By COLLEEN LONG and DEEPTI HAJELA, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A television actress best known for playing a young Superman’s close friend was charged with sex trafficking, after federal prosecutors said she worked as a slave “master,” recruiting unsuspecting women to a cult-like group led by a man who sold himself as a self-improvement …
A Michigan mother arrested Wednesday for allegedly stuffing her two infant daughters in a suitcase before a visit from Child Protective Services has been charged with four felonies. Katrina Childress, 26, was reportedly arrested Wednesday afternoon in front of her Flint home. According to MLive, Childress was walking at a local park with her twin …
Genene Jones, an ex-Texas nurse convicted in 1984 of killing a baby and trying to kill another, reportedly admitted to murdering dozens of babies during her imprisonment. Jones, 67, is facing five new murder charges for the deaths of four boys and one girl, ranging in ages from three months to two years. According to Texas Monthly, …
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The man accused of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February had a strong physical reaction when a witness came to identify him as the suspected gunman just after his arrest. According to a police report written by the arresting officer obtained by USA Today, Nikolas Cruz was …
A married Illinois woman was charged with one count of solicitation of murder for hire Wednesday after allegedly contracting a company on the dark web to kill her boyfriend’s spouse. According to the Chicago Tribune, Tina Jones, 31, of Des Plaines, reportedly made a $10,000 bitcoin payment in January to a spurious Internet company called Cosa …
A woman of accused of killing her husband and murdering a woman who resembles her was captured Thursday after a nationwide manhunt. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lois Riess, 56, is accused of killing her husband David Riess in Minnesota last month, and then fleeing the state. While on the run she stopped in Florida, and …
An Iowa woman who gained national attention last year after she left her four children at home while she toured Europe was given two years of probation on Thursday. FOX News reports that 31-year-old Erin Lee Macke was initially facing up to eight years in prison for leaving her children, all under the age of 13 …
Authorities in California say the 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing his 17-year-old friend to death was one of the individuals who volunteered to search for Jeremy Sanchez earlier this week. According to Fox News, the suspect is accused of stabbing the victim repeatedly before ditching the body in the woods near a river in South …
A Scottish mother is mourning her 18-month-old daughter’s death and warning other parents to be careful what they allow in their children’s bed. According to the New York Post, Dexy Leigh Walsh of Dundee said she had placed large stuffed animals in the gaps around daughter Connie Rose’s crib in an effort to prevent her …
A Swiss woman apparently convinced her husband to move their family to Utah where they staged a murder-suicide that left them, their two children and pet dog dead last year, according to police. According to the Daily Herald 43-year-old Jessica Griffith reportedly told her husband she was dying and in great pain. She told Timothy …
A Michigan mother with a history of mental illness reportedly put her two infant daughters in a suitcase and left them on the curb before attempting to flee Wednesday. Per MLive, Flint police and Genesee County Child Protective Services responded to the 500 block of West Pierson Road at around 2 p.m. Police said Katrina Childress, 26, put …
