Julia Marnin

A woman staying at an Arizona family’s home kidnapped a 2-year-old girl, who was rescued at a gas station and reunited with her parents nearly two days later, according to police. Marina Noriega — a 23-year-old California woman described as a “recently met acquaintance” of the toddler’s family — was arrested at the Phoenix area […]

UPDATE — 2/23/26, 6:15 p.m. ET: The pastor of the church attended by Caleb C. Flynn and his wife, Ashley Flynn has commented on her death after Caleb was accused of killing her in their Tipp City, Ohio home on February 16. Jordan Paul Hansen, the pastor of the Christian Life Center, said in a […]

The body of a California father has been found near a lake days after authorities said he was kidnapped by three people. “It is with profound sadness that we confirm the kidnapping victim, Avtar Singh, has been located deceased,” the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release issued Monday, February 23. Singh, […]

A bus driver witnessed a Philadelphia man shoot his wife in the middle of a Pennsylvania roadway and walk away from the scene, leaving her behind to die, law enforcement officials said. Jose Luna, 59, is now charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Alisett Schubert, 48, on Saturday, February 21, the […]

A Pennsylvania high school student is facing more than 300 charges in connection with the exploitation of 21 minors in an alleged “catfishing” and “sextortion” scheme, according to authorities and news reports. Zachariah Abraham Meyers, 18, is charged with hundreds of felony counts, including child sexual abuse material, trafficking in minors, unlawful contact with a […]

A grandfather found four family members — including his 2-year-old grandson — dead inside a Virginia home during an incident that is being investigated as a murder-suicide, according to police. Authorities were called about a stabbing incident at a Woodbridge residence the morning of Saturday, February 21. Officers were led to the bodies of four […]

UPDATE — 2/22/26 at 1:30 p.m. ET: Authorities have found missing military veteran Margaret Hanley dead in Georgia. The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office issued an update on social media late Saturday, February 21, claiming that Hanley’s vehicle was found stuck in the mud in the town of Hinesville. Police said her body was located next […]

A man arrested in the murder of a missing 24-year-old woman was the “last person to see her alive” more than a year ago in southwest Florida, police said. On Friday, February 20, Ronald Chester Racki, 75, of Venice, was arrested on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the 2024 disappearance of Laikyn Marie […]

UPDATE — 2/20/26 at 4:59 p.m. ET: Authorities have identified and arrested a suspect following the discovery of three dead men in the basement of a Detroit, Michigan, home on Wednesday, February 18, according to police, WXYZ reported. A 27-year-old man, who has not yet been publicly identified by law enforcement, was detained in connection […]

A man has been arrested in the early morning shooting death of a California Institute of Technology scientist who was killed on the front porch of his Los Angeles County home, according to law enforcement. Someone called 911 about the shooting at a home in Llano on Monday, February 16, where deputies discovered a 67-year-old […]

Two students are facing criminal charges in connection with an alleged rape incident at a Washington high school, according to officials and news reports. Officers arrested “two juveniles” at Mark Morris High School in Longview the morning of Thursday, February 19, the city said in a news release shared to Facebook that same day. The […]

A woman who pleaded guilty to fatally drugging four Ohio men during alleged meetups for sex is prison-bound, according to authorities. Rebecca Auborn, 36, was indicted in October 2023 in connection with the “serial killings” that occurred in northeast Columbus earlier in 2023, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office said in an earlier news release that […]

A woman abandoned her Goldendoodle at a JetBlue ticket counter after she learned she needed to complete paperwork to fly with her dog as a service animal, according to Las Vegas police. “We can’t believe we have to say this … but please don’t abandon your dog at the airport — or anywhere else,” the […]

A man has been charged in the death of another man more than two decades after his body was found within a mile of his abandoned car, which had been set ablaze in the woods in southwest Florida, according to authorities. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday, February 17, that the 1999 cold […]

A woman is charged with a felony hit and run after police said she slammed into Virginia Living magazine editor Hope Cartwright as she was crossing a street, killing the 23-year-old. Latesha Coleman, 41, is accused of driving away after she allegedly struck Cartwright while she was using a crosswalk at an intersection in Richmond […]

A dentist was allegedly intoxicated while performing an oral surgical procedure on a child at a Texas pediatric dental practice, according to police. A dentist’s office in Sherman called police on Monday, February 16, to report a dentist, identified as Kelly Buck, “was potentially intoxicated while treating patients,” the Sherman Police Department said in a […]

A woman accused of shooting her boyfriend to death at a North Carolina home told a dispatcher that she accidentally shot him while she was cleaning her gun, according to authorities and news reports. Megan Jane Thomas, 39, of Moravian Falls, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jason Olney, court records viewed […]

A Florida woman accused of posing as a child protective services employee tried to kidnap four children from a home after she arrived to “remove” a 9-year-old boy from the residence, authorities said. Nicole Terry Thomas, 56, was arrested Friday, February 13, on four counts of attempted kidnapping, one count of unarmed burglary of an […]

The parents of a West Virginia boy who was sent to school with cockroaches in his backpack and bug bites covering his body have been arrested on child neglect charges, according to authorities and news reports. Dwayne and Dorothy Hickman’s son and daughter have since been removed from their Doddridge County home, where authorities found […]

A North Carolina woman who stands accused of killing one of her young children and trying to kill her other child is facing murder charges, according to authorities. Andrea Morgan Faust, 41, of Durham, was arrested on Friday, February 13, on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, court records viewed by Us Weekly […]

A man tried to rip a young girl away from her mother in an attempted kidnapping that was thwarted by bystanders and captured on surveillance footage at a supermarket in Northern Italy, according to Italian State Police. The footage published by Italian State Police on Monday, February 16, first shows the girl and her mother […]