Julia Marnin

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 […]

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 […]