Chris Harris

A Florida man allegedly told police he stabbed and shot his own mother under the direction of a higher power. Derek Vaughn is alleged to have killed his mom, Jerry Lea Vaughn, on the evening of Monday, April 6. Derek, his wife, and his two sons had moved in with Jerry Lea, her Wildwood neighbors […]

Three men, including two former policemen, have been arrested in Texas for the alleged roles they played in a prostitution ring. Investigators claim the prostitution ring was operated out of a Godley home that is owned by Michael and Ashley Ketcherside, according to court documents shared with Us Weekly. Michael has been arrested for racketeering […]

After nearly three years of maintaining his innocence, Rex Heuermann has admitted he is the Gilgo Beach serial killer — confessing to strangling eight women whose bodies he dumped along a Long Island highway over a span of 17 years. The guilty plea reshapes a case that Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney called one […]

California authorities arrested a man on March 30 whom they’ve accused of trying to kidnap a 4-year-old. A statement that was issued on Tuesday, April 7, by the Culver City Police via Instagram said that it was on March 30 that Marlo Jeffrey Hempstead sauntered over to Fox Hills Park, where they claim he tried […]

A man who once served as a North Carolina community’s chief of police is behind bars this week, accused of raping a 16-year-old girl. William Chad Green was arrested on Sunday, April 6, on a single count of rape. Local news stations, citing an arrest warrant in the case, reported that the 51-year-old allegedly raped […]

As expected, accused Long Island Serial Killer Rex Heuermann amended his not guilty plea inside a Riverhead courtroom, admitting before his wife and daughter he was the one who killed at least eight women whose bodies he later dumped along a highway near Gilgo Beach. The hulking former architect, 62, has been in custody since […]

A New Jersey elementary school teacher has been accused of sexually assaulting four children from the same family over a 13-year period, Us Weekly has learned. Shaun Stebbins was arrested in Somers Point on six charges: first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a victim under the age of 13, first-degree permitting a child to engage in […]

The leader of a Black supremacist Egyptian-themed cult is seeking early release from federal prison, claiming in papers filed last month that he suffers from a recurring medical condition that causes parts of his body to swell. Dwight “Malachi” York, a former writer and musician, founded the UFO-obsessed United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors in 1967. […]

As part of a plea deal he’s expected to accept during a hearing set for Wednesday, April 8, suspected Long Island Serial Killer Rex Heuermann will be expected to give a full accounting of all seven murders he has been charged with committing, sources have exclusively confirmed to Us Weekly. Heuermann, the hulking New York […]

Some people love reading about true crime. Others love fighting it. All across the United States, in cities both sprawling and compact, men and women have answered to a higher calling — one that makes them feel as though they have regained some semblance of control in a world gone mad. They’re called real-life superheroes […]

A former university professor who authored books for Christians about the ethics of marriage and sexuality has been arrested for raping a child, Us Weekly has learned. John Kent Tarwater was once a finance professor at Cedarville University, a Baptist school in Ohio. Tarwater, 55, is facing eight sex-based felonies stemming from allegations made by […]

Authorities in Mississippi are intent on identifying the heartless gunman who shot and killed a K-9 officer last week. Floki, a 7-year-old multipurpose Dutch Shepherd trained for tracking and drug detection, was on the job Wednesday, April 1, patrolling the border fence around Marshall County Correctional Facility in Holly Springs when he was struck with […]

Authorities in Pennsylvania have decimated a drug trafficking ring they claim was being run out of a storefront set up to look like a coffee shop. On Friday, March 27, Operation Cocaine and Coffee led to the arrests of 17 individuals and the seizure of crack cocaine, fentanyl, marijuana, ecstasy pills, cash, 27 firearms, four […]

A former New Jersey middle school teacher arrested last month for raping one of her students sobbed as a judge determined she would remain jailed until her case is resolved. In video footage of a Gloucester County Court bail hearing, accessed by Us Weekly, Ashley Fisler can be seen covering her mouth with her hands […]

An Arkansas doctor has been arrested along with seven other people for their alleged roles in a long-running fraud and kidnapping scheme that targeted patients who’d been receiving treatment inside a hospital’s behavioral health unit. The Department of Justice contends psychiatrist Brian Hyatt was the mastermind behind the scheme at the Northwest Medical Center Behavioral […]

A firefighter and his wife have been arrested in Florida for alleged acts of severe “mental and physical” abuse perpetrated against their adopted daughter, Us Weekly has learned. Coral Springs Police claim that, for the last three years, Joel and Jennifer Kohnert have kept the 12-year-old girl locked in her bedroom, with extremely limited access […]

A Texas mother is behind bars, accused of abusing her son by forcing him to undergo unneeded medical procedures, despite being healthy. An arrest warrant viewed by Us Weekly alleges Kaitlyn Rose Laura of Glen Rose forced her boy to live with a feeding tube and get around using a wheelchair, which he did not […]

The lawyer for quadruple amputee Dayton James Webber claims that the professional cornhole player’s fatal shooting last month of motocross rider Bradrick Michael Wells was an act of self-preservation. Webber, 27, appeared in a Maryland court on Wednesday, April 1, via video conference, and a judge ordered he be held without bail. Wells was the […]

An unhoused Louisiana woman has been charged with second-degree murder after giving birth inside a porta-potty at a Waffle House in Gretna and leaving the newborn in the excrement-filled tank. Police were summoned to the Waffle House on Westbank Expressway at approximately 3:17 a.m. on Thursday, March 26. WDSU obtained 911 audio from the incident. […]

After 52 years, the 1974 murder of a Utah teenager has been definitively linked to the infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, according to a Wednesday, April 1, announcement. While seemingly ripped from the latest murder mystery documentary, officials were not joking when they said 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime was killed by Bundy after vanishing on […]

Georgia authorities have accused an elementary school nurse of stealing her students’ medications, Us Weekly has learned. Ivy Perdue Burton, listed online as a Licensed Practical Nurse employed by the Troup County School System, was handcuffed on Monday, March 30, and charged with being in possession of a Schedule II controlled substance and acquiring or […]