Katherine Schaffstall

Several witnesses gathered to watch death row inmate Christa Pike receive a lethal injection, including her victim Colleen Slemmer’s mother. However, the experience had a shocking conclusion when Pike survived getting two lethal injections, which left Slemmer’s grieving family in shock. After watching Pike, 50, survive the lethal injections on Wednesday, September 30, Slemmer’s mother, […]

Prosecutors believe Hong Kong influencer Abby Choi was dismembered by her ex-husband and his family over a financial dispute involving a luxury apartment. Three days after Choi, 28, was reported missing on February 21, 2023, authorities discovered some of her remains in a rental home in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. Two dismembered legs that […]

Death row inmate Christa Pike claimed that her arm felt like it was going to “burst open” during her failed execution, according to an eyewitness. Tori Gessner, a reporter for Nashville’s WKRN, detailed what happened after Pike, 50, received the lethal injection on Wednesday, September 30, at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. “At one point, she […]

The FBI believes that a San Francisco Bay Area firefighter may have faked his death three years ago while he was wanted on charges of possession of child sexual abuse material. On Tuesday, September 29, the FBI published an update on former Alameda County firefighter Charles Johnathen Harris, explaining that a federal arrest warrant was […]

A 4-year-old girl in Texas was fatally shot by her mother shortly after the girl’s father was awarded primary custody. The family’s attorney announced in a statement that the victim has been identified as Vivian Savella. The incident took place on the evening of Tuesday, September 29, at a home in Houston. Officers reported to […]

The former Cornell University student who claimed she was gang raped by seven fraternity brothers said she “felt like bait” during a 2025 hearing regarding her allegations. The victim, who is identified as the alias Jane Doe, described her version of events in a 99-page report that the university prepared amid the investigation. “I felt […]

A lawyer for Christina Siders, the grandmother of the 16 children that were rescued from an Ohio “house of horrors,” claimed she supported her entire family after her son and his wife moved in with their kids. Siders, 67, was charged with 19 counts of child endangerment after she was arrested alongside her husband, Gary […]

Three Georgia adults were arrested after 15 children were found living in a “deplorable” two-bedroom apartment. Ashley Jackson, Derrick Jackson and Briana Reynolds were arrested on Thursday, September 24, and charged with multiple felony counts of first and second-degree child cruelty and a misdemeanor possession of marijuana charge, according to online jail records. The three […]

Christa Pike has spent nearly three decades on Tennessee’s death row — and on September 30, 2026, she came within an hour of becoming the first woman killed by the state in more than 200 years before a federal appeals court halted the execution. Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, was sentenced in […]

A gym teacher and coach in Pennsylvania was arrested after he allegedly engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with at least three underage victims. Jason Theodore was arrested on Friday, September 25, according to a press release issued by the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, and is currently in jail after he was charged with involuntary […]

Two weeks after a former Cornell University student filed a civil lawsuit claiming she was gang raped by seven fraternity brothers in 2024, new details have emerged from her report to Cornell University Police. A transcript of the alleged victim’s interview with campus police was obtained by CBS News on Wednesday, September 30. While speaking […]

Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, was set to become the first female inmate executed in the state in more than 200 years — but her legal team raced against the clock to change that. Pike had been scheduled to be put to death on September 30, 2026, for the 1995 torture […]

TikTok stars Dakota Harper and Felicity Eatmon have been charged with arson after they allegedly burned down an abandoned home. Harper, 21, and Eatmon, 22, were arrested on Tuesday, September 29, and hit with first-degree arson and conspiracy to commit arson charges, according to the criminal complaint that was filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court […]

Just one hour before she was scheduled to be executed, the federal appeals court announced their decision to halt Christa Pike’s execution in Tennessee on the morning of September 30. Pike is currently the only woman on death row in the state of Tennessee after she was arrested for murdering her classmate Colleen Slemmer in […]

A mother in California found herself behind bars after she allegedly abandoned her baby just hours after his birth and left him in an outdoor dumpster in the rain. Authorities announced that Astrid Nohemi Lopez Ramos was arrested on September 17 and has been charged with one count of child endangerment more than one year […]

Investigation Discovery’s new docuseries Unmasking a Monster: Aileen Wuornos not only sheds new insight into the serial killer’s murders, but reveals what ultimately made her “self-defense” argument fall apart. “This guy gave me a problem and so I whipped out my gun and I said, ‘Hey, you know, I don’t want to shoot you,’” Aileen […]

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, is arguing there’s a “complete lack of evidence” to suggest his client killed her three children in her first court appearance since her triple-murder trial ended in a mistrial. Clancy, 36, appeared in Plymouth Superior Court for a status hearing on Tuesday, September 29, more than three weeks after Judge […]

A mother in Los Angeles was taken into custody after her young daughter was found dead in a dumpster. The LAPD confirmed to Us that the baby’s body was found in the trash receptacle around 10:30 p.m. on Monday, September 28, in South Los Angeles. It’s not currently clear when the baby died, but the […]

The District Attorney overseeing a former Cornell University student’s claims that she was brutally sexually assaulted by seven fraternity brothers for at least seven hours in 2024 admitted — despite never pressing charges — that “something untoward did happen” at the frat house on the night of the alleged assault. The woman, identified under the […]

An elderly woman in Florida landed behind bars after she allegedly threatened to kill her husband with a knife during an argument “over the water hose breaking” inside a shed on their property. Cynthia Correll was arrested on the night of Saturday, September 26, after police responded to the couple’s home following reports of a […]

Christa Pike said she feels “a kinship” with Lindsay Clancy just days before the death row inmate is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee. Pike, 50, is expected to become the first woman to be executed in over 200 years in the state of Tennessee on Wednesday, September 30. The execution comes more than 30 […]