Missouri

Weird Crime
February 12, 2021

RIP…NOT: Missouri funeral home van transporting body STOLEN

A funeral home van containing a woman’s body was found on Friday, a day after it was stolen from outside a convenience store in Missouri, according to reports. Two suspects were arrested in Festus after a citizen recognized the van from media reports and alerted authorities. The woman’s body was located in the recovered van, …

Accident
February 7, 2021

5-year-old girl fighting for life after car crash involving KC Chiefs assistant coach

A 5-year-old girl remains hospitalized Sunday and has not awakened since she was critically injured in a car crash on Thursday, the Kansas City Star reports. The girl, identified as Ariel by her family, was in a car struck by a pickup truck driven by Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid — the 35-year-old …

Murder
January 28, 2021

Ex-boyfriend stabs mom of 4 to death in his parents’ basement

A Missouri man has been charged with fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in his parents’ basement, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Police responding to a 911 call on Tuesday found Crystal McCandless, 33, with multiple stab wounds and Christopher D. Faris, 38, kneeling beside her, according to court documents. Next to Faris, they found a boxcutter …

Unsolved
January 24, 2021

Missing Missouri mom’s body found near rural road

A body found southwest of the Missouri town of East Prairie on Saturday has been identified as that of a woman who disappeared on the day after Christmas, the Mississippi County Sheriff’s Office said. Madisson Lambert, 24, was last seen at about 10:30 p.m. on December 26, and her wrecked vehicle was found a few …

Ethan Mast and Kourtney Aumen
Child Abuse
December 20, 2020

4-year-old girl ‘beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank’: Cops

Deputies in rural central Missouri are investigating the death of a four-year-old girl who died early Sunday morning, her father said, when she was “beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank,” the Benton County Sheriff’s Office reports. James Mast, 28, called 911 just before 1 a.m. — when temperatures in …

Murder
December 12, 2020

4 jailed in plot that led to young couple found shot to death on their front porch

Four people are now behind bars, charged in the shooting deaths of a young Missouri couple found dead on their front porch last month. Court documents say that Theresa Cox, the ex-wife of Alex Chute, 28 — who was found dead with his fiancee Brianna Sproul, 30 on November 14 — orchestrated a murder plot …

Child Abuse
December 5, 2020

4-year-old boy, caged for ‘extended periods of time,’ suffers from ‘extreme malnutrition’

Four people have been jailed in southwestern Missouri after a 4-year-old boy was found unresponsive and suffering from “extreme malnutrition” last month, the Stone County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. The boy’s mother, Dessa Barton, and her boyfriend, Dalton McLendon, both 26, were arrested on November 6, jail records show, when deputies and medical teams responded …