An iconic South Florida business was closed over the weekend after its owners were badly beaten by their adult son. Travis Grafe, 40, was charged with attempted murder, battery, and robbery after the Friday night attack on Rachel Knaus Grafe and Herbert Grafe, owners of Knaus Berry Farm, a beloved seasonal operation known for its …
A South Carolina woman fatally shot by a stranger in the parking lot of a grocery store this week leaves behind a young son and grieving husband, WIS-TV reports. Around 4 p.m. Tuesday – Valentine’s Day – Alexandria Cress Borys was packing groceries in her vehicle outside a Kroger in Irmo, South Carolina, when she …
A long time California school board member was arrested last weekend in an undercover human trafficking operation in Florida. “Operation Traffic Stop” picked up 213 people, among them 60-year-old Scott Kenneth Wooden, who had served on the Del Mar Union School District Board of Trustees since 2010, Law and Crime reported. The operation was run …
James Parrillo was arrested this month in New Jersey when his alleged victim escaped and ran to a gas station for help.
A 23-year-old Arkansas woman was found dead in a ditch this week, and investigators consider her death a homicide. Conway County Sheriff Mike Smith said that Savannah Oden was last seen in Morrilton at about 11 p.m. on Wednesday, KARK reported. A passing motorist saw her body 19 miles away at about 8 a.m. on …
The caretaker of a 3-year-old girl who died after she was found “unresponsive in the bathtub with no water” early Friday morning has now been charged with “the violent abuse” of her own two children. Philadelphia Police said the bruised toddler was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead about an hour after she was …
Nine children, including a 5-year-old boy, were shot Friday night at a Georgia gas station in what investigators say was an altercation that spilled out of a nearby party. The Columbus Police Department said all nine were taken to area hospitals for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Police Chief Freddie Blackmon said four had been discharged …
An Indiana woman has been convicted for her role in the murder of a man and rape of a woman whom she met for a threesome, a liaison that went sideways when her boyfriend violently interrupted the rendezvous, WKRC-TV reports. On Wednesday, jurors in Vanderburgh County found 37-year-old Heidi Kathleen Carter guilty of aiding, inducing …
Monisha Denise Harrell was last seen in Bessemer, Alabama, a suburb southwest of Birmingham, on July 19, 2021. She is still missing today. Harrell’s last known location was at the Cloverdale Apartments in Bessemer, a complex of two-story apartment buildings with red brick siding, decorative windows with white trim and verdant green grounds, WVTM-TV reports. …
A woman accused of murdering two former partners allegedly plotted to kill a third person in a bid to maintain custody of her kids, KPRC-TV reports. Sarah Hartsfield is presently in a Texas jail charged with murdering her fifth husband, who allegedly died from an insulin overdose in January. Since that incident, authorities in northern …
A 6-year-old Florida girl found a gun in the back seat of a vehicle she was in this week and fired a single shot, striking her 57-year-old grandmother in the lower back as she was driving. The North Port Police Department said the gun had been in a holster in the back pocket of the …
Prosecutors rested their case Friday against disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, wrapping up the state’s testimony with a final witness to tie up phone and GPS information that had been given to jurors over the past two weeks of trial. A new piece of information: Paul and Maggie Murdaugh apparently uncovered Alex Murdaugh’s drug …
