Julia Marnin

The father of a 7-year-old girl is charged with capital murder after authorities said he shot and killed her adoptive parents, a married Texas couple. Deputies found Christopher Lopez, 52, and Trinette Lopez, 52, shot to death at their Harris County home on January 12, according to county Sheriff Ed Gonzalez. An investigation led authorities […]

A man accused of kidnapping three teenage girls from a North Carolina psychiatric treatment facility was arrested after authorities said they found one of the missing teens, a 13-year-old, inside his car. The teens went missing from the Cornerstone Treatment Facility in Wadesboro on January 19, when police initially said they left the property “without […]

A woman accused of telling a 10-year-old child to murder a 2-month-old infant in disturbing messages sent over the gaming platform Roblox has had her criminal charges dismissed, court records viewed by Us Weekly show. Tara Sykes, 37, was arrested in October 2024 on charges of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree premeditated murder, solicitation […]

A group of children accused of beating a 51-year-old man to death in Rhode Island have been charged with his murder, police confirmed to Us Weekly. The four children — an 11-year-old and three 12-year-olds — were seen attacking the man, identified as Rony Alonso, in Providence on the evening of January 19, according to […]

A girl reported missing from Texas by her mother more than four years ago was found safe in Mexico after her father was accused of kidnapping her to the country, Us Weekly has learned. The 12-year-old was “safely recovered” in Mexico by U.S. Marshals Service officers on January 20 and has since been reunited with […]

Two children and two adults were found shot to death at a California home after police received a 911 call from someone saying they had opened fire inside and set up “booby traps” throughout the residence, according to authorities. Detectives are investigating the Tuesday, January 27, incident at a Rancho Cordova home in Sacramento County […]

A 27-year-old California man has been convicted in the double murder of his parents, who prosecutors said he fatally shot during an early morning inside their San Francisco home, with his younger sister there. Irvin Hernandez-Flores was found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder and one count of child abuse more than three years […]

A Georgia mechanic was found guilty of murder in the death of one of his friends, whose remains were found along a “stretch of highway” about five years after authorities said he had been shot to death. Raymond Leverett was handed a life sentence in connection with the September 2018 killing of John Flemming, who […]

A Georgia woman suspected of being under the influence during a wrong-way crash that killed a mother and her two children has been arrested in connection with their deaths, according to records viewed by Us Weekly. Sherita Goddard, 41, was driving in the opposite direction along U.S. 82 in Lee County when she slammed into […]

A 16-year-old girl was killed in a sledding accident in Texas that has left another teenage girl in “critical condition,” according to police. Two 16-year-old girls were found with life-threatening injuries after they were riding on a sled tied to a Jeep Wrangler, which was being driven by a 16-year-old boy in Frisco on Sunday, […]

A California mother faces a felony child abuse charge after a video showed her 19-month-old child falling out of her moving car when she turned onto an intersection, according to police. The video went viral on social media, leading to an investigation, the Fullerton Police Department said in a Monday, January 26, news release. Footage […]

A 19-year-old is charged with murder in the deaths of his grandparents, who were found dead at their South Carolina home, according to authorities. Levi Kevin Jones is accused of fatally stabbing his grandfather, Larry Moore, 76, and strangling his grandmother, Sandra Moore, 75, Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said in a video statement on […]

A woman accused of posing as a doctor performed a Brazilian butt lift that “nearly killed” a 46-year-old, who needed multiple surgeries to treat a life-threatening infection that followed her procedure, according to prosecutors. Nargiza Shukurova, 39, of Uzbekistan, performed the BBL without a medical license at Fleur de Beaute Salon in Brooklyn, New York, […]

A man has been charged with murder in the 2015 killing of his wife, more than a decade after investigators in California had concluded she died by suicide, according to prosecutors and media reports. Michael Anthony Leon, of Antioch, is accused of fatally shooting his wife, Brenda Joyce Leon, in the head and faking her […]

A missing Kansas woman was found dead in the woods under a blanket of snow after local surveillance footage captured her leaving a bar the evening of Friday, January 23, according to police. Police officers and a K9 search team found the body of Rebecca Rauber, 28, about 300 yards away from where she was […]

An Indiana man has been arrested in the killing of a 34-year-old California resident, who was found in a “pool of blood” in his San Diego home more than 50 years ago, according to police. With the help of forensic investigative genetic genealogy technology, the San Diego Police Department announced on Thursday, January 22, that […]

UPDATE — 1/23/26 at 5:50 p.m. ET: Jocelyn Krofek, one of the three missing girls, “has been located and is safe,” the Portsmouth Police Department in Virginia said in an update issued on Friday, January 23. The department had previously spelled her name as Joseline Krofec in an earlier update. The original story is below. […]

A man charged in the fatal shooting of Dallas rapper Zeethewizard was a member of the musician’s “entourage,” according to media reports citing an arrest warrant affidavit in the case. The U.S. Marshalls Task Force arrested Dameian Roberson on a murder charge in connection with the death of Zecqurie Fields, which is the 25-year-old rapper’s […]

A jury this week found a New York man guilty of murder after prosecutors said he tortured his longtime friend to death by beating him, suffocating him with a plastic bag and slowly stabbing him in the neck over the span of six hours. Jeremy Allen, 44, of East Quogue, near the Hamptons on Long […]

A mother accused of leaving her 10-month-old baby inside a hot car as she worked a shift at a Wendy’s in Louisiana was sentenced to five years in prison in her daughter’s death, a district attorney announced. Hannah Faith Cormier brought her infant to work on August 13, 2024, and later, told police that she […]

A man is accused of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl in Minnesota shortly after she had gotten off her school bus, according to authorities. The girl, Brynlee Nelson, was found the morning of Thursday, January 22, and has been reunited with her family, the Albert Lea Police Department announced in a news release. Now, Joseph Andrew […]