NEW YORK (AP) — A novel called “Handbook for Mortals” had a very brief reign at the top of a New York Times best-seller list. The paper confirmed Friday that it had pulled Lani Sarem’s book from its young adult hardcover list for Sept. 3 because of “inconsistencies” in the reporting of sales. The announcement …
Members of a paramilitary “Christian” sect are jailed on child abuse and sex charges in New Mexico. Reporter Patty Lane and psychologist Caryn Stark discuss revelations in the case with Nancy Grace in this “Crime Stories” episode. Read Also: Paramilitary religious sect leader denies ‘fake’ child sexual abuse claims after EIGHT members, including his wife, …
A Texas woman was sentenced to 27 years in prison after she murdered her husband in 2012, just one day shy of their 32nd wedding anniversary. Houston Chronicle reports that Sandra Melgar was sentenced in Houston on Thursday for killing her husband, 52-year-old Jaime Melgar, in what prosecutors said was a $500,000 insurance scheme. On Dec. 22, 2012, …
North Carolina police arrested a teen in connection with the early Wednesday morning death of his father and another man. FOX 8 reports that Sean Tyler Simmons, 19, is facing two first-degree murder charges. At around 1:35 a.m. on Wednesday, officers arrived at 2406 Flora Vista Circle in Greensboro, where they found two men with gunshot wounds, …
GRANTS, N.M. (AP) — The leader of a New Mexico paramilitary religious sect rocked by child sexual abuse allegations says “hundreds of kids” have safely passed through the group’s compound in New Mexico. But James Green told the KOB-TV in Albuquerque on Thursday that the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps teaches children living at a …
A man was charged Thursday after authorities said he pulled his car into a group of demonstrators protesting a police shooting in St. Louis, injuring three people.
A New York man has admitted that he was on drugs when he murdered a mother and her young daughter by choking them and then slashing their throats earlier this month, the Post-Star reports. Bryan Redden, 21, told police that he was “high on drugs” and had “done heroin” when he killed 33-year-old Crystal Riley …
Jim Carrey’s former girlfriend who killed herself revealed to a therapist that she was struggling to keep down foods and couldn’t sleep after the actor abruptly broke off the relationship, Daily Mail reports. The girlfriend, Cathriona White, told her therapist in July 2013 that she wanted to “have it all stop,” according to medical records obtained …
Police are searching for a man who allegedly tried to rape a 74-year-old woman as she rode in the elevator of her Bronx apartment, according to CBS New York. The incident allegedly occurred Friday night after the woman, later identified as Ana Ventura, and the suspect got in the same elevator. Surveillance footage caught the man appearing …
Detectives in Clark County, Washington, have announced that new DNA samples link two cold cases to convicted killer Warren Forrest, according to KOIN. The Columbian reports that blood on a weapon used by Forrest, 68, was found to belong to Martha Morrison, 17. The missing Portland girl’s body was found in a remote area in Vancouver, Washington, in …
On Thursday afternoon, a 2-day-old baby was reportedly removed from the apartment building where Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind disappeared. Fargo police Chief David Todd revealed in a video statement Thursday that a newborn was found in an apartment they were searching. He claimed that they are unable to confirm whether the child belongs to the missing 22-year-old. …
The Cobb County Medical Examiner’s Office in Marietta, Georgia, confirmed today that the remains found on August 1 in the backyard of a Kennesaw home are of U.S. Army veteran, Chase Massner. The confirmation comes one day after Massner’s mother, Stephanie Cadena, expressed her frustration over the lengthy process of identifying the remains. “Words cannot …
