Julia Marnin

A man has been arrested in the early morning shooting death of a California Institute of Technology scientist who was killed on the front porch of his Los Angeles County home, according to law enforcement. Someone called 911 about the shooting at a home in Llano on Monday, February 16, where deputies discovered a 67-year-old […]

Two students are facing criminal charges in connection with an alleged rape incident at a Washington high school, according to officials and news reports. Officers arrested “two juveniles” at Mark Morris High School in Longview the morning of Thursday, February 19, the city said in a news release shared to Facebook that same day. The […]

A woman who pleaded guilty to fatally drugging four Ohio men during alleged meetups for sex is prison-bound, according to authorities. Rebecca Auborn, 36, was indicted in October 2023 in connection with the “serial killings” that occurred in northeast Columbus earlier in 2023, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office said in an earlier news release that […]

A woman abandoned her Goldendoodle at a JetBlue ticket counter after she learned she needed to complete paperwork to fly with her dog as a service animal, according to Las Vegas police. “We can’t believe we have to say this … but please don’t abandon your dog at the airport — or anywhere else,” the […]

A man has been charged in the death of another man more than two decades after his body was found within a mile of his abandoned car, which had been set ablaze in the woods in southwest Florida, according to authorities. The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday, February 17, that the 1999 cold […]

A woman is charged with a felony hit and run after police said she slammed into Virginia Living magazine editor Hope Cartwright as she was crossing a street, killing the 23-year-old. Latesha Coleman, 41, is accused of driving away after she allegedly struck Cartwright while she was using a crosswalk at an intersection in Richmond […]

A dentist was allegedly intoxicated while performing an oral surgical procedure on a child at a Texas pediatric dental practice, according to police. A dentist’s office in Sherman called police on Monday, February 16, to report a dentist, identified as Kelly Buck, “was potentially intoxicated while treating patients,” the Sherman Police Department said in a […]

A woman accused of shooting her boyfriend to death at a North Carolina home told a dispatcher that she accidentally shot him while she was cleaning her gun, according to authorities and news reports. Megan Jane Thomas, 39, of Moravian Falls, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jason Olney, court records viewed […]

A Florida woman accused of posing as a child protective services employee tried to kidnap four children from a home after she arrived to “remove” a 9-year-old boy from the residence, authorities said. Nicole Terry Thomas, 56, was arrested Friday, February 13, on four counts of attempted kidnapping, one count of unarmed burglary of an […]

The parents of a West Virginia boy who was sent to school with cockroaches in his backpack and bug bites covering his body have been arrested on child neglect charges, according to authorities and news reports. Dwayne and Dorothy Hickman’s son and daughter have since been removed from their Doddridge County home, where authorities found […]

A North Carolina woman who stands accused of killing one of her young children and trying to kill her other child is facing murder charges, according to authorities. Andrea Morgan Faust, 41, of Durham, was arrested on Friday, February 13, on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, court records viewed by Us Weekly […]

A man tried to rip a young girl away from her mother in an attempted kidnapping that was thwarted by bystanders and captured on surveillance footage at a supermarket in Northern Italy, according to Italian State Police. The footage published by Italian State Police on Monday, February 16, first shows the girl and her mother […]

While searching a Virginia home a missing woman shared with her husband, officers found her body inside the kitchen’s freezer, court documents say The discovery was made by Norfolk police on February 5, three days after Lina M. Guerra’s brother reported her missing on February 2, according to police and an affidavit written by a […]

A man accused of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl in 1982 has been found guilty by a California jury after DNA from his cigarette linked him to the decades-old cold case, according to prosecutors. James Oliver Unick, of Willows, was convicted of murder on Friday, February 13, with the special circumstance “related to the […]

The father and stepmother of an 11-year-old Indiana girl have been arrested in connection with her neglect-related death, authorities said. The girl was found dead at a home in Stilesville after first responders were called on a report of a child not breathing at around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 14, according to a news […]

A woman was arrested on child neglect charges after police in South Florida said she abandoned her two children in an Uber and left them with the vehicle’s driver for about two hours, according to court documents. On the evening of Friday, February 13, an officer with the Sunrise Police Department met with a man […]

Authorities are investigating the killing of an Ohio woman who was found dead inside her home following a reported burglary, police said. The woman, 37-year-old Tipp City resident Ashley Flynn, was a mother of two children and a local teacher, according to police and news reports. Tipp City police were sent to Flynn’s home at […]

Investigators have confirmed the identity of a baby boy who was found dead at an Indiana monastery nearly 40 years ago, authorities said. Now, murder charges have been filed against the infant’s biological mother, the Dubois County Prosecutor’s Office announced in a Friday, February 13, news release. For decades, the infant found dead at the […]

A man who was allegedly with a 29-year-old woman just hours before she died has been sentenced to prison in connection with the discovery of her body inside a plastic tote bin, according to prosecutors in Colorado. Daniel Ryan Clark, 41, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday, February 11, for tampering with […]

A Texas mother accused of helping her husband forcibly tattoo her two young children before she allegedly tried to get rid of their tattoos using a Brillo pad is headed to prison, according to prosecutors. Megan Farr, 29, was sentenced on Wednesday, February 11, to two years in prison for unlawful restraint and three years […]

A New Mexico police officer accused of driving drunk to work admitted that she had been “drinking all day” when a deputy arrived to investigate her for a possible DWI, according to an incident report. Sante Fe Police Department Officer Maureen Lujan, 33, was arrested on an aggravated DWI charge on Wednesday, February 11, court […]