On Wednesday, a Riverside County Superior Court judge prohibited California parents David and Louise Turpin from contacting their 13 children, who were allegedly found starved and tortured last week. According to The Los Angeles Times, Judge Emma Smith approved a three-year protective order that will ban the parents from contacting their children in any way except …
An attorney representing the Perris, California, couple accused of torturing their 13 children is reportedly setting the stage to have the high-profile trial moved out of Riverside County. According to The Desert Sun, Deputy Public Defender David Macher filed a motion ahead of Wednesday’s hearing expressing concern that the “extraordinary” media coverage will make it difficult …
A young man in Michigan turned a gun on himself and took his own life after he realized he had accidentally shot and killed his best friend. WJRT reports that Zachary Woodcock, 20, hosted a gathering to celebrate his upcoming birthday at Bavarian Haus Apartments in Merrill on Friday night. At some point, after Woodcock and …
A North Carolina mother’s live-in boyfriend was charged with first-degree murder on Weds. in connection with the death of toddler, Mariah Woods. In addition to first-degree murder, ABC reports that Adolphus Earl Kimrey II, 32, was also charged with felonious child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury. As CrimeOnline reported in early December, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that …
Investigators have learned that the children were isolated from each other and locked in different rooms in small groups
A mother’s first instinct when she realizes hot bath water severely burned her baby should be to call for help, but Christina Marie Hurt, 35, allegedly did nothing. Her 1-year-old son died the next day. Nancy Grace explores the case with lawyer and child advocate Ashley Willcott, private investigator Vincent Hill, New York psychologist Dr. …
“She had this whimsical optimism to her that couldn’t be dampened, couldn’t be doused no matter what anybody threw at her”
Despite public outcry, sources revealed that the six minor Turpin children will be split up between two foster homes. Sources also told CBS News that Riverside County will be awarded conservatorship over the seven adult Turpins before they’re moved to an assisted living facility. Last week, an anonymous source close to the investigation told the network …
A father convicted of helping cover up his daughter’s murder shared chilling details of the killing in a newly released confession — one that alters the previously reported story of Ashley Zhao’s death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, five-year-old Ashley Zhao was found dead last January in her parents’ Chinese restaurant in Canton, Ohio, following a …
A Mexican man living in the U.S. illegally used his job as an Uber driver to target intoxicated young women and was charged Monday with raping, assaulting and robbing four victims, California prosecutors said.
By DAVID EGGERT and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation’s top gymnasts for years was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison as the judge declared: “I just signed your death warrant.” The sentence capped a remarkable seven-day hearing in which …
The two Oklahoma City women watching a baby when he was severely burned last month have been arrested on suspicion of child abuse and child neglect. According to KFOR, the 11-month-old boy’s godmother and grandmother, Breanna Cole and Cordette Cole, were responsible for him while his mother cared for another child who was ill. Investigators …
