Tuesday, a Tennessee judge raised eyebrows by allowing the release of a man who reportedly shot police officers while escaping a traffic stop while experiencing a mental health crisis. In the 3400 block of Lakeview Road, Memphis police officers responded to an armed mental health emergency on November 10. According to a criminal complaint, a...
Background: On November 20, 2024, Susan Smith shows up for her parole hearing (Law&Crime). Inset: Michael and Alex Smith’s grave at the Bogansville Methodist Church, July 23, 1995, West Springs, South Carolina. (Ruth Fremson/AP Photo, file) On November 20, Susan Smith, who killed her two toddler kids and misled the public about how they died,...
After reportedly dousing a person she knew with gasoline while she was sitting on a couch and lighting her on fire, causing fatal injuries, a lady in Virginia who was previously free on bond for assaulting someone with a pipe is now facing murder charges, according to the police. Police say 28-year-old Savannah Adams killed...
For choking his wife to death during a fight and concealing her body in the trunk of a rental car that was discovered months later by staff on the rental car lot, a New Yorker received a sentence ranging from 25 years to life. Lisa Dashnaw-Tyrell, 57, passed away on Monday, and Scott Tyrell, 58,...
Nearly ten years after a double homicide, a magnet fisherman found a gun and victim IDs in a river, which helped prosecutors in Georgia secure a murder conviction. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ronnie Jay Towns, 38, entered a guilty plea to two murder charges on Monday and was given two consecutive life terms by...
ALT: To avoid witnessing the man’s pain during the robbery, the woman instructed her partner to kill the man they had wounded ten hours prior: Police In Texas, a 20-year-old lady and her boyfriend of the same age are accused of robbing and killing a guy who had let them live in his condominium. They...
Two ladies were detained by Texas police for reportedly beating three kids with belts and spiked dog leashes after the boys failed to finish their tasks. Jacalyn Cook, 30, and Haley Blevins, 19, are both charged with multiple counts of child injury, a felony. The mother of the boys, who are aged 12, 7, and...
Additional information regarding the horrific death of a 7-year-old child who was starved and tortured by several family members is provided by recently made public court filings in Oklahoma. According to court documents seen by Law&Crime, the victim’s aunt and uncle, David Yonko and Tiffany Mitchell, as well as her parents, Anthony Yonko and Lisa...
A long-standing family dispute turned deadly when aMinnesotaman allegedly broke into a hunting cabin and killed his father execution style as two other men looked on horrified. The Pine County Sheriff s Officeresponded around 8:45 p.m. Fridayfor a shooting at a cabin in Hinckley, which is about 80 miles north of Minneapolis. The 911 caller...
A man was recently arrested inTennesseein connection with the death of a youngArizonawoman whose body was found after she was tortured and burned alive in the back seat of a car. Mercedes Marianna Vega, 22, died under mysterious circumstances in April of last year. AsLaw&Crime previously reported, her body was found after the Maricopa County...