Katherine Schaffstall

Michael Patrick Gallagher, who worked as the medical director for Luxe Medspa in Wortham, Texas, has been charged with murder after client Jenifer Cleveland died while allegedly receiving an “IV cocktail” from the medspa’s owner, Amber Johnson. Gallagher was arrested and charged with a single count of murder, manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, as well […]

A former Christian missionary and convicted sex offender has learned his fate after he pleaded guilty to abusing boys in Texas. Daniel Savala appeared in court in Waco, Texas, by video from jail on Thursday, May 7, three years after he was arrested in 2023. After he pleaded guilty to a charge of continuous trafficking […]

Jeni Haynes spent decades waiting for someone to believe her. After 14 years of horrific abuse at the hands of her father, Richard Haynes, and a mind that fractured into thousands of alternate personalities just to survive it, she finally got her day in court — and made legal history doing it. While Jeni opened […]

Two days after it was revealed that police obtained a search warrant linked to Kristin Smart’s 1996 disappearance and murder, authorities revealed that they may have found human remains on the property that belongs to her killer Paul Flores’ mother, Susan Flores. “We believe that … human remains were there at one time or still […]

A Kentucky woman has been arrested and charged with child abuse after she allegedly gave her 22-month-old son a tattoo. Kentucky State Police troopers arrested Brook McDaniel on Monday, May 4, after officials received a child abuse complaint about her, according to LEX 18 and WNKY. Troopers from Post 15 were called to a home […]

A Colorado man will be spending the rest of his life in prison after he broke into a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs professor’s home when she was getting ready for bed and fatally stabbed her five times. Ceasar Wilson was sentenced to serve 224 years in prison on Wednesday, May 6, for killing […]

A California-based nanny has been arrested after she allegedly abused an infant in her care. Authorities were notified about a suspected child abuse case reported at a Los Angeles hospital on April 7. An investigation was launched into the matter and authorities learned that the infant, who was admitted to the hospital, had been physically […]

A California man has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped a teenager, fed him Adderall, forced the child to sell clothes online and abandoned him on the side of a freeway. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced in a press release that Brandon Holguin has been charged with one count each of child […]

A woman has been arrested after she allegedly posed as a teenager in order to enroll as a student at a New York City high school. Authorities said that Kacy Claassen has been accused of enrolling at Westchester Square Academy in the Bronx with a fake name and birthday, claiming she was a 16-year-old, according […]

A former substitute teacher in North Carolina has learned her fate after she took a plea deal regarding her sex crime charge that involved a child. After Katelyn Dawn Schronce pleaded guilty to taking indecent liberties with a child in Superior Court, she was sentenced to serve between 20 to 33 months in prison, according […]

After years of not being believed, Jeni Haynes opened up like never before about her father Richard Haynes’ years of abuse in Investigation Discovery’s documentary We Are Jeni. From experiencing the abuse, creating thousands of alternate personalities and finally getting justice, Us Weekly breaks down the biggest bombshells revealed in ID’s We Are Jeni: Jeni […]

A North Carolina man has been arrested after he allegedly tortured his girlfriend for months before he stabbed her to death. Thomaz Hamilton is accused of first-degree murder and first-degree forcible rape in connection to the death of Isabella Mary Alexandria Stroupe, according to an arrest report viewed by Us Weekly. The investigation began around […]

Nearly 30 years after Kristin Smart disappeared, the search for her body has continued after police issued a new search warrant in connection to her 1996 disappearance. Smart, 19, vanished from California Polytechnic State University, where she had just finished her freshman year, after she attended an off-campus party on May 25, 1996. Paul Flores […]

The abuse Jeni Haynes experienced at the hands of her father, Richard Haynes, will be discussed in Investigation Discovery’s documentary We Are Jeni. Despite acknowledging the years of torment and torture Jeni went through in the project, Richard himself does not appear in the documentary. Ahead of the premiere of We Are Jeni on May […]

A Florida daycare worker has been arrested after she allegedly abused an infant several times, causing the child to suffer a brain bleed. Alyssa Thompson has been charged with one count of aggravated child abuse. Thompson, 30, was arrested on Monday, May 4, following several incidents that took place on different days in April at […]

A Medspa owner in Texas has been charged with murder after she allegedly killed a client by administering an “IV cocktail” too quickly. Jenifer Cleveland died just hours after she visited Amber Johnson‘s Luxe Medspa in Wortham, Texas, on July 10, 2023. While at the medspa, Cleveland, 47, allegedly received an IV infusion that included […]

Jeni Haynes stood up for herself by taking legal action against her father, Richard Haynes, after she accused him of severe emotional, physical and sexual abuse during her childhood. Jeni, who has dissociative identity disorder, made international headlines after she was allowed to testify against Richard with her “alters,” or other multiple personalities, in Australian […]

A former elementary teacher at the Madison County Central School in Madison County, Florida, has been arrested after she was allegedly involved in a physical altercation with a 6-year-old student. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office said in a release shared via Facebook on Tuesday, May 5, that Ashley Morris was taken into custody after a […]

Texas woman Nicole “Nikki” Winder has been missing since February 25, 2026, and the case has only grown more complex in the months since — with an arson investigation, the arrest of her brother on an unrelated charge and now a public rift between branches of her family. Here’s a breakdown of everything that has […]

An Ohio woman has been arrested after a dead teenager was found inside a bedroom in her home, which was allegedly there for one month before police discovered the body during a welfare check. LaRonda Anne Mitchell was arrested and taken into custody on Tuesday, May 5. She was charged with one count each of […]

A man has been arrested after he allegedly kidnapped and killed a woman in Kentucky before he stored her body in his trailer and dumped it on the side of a road. Ryan Crawley has been accused of killing April Arnett in 2019. His trial is scheduled to begin on May 17, 2027, and will […]