Julia Marnin

The deaths of a nurse and her two adult sons at a Minnesota home were determined to be a “double murder-suicide” by police based on preliminary findings. Officers discovered Jamie Lee Charles, 43, Jaymison Shaw, 22, and Willie Shaw Jr., 19, dead after being called to conduct a welfare check at an Inver Grove Heights […]

A woman who left her three children to live alone for years in a “squalid” Michigan apartment, where prosecutors said they had no access to running water or working toilets, has been sentenced to prison. Kelli Bryant, 35, of Pontiac, who pleaded no contest in July to first-degree child abuse, “effectively abandoned” the children, according […]

An Oklahoma police officer and his wife are accused of stealing thousands of dollars from an 82-year-old man and splurging on concert tickets and a cruise with his funds. Andrew McVicker, 28, an officer with the Alva Police Department, and Abbigale McVicker, 24, were arrested Saturday, August 29, on charges of exploitation of an elderly […]

A woman fatally stabbed in the stomach in Times Square on Monday was identified as 32-year-old Bank of America executive Erin Piacenti, according to police and reports. Piacenti and a 68-year-old man were both stabbed by a woman during a “random and unprovoked assault” around 4:30 p.m., NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a […]

A man used a dumbbell and a knife to attack his ex-girlfriend, killing her inside her Illinois home, authorities said. Christian B. Flores is now charged with first-degree murder in the death of Charity Geisel, 52, according to a Monday, August 31, news release from the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office. Flores is 54 years […]

A former New Jersey middle school teacher has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for sex crimes against a student that occurred over a span of roughly six months, according to authorities. Allison Havemann-Niedrach, 45, was accused of grooming and sexually assaulting an eighth grade student, then 15, with whom prosecutors argued she had […]

A 14-year-old girl and her father are wanted in connection with the death of a newborn whose body was discovered along a California road last month, according to authorities. An investigation revealed the teen gave birth to the baby girl on the side of a roadway, put her on the ground and left the area […]

A man formerly on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list has been returned to Philadelphia following his arrest in connection with the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in 2000, according to authorities. Alexis Flores, 51, was wanted for the killing of Iriana DeJesus when he was apprehended in Honduras in February after […]

An Illinois man has been arrested for the alleged murder of an 11-month-old baby more than 15 years after the boy died of reported child abuse injuries, police said. Spiros Elias, 44, of Burlington, is accused of killing the boy, Michael Ortiz, in Aurora in 2010, when he was living with and dating Michael’s mother, […]

A Virginia man is guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old high school student who pulled a “ding dong ditch” TikTok prank with friends, according to reports. Tyler Chase Butler, 27, was also convicted of attempted second-degree murder, malicious wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony and unlawfully […]

A Pennsylvania man will spend the rest of his life in prison after prosecutors said he shot his girlfriend, 21-year-old Dianna Brice, 11 times in the head, killing her and their unborn child in 2021. Justin Smith, now 28, went on the run after he allegedly killed Brice in Philadelphia and disposed of her body, […]

A missing 5-year-old girl was found dead after authorities said she “wandered away” from a home her family had been renting in a South Carolina beach town. The child, Saylor Hayes, was last seen in the area of Hagley Estates in Pawleys Island on Sunday, August 30, according to the Georgetown County Sheriff’s Office. Her […]

An on-duty Baltimore police officer allegedly raped a woman at her apartment after giving her and her son a ride home, authorities said. Officer Daniel Oxendine was arrested on Thursday, August 27, following the results of a DNA analysis, which was said to have linked him to the alleged assault, according to the Harford County […]

A man is facing criminal charges for allegedly igniting last year’s Pickett Fire that burned through California Wine Country. Juan Luis Gutierrez Marfil, of Napa, is charged with recklessly causing a fire of a structure or forest, a felony, “along with a special allegation that the offense caused more than $6 million in losses,” the […]

A South Carolina man has been arrested in connection to his mother’s death after authorities found what they believe to be her in a burn pit. Justin Queen has been charged with murder and destruction of human remains more than a year after his mother, Christy Dunn, was reported missing, the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office […]

A woman considered the “final unidentified victim” of convicted serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, dubbed the “Happy Face Killer,” has been identified nearly 34 years after her body was found along a stretch of California highway. Jesperson previously pleaded guilty in 2010 to killing the woman, who he called “Claudia,” according to prosecutors. He was […]

A North Dakota mother is charged with manslaughter following the death of her 7-year-old daughter, who died after developing meningitis and was never taken to a doctor, according to reports. The McKenzie County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jerika McNeely on Tuesday, August 25, in connection with the girl’s death in May, the office said in a […]

A California pastor who was also employed as a massage therapist is accused of molesting two children over a span of several years, according to authorities. Investigators suspect there are potentially more victims, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced in a Wednesday, August 26, news release. The pastor, David Johnson, of Ojai, is facing […]

A surveillance camera captured a home daycare employee physically harming two children, including by putting wet wipes into their mouths and “slamming” one of them on a changing table, according to police. Samantha Pearson was changing the children’s diapers when she pushed wipes into their mouths “to get them to stop crying” at a home […]

A federal judge sentenced a 26-year-old North Carolina man to three life sentences plus an additional 83 years in prison in connection with the murders of an active-duty Fort Bragg soldier and U.S. Army veteran, according to prosecutors. In May, Kenneth Maurice Quick Jr., was convicted of eight counts in relation to the December 2020 […]

A man confessed to killing a 23-year-old woman 45 years after children discovered her body in a Texas field on their way to school, police said. The ongoing investigation into Yolanda Herrera’s cold-case murder involved further testing of DNA evidence, leading Texas Rangers to Arizona, where they met with her alleged killer, Kelly Lee Brower […]