Prosecutors in Arizona say they will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man accused of stabbing a 29-year-old skin care technician to death on a hiking trail last spring. Lauren Heike’s parents released a statement saying they’d learned from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office that they had filed the notice of intent to seek …
A Florida elementary school teacher earlier this week after her 23-year-old son stabbed her repeatedly when she told him she was going to help him get mental health care. Connor Crumrine’s two older sisters fought with him over the knife when he attacked their mother, Jennifer Crumrine, Tuesday morning at their home in Port Charlotte, …
An Indiana man wanted for the murder of his grandmother in November has been captured in a tiny south Georgia town. Bernice Eubank, 72, was found stabbed to death at her home in rural Huntington County on November 13 after family members said they hadn’t heard from her in a few days. The next day, …
A Florida man was arrested last week after he was seen on surveillance video grabbing a child by the wrist and trying to walk away with him. Pablo Pintueles Hernandez has been charged with false imprisonment of a child under 14 for the incident at a Walmart store in Lehigh Acres, the Lee County Sheriff’s …
A man convicted of raping and murdering a young pregnant mother and accused of killing another woman is dead, WZZM-TV reports. The Michigan Department of Corrections confirmed that Gary Dean Artman died this week from natural causes while serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of 29-year-old Sharron Hammack. He was 66 years old and had terminal …
A Mississippi mother and her boyfriend are facing capital murder charges after the death of a toddler who authorities allege was beaten to death, WAPT-TV reports. On Friday, 29-year-old Yolanda Hunter surrendered after a capital murder warrant was issued. Hunter’s boyfriend, 33-year-old Herman Coleman, also known as Herman Gardner, faces the same charge and is …
A former Pennsylvania teacher will serve time behind bars for engaging in a sexual relationship with a high school student, the York Daily Record reports. This week, Emily Lehneis was sentenced to one to two years in prison for the crime after she apologized in court. “I want . . . her family to know …
Justin Davidson stole a police cruiser, carjacked three vehicles, killed his mother and one of his carjacking victims, and fired dozens of shots at police officers.
Two Georgia women have been arrested in connection with the death of a Gwinnett County man last seen when he left his Loganville home for a date with someone he met online. Surveillance video showed 21-year-old Leondre Flynt leaving home on the morning of July 29 with a change of clothes and bag over his …
A 37-year-old Indianapolis man was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison and 20 years probation after pleading guilty to raping a child under 4 years old. Court documents say that investigators began looking at Devon Shane Mitchell in February “for criminal activity unrelated to child sexual abuse.” In the court of the investigation, …
A Tennessee mother and her boyfriend have been arrested after her 2-year-old son died three days after he was allegedly thrown against a wall. Deputies responded to a call on December 2 to a Baxter home and found the toddler, Ventura Mora-Francisco, unresponsive, WSMV reported. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital and then …
