A Missouri mother was charged this week in the death of a her 1-year-old child who “suffered from severe malnutrition and neglect.” An arrest warrant filed in Cape Giradeau County says that Alyssa N. Wehmeyer, 21, didn’t feed her baby “for approximately 43 hours,” causing the infant serious injury and ultimately death. Wehmeyer was charged …
A Missouri hospital employee pleaded guilty last week to a single count of invasion of privacy for putting a secret recording device in a hospital locker room and rcording fellow employees on the toilet. Gabriel Vanriette, 40, was only charged with one count despite recordings found of eight victims, all of whom wanted to press …
A Missouri man was shot dead by police Friday morning after two murders and a child abduction the night before. The Platte County Sheriff’s Office said police gunned down George Manning, 43, just after 7:30 a.m. Friday, hours after the night of terror began when he allegedly shot and killed a woman in a car …
Andrew Lester, 86, pleaded guilty last week to a lesser charge in the two-year-old case.
Prosecutors provided details about the murders of three women in their Kansas City, Missouri, home earlier this week and the subsequent arrest of the man believed responsible Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said in a news conference on Monday that 50-year-old Armando Navarro Jr. had been charged with multiple crimes in the deaths of 49-year-old …
A Missouri woman has been charged witha multi-state shooting spree that included her ex-husband , another man who was the father of one of her children, and that man’s partne. Taylor Santiago is due in court Monday for a bond hearing in Lawrence County, Missouri, KYTV reported. She is charged there with fatally shooting Troy …
Three women were found shot to death at a home in Kansas City, Missouri, early Sunday morning. Police were called to the area shortly before 1 a.m. on a report of gunfire, KMBC reported. They were directed to a home where they found the women, who were pronounced dead at the scene. The victims were …
A Missouri man has been charged with killing his older brother with a hatchet after police found the dead man with the weapon still buried in his head. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Timothy Fox, 58, with first degree murder and armed criminal action, The Webster-Kirkwood Times reported. He’s accused of killing …
A 39-year-old Missouri man has been arrested and charged with raping a 5-year-old girl. Chase Reed is in the Newton County jail awaiting arraignement on charges of statutory sodomy and statutory rape, KSNF reported. Court records say the child was interviewed at the Children’s Center and told investigators Reed touched her “bad spots” and hurt …
Missouri police found a man and his two children shot to death in a burning home Thursday night. Kansas City Police arrived at the home for a welfare check at about 9:45 p.m. but backed away when they saw fire in the home, KMBC reported. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, and officers found Zachary Hatcher, 39; …
A Missouri man has been charged with killing his son after he and the son’s fiancee got into an argument on Christmas Eve. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said Harold Luster, 61, retrieved a firearm from his home and threatened the fiancee before shooting 26-year-old Kevin Ward in the head. Luster has been charged with …
Three caretakers of a 4-year-old Missouri girl were arrested after the girl was brought to a hospital unresponsive and then lifeflighted to a St. Louis hospital 200 miles away. James Calhoun Lamb, Aireal Brishay Cole, and Derrick Eugene Barnby were charged with multiple counts of child abuse, KMZU reported. Lamb, the girl’s father, reportedly told …
