A 24-year-old Ohio man will spend the rest of his days behind bars for abducting his 2-year-old daughter from his girlfriend, fatally shooting the child twice in the head and leading police on a high-speed chase with the infant’s body still inside the vehicle. Seneca County Common Pleas Court Judge Damon Alt on Monday ordered...
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‘What happened to you’: Eliza Fletcher’s family agrees to spare her killer from death sentence
With the support of a slain teacher’s family, prosecutors in Shelby County, Tennessee, reached a plea deal with her killer. The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office previously sought the death penalty against Cleotha Abston, 40, for abducting, beating, and shooting Eliza Fletcher, 34, while she was on an early-morning jog. On Monday, however, they announced...
Uber Eats driver caught stealing food spits in customer’s face, steals hundreds in yard decorations: Police
A 29-year-old Uber Eats driver in Florida allegedly spit in a customer’s face and stole hundreds of dollars in outdoor decorations from the victim’s home after she confronted the driver about stealing food from her bag before it was delivered. Alexsandra Del Valle Acosta Aguilar was taken into custody last week and charged with one...
Teen who was ‘prepared to take a life’ to steal car kills Army vet while driving stolen vehicle with 3 popped tires: Police
A 17-year-old from Missouri is accused of going on a multistate crime spree that included a high-speed pursuit with police that ended with him striking another car and killing a 23-year-old U.S. Army veteran who was traveling with her mother. Anthony Giancola was taken into custody in Oklahoma and charged with one count of first-degree...
‘That’s parenting 101’: Foster mom left special-needs toddler in bathtub alone for ‘more than 30 minutes’ to chat on phone, police say
A 25-year-old mother in Indiana was arrested five months after she allegedly left her 21-month-old special needs foster child unattended in a bathtub where the child drowned. Hailynn Volpatti was taken into custody last week and charged with one count of felony neglect of a dependent resulting in death in the May 2024 drowning of...
Teen murdered his own family of 6 for refusing to let him sleep over at girlfriend’s
Jurors convicted a young Indiana man for murdering his entire family amid a spat over him leaving home without permission. Raymond Ronald Lee Childs III, then 17, was charged as an adult. His first trial ended in a mistrial after a witness asked him why he committed the act. This second trial ended with jurors...
Murder suspect with stolen ID called 911 pretending to be hiker who fell off cliff running from a bear: Deputies
In a case with several layers of alleged deception, Tennessee authorities say a man called 911 claiming to be a hiker who fell off a cliff while running from a bear. But Monroe County investigators said that while they did find a dead body, this was not the real caller. The caller was actually Nicholas...
MS-13 gang member charged with murdering ‘happy’ couple found dead in apartment complex’s parking lot
Just days ago, Tinayia Henderson lamented how someone murdered her friend Mijal Conejero-Romera, 22, as well as Mijal’s boyfriend, Diego Alexander Woollett, 22. “She didn’t deserve this,” Mijal’s best friend, Tinayia Henderson, said in a Tuesday report from Washington, D.C., CBS affiliate WUSA about the unsolved Aug. 28 murders. “It hurts knowing every day that...
‘Illegal any day of the week’: Man in MAGA hat punched elderly poll worker who told him to take it off, authorities say
A man in a MAGA hat punched a poll worker who had told him to take it off while at the voting site, according to deputies in Bexar County, Texas. The defendant, Jesse Lutzenberger, 63, is charged with injury to an elderly person, online records show. He posted a $30,000 bond on Friday. Sheriff Javier...
‘What the f— you talking about, b—-?’: Convicted killer who shot teen over Yeezy sneakers lashes out at victim’s father
Minutes after a jury convicted him of murdering a teenager over Yeezy sneakers, a young man lashed out at her father for chastising him during a victim impact statement. “What the f— you talking about, b—-?” Adrian Cosby, 23, said and jumped out of his chair, according to The Miami Herald. Prosecutors in Miami-Dade County...