Julia Marnin

A California man who allegedly killed a 16-year-old boy during a targeted attack on a group of teens riding bikes has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, according to authorities. Samuel Matthew Rocha’s guilty plea on Monday, August 24, came after he was convicted in April of four counts of assault with a deadly weapon and […]

A woman is accused of ramming her car into her husband and stabbing him outside of an Indiana courthouse following the couple’s divorce hearing, according to reports. Adriana Cisneros-Velazquez, of Crown Point, Indiana, was arrested on charges including attempted murder, two counts of attempted aggravated battery and two counts of domestic battery in connection with […]

An Alabama man was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the murder of his girlfriend, who federal prosecutors said he shot more than 10 times, then ran over, outside her Florida apartment where he had been waiting. Charles Carson-Dowdy killed Starmichael L. Tucker in Pensacola on January 2, 2025, after she tried to […]

A Colorado man accused of slashing a 7-year-old child’s head during what prosecutors described as an “unprovoked” stabbing spree has been handed a decades-long prison sentence. Luke Barkhaus pleaded guilty to felony child abuse and two counts of first-degree assault in connection with the January 2025 stabbings, according to the 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office […]

A 22-year-old man sought by police for allegedly terrorizing multiple people in Philadelphia while wearing a Halloween mask has been captured in Las Vegas, authorities said. On the morning of August 12, Zymire Hughes approached one woman jogging in Center City Philadelphia and asked her, “Are you ready to die?,” according to police. Hughes, 22, […]

A North Carolina doctor opened fire on a Jeep, shooting a 12-year-old girl and her older sister during a road rage incident along a Virginia highway, according to police. Richard T. Arriviello, of Charlotte, is charged with malicious shooting into an occupied vehicle, shooting from a vehicle, maliciously causing bodily harm to another with intent […]

A shooting and fire at a home in Montana resulted in the deaths of children and several others, according to authorities, who’ve described the incident as a “family disturbance.” Law enforcement has yet to release the identities of those killed at the Billings home, which was “fully engulfed” in fire the evening of Sunday, August […]

A man who allegedly killed a 10-year-old girl and caused a woman to lose her leg during a drunk boating incident on a North Carolina lake last summer has pleaded guilty. A judge sentenced Quinten Kight to 150 and 185 months — 12.5 to more than 15 years — in prison after he pleaded guilty […]

A Georgia woman who’s behind bars over an alleged knife attack against one man has been found guilty in the cold case stabbing death of another man, who was discovered dead at home by his sister in 2019, authorities said. Carmen Marie Hunt was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in […]

A Massachusetts police officer’s wife was found dead after investigators spent days searching for her following the death of her husband, whose body was discovered inside their home last week. Worcester police officer Kurt Solomon was found dead the morning of Tuesday, August 18. The Worcester Police Department announced in a news release that day […]

There’s a new lead in the unsolved 1992 kidnapping and killing of Tammy Zywicki, a college student who was found fatally stabbed along a stretch of highway in Missouri nearly 34 years ago. Illinois State Police announced on Sunday, August 23 — the 34th anniversary of the last known sighting of Zywicki — that investigators […]

A married couple allegedly hid in Mexico “for months” before they were arrested in the country for their alleged role in the killing of a California school employee. Following the pair’s arrests on Wednesday, August 19, Antonio Garcia and Misty Gomez have been extradited to California, according to a Saturday, August 22, news release from […]

The younger brother of the alleged leader of a cocaine trafficking ring linked to two Penn State fraternities was arrested after authorities said they caught him on a boat with a cocaine “baggy.” Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission officers apprehended Sebastiano M. Abbatiello, of New York, on July 10 when he was driving a pontoon […]

Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, was sentenced on June 15, 2026, to four years in prison after Oslo District Court found him guilty of several charges, including two counts of rape. The verdict — delivered nearly three months after his six-week trial concluded — marks the end of one of […]

A South Carolina boutique owner has racked up an astonishing string of arrests in 2026, with authorities accusing her of scamming dozens of customers across the state who say they paid for items they never received. Pamela “Brooke” Schronce, the owner of Thomas & Turner Boutique in Belton, has been booked into jail at least […]

A South Carolina woman who runs a baby clothing boutique has been arrested 17 times since the start of 2026, with authorities across the state accusing her of taking money from dozens of customers who never received the products they ordered. Pamela Brooke Schronce, of Anderson County, owns Thomas & Turner Boutique in Belton. The […]

Former FedEx driver Tanner Horner pleaded guilty on April 7, 2026, to capital murder and aggravated kidnapping in the November 2022 death of 7-year-old Athena Strand, just as his criminal trial was set to begin in Texas. Jurors were then tasked to decide if the 34-year-old should be sentenced to death or life in prison […]

A former FedEx driver who kidnapped and killed 7-year-old Athena Strand while delivering a package to her father’s Texas home has pleaded guilty to capital murder, and the evidence that has since emerged during the trial’s penalty phase has left courtroom observers shaken. Tanner Horner pleaded guilty to capital murder and aggravated kidnapping on April […]

A California fire captain will spend the rest of his life in prison after authorities said he shot and killed his fiancée and her 7-year-old son last summer after they all had been watching a movie together. Darin McFarlin was sentenced on April 13 to two consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility […]

A 19-year-old charged with vehicular homicide in the February 2025 death of a Minnesota girl is prison-bound, Us Weekly has learned. Conner Michael Iversen of St. Paul is accused of killing 11-year-old Lilyana Loycano last year after authorities said he sped through a stop sign and slammed into Lilyana’s family’s car in Independence on February […]

A woman wanted in a fatal 2020 shooting was apprehended in Florida within 24 hours of being added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. KaShawn Nicola Roper, who used to live in Kansas City, Missouri, was arrested in High Springs in Alachua County, Florida, on the morning of Monday, April 15, the FBI […]