snakes belonged to Laura Hurst, the woman who was found dead, Indiana State Police …
A 16-year-old Indiana boy admitted in court on Wednesday to killing his pregnant girlfriend and his unborn child nearly a year after her murdered body was found in a dumpster. According to WSBT, Aaron Trejo unexpectedly pleaded guilty to murder and feticide during a status hearing in St. Joseph County. Trejo told the court that …
Thursday’s episode of “The Dr. Oz Show” will explore whether an Indiana couple adopted—and abandoned—an 8-year-old Ukranian girl or a 22-year-old sociopath. Kristine and Michael Barnett, 45 and 43, were charged last month with neglect of a dependent for allegedly abandoning their adopted daughter, Natalia Barnett, in a rented Lafayette apartment and fleeing to Canada …
An Indiana man who admitted to drugging a 5-year-old girl’s cereal before he filmed himself sexually assaulting her learned this week that he will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. Eric Weiler, 46, was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty to production and possession of child pornography …
Authorities in Illinois have reportedly discovered more than 150 fetuses in the trunk of a car that belonged to a late Indiana doctor who performed legal abortions until his medical license was suspended in 2015. WRTV reported that Will County police made the discovery on Wednesday while inspecting properties and cars owned by Dr. Ulrich …
“I saw her putting chemicals, bleach, Windex something like that, in my coffee and I asked her, what are you doing? She said, ‘I am trying to poison you.'”
An Indiana woman accused of strangling her 10-year-old stepdaughter and hiding her body in a shed on her property reportedly plans to represent herself in court. People magazine obtained a probable cause affidavit stating that Amanda Carmack, 34, confessed to killing Skylea Carmack but couldn’t recall what prompted it, only telling police that she was …
