A Wisconsin father has now been charged with first-degree reckless homicide after the death of his 12-year-old son, whose decomposing and malnourished body was found in his home in Milwaukee last month. Romuan Moye is still on the run after being charged with chronic neglect resulting in death and great bodily harm on October 14, …
A Wisconsin woman was found guilty on Tuesday of poisoning her disabled “friend” with eye drops and stealing nearly $300,000 from her. A jury deliberated for seven hours on Monday and another four hours Tuesday morning before finding that Jessy Kurczewski, 39, killed beautician Lynn Hernan in 2018 and staged the scene to look like …
A Wisconsin man has been arrested after a 1-year-old child appeared to suffer from fentanyl ingested and needed Narcan before she was taken to the hospital over the weekend. Sauk Prairie Police officers responded to a call late Saturday afternoon that a child had either gotten into drugs or poison, WMTV reported. Arriving officers thought …
A Colorado man has been jailed for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend aboard a train traveling from Wisconsin to Denver. The Denver District Attorney’s Office said that Angelo Valentino Mantych, 41, was charged with first degree murder in the death of Marina Placensia, 28, KMGH reported. Mantych, Placensia, and her four young children — …
A mother and grandmother face child abuse charges in Wisconsin after a toddler was brought into the hospital suffering from deep second-degree burns, apparently caused by a curling iron. April Smith, 50, was charged earlier this month with felony child abuse after an investigation into the injuries on her 17-month-old granddaughter. Smith and her daughter, …
Police in southeast Wisconsin are searching for a 18-year-old man they say held a woman against her will for several days. Yefferson Guzman Rodriguez reportedly held a gun to the woman’s head and “made comments to the victim about willingness to harm law enforcement,” the Whitewater Police Department said in a statement. Officers surrounded the …
Police in Wisconsin are looking for three children in foster care who left school at the end of the day on Friday and haven’t been seen since. Milwaukee Police say that 11-year-old Cedrion D. McCottry, 10-year-old Mercedes T. McCottry, and 7-year-old Cedrinique S. McCottry were last seen leaving Benjamin Franklin School Friday afternoon, WISN reported. …
A 26-year-old man accused in the brutal rape and beating of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student last week told police he “went into a rage” and doesn’t recall the rape but afterward pretended to have stumbled across the victim while taking a “high walk.” Brandon Thompson is charged with sexual assault causing great bodily harm, …
A man and a woman arrested last month at a Wisconsin Applebee’s were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after Kenosha police officers learned they were not the couple they were looking for in a hit-and-run accident. The couple involved in the vehicle crash were hiding in the restaurant’s restroom. Kenosha police said the …
Wisconsin police are looking for a man they say set his girlfriend on fire after threatening to kill her entire family. The Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department described Myron Bowie as about 6 feet tall and about 200 pounds. He is in his mid-30s and is believed to be driving a black Cadillac SRX with an …
A Wisconsin man died Wednesday, a month after a punch to the head from a stranger, apparently upset about his tattoos, sent him to the ground, where his head struck concrete. Kevin Sehmer, 64, was charged with aggravated battery causing bodily harm after the June 17 incident at Tabi’s Lake Country Wine Ba in Hartland, …
Two toddlers abducted from the Florida panhandle were found Sunday night abandoned in a park in Wisconsin. Police say 2-year-old Dekarsen Middleton and 1-year-old Delyla Middleton have been reunited with their family, who drove 17 hours from Florida to retrieve them, and a close family friend and her boyfriend have been arrested. “We’ve been on …
