Julia Marnin

A Wisconsin judge denounced a nurse who had sex with her patient — and later admitted to wrongly accusing them of sexual assault — as “an embarrassment to nurses everywhere” during her sentencing hearing. The woman, Melissa Knutson, was sentenced on Friday, February 27, to one year and six months in prison in connection with […]

A California man who works as a DJ for local children’s parties is accused of raping a 17-year-old girl when she was unconscious, after she had been given “illicit drugs,” according to authorities. The DJ, Glenn Canyon Childers, was also caught with hundreds of files of child pornography during a law enforcement investigation, the Orange […]

NBA player Victor Wembanyama says one of his friends has been missing for several days after he disappeared from Chicago O’Hare International Airport. The man, Elijah Joseph Hoard, was last seen at the airport on Friday, February 27, according to a missing person’s alert shared by the Chicago Police Department on Sunday, March 1. Hoard, […]

Detectives are investigating the killing of a 32-year-old mother of 7 children after she was fatally shot in her Arizona neighborhood, according to authorities and her husband. Maria Lewis left her home in Mesa to go on a walk around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 28, and never returned, her husband, Albert Mendivil, told KPNX. […]

A South Carolina boutique owner accused of scamming dozens of customers has been arrested again — for the 13th time in about 2 months, according to authorities and media reports. Pamela Brooke Schronce’s latest arrest happened in Newberry County, where she was charged with six counts of obtaining goods under false pretenses with a value […]

The husband of Ashley Flynn was captured sobbing and appeared inconsolable in the wake of her murder at their Ohio home — before he was named the primary suspect and arrested in her death, according to bodycam footage shared by police. Caleb C. Flynn, 39, is charged with one count of murder, two counts of […]

A New York man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in connection with the murder of his ex-girlfriend, who he “brutally executed” while she and her three children had been asleep in their home, according to a district attorney. Michael Burham’s sentencing on Monday, March 2, comes about two months after he […]

A Georgia woman called 911 after she allegedly fatally shot her husband, and authorities claim it may have been because he shot her dog a week earlier. Deputies found Gregory Waco Compton had been shot in the head when they responded to his Carlton home, where he lived with his wife, Marion Jackson Compton, the […]

A Minnesota woman has been found guilty of murder and arson charges after federal prosecutors said she killed two of her three children and then set their home on fire. Jennifer Marie Stately was convicted of two counts of premeditated murder, two counts of murder in the course of committing child abuse, one count of […]

Police in Massachusetts have arrested a 23-year-old man after rescuing a kidnapped teenager from his car during what began as a “routine traffic stop.”” Officers said they saved the 13-year-old victim from the alleged abduction in Northborough on Wednesday, February 25, according to a news release issued by the Northborough Police Department on Thursday, February […]

FBI agents investigating the disappearance of an Ohio teenager have arrested a New York man who they claim had “previous interactions” with the girl, according to police. The FBI took Kyle Lawrence into custody on Thursday, February 26, nearly two weeks after 16-year-old Madison Fields went missing on February 13, the Colerain Township Police Department […]

A 12-year-old girl died days after she was struck in the head with a metal water bottle during a fight at a Los Angeles school, according to her family, who said she was left needing emergency brain surgery. The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the death of Khimberly Zavaleta on Wednesday, February 25, as […]

UPDATE — 2/27/26 at 5:45 p.m. ET: A medical examiner in Nashville, Tennessee, has positively identified the body found in a crawl space of a Jackson home on Sunday, February 22, as 31-year-old Mirna Ortez Moncada, police announced. An autopsy confirmed that Moncada was killed, the Jackson Police Department said in a Thursday, February 26, […]

An Illinois man charged with murder in the death of his infant son had taken the 5-month-old to a hospital with “severe” injuries before the baby died, according to police. When Dominic G. Larson arrived at the Northwestern Kishwaukee Community Hospital in DeKalb, Illinois, with his baby on Monday, February 23, the boy’s face was […]

A Massachusetts girls’ high school basketball coach is accused of pressuring a student into drinking alcohol — and giving her tequila shots — before he allegedly raped the 18-year-old, according to authorities and news reports. The man, Scott Marino, was arrested Wednesday, February 25, on two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault and […]

A man stands accused in the kidnapping and killing of 7-year-old Morgan Violi nearly 30 years after the Kentucky girl’s body was found in the woods in Tennessee, according to federal authorities. Robert Scott Froberg has been charged in the cold case that had remained a mystery since 1996, U.S. Attorney Kyle G. Bumgarner, of […]

A Michigan woman is accused of scamming a family out of more than $4.6 million in a scheme in which she pretended to help place their daughter in different modeling events, according to federal prosecutors. The young girl’s family paid Chanise Coyne millions for what they believed were “expenses relating to those events,” reads an […]

A New York man has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of his mother after she went missing in January and was later found dead in the woods on Long Island, according to police. Curtis Trent Jr. was taken into custody on Wednesday, February 25, on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death […]

An Alabama mother, her teenage daughter and toddler son are still missing after authorities shared a man has been charged with their kidnapping. During a news conference on Tuesday, February 24, Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said the suspect, Hector Gamaliel Argueta-Guerra, previously gave a fake name when he was arrested on three counts of […]

Two high school students facing rape charges are accused of assaulting four teens in a varsity basketball locker room, according to court documents detailing the attacks. At Mark Morris High School in Longview on February 19, police arrested two teens on charges of second-degree rape, unlawful imprisonment with sexual motivation, indecent liberties with forcible compulsion, […]

A North Carolina woman has been arrested nearly 50 years after a newborn baby girl was found dead inside a trash bag at a landfill, according to authorities who announced that they have now solved the decades-old cold case. The discovery of the infant’s body at a Columbus County landfill in 1979 led persistent investigators […]