Katherine Schaffstall

A teacher in Wisconsin has been arrested after it was discovered that she was snorting cocaine on the job — in a bathroom used by kindergarteners. Laurie Laubenstein was arrested for possession of cocaine on Thursday, February 19. She was taken to Waupaca County Jail, and as of Friday, February 20, had been released. Laubenstein, […]

A mother’s nightmare came true when she walked into her daughter’s bedroom in their shared apartment, only to find another woman stabbing her child repeatedly. The Pocatello Police Department announced that Marita Gonzales has been charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery after she was found attacking a 32-year-old woman inside a family’s apartment in […]

A man in New Mexico has been accused of shooting his wife and her two young children after he accused her of cheating on him, killing her 4-year-old son and leaving the mother and her 1-year-old child in critical condition. The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office announced that Luis Sanchez was arrested on Tuesday, February 17, […]

A Florida man has been accused of killing his father after they got into a heated argument about a dog. Port St. Lucie police said that Sheldon Morrison killed his father, Glen Morrison, shortly before 8 a.m. on Wednesday, February 18, inside their family garage on Southwest Ketona Circle, according to a police report viewed […]

Police have confirmed that the death of a 16-year-old girl in Bloomington, Illinois, is being investigated as a homicide. Bloomington Police and the McLean County Coroner’s confirmed that Mariah Kletz was pronounced dead at her home on Canada Lane on February 7, according to 25News. The incident was initially being treated as a death investigation, […]

A woman has been arrested after she abandoned her child and drove across several states, ultimately striking a woman with her car once she made it to Indiana during an October 2025 incident. Adria Wilkerson was taken into custody by the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday, February 17, after she was found responsible for […]

A 16-year-old girl from Ohio is missing after she left her home to meet a mystery man that she connected with on an app. Madison Fields went missing from her family’s temporary home in Colerain, Ohio, on February 13. Fields is described as weighing 125 pounds, and she has brown hair and green eyes. Her […]

Four school employees and one police officer in Aliceville, Alabama, have been arrested after investigators conducted multiple investigations that involved disseminating child sexual abuse material. The four school employees that were arrested are Antavious Belgrave, Lakethia Wilkins, Roderick Granger and Winston Bishop, according to ABC 3340. All three are on the same school district’s payroll. […]

The founder of a non-profit organization in Memphis, Tennessee, has been arrested after he allegedly strangled his wife, according to authorities. Larry Hunter, who is the founder of Touched by an Angel Ministries, was arrested on Monday, February 16, for aggravated assault and domestic assault. Hunter, 64, and his wife got into an altercation in […]

A 21-year-old man in Delta Township, Michigan, has been accused of hitting a family-of-three with his car and shooting them, killing a 3-year-old girl in the process. The Eaton County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release that the family was taking a walk on February 13 when they were struck by the car, whose […]

A man has been arrested for murder after he was linked to the death of a missing teen, whose leg was found in a California desert after she vanished from her home. The Imperial County Sheriff’s Office announced in a press release that Abraham Feinbloom was taken into custody on February 13 after investigators confirmed […]

Richard Cottingham, also known as the “Torso Killer,” is serving life in prison for murders he committed in the 1960s and 1970s. While he initially admitted to committing dozens of killings in New York and New Jersey, Cottingham is now owning up to nearly 100 murders amid his old age and ailing health. While discussing […]

Police have enlisted the help of a cadaver dog in their ongoing search for a missing 2-year-old Alabama girl, whose mother has been called the “only known suspect” by investigators. Authorities were seen with a cadaver dog on the morning of Wednesday, February 18, as they searched the area surrounding the apartment complex where toddler […]

Ellen Greenberg was just 27 years old when she was found dead inside of her apartment in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2011. She was discovered with 20 stab wounds that covered her body, which many people believed seemed impossible to be self-inflicted. However, her death was ultimately ruled a suicide. More than one […]

A woman in Coleman, Michigan, has pleaded guilty and no contest to felonies in she was charged with after a 4-year-old boy used her fentanyl, and had to be revived with Narcan twice after his heart stopped. Chelsea Ross pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine and second-degree child abuse when she appeared in front of […]

A grandfather in Lima, Montana, has been accused of negligent homicide after his 3-year-old grandson, who had spina bifida, was found dead inside his family’s home. He was arrested just three months after his daughter was also arrested in connection to the boy’s death. The child’s grandfather, Christopher Michael Cox, has been charged with felony […]

A man in St. Cloud, Minnesota, has been charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman during a horrifying ordeal that allegedly took place at his home over the course of five days. Marquell Steven Goree has been charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of kidnapping, according to online […]

A murder mystery has taken over a senior care facility in Maryland after a millionaire resident was found shot to death on Valentine’s Day. Officers with the Montgomery County Police Department have launched an investigation into who killed 87-year-old Robert Fuller Jr. while he was a resident at the Cogir Potomac Senior Living Facility in […]

A terrifying moment was captured on video when a woman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, managed to escape her ex-boyfriend, who police allege tried to kidnap and assault her on Valentine’s Day. Officers responded to the scene around 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 14, after they received a report of an attempted kidnapping and domestic assault, according […]

A man from Texas has been accused of fatally stabbing his mother before he fled the scene in her tan 2009 Toyota Corolla with his 4-year-old nephew. Raymond Isaac Carmona was arrested and charged with murder, aggravated kidnapping and theft of property, according to online records viewed by Us Weekly. Officers with the Mansfield Police […]

A 13-year-old boy was enjoying a family vacation in Florida when he was randomly attacked on a boardwalk by a stranger, who slashed him and sliced his neck open. Jermaine Lynn Long has been arrested on one charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, according to online records viewed by Us Weekly. Police officers […]