A police sergeant in Colorado is facing domestic violence and child abuse charges, including accusations of torture and making repeated death threats against his ex-wife — allegedly going so far as to talk about his murder obsession with their two children, who have been allegedly sleeping with baseball bats at night for protection, according to...
A 51-year-old former Republican congressional candidate in Indiana was arrested this week for allegedly stealing ballots during a public test of the state’s ballot card voting system. Larry Savage Jr., an elected precinct committeeman, was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with one count of felony destroying or misplacing ballots and one count of...
A 68-year-old homeowner in Indiana has been charged with murder for fatally shooting a man outside his home, initially telling cops that the victim attacked him with a sword, according to police officials. What actually happened, according to Indiana State Police detectives, was that New Albany sexagenarian Kevin Campbell got spooked by the approaching man...
An Arizona man wanted to keep living in his house, so he kept his dead father in a freezer in the backyard, police in the Grand Canyon State say. Joseph Daniel Hill Jr., 51, stands accused of one count each of failure to report a death, a misdemeanor, and one count of concealing a dead...
A Texas woman facing charges in the death of her husband over the weekend allegedly claimed the gun accidentally went off when he drunkenly bumped into her as she was helping him into the house. Marisol Solis Zamora, 42, faces a murder charge in the death of Miguel Zamora Martinez, 47, authorities said. The bloodshed...
A 43-year-old grandmother in Ohio is going to spend several years behind bars for intentionally shooting her then-6-month-old granddaughter in the head and showing no remorse. Butler County Court of Common Pleas Judge Daniel E. Haughey on Tuesday ordered Mia Harris to serve a sentence of nine to 12 years in a state correctional facility...
A mother is behind bars after being accused of throwing corrosive acid on her teenage son and a 14-year-old girl following an argument over a phone at a North Carolina apartment complex. Kendra McDougald is facing charges of throwing acid, assault with serious bodily injury, negligent child abuse and assault with a deadly weapon. It...
A 49-year-old man in California is accused of killing his girlfriend, strangling her and slitting her wrists only to leave her bloody body on their couch while he finished watching TV before going to sleep. Daniel Allen Aldrich was taken into custody last week and charged with one felony count of murder and one felony...
When an au pair from Brazil moved to Virginia, her life apparently became dedicated to two things: a romantic affair — and homicide. Juliana Peres Magalhaes, 24, was once the live-in nanny at a two-story house on Stable Brook Way in Herndon, a medium-sized town that’s part of the broader Washington, D.C., metro area. Her charge...
The man who electrocuted and tortured his wife in a Michigan basement after he accused her of cheating on him will spend the next 14 to 30 years in prison. Saul Lucio-Ipina, 32, was sentenced Monday after pleading no contest to two counts of torture and witness interference earlier this month, according to MLive/The Grand...