A Massachusetts man was found guilty last week of kidnapping a woman to Maine against her will, three days after pleading guilty to a similar charge. Stephen Pilson, 56, pleaded guilty on December 12, 2019, to five charges, including kidnapping the same woman, with whom he had been in some kind of relationship, and was …
The owner of the home where a 27-year-old school teacher was found dead in the trunk of a burned out car has been arrested for her murder. Matthew Switalski, 37, was named a “person of interest” last week after finding the body in the car trunk in the garage of his Lancaster home on December …
Relatives visiting a loved one in San Diego this week came upon a disturbing discovery, Fox 5 reports. Around 11:45 a.m. Friday, police were called to a home on Zion Avenue near Eldridge Street in the Allied Gardens neighborhood to investigate a reported death. When officers from the San Diego Police Department’s Eastern Division arrived …
A Texas man is accused of crashing his vehicle while drunk, killing the passenger, and then forcing his way into a home, where he fell asleep. The tragic and bizarre incident occurred around 3 a.m. Thursday, when authorities allege that Daniel Alexander Rodriguez-Olivares was driving at a high speed and under the influence when he hit …
Five Pennsylvania children are now orphans after their parents died in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide, the Altoona Mirrors reports. Around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, police were dispatched to a home on Dartmouth Lane in Greenwood — about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh — and found 34-year-old Brooke Raia and 39-year-old Blase Raia dead. Investigators say …
A father and daughter found dead in South Carolina after going missing a week ago died of hypothermia. Calhoun County Corner Donnie Porth told WIS that autopsy results for 6-year-old Michelle Murph and her father, 42-year-old Jason Murph, were inconclusive, but he said weather conditions while the pair were missing and that they had no …
A missing South Carolina woman’s ex-boyfriend has now been charged with murder. A newly released warrant accuses Daniel Gabriel Harmon, 34, of killing Jamilla “Millie” Smith in early December, around the time that Smith called 911 to say that her ex-boyfriend had broken into her home and was chasing her down the road, WJBF reported. …
New York police shot and killed a man who was allegedly holding his mother at knifepoint in their Bronx apartment Saturday morning. The 30-year-old man, who has not yet been publicly identified, reportedly told his family he was going to kill them and then himself. A 19-year-old family member made the 911 call that brought …
A third party review said law enforcement behaved “reasonably” before Robert Card killed 18 people and himself in October.
A first-term North Dakota lawmaker went on a “verbally abusive, homophobic, racially abusive and discriminatory” tirade against police officers who pulled him over for driving under the influence earlier this month. State Rep. Nico Rios, a Republican, was returning home from a Christmas party on December 15 when he was stopped by Williston Police officers, …
A retired elementary school teacher from Long Island has been arrested on charges he sexually abused students decades ago. Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Dana Castaldo said that Thomas Bernagozzi, 75, faces counts of sexual conduct against a child and sodomy relating to two students, one in 1989 and one in 1997, Newsday reported. Suffolk …
A North Carolina mother has been charged with murder in the death of her 10-year-old son. Priyanka Tiwari, 33, was charged with murder and negligent child abuse inflicting serious injury, according to WTVD. Morrisville police were called to Tiwari’s home on Wednesday and found the child, who had been dead for some time and that …
