Julia Marnin

A freshman Colorado college student, who plays for his school’s football team, has been arrested in what authorities describe as a murder-for-hire plot targeting a fellow student, one of his teammates. Jackson T. Keller, 19, has been arrested on charges of criminal solicitation for first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a weapon on college grounds […]

A mother and her son were shot and killed by her boyfriend at a Massachusetts home, where officers found the suspect with a gun believed to be the murder weapon, according to police. Arlington Cole, 54, has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in the […]

UPDATE — 2/2/26 at 5:28 p.m. ET: After deliberating his fate for nearly nine hours, jurors reached a verdict on Monday, January 2, finding Brendan Banfield guilty of two counts of aggravated murder. As the verdict was read, Banfield remained largely stone-faced. Banfield will be sentenced on May 8 and faces a life sentence without […]

UPDATE — 2/12/2026 at 4:10 p.m.: Four more people have been arrested in connection with the deaths and disappearances of Hannah Neville, her husband Roberto Tanner and their unborn baby in Nebraska, according to the Lincoln Police Department. Ammie Mitchell, 47, Kendall Hawthorne, 57, Matthew Lickliter, 28, and Sheena Miller, 40, are facing charges of […]

The U.S. Forest Service is investigating the killings of nine wild horses found fatally shot in an Arizona national forest. The horses found in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest “showed evidence of bullet wounds, indicating they were shot,” the agency said in a news release issued Thursday, January 29. The animals’ bodies were located in the […]

A rapper and Twitch streamer known as Aspen Kartier has been arrested in Georgia after a video allegedly showing her abusing a puppy went viral, according to police and news reports. The 19-year-old, whose legal name is Aspen Easterling, was arrested at her Brookhaven home on an animal cruelty charge the evening of Friday, January […]

An Ohio man has been arrested in the disappearance of 17-year-old Hailey Buzbee, who is believed to be dead after she went missing from her Indiana home nearly a month ago, according to police. “After extensive investigation, we feel that Hailey is deceased,” Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness said at a Sunday, February 1, news conference, […]

A second 16-year-old girl has died following the death of her best friend after the girls were involved in a sledding accident in Texas, according to police and her family. Elizabeth Marie Angle died at a hospital from a sledding-related crash in Frisco on Sunday, January 25, according to local law enforcement and the girl’s […]

A Utah woman stabbed her boyfriend on Christmas, killing him, after authorities said she discovered him trying to sexually assault her 11-year-old daughter at a party, according to police and media reports. Fabiola Monserrath Templos, 39, of Kearns, was charged with second-degree manslaughter on Wednesday, January 28, in connection with the death of Jose Alejandro […]

A Utah man was arrested after police officers were called about a woman heard screaming from inside his apartment, where they eventually found her bloodied and yelling for help, according to authorities. Demian Edgar Austin Robbins, 55, was taken to custody on Wednesday, January 28, on charges of kidnapping and aggravated assault, according to Salt […]

A U.S. Postal Service employee was arrested on three charges of animal cruelty after a video showed him pepper-spraying a woman’s dog and her two puppies in Florida. Sian Andre Spence, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, was taken into custody on Wednesday, January 28, court records viewed by Us Weekly show. The day of his arrest, […]

An elementary school employee was “immediately” fired after he was arrested for allegedly asking minors for sexually explicit content over Snapchat and the live-streaming platform Twitch, according to law enforcement and school officials. Charles Lucas Dingman, 29, who worked part-time at Holland Elementary School in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has been arrested on child pornography charges, […]

A California woman accused of killing and beheading her boyfriend left his headless body at her home and fled to Mexico, according to authorities, who said she has been captured in the country. Alyssa Marie Lira, 23, was arrested in Mexico and brought back to the U.S. to face murder charges in the killing of […]

Two California children have been missing since their mother was found dead inside a Sacramento home more than a year ago. The FBI and the Sacramento Police Department are actively searching for siblings Athena and Mateo Lee – as well as their father, Camron Lee, 40, who is suspected of killing their mother, Angelica Bravo, in […]

A man is accused of fatally shooting a woman who was seven months pregnant, killing her and her unborn child, according to authorities in Georgia. Officers found the woman, 22-year-old Teonia Stokes, dead when they arrived at the scene of the shooting as well as another person, 25-year-old Curdarious Williams. Both had been injured by […]

The father of a 7-year-old girl is charged with capital murder after authorities said he shot and killed her adoptive parents, a married Texas couple. Deputies found Christopher Lopez, 52, and Trinette Lopez, 52, shot to death at their Harris County home on January 12, according to county Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. An investigation led authorities […]

A man accused of kidnapping three teenage girls from a North Carolina psychiatric treatment facility was arrested after authorities said they found one of the missing teens, a 13-year-old, inside his car. The teens went missing from the Cornerstone Treatment Facility in Wadesboro on January 19, when police initially said they left the property “without […]

A woman accused of telling a 10-year-old child to murder a 2-month-old infant in disturbing messages sent over the gaming platform Roblox has had her criminal charges dismissed, court records viewed by Us Weekly show. Tara Sykes, 37, was arrested in October 2024 on charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree premeditated murder, solicitation […]

A group of children accused of beating a 51-year-old man to death in Rhode Island have been charged with his murder, police confirmed to Us Weekly. The four children — an 11-year-old and three 12-year-olds — were seen attacking the man, identified as Rony Alonso, in Providence on the evening of January 19, according to […]

A girl reported missing from Texas by her mother more than four years ago was found safe in Mexico after her father was accused of kidnapping her to the country, Us Weekly has learned. The 12-year-old was “safely recovered” in Mexico by U.S. Marshals Service officers on January 20 and has since been reunited with […]

Two children and two adults were found shot to death at a California home after police received a 911 call from someone saying they had opened fire inside and set up “booby traps” throughout the residence, according to authorities. Detectives are investigating the Tuesday, January 27, incident at a Rancho Cordova home in Sacramento County […]