A Missouri mother will spend the next several years behind bars for subjecting her two young children to a regime of abuse and neglect so bad that one child was described as a “victim of torture.” Alyssa Nicole Bowman, 29, pleaded guilty to two counts of child abuse and neglect on Friday morning in Greene...
Background: Abbi Hance-Briscoe (WFAA). Inset: The “Flaming Pineapple” drink at Twisted Trick (WFAA). A Texas couple never thought their summertime date would end with a trip to the local burn unit — and now they’re suing the bar that they say left them horrifically scarred. Abigael “Abbi” Hance-Briscoe and Dustin “Dutty” Johnson visited the Twisted...
A Washington couple who admitted to killing a teen and falsely claiming the victim had sold their daughter to a sex trafficking ring are expected to receive relatively light sentences after pleading guilty. As Law&Crime previously reported, John Eisenman, 63, was arrested in November 2021 for the 2020 murder of a 19-year-old man whose body...
A man trying to board a Frontier Airlines flight from Georgia back to his military base says he was almost derailed by a couple of greedy gate agents. Demonta Roach, who serves in the U.S. Navy, told his story to WSB, a local ABC affiliate in Atlanta and shared the video he took of the unnamed...
A 33-year-old mother in West Virginia has been indicted on a slew of charges in connection with the death of her 16-day-old daughter after she allegedly told police she was “irritated” and “probably” caused the fatal injuries by squeezing the newborn “too hard” during burping. A grand jury in Putnam County on Thursday formally indicted...
Ashley Bertino (Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office). Ashley Bertino, a 36-year-old mother from upstate New York, sat in a courtroom on Thursday as witnesses testified about the neglect that allegedly led to her 12-year-old daughter’s death. On April 29, Bertino’s daughter Mya Smith died in her home for reasons unknown at the time. The coroner later...
A 44-year-old Texas woman admitted on Wednesday to threatening a federal judge and U.S. Congresswoman in a racist voice message, according to authorities. On Aug. 5, 2023, Abigail Jo Shry called the chambers of U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was in charge of former President Donald Trump’s case, accusing him of trying to overturn...
A federal grand jury has indicted a Florida man who allegedly went to Spain to kidnap and murder his estranged wife in an elaborate scheme that included driving across Europe and spray painting camera lenses. David Knezevich had already been charged in the U.S. District Court’s Southern District of Florida in the disappearance of 40-year-old...
Video released this week by California‘s Department of Insurance allegedly shows a group of Los Angeles residents committing fake bear attacks on their own luxury cars — including a Rolls-Royce Ghost and Mercedes-Benz “G-Wagon” — using a bear suit and meat shredders, according to officials. “It was clearly a human in a bear suit,” the...
A 35-year-old man in Minnesota is accused of killing his girlfriend, beating and strangling her to death inside of a home where he was housesitting. Joseph James Benson was taken into custody earlier this month and charged with one count of second-degree murder in the brutal slaying of 38-year-old Samantha Koehne, who went by the...