Julia Marnin

A man accused of killing a 4-year-old girl while caring for her was arrested in Georgia following an hourslong standoff with a SWAT team, according to authorities. The girl, who law enforcement identified as Niomi Rose, was found “unresponsive with visible injuries” at a home in Hephzibah following a 911 call made the evening of […]

A math teacher at a Florida high school was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor after a student’s parents became suspicious of an “inappropriate relationship,” authorities said. Special Victims Unit agents with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office apprehended Kirsten Rose, who works at Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High School, on Friday, April 10, according to […]

The stepfather of a 19-year-old who vanished in Virginia more than a decade ago is now facing multiple sex-related offenses in relation to her and other victims, according to authorities. James Branton was arrested on Friday, April 10, by Spotsylvania County detectives and Virginia State Police, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office announced in a news […]

A Michigan woman’s disappearance at sea in the Bahamas has taken a series of troubling turns, with her husband now in custody and her daughter publicly questioning his account of what happened. Lynette Hooker, 55, has been missing since the evening of April 4, 2026, after she and her husband, Brian Hooker, 59, set out […]

The FBI is offering up to a $50,000 reward for a teenager who remains wanted in the killings of three teens at a Texas convenience store in 2021. The reward is for any tips that lead to 18-year-old Abel Elias Acosta’s arrest and conviction, the FBI’s Dallas Field Office said in a Thursday, April 9, […]

As California homicide detectives work to solve the nearly 20 year old cold case killing of 36-year-old Eliseo Salas, sketches of three possible suspects have been released in connection with his death. Salas was fatally shot while attending a large party in Rancho Cucamonga on July 15, 2007, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s […]

Two men are facing murder charges in Indiana, where they are accused of killing another man who was reported missing by his wife more than 44 years ago. Donald Wasserman’s wife told police that Wasserman, who lived in Mishawaka, disappeared after he met with one of the men now accused of killing him, Robert L. […]

A 14-year-old boy was arrested on a murder charge in the death of a missing 14-year-old Kansas girl whose body was found this week behind “a large dirt pile,” police said. The girl was reported missing in Great Bend the evening of Wednesday, April 8, after she was last seen at Holy Family School, a […]

The husband of Lynette Hooker, a Michigan woman who remains missing in the Bahamas, told her daughter in a voicemail message that a flotation device he tossed to his wife had been recovered after she “fell overboard” from a boat. Brian Hooker is in custody in connection with Lynette’s disappearance, Us Weekly previously reported. Karli […]

Authorities have identified a New Jersey man as the suspect in the separate, decades-old cold case murders of a teenage girl and a 24-year-old woman. DNA evidence has revealed Francis T. Schooley murdered Marebeth Welsh in 1993 before killing 16-year-old Jennifer Persia several months later, in 1994, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office announced in a […]

The man accused of fatally stabbing Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee murdered while riding a North Carolina light rail train in 2025, has been found “incapable to proceed” with his pending state murder case. Ahead of her death in August 2025, Zarutska, 23, was working in Charlotte at a pizzeria and had been enrolled in […]

A 22-year-old accused of posing as a teenager and enrolling under a different last name at a Minnesota high school last fall is facing felony charges, Us Weekly has learned. Kelvin M. Luebke, who allegedly walked the halls of White Bear Lake Area High School, was charged on Wednesday, April 8, with two counts of […]

An arrest has been made in the death of 13-year-old Robert Bee, whose skeletal remains were discovered in a rural Illinois area months after he disappeared nearly 10 years ago, according to authorities. Keith A. Brackett, who was known to have spent time with Bee before he went missing, is accused of strangling the boy […]

The husband of a missing American woman has been arrested in connection with her disappearance days after police said he reported she fell off a small boat in the Bahamas and was swept away by currents, according to reports. The Royal Bahamas Police Force announced in a Wednesday, April 8, news release that a 59-year-old […]

A mother and stepfather have been sentenced to prison more than four years after Los Angeles County authorities said the couple tortured their 16-year-old daughter to death over text messages she exchanged with teenage boys. The teen, identified as “Pearlene V,” “collapsed and died” inside a “makeshift bathroom” located inside a trailer where she lived […]

A Texas social media influencer known as Cash Cartier was sentenced to decades in prison after he fatally beat and drugged his girlfriend, according to authorities. Kaleb Mickens’ girlfriend Sheila Cuevas had multiple broken ribs and “puncture wounds” when she died on October 8, 2023, KDFW-TV reported. That day, Mickens — now 34 — called […]

Authorities are searching for a Florida woman who allegedly stole “hundreds of thousands of dollars” from local homeowners’ associations to bankroll her personal expenses, including plastic surgery procedures and “lavish” vacations. The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in a Monday, April 6, news release that deputies aim to arrest Alexandra Delacaridad Gonzalez, a property manager […]

A Los Angeles man stomped on his girlfriend’s baby rabbit, Momo, in a “fit of rage” before he allegedly threw her pet out of their second-story apartment, killing the creature, authorities said. Nikolas Hart, of North Hollywood, is accused of previous physical assaults against his girlfriend before the fatal attack on her 2-month-old rabbit, according […]

A Wisconsin woman is now accused of killing her 6-year-old daughter, whose cause and manner of death were initially listed as “undetermined” after she was found dead in 2022, authorities said. Nearly four years ago, Layla Stahl’s body was found inside her Kenosha bedroom without any “obvious signs of trauma or foul play” on April […]

An Alabama woman was arrested after she allegedly sprayed her two young children in the eyes and mouth with bear spray, authorities said. Christie Lashay Williams of Leeds was arrested on Monday, April 6, on a charge of torture/willful abuse of a child who is a family member following the incident in March, according to […]

The man accused of abducting 7-year-old Athena Strand while delivering a FedEx package to her Texas home in 2022 has pleaded guilty to killing her during the start of his capital murder trial. Tanner Horner, a former FedEx driver, told law enforcement that he strangled Athena after hitting her with his FedEx truck in Wise […]