Julia Marnin

An Arkansas father awaiting trial for killing a man who allegedly sexually abused his daughter has won the Republican nomination in a county sheriff’s race, according to reports. Aaron Spencer garnered more than half of the votes, — about 53% — in Lonoke County, beating current Lonoke County Sheriff John Staley — who received more […]

A Louisiana woman is facing criminal charges after police said she tried to abandon her 8-year-old son three times in one day, including at a cemetery and then at a farm. Officers with the Ponchatoula Police Department began investigating the repeated abandonment on Sunday, March 1, when they were called about a boy left alone […]

Authorities are investigating the killing of a woman who ran a popular Illinois pet salon after she was found dead at her home. Police officers called to a welfare check at Sadie L. Tull’s residence in Carlyle on Tuesday, March 3, discovered she had been killed by a “single gunshot,” according to the Major Case […]

The FBI has renewed a call for information on the disappearance of a missing Mississippi girl, who vanished at age 2 while playing outside her home 12 years ago, according to the agency. The FBI is now offering up to a $20,000 reward for any tips that could lead to the location of little Myra […]

A former Florida firefighter is prison-bound after law enforcement discovered his “decade-long pattern of producing and possessing child pornography,” according to federal prosecutors. Garey A. Buscaino, of Pensacola, was sentenced to 75 years in federal prison on child pornography related charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida said in a Wednesday, […]

Authorities have named a suspect in the cold case murder of a woman who was stabbed to death in 2010 while working at a Georgia phone store. Willie James Jr. is facing charges of malice murder, felony murder, and aggravated assault in the killing of Sandra Robinson, whose murder happened nearly 16 years ago on […]

A man accused of sexually exploiting a toddler and a woman who allegedly sex trafficked a missing 17-year-old are among 89 people who were recently arrested in a Florida human trafficking sting operation, according to authorities. The 2-year-old and the teen were both rescued during the undercover operation led by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, […]

The FBI is involved in the search for William Neil McCasland, a retired U.S. Air Force general who has been missing for several days. McCasland, 68, disappeared on Friday, February 27, when he was last seen in Sandia Heights, which is located in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, metropolitan area, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s […]

A search is underway for a Utah man who was named a “person of interest” in his wife’s death after her body was found inside his camper trailer, which was parked at a storage lot, according to authorities. Family members of Jeusselem Elieth Genes Vitola and her husband, Alvaro Jose Urbina Rojas, reported them missing […]

A Wisconsin judge denounced a nurse who had sex with her patient — and later admitted to wrongly accusing them of sexual assault — as “an embarrassment to nurses everywhere” during her sentencing hearing. The woman, Melissa Knutson, was sentenced on Friday, February 27, to one year and six months in prison in connection with […]

A California man who works as a DJ for local children’s parties is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl when she was unconscious, after she had been given “illicit drugs,” according to authorities. The DJ, Glenn Canyon Childers, was also caught with hundreds of files of child pornography during a law enforcement investigation, the Orange […]

NBA player Victor Wembanyama says one of his friends has been missing for several days after he disappeared from Chicago O’Hare International Airport. The man, Elijah Joseph Hoard, was last seen at the airport on Friday, February 27, according to a missing person’s alert shared by the Chicago Police Department on Sunday, March 1. Hoard, […]

Detectives are investigating the killing of a 32-year-old mother of 7 children after she was fatally shot in her Arizona neighborhood, according to authorities and her husband. Maria Lewis left her home in Mesa to go on a walk around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 28, and never returned, her husband, Albert Mendivil, told KPNX. […]

A South Carolina boutique owner accused of scamming dozens of customers has been arrested again — for the 13th time in about 2 months, according to authorities and media reports. Pamela Brooke Schronce’s latest arrest happened in Newberry County, where she was charged with six counts of obtaining goods under false pretenses with a value […]

The husband of Ashley Flynn was captured sobbing and appeared inconsolable in the wake of her murder at their Ohio home — before he was named the primary suspect and arrested in her death, according to bodycam footage shared by police. Caleb C. Flynn, 39, is charged with one count of murder, two counts of […]

A New York man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in connection with the murder of his ex-girlfriend, who he “brutally executed” while she and her three children had been asleep in their home, according to a district attorney. Michael Burham’s sentencing on Monday, March 2, comes about two months after he […]

A Georgia woman called 911 after she allegedly fatally shot her husband, and authorities claim it may have been because he shot her dog a week earlier. Deputies found Gregory Waco Compton had been shot in the head when they responded to his Carlton home, where he lived with his wife, Marion Jackson Compton, the […]

A Minnesota woman has been found guilty of murder and arson charges after federal prosecutors said she killed two of her three children and then set their home on fire. Jennifer Marie Stately was convicted of two counts of premeditated murder, two counts of murder in the course of committing child abuse, one count of […]

Police in Massachusetts have arrested a 23-year-old man after rescuing a kidnapped teenager from his car during what began as a “routine traffic stop.”” Officers said they saved the 13-year-old victim from the alleged abduction in Northborough on Wednesday, February 25, according to a news release issued by the Northborough Police Department on Thursday, February […]

FBI agents investigating the disappearance of an Ohio teenager have arrested a New York man who they claim had “previous interactions” with the girl, according to police. The FBI took Kyle Lawrence into custody on Thursday, February 26, nearly two weeks after 16-year-old Madison Fields went missing on February 13, the Colerain Township Police Department […]

A 12-year-old girl died days after she was struck in the head with a metal water bottle during a fight at a Los Angeles school, according to her family, who said she was left needing emergency brain surgery. The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the death of Khimberly Zavaleta on Wednesday, February 25, as […]