Police are called to a home in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Parents say they have had an incident. Melody Vang, 2, is found dead on the home’s back porch wrapped in a blanket. Her body is naked, except for a diaper. Her 29-year-old mother, Ciashia Lee, is charged with second-degree murder without intent. Joining Nancy Grace …
Stone Foltz, a business major at Bowling Green, dies after consuming a handle of alcohol during a pledge party. Foltz was taking part in a fraternity ritual. The Foltz family’s attorney, Rex Elliott, says the 20-year-old was taken to a basement at an off-campus fraternity house, blindfolded, and told he couldn’t leave until he finished …
Can you kill someone while you are asleep? That’s been the defense in many notable murder cases. Today, Nancy Grace and her panel look at the possibilities, including the prosecution of Scott Falater. He was accused of stabbing his wife, Yarmila, dozens of times and shoving her body into the family pool. He says he …
A 5-year-old girl is dead after her mother allegedly drives drunk. Nory Lam’s car was found after the rollover crash that left Aleah Reyes dead. Lam sustained minor injuries. The 26-year-old mom was arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter, driving under the influence of alcohol, and transporting an open container of alcohol. Joining Nancy Grace …
Federal prosecutors add sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy to the indictment against Ghislaine Maxwell. A new accuser says she was 14 when she was recruited to give Epstein “sexualized massages.” Maxwell now faces eight counts of accusations from four minor victims. She had previously been indicted on four counts related to enticing minors to …
Opening statements were made today in the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd. Derek Chauvin is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter for the death of the unarmed man, who died in May 2020 after Chauvin knelt on his neck for several minutes. Floyd’s arrest–for …
A hang-up 911 call leads police to find the bodies of two people and a third person injured. Lawrence Anderson has been arrested for the deaths of those two and the assault. It’s now known that the victims were the convicted felon’s family members. During his arrest, he confesses to another killing. Police find out …
Christine Englehardt was found partially clothed and dead inside her room at the Albion Hotel in Miami Beach. Two North Carolina men are accused of drugging and sexually assaulting the 24-year-old woman. Evoire Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 24, are seen on surveillance video walking with the victim, who appeared intoxicated or drugged. The men …
Well-known Missouri real estate agent, Leigh Ann Bauman, has been charged in a murder-for-hire plot. Bauman allegedly agreed to pay $1,500 to have her former mother-in-law killed. Court documents say Bauman thought her ex-husband and former mother-in-law were going to challenge her in court for full custody of the couple’s children. Joining Nancy Grace today: …
Sarm Heslop, 41 has been living in the U.S. Virgin Islands on a boat with her boyfriend Ryan Bane. The former flight attendant turned-chef vanished in the middle of the night from the catamaran “Siren Song.” Bane police reports say that he and Heslop had gone to sleep on Siren Song–moored in Frank Bay on …
Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old student at California Polytechnic State University, disappears after attending a campus party. She is still missing more than 20 years later, and no one has ever been charged. Kristin’s parents Denise and Stan Smart have never given up in their search for answers. Now, new search warrants have been executed in …
Air Force Veteran and mother, Mary Barrett is found beaten and stabbed in the basement of her home. A suspect, “emotional and excited,” walks into the Plymouth Borough Police Department to report he killed Barrett. The autopsy determined Mary’s cause of death to be from blunt force trauma, and the manner of death was a …
