The man accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old girl reportedly admitted to police that he had sexual contact with her after she had died. KOAT has obtained search warrants connected to the investigation of Victoria Marten’s August 2016 homicide. Three suspects — the girl’s mother Michelle Martens, her boyfriend Fabian Gonzalez, and Gonzalez’s cousin …
By RACHEL ZOLL, Associated Press MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died Wednesday. He was 99. Graham, who long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments, died at his home …
Day two of the penalty phase for the man accused of kidnapping, beating, raping, and killing 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle resumes on Wednesday in a Duvall County, Florida, courtroom. He’s facing a sentence of either life in prison without parole or the death penalty, depending upon the jury’s unanimous decision. The first day of the penalty …
The scene of one of America’s deadliest school shootings is scheduled to reopen in coming days, according to a statement from the Parkland, Florida, school. As Fox News reported, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School expects all classes to resume by Tuesday, nearly two weeks after a gunman opened fire, killing 17 students and faculty. Staff …
A 17-year-old Texas girl was arrested on suspicion of arranging for her friend to be robbed and carjacked as she also pretended to be a victim. The Houston Chronicle reported that Susan Marie Mize, 17, and a 16-year-old boy were charged with felony aggravated robbery for a scheme that allegedly involved two boys carjacking and robbing …
Peter Wang, the 15-year-old JROTC member credited for saving lives during last week’s deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, was buried in his uniform Tuesday, less than a week after he died holding the door open for escaping students. According to WTVJ, an emotional service was punctuated by the eulogies of several classmates whose lives …
The adoptive parents of a slain North Carolina girl have been indicted for her murder and dismemberment nearly seven years after her disappearance. The Charlotte Observer reported that nobody knows exactly when Erica Parsons died but authorities believe she was 12 or 13 when she vanished. On Monday, a Rowan County grand jury indicted her parents, Sandy …
A Michigan mother who killed her two adult children and her husband before taking her own life in an apparent murder-suicide, possibly carried out the grisly act as she struggled with being shunned by Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Detroit Free Press reported that Lauren Stuart, 45, and her husband, Daniel, 71, had left the denomination five years earlier. …
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R&B singer R. Kelly has been locked out of two of his Atlanta-area rentals, according to court documents obtained by local reporters. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Monday that SB Property Management Global, LLC, filed paperwork with the magistrate court of Fulton County on February 13 to evict the Grammy winner from two homes in …
Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace died an untimely death at age 50 when serial killer Andrew Cunanan shot him in the back of the head as he walked down the front porch steps at his Miami Beach mansion. He was later pronounced dead at the nearby Jackson Memorial Hospital. Typically, Versace had an assistant accompany him when he …
The teenager accused of killing 17 people in a mass shooting at a Florida high school last week was reported to the Florida Department of Children & Families (DCF) a year and half before the deadly gun massacre. The Miami Herald obtained records showing that someone placed a call to the DCF hotline in September …
