A former Arkansas pastor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to three counts of raping his own minor children. James Edwin Cowan, 46, will also serve 30 years of a suspended sentence after his release from prison, according to the Arkansas Southwest Judicial District prosecuting attorney, Jana Bradford. He …
A Texas grand jury has indicted a woman on a murder charge after she shot and killed a man she said had drugged and kidnapped her. Amy Lejeune, 45, was indicted last month in Gillespie County, KXAN reported. The Gillespie County Sheriff’s Office said that it was called on March 15 just after 12:30 p.m. …
A federal grand jury has indicted a Florida man, already in jail on kidnapping charges, on charges of killing his wife in Spain. The indictment charges David Nezevich with kidnapping resulting in death, foreign domestic violence resulting in death, and foreign murder of a US national, WTVJ reported. Knezevich, 36, was arrested in May and …
A Wisconsin mother has been charged with child abandonment and neglect after she allegedly kicked her 12-year-old son out of the car along Interstate 94 in Waukesha County because she was angry about his grades. Police found the crying boy walking along the busy highway during rush hour on Thursday, WTMJ reported. He told them …
Indiana authorities said on Wednesday that they’d found human remains in the same area where a missing mother of three was last seen in September. The Scott County Sheriff’s Office said deputies and detectives from Indiana State Police recovered the remains from a wooded property in southern Indiana and sent them for a forensic examination …
The mother of a 4-year-old Louisiana girl joined other community residents Wedneday night to pay tribute to the little girl who died earlier this month from injuries police say were inflicted by her father and his girlfriend. “I wish could go back in time so that I could save her because she was my baby,” …
An Indiana man waited until after he’d won election to his local county commission to plead guilty in a sexual assault case against him in Nevada. John D. Jessup, 49, is now awaiting sentencing after his guilty plea to an attempted rape. He faces up to 20 years in prison, WXIN reported. Jessup was elected …
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A New York man accused of starving his 4-year-old son to death wants to be placed in protective custody as other inmates have attacked him. Laron Modlin, 25, and Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, are charged with killing their son, Jah’Meik Modlin, who reportedly died last month weighing 19 pounds. Modlin’s attorneys said that other inmates at …
A Texas man accused of shooting his wife 14 times has been released from jail, leaving the victim’s loved ones in fear. According to News4SA. domestic violence victim Erica Torres has been at University Health in San Antonio for the last five months, following a June incident in which police say her ex-boyfriend shot her …
“Gossip Girl” actress Chanel Banks spoke with the media to dispel claims by her family that she is missing. Banks told True Crime News in a FaceTime call that she decided to leave California for Texas after getting baptized. She said that hours before the baptism, she learned her husband and family were planning to …
Police believe a father of three, who vanished at a Wisconsin lake this summer, may have staged his own death and fled to Eastern Europe. The investigation started on August 12 when authorities found out that 45-year-old Ryan Borgwardt had not returned home and was last seen at Green Lake, according to the Green Lake …
