A 78-year-old woman with two past bank robbery convictions faces new charges after authorities allege she handed a teller a note that said “I didn’t mean to scare you” during a recent Missouri heist. Bonnie Gooch is jailed on $25,000 bond after she was charged with one count of stealing …
Read More »A woman with a scorpion tattoo has been identified 32 years after her murder. Authorities are now looking for her daughter and her killer.
More than three decades after a woman with a distinctive scorpion tattoo was found dead in New York City, investigators have identified the victim — and they are now trying to track down her daughter and her killer. Authorities on Tuesday identified the victim as Christine Belusko of Morris County, New …
Read More »Mississippi man sentenced to prison for cross burning
A Mississippi man was sentenced to 42 months in prison for intimidating his Black neighbors by burning a cross in their front yard, according to the Department of Justice. Axel Cox, 24, was sentenced on Thursday, after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime and violating the Fair Housing Act …
Read More »Herman Lee Hobbs arrested over 40 years after Holly Ann Campiglia found dead in California cornfield
A man already serving life sentences for rape and child murder has now been arrested on suspicion of killing a woman who was found dead in a California cornfield more than 40 years ago, authorities announced. DNA evidence linked Herman Lee Hobbs to the August 1980 death of 21-year-old Holly …
Read More »Nine minors injured in Georgia gas station shooting, police said
Nine children and teenagers were shot and injured in a shooting in Columbus, Georgia on Friday night. Police were called to a Shell Gas Station on Warm Springs Road shortly after 10:00 p.m. local time. According to a statement from the police department, officers found “several gunshot victims and a …
Read More »Jurors see surveillance video of rapper XXXTentacion’s murder
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. –– Jurors witnessed for the first time Wednesday the gripping surveillance video that captured the murder of local rap star XXXTentacion, who was shot and killed outside a Broward County motorbike shop, CBS Miami reported. Prosecutors showed the silent, graphic video from June 18, 2018 documenting the …
Read More »“Dancing With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse slated to face judge on charges of sexually abusing Indigenous girls
A former “Dances With Wolves” actor accused of sexually abusing Indigenous girls and leading a cult must remain held without bail until his next court hearing, a judge ordered Thursday morning. Nathan Chasing Horse, 46, faces charges of sex trafficking, sexual assault against a child younger than 16, and child abuse. He …
Read More »Louisiana “routinely” keeps inmates in custody past release dates, Justice Department finds
Louisiana’s longstanding practice of detaining incarcerated people past their scheduled release dates is unconstitutional, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. In a news release summarizing the findings of an investigation that uncovered a pattern of “systemic overdetention” in Louisiana prisons dating back at least a decade, the federal agency …
Read More »Jared Dicus accused of killing wife Anggy Diaz in Texas decapitation
A 21-year-old Texas man remained jailed Friday after authorities accused him of killing and decapitating his wife. Jared Dicus has been charged with murder in the death of 21-year-old Anggy Diaz. Dicus is being held on a $500,000 bond. Waller County Sheriff Troy Guidry said authorities found Diaz’s body Wednesday …
Read More »5 children among 8 dead in Utah murder
A Utah man fatally shot his five children, his mother-in-law and his wife, then killed himself two weeks after the woman had filed for divorce, according to authorities and public records. Enoch Police Chief Jackson Ames said during a Thursday press conference that officers had been involved in investigations involving …
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