A California man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the disappearance and revenge murder of a classmate who he blamed for getting him expelled from high school several years ago. Owen Skyler Shover, 23, learned his fate on Friday in the January 2019 murder of Aranda Isabel Briones, 16, who was buried somewhere in...
A North Texas middle school teacher was arrested this week for sexual crimes involving one of her former students, Lone Star State police say. Angela Barnes, 45, currently stands accused of one count each of sexual assault of a child and improper relationship between educator and student, according to a press release issued by the...
A now-former teacher in California is behind bars after he was found in a teenage girl’s bedroom, authorities said. Patrick John Mester, 65, stands accused of two counts each of arranging to meet with a minor for lewd purposes and lewd acts with a minor who is 14 or 15 years old, according to Stanislaus...
A Colorado cardiologist was sentenced to 158 years for drugging and sexually assaulting women he met on dating apps. Stephen Matthews, 37, learned his fate in a Denver courtroom on Friday. “Mr. Matthews, you know, you have diminished this world,” District Court Judge Eric Johnson told Matthews, local ABC affiliate KMGH reported. “You have dimmed...
A 15-year-old boy shot and killed his parents and most of his siblings, and then tried to frame one of the victims as the perpetrator of a “murder-suicide,” law enforcement officials in Washington state say. The alleged killer’s tale, however, unraveled because his 11-year-old sister played dead, later escaped, and told investigators the truth about...
An 80-year-old man in Michigan fatally shot his wife of 54 years, calling 911 and saying he was giving her a “merciful ending from her Alzheimer’s disease” before turning the gun on himself. William “Bill” A. Kitzmiller and 80-year-old Donna L. Kitzmiller were found dead inside their home last month in what authorities have deemed...
Texas cops responding after receiving a call about a 3-month-old baby boy “showing unusual lethargy” allegedly discovered that a day care teacher was to blame and that she was caught on video treating him like a “rag doll.” Jasmine Collum, a 24-year-old employee of Ignite Learning Academy in Temple, was booked into jail on Tuesday...
The mother and father of a 41-year-old Utah woman accused of shooting her national guardsman husband in the head as he slept in bed at home have themselves been arrested and charged in the connection with the murder case, this after prosecutors said publicly that they ordered a new mattress off of Amazon to help...
A 39-year-old woman in Tennessee has been arrested on a spate of felony charges for allegedly kidnapping her two biological children after beating her own mother — who is also the legal guardian of the children — so badly that the older woman was left unconscious. Sarah Myers was taken into custody on Thursday and...
A Kansas mom is behind bars after admittedly shooting and killing her son, even though she only intended to scare him with her gun, according to police. Tesha Florence, 46, also known as Tesha Jenkins, stands accused of one count each of murder in the second degree, aggravated assault, and aggravated burglary, according to Sedgwick...