Attorneys for a Texas inmate facing execution for the stabbing deaths of his estranged wife, their young son, and the woman’s infant daughter told a federal judge that he’s too mentally ill to face capital punishment. Andre Thomas, 35, was sentenced to death for the March 2004 slayings of Laura Boren, 4-year-old Andre Jr., and Boren’s …
New details continue to emerge in the case of a Florida doctor bludgeoned to death in her own home in 2015. Her husband, Mark Sievers, is currently on trial for her murder. Naples Daily News reports that on June 28, 2015, Dr. Teresa Sievers was beaten to death with a hammer while inside her Bonita Springs, …
Soon after Dr. Teresa Sievers returned to her Florida home early from a family trip, the mother of two girls was found beaten to death in her garage on June 28, 2015. Husband Mark Sievers, who was still out of town, allegedly arranged for his childhood friend Curtis Wayne Wright to murder his wife. Wright …
As authorities continue to piece together information in hopes of learning how 5-year-old Lucas Hernandez died, the timeline of his disappearance remains clouded in uncertainty. The working class neighborhood near downtown Wichita, Kansas, was quiet in early June as the house on South Edgemoor, where Lucas once lived, sat seemingly abandoned. Someone pasted a sign …
A medical examiner has determined that iconic designer Kate Spade died of suicide by hanging, the New York Post reports. Spade, 55, was found hanged by a scarf in her Park Avenue apartment late Tuesday morning. She reportedly left a suicide note addressed to her 13-year-old daughter, telling the girl that the decision was not …
An Arkansas man confessed in court that he intentionally infected himself with HIV so that he could expose the virus to other people, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported. During his sentencing, a bewildered judge asked 25-year-old Stephen Koch, of Scranton, whether the mind-boggling admission was really true. “Just so I can get my brain …
Authorities in Las Vegas have released harrowing video of the moments Stephen Paddock was firing down at a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on October 1. The Las Vegas Review-Journal and The Guardian obtained surveillance video images that were captured from cameras on a street corner close to the Route 91 Harvest Festival …
Authorities in Tennessee say a man used what he had handy to halt a knife attack on his wife last week. According to Fox News, a woman knocked on the door of the couple’s Murfreesboro apartment home early on the morning of May 31. Local reports indicate the woman, identified as Shalonda Latrice Shepard, was …
The mother and grandparents of a 9-month-old New York boy were recently arrested after the infant reportedly choked on a plastic bag containing drugs and nearly died while in their care. Police responded to the Rochester home at 2 p.m. Sunday, following reports of an unresponsive baby. Upon arrival, first responders performed CPR on Prince DeJesus …
Police in Virginia believe they have located the remains of a New York man and his toddler son inside an SUV parked in Rockbridge County. According to New York Post, authorities launched a manhunt after 43-year-old John Ligurgo III and 2-year-old Jovani did not show up for an arranged meeting to drop the child off …
A Connecticut mother who starved her disabled teen son until he died—weighing 84 pounds—was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Tuesday. According to WVIT, mother Katiria Tirado, 34, was found to have screwed kitchen cabinets shut and locked the refrigerator to prevent son Matthew Tirado, 17, from overeating. Katiria had claimed that the teen had …
A hot-headed Oregon man allegedly broke a woman’s arm and knocked her fiancee unconscious during a suspected road rage incident Friday. According to OregonLive.com, Jay Allen Barbeau, 49, is facing felony assault charges for his barbaric attack on two women. The incident reportedly occurred when the women pulled in front of a truck driven by …
