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 …
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 …
The woman’s 9-year-old brother was fatally shot four years earlier
Stephanie Plumb’s two daughters were wounded in the attack, which police say came from her boyfriend.
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 …
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 …
A Missouri foster mother faces four counts of felony child abuse after two young sisters in her care were found with multiple injuries, including one with a lacerated spleen and liver. Jennifer L. Chambers, 42, took the youngest girl, whose age was not given, to Freeman Hospital in Joplin on November 23 at the insistence …
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 …
A suspect was arrested on Thursday in the death of a pregnant Missouri woman who was reportedly stabbed more than 20 times. Amethyst Killian, 22, was found dead at Old Towne Park on Friday, a day after she vanished while walking to a gas station, as CrimeOnline previously reported. St. Charles prosecutor Tim Lohmar said …
A 22-year-old Missouri mother of two — who recently learned she was pregnant with her third child — was found dead in a wooded area near her home on Friday, St Peters police said. Amethyst Killian was reported missing at about 8 p.m. Thursday night by her family, who said the last reported sighting of …
A Missouri woman who was arrested last year for allegedly keeping her deceased husband in a freezer recently lost a federal court battle to get his body back from officials. On November 2, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri dismissed a lawsuit Barbara Watters, 68, filed against the city of Joplin, …
Human remains found in a rural western Missouri bean field this week are those of woman who’s been missing for almost a year. Nicole Mallatt was reported missing on November 29, 2019, and was last seen three days earlier near the Butler home she shared with her boyfriend, KCTV reported. Nine days later, her phone, …
