Julia Marnin

A man is accused of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl in Minnesota shortly after she had gotten off her school bus, according to authorities. The girl, Brynlee Nelson, was found the morning of Thursday, January 22, and has been reunited with her family, the Albert Lea Police Department announced in a news release. Now, Joseph Andrew […]

A New Jersey landlord stands accused of drugging his tenants with chloroform to prevent them “from waking up” so that he could sexually assault them in a series of incidents spanning multiple months, prosecutors said. One of Craig Cardella’s tenants, a man who had been renting a room from the 60-year-old at his Mansfield Township […]

Police in Ohio continue to investigate the killings of Ohio dentist Spencer and Monique Tepe, who were found fatally shot in their home with their two children “unharmed,” more than a week ago, according to investigators. The Columbus Division of Police shared footage of a person of interest on January 5, 2026, and said that […]

A Maine father was arrested last week on a single murder charge in the killing of his 12-week-old daughter, Lyla Samuels, after state police said the infant’s death was ruled a homicide. On Friday, January 16, a 911 was received from a caller saying Lyla “had become unresponsive” at a home in Orrington, which is […]

A car belonging to an Arizona woman who disappeared nearly two weeks ago was found with blood stains inside and damage throughout the vehicle, according to media reports citing new court documents. Isabella Comas, 21, was last seen leaving a friend’s home in Avondale on January 11, when she was driving her red Hyundai Sonata, […]

A former Detroit, Michigan, nurse accused of sexually assaulting more than two dozen women is facing new criminal charges in connection with the sex assaults of five more patients, according to prosecutors. Wilfredo Figueroa-Berrios, 47, of Wayne, is criminally charged in relation to the sexual assaults of eight women in total, including seven women who […]

A suspected serial killer linked to multiple Virginia murders from nearly four decades ago is accused of killing two women who were found slain along a state parkway in 1986, according to the FBI. The FBI’s Norfolk Field Office announced on Tuesday, January 20 that advancements in forensic technology and DNA evidence revealed Alan Wade […]

A New York man is facing 25 years to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son, Us Weekly has learned. Gionni Sellers, 26, of Middletown, was convicted on Friday, January 16, of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter in connection with the boy’s death in June 2022, according […]

A man hired to train and care for a woman’s horse was caught on video punching and kicking the animal, leading to his arrest, Florida deputies said. The horse’s owner shared footage of Benito Cotto Colon abusing her Bay Paso Fino horse with an agriculture investigator with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, January […]

A North Carolina woman accused of poisoning drinks with a toxic chemical was arrested on murder charges in the deaths of two people and attempted murder charges related to two others, authorities said. Gudrun Casper-Leinenkugel, 52, of Hendersonville, is accused of killing Leela Livis in 2025 and trying to kill a man and another woman, […]

The grandmother and parents of two toddlers who were found with extreme injuries, including multiple broken bones, are facing a slew of criminal charges in what Kentucky police are describing as a “significant child abuse case.” Nicholas A. Shanks, 27, and Shelby Kuntz, 25, were arrested by the Louisville Metro Police Department on Thursday, January […]

A 12-year-old boy was arrested over the weekend after being accused of attacking a woman with a screwdriver and stealing her purse at an Amazon Fresh grocery store in Seattle, police confirmed. The attack began when the boy, wearing what authorities described as a “hot pink ski mask,” repeatedly hit the 43-year-old woman in the […]

A man who spent nearly 10 years on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive list after allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body in a ravine outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been detained south of the border. Alejandro “Alex” Rosales Castillo is in police custody in Mexico, where he was captured on Friday, […]

UPDATE — 1/20/26 at 10:55 a.m. ET: The family of Jahmez Cartwright said on Friday, January 16 that the 18-year-old had been located, according to a statement shared by his relatives and provided to Us Weekly by the Philadelphia Police Department. “I would like to thank the Philadelphia media, law enforcement agencies, the Black and […]

Update on Friday, January 16: The Avondale Police Department has identified a person of interest in the disappearance of Isabella Comas. The individual, Tommy Rodriguez, of Phoenix, is Comas’ “romantic partner,” the department confirmed to Us Weekly via email. Rodriguez, 39, was arrested on charges of theft of means of transportation and criminal damage, according […]

A Missouri mother and her boyfriend are accused of severely abusing her children, including by shooting her 13- and 14-year-old sons with BB guns while they were locked in a chicken pen. Chantel Hayford and Jerry Menees, both of Potosi, are charged with 24 felonies related to the “allegations of severe abuse and neglect,” the […]

An Ohio woman convicted of shooting her husband in the head and burying his body in a backyard grave more than 40 years ago was granted parole, according to authorities and media reports. Linda Couch, who was sentenced to life in prison after her 1985 conviction in the death of her husband, Walter Couch, at […]

Photos shared to social media last month of what has been described as a wooden “timeout” box used to confine special needs students at an upstate New York school district caused an uproar, leading to an active police investigation. The mother of a non-verbal, autistic elementary student tells Us Weekly that after she saw the […]

Skeletal remains spotted on the shores of a Washington beach about 20 years ago belong to an Oregon man who went missing a few months before the discovery was made, a DNA analysis has confirmed. The remains found on a beach in Taholah, in Grays Harbor County, in November 2006 were identified as 72-year-old Clarence […]

A Wisconsin father accused of keeping his six children, including a 2-month-old baby girl, locked inside a storage unit where they would stay alone, without electricity, was found guilty of child neglect, court records viewed by Us Weekly show. Police found Charles Dupriest’s infant and her five siblings, ages 2 through 9, inside the locked […]

A Texas man accused of sexually assaulting children related to him, including one girl who said the abuse went on for years, was sentenced to decades in prison, prosecutors said. A judge handed the sentence to Michael Eric Farrell, of Seguin, on December 16, according to a news release shared Monday, January 12 by the […]