Stepmom Who Starved Stepson To Death,Forced Him To Drink Urine, Sanitizer and Hot Sauce, Sentenced
A Bexar County jury sentenced Miranda Casarez to 25 years in prison on Thursday for the starvation death of her stepson. The jury deliberated for more than four hours before returning the sentence for starving four-year-old Benjamin Cervera to death. Benjamin had been forced to drink urine, hand sanitizer and hot sauce and was found weighing 28 pounds and his body was covered in bruises when at his time of death.
Read full storyBrazilian Woman Takes The Corpse of Relative to The Bank to 'Co-Sign' a $3,250 Loan Contract
Police in Brazil say a woman took the corpse of an elderly man in a wheelchair to fraudulently complete a loan approval process to recieve a loan in the amount of R$17,000 ($3,250). The loan had been already approved in her name at the Itaú bank branch in Bangu, in the West Zone, however she needed her uncle's signature for the co-sign.
Read full storyAmber Alert For 13-Year-old Who Abducted 5-Year-old In SUV Is Canceled; Children Found Safe
The search is over for a 5-year-old boy believed to have been abducted out of Montgomery by his 13-year-old sister. The SUV they were in was found in Selma, and the children were found safe nearby, Around 10 a.m. Tuesday, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the Montgomery Police Department issued an Emergency Missing Child Alert for two Montgomery children, Kaiden Perryman,5, and Janayizha Gunn,13.
Read full storyAC Mayor, Wife Charged With Abusing 16-Year-Old Daughter, Abuse Recorded on Video Call: Affidavit
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small, 50, and his wife, Atlantic City’s superintendent of schools, La’Quetta Small, 47, disapproved of their teenage daughter’s boyfriend, who secretly recorded an incident of him allegedly physically and verbally assaulting the girl, “on multiple occasions” in December and January, over a video chat, according to an affidavit filed by prosecutors.
Read full storyMontgomery: Emergency Amber Alert Declared For 5 -Year-Old Abducted By 13-Year-Old Driving SUV
An amber alert has been issued for two children from Montgomery. A release from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency identified the two children as 5-year-old Kaiden Tymari Perryman and 13-year-old Janayizha Qynterrica Gunn.
Read full storyMissing Juvenile: 15-Year-Old Amy Ruiz Missing From Brooklyn, New York
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The NYPD is searching for a missing 15-year-old girl from East New York. Amy Ruiz, was last seen on April 12 at about 1 p.m., in the vicinity of Utica Avenue and Fulton Street, police said.
Read full storyTime is Running Out To Apply For A Share of Verizon's $100 Million Settlement, Here's How
Monday is the last day for some Verizon customers to apply for a refund as part of a $100 million settlement from a class-action lawsuit. Earlier this year, the wireless carrier sent an email or postcard to eligible customers alerting them to file a claim by April 15 to receive up to $100, which is the result of the lawsuit accusing Verizon of charging fees that were “unfair and not adequately disclosed.”
Read full storyMan Charged With Murder and Mutilation of a Corpse After Killing a Woman Following Their First Date
A first date turned deadly when a man allegedly killed a woman and proceeded to dismember her body and dump the parts in Lake Michigan. Prosecutors in Milwaukee County on Friday charged 33-year-old Maxwell Anderson with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse, and arson of property other than building. He’s accused of killing 19-year-old Sade Carleen Robinson, dismembering her body and later torching her car to hide evidence, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said.
Read full storyAnesthesiologist Convicted of Poisoning Patients' IV Bags, Linked to Death and Cardiac Emergencies
A Dallas anesthesiologist who prosecutors said was facing the possible loss of his medical license and who owed millions to the IRS, was convicted today for injecting dangerous drugs into patient IV bags, leading to one death and numerous cardiac emergencies, the Justice Department announced.
Read full storyFreezer Full of Roommate’s Body Parts Leads to Brooklyn Man's Arrest
Cops have arrested a man they say killed his 40-year-old roommate and then cut the victim up and stuffed his decapitated head and other body parts in a freezer in his Brooklyn apartment, cops said Friday.
Read full storyFather Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter After Toddler Shoots Himself Dead
An eastern Pennsylvania man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 3-year-old boy who authorities say shot himself with a handgun left unattended last month.
Read full storyHusband Fatally Stabs Wife After Finding Out She Had A Boyfriend, Kids Witness The Gruesome Act
A migrant in Illinois who was in the country illegally stabbed his wife to death, nearly decapitating her in front of one of their daughters, according to authorities. Baltazar Perez-Estrada, 33, turned himself into the Carol Stream Police Department on Monday around 11:30am and confessed that he ‘allegedly stabbed his wife,’ Maricela Simon Franco, 26, according to court records.
Read full storyPre-Med Student Who Killed His Mother States,'Wanted to Kill Her For Years, She Got On My Nerves'
Emmanuel Espinoza, 21, committed an “inexplicable, vicious murder” by killing beloved elementary school teacher, Elvia Espinoza, 46, said Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Florida.
Read full storyMan Indicted A Year Later For Horrific Murder of High School Grad Found Burned Beyond Recognition
Nearly a year after the murder, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office indicted a man for the killing and dismemberment of an 18-year-old man found dead deep in the desert in an area known as “The Pit.”
Read full storyDad Accused of Setting Car on Fire, Killing Toddler Daughters in Domestic Dispute
A family squabble spiraled into a double murder when a Georgia father set his car on fire with his children locked inside. A 36-year-old Georgia father is accused of killing his two young daughters by locking the 1-year-old and 3-year-old in his car and setting it on fire during an argument with his wife.
Read full storyWoman Released From Psych Ward Kills Mom With Cooking Pot, Says Voices Told Her 'Mom is Dangerous'
A woman in New York City has admitted to using a cooking pot to kill her mother at their Bronx apartment, police said. Skydajah Patterson, 26, had recently been released from a mental health treatment facility when she allegedly bludgeoned 46-year-old Selma Mclean inside their apartment in NYCHA’s President Adams Houses in the Bronx on Monday at 3:40 a.m., cops and sources said.
Read full storyMan Who Killed a Mom and Left Her Baby in Hot Car to Die, After Couple Took Him In, Finally Arrested
The monster who killed a mom, 20, and left her one-year-old daughter to die in a hot car has finally been arrested after two years on the run. Doujon Griffith, 23, was arrested in Linden, New Jersey on Friday after cops pulled him over for a traffic stop and realized he had two outstanding warrants for first degree murder.
Read full storyMan Arrested For Stealing and Tasting Amputated Leg From Victim of Fatal Train Accident: Video
A man was arrested on Friday after appearing to carry and eat a body part from someone who was killed by a train in the state of California. This incident happened in Kern County’s Wasco area in the San Joaquin Valley. In an unsettling video circulated on social media, a man, later identified as 27-year-old Resendo Tellez. Video posted online captured a man walking around with a severed leg prior to being caught by authorities.
Read full storyAutistic Toddler Murdered By Babysitter's Brutal Assault
Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged Iesha Harris, 30, of Southfield, in connection with the death of a three-year-old girl. Defendant Harris is a friend of the child’s mother who was babysitting the child at the time of her death.
Read full storyHorror Unleashed: Mother and Boyfriend Brutally Beat 5-Year-Old to Death, Then Go Shopping
A 28-year-old mother from New York and her boyfriend, also 28, are facing decades behind bars after being convicted of killing the woman’s 5-year-old son, brutally beating the child with several different weapons and then leaving him to suffer for days without medical help before he eventually died.
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