A Kansas pastor’s wife who disappeared earlier this month while driving to visit family in Alabama originally planned to make the trip by airplane, Overland Park police say, but changed her mind and set off for Birmingham by car, AL.com reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Marilane Carter, 36, was last seen leaving her home at …
A Lexington, Tennessee, woman has been charged with burning a 4-year-old child with a hot clothes iron, WBBJ reports. Amanda Coffman, 41, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with aggravated child abuse, according to court documents, the station said. Coffman reportedly told police the child fell on the iron, causing a “severe burn.” But she …
The U.S. Marshals Service said they arrested three people Tuesday, months after their four dogs reportedly fatally mauled a woman in Tennessee. The agency said in a statement that Kimberly Jordan, 40, Phyllis Jones, 61, and Dedricz Perry, 22, were charged with reckless homicide in connection with Doris Arrington’s mauling death. Authorities said four “unsecured …
A Tennessee couple was charged this week with the death of a woman they lured into their home and then held there by chaining her to a bed while they raped and beat her, Oak Ridge Today reports. Sean Finnegan, 52, and Rebecca Dishman, 22, allegedly stored the mutilated body of 36-year-old Jennifer Gail Paxton …
Police in Tennessee have asked for the public’s help in locating a 13-year-old girl who reportedly vanished from her home Monday. The Knoxville Police Department said in a Facebook post Tuesday that Patiecents Ray Harrell left her Glenoaks Drive home sometime between 10 p.m. Monday and 9:30 a.m. the following day. She reportedly left with …
Police in an East Tennessee town shot and killed Randall Pope, 49, Friday night, after finding his wife dead in a car outside the couple’s apartment. Morristown police officers responded to a call about a stabbing about 11:30 p.m., the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said, and found Wendy Lea Pope, 40, in a vehicle with …
Tennessee police launched an intensive search Saturday night for a 10-year-old girl reported to be in the back seat of a stolen car, only to learn the girl had been at her foster parents’s home the entire time. Randall Rhodey, 32, has been charged with auto theft, and Kayla Fox, 30 — who reported the …
A 60-year-old Texas man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a 41-year-old woman whose body was found last month in a black, 50-gallon tote box floating on Kentucky Lake, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reported. Investigators say that Traci Leigh Jones had been producing pornography with Jeffrey Rogers and his wife, elementary …
Robin Howington tried to blame her toddler son for the shooting
A Memphis man has been jailed on murder and child abuse charges after a toddler in his care was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and later died. Staff at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital contacted Memphis police on Thursday about the 23-month-old girl after Victor Williams, the mother’s boyfriend, said he found the child …
Remains discovered by authorities Saturday may have been the adopted son of a Tennesee couple who allegedly buried another adopted child in their backyard. Citing a warrant, WATE reported that the unidentified remains were discovered on a Knox County property where Michael Gray, Sr., 63, Shirley Gray, 60, their five adopted children, and their adult …
An ongoing child abuse and neglect case in Tennessee reportedly resulted in investigators finding a girl’s skeletal remains in a couple’s backyard on Saturday. According to 1057News.com, authorities got involved on Friday, after someone called 911 about a 10-year-old boy walking alone in the street in Roane County. Officers eventually made contact with the boy’s …
