A pair of Missouri teens received the maximum sentence allowed for an act of animal cruelty that attracted widespread condemnation when it made national news last year. According to the Kansas City Star, 18-year-old Kyle Williams and 19-year-old were each sentenced to four years in prison for animal abuse following convictions stemming from the fatal …
Authorities in Missouri say a 13-year-old boy threatened to use an AK-47 rifle in a mass shooting at a local school. According to the Springfield News-Leader, police arrested the suspect Sunday morning on suspicion of making a terrorist threat. He reportedly made the threat in a video he shared online with someone else. A media …
Local activists say Jalen Vaden’s confession was coerced and accused police of compromising the crime scene
A Missouri family is desperate for answers after they found photos and seconds-long videos of a strange man, taken with their grandmother’s phone inside her home. KMOV reports that Valerie Wallace found several pictures and videos of an unknown man in her 84-year-old grandmothers cellphone, apparently taken inside the elderly woman’s Festus home. Wallace immediately asked …
A 17-year-old in Missouri is facing child pornography charges after his father allegedly discovered pictures of a naked toddler girl on his phone and turned him in to police. According to The Kansas City Star, Paul Spensberger claimed he discovered two illicit images in Andrew Spensberger’s phone on December 30. The close-up images reportedly depicted a 2-year-old …
A Missouri man vacationing in the Florida Keys with family reportedly died Christmas Day in a freak snorkeling accident. The Springfield News-Leader reported that Owen Holmes, 69, from Ozark, was visiting Florida with family and boarded a boat operated by Starfish Snorkeling in Marathon near Sombrero Key lighthouse. While snorkeling five miles offshore, Holmes experienced some …
A husband and wife in Missouri are in jail on suspicion of child abuse after authorities say they subjected their infant son to injury that included being shoved in a microwave. According to KXAN, the victim was less than 4 months old when he was admitted to a St. Louis hospital earlier this year. The …
Police in Missouri found an 11-month-old baby with serious injuries this week and took his parents into custody on suspicion of child abuse and neglect. According to the Belleville News-Democrat, the baby underwent emergency surgery Saturday evening to address trauma to the inside of his mouth. Reports indicate he also had “human bite marks on …
Authorities issued a statewide manhunt in Missouri after two inmates escaped through an air duct from the Pemiscot County Jail in Caruthersville. ABC News reports that William Carter (pictured left), 27, who’s facing first degree murder charges, and Joseph Latamondeer (pictured right), 41, who’s facing felony assault and kidnapping charges, somehow managed to sneak out of their cells, and sliver their …
A Kansas City, Missouri, man who fatally shot a father then shot and paralyzed the dad’s 10-year-old son will spend the rest of his life behind bars. KCTV reported that a Jackson County judge sentenced Dontae Jefferson to life without parole for the first-degree murder of Ka’Vyea Curry, 34. The judge also ordered that life sentences …
A Missouri Highway Patrol trooper was sentenced to 10 days in jail for the 2014 drowning death of a handcuffed Iowa man, as reported by WHO TV. The Kansas City Star reports that Judge Roger Prokes handed down the jail sentence to Anthony Piercy as “shock time.” In June, Piercy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor boating violation, …
A Missouri mother who arrived at her 1-year-old son’s day care Monday afternoon allegedly realized that she forgot to drop him off that morning. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that daycare officials and police concluded that Tate Mitchell sat in the hot van for hours on Monday. Though Mitchell’s mother arrived at Casa dia Montessori School at around …
