Julia Marnin

UPDATE — 2/27/26 at 5:45 p.m. ET: A medical examiner in Nashville, Tennessee, has positively identified the body found in a crawl space of a Jackson home on Sunday, February 22, as 31-year-old Mirna Ortez Moncada, police announced. An autopsy confirmed that Moncada was killed, the Jackson Police Department said in a Thursday, February 26, […]

An Illinois man charged with murder in the death of his infant son had taken the 5-month-old to a hospital with “severe” injuries before the baby died, according to police. When Dominic G. Larson arrived at the Northwestern Kishwaukee Community Hospital in DeKalb, Illinois, with his baby on Monday, February 23, the boy’s face was […]

A Massachusetts girls’ high school basketball coach is accused of pressuring a student into drinking alcohol — and giving her tequila shots — before he allegedly raped the 18-year-old, according to authorities and news reports. The man, Scott Marino, was arrested Wednesday, February 25, on two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and […]

A man stands accused in the kidnapping and killing of 7-year-old Morgan Violi nearly 30 years after the Kentucky girl’s body was found in the woods in Tennessee, according to federal authorities. Robert Scott Froberg has been charged in the cold case that had remained a mystery since 1996, U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner, of […]

A Michigan woman is accused of scamming a family out of more than $4.6 million in a scheme in which she pretended to help place their daughter in different modeling events, according to federal prosecutors. The young girl’s family paid Chanise Coyne millions for what they believed were “expenses relating to those events,” reads an […]

A New York man has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of his mother after she went missing in January and was later found dead in the woods on Long Island, according to police. Curtis Trent Jr. was taken into custody on Wednesday, February 25, on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death […]

An Alabama mother, her teenage daughter and toddler son are still missing after authorities shared a man has been charged with their kidnapping. During a news conference on Tuesday, February 24, Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said the suspect, Hector Gamaliel Argueta-Guerra, previously gave a fake name when he was arrested on three counts of […]

Two high school students facing rape charges are accused of assaulting four teens in a varsity basketball locker room, according to court documents detailing the attacks. At Mark Morris High School in Longview on February 19, police arrested two teens on charges of second-degree rape, unlawful imprisonment with sexual motivation, indecent liberties with forcible compulsion, […]

A North Carolina woman has been arrested nearly 50 years after a newborn baby girl was found dead inside a trash bag at a landfill, according to authorities who announced that they have now solved the decades-old cold case. The discovery of the infant’s body at a Columbus County landfill in 1979 led persistent investigators […]

A mother, grandmother and uncle are accused of abusing and neglecting three Pennsylvania children so severely that a medical professional found the abuse met the “definition of child torture,” according to police. Following a two-year investigation, officers arrested Newberry Township residents Ashley Cardona, Lori Cardona, and Michael Cardona on Wednesday, February 25, the Newberry Township […]

A mother is accused of killing her 6-year-old daughter by stabbing her more than 20 times inside her Florida home, where they were both found “covered in blood,” according to court documents. An investigation revealed April Oliva, 40, fatally attacked her daughter, Valerie, with a kitchen knife at their house in Milton, located in the […]

A nearly blind man’s death in Buffalo, New York, was “preventable,” according to the city’s mayor, who said he died after federal immigration authorities released him from custody and left him alone in the city. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents dropped Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56-year-old refugee from Burma, off at a Tim […]

A Washington man accused of killing a 34-year-old woman was arrested 10 days after her body was located on state forest land, a sheriff’s office said. Andrew Brunette, 66, is facing charges of first-degree murder, patronizing a prostitute and unlawful disposal of human remains in connection with the death of Tori Garza, the Clark County […]

Two men have been arrested in the 2019 murder of Gregory Wedel-Morales, a Fort Hood soldier whose skeletal remains were found in a Texas field nearly six years ago, authorities said. Wedel-Morales was reported missing on August 23, 2019, according to the Killeen Police Department. Within a year, on June 21, 2020, a set of […]

A woman accused of repeatedly scamming customers who purchased products from her South Carolina boutique was taken into custody yet again following a series of prior arrests, Us Weekly has confirmed. Pamela Brooke Schronce, who owns Thomas & Turner boutique in Belton, has been arrested 11 times since the beginning of 2026, according to authorities, […]

A California man is accused of shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend’s mother and brother at her family’s Bay Area home after the recent ending of their relationship, according to police and news reports. Allen Swadley, who lives in San José, was arrested Thursday, February 19, on two counts of murder in the deaths of 67-year-old […]

A children’s basketball coach and her father were arrested after police said they attacked another coach and his wife during an argument that unfolded following a game played by second graders, according to authorities. Brittany Ortiz, 38, of Malvern, and her father, William Stanley, 70, of Paoli, are accused of assaulting the couple following a […]

A woman accused of strangling her older sister to death and dumping her body in a river that runs through western New York has been found guilty of murder, according to court records. Jamie Busch was also found guilty on Tuesday, February 24, of two counts of tampering with physical evidence in connection with the […]

The identity of a pregnant woman who was stabbed to death in the parking of a Southern California high school had remained unknown for nearly five decades – until now, according to authorities. The woman found fatally stabbed outside Westlake High School in Thousand Oaks on July 18, 1980, has been identified as Maricela Rocha […]

A Texas kindergarten teacher accused of attacking and injuring a 5-year-old, allegedly for breaking a pencil, has been fired over the violent incident, school officials confirmed to Us Weekly. Pamela Mitchell, 64, was arrested on Thursday, February 19, in connection with the assault that a teacher’s aide had reported to the Department of Family and […]

A Michigan mother is accused of abandoning her two small children with special needs inside her home where they were left to endure “filth, hunger, and fear” for days, according to police. After a neighbor called 911 asking for a welfare check, Flint Township police arrived at the home of Krystal Farmer on Wednesday, February […]