The relatives who had been raising the infant said they returned her to her mother hours before she was found in a trash bin. LOS ANGELES, Ca. — For most of her four months, the baby known to her family as Luna was cared for by Herman Johnson and Laura Lacy. On Sept. 28, they … Read more
Police records trace a confrontation from an outdoor disagreement to a fatal indoor shooting and a first-degree murder prosecution. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The confrontation began outside a home with an argument about a grill near a motorcycle, according to police records. It moved indoors, continued through a series of messages to a woman away from … Read more
Prosecutors and the defense have offered sharply different fragments of the story, while authorities have yet to publicly identify a motive. FRESNO, Calif. — A murder case arising from the fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old man inside his family’s Selma-area home is beginning to turn on competing accounts of what happened between two brothers during … Read more
The case moved through a preliminary hearing and competency proceedings before Brianna Rich admitted murdering her mother and received 35 years. LONDON, Ky. — A murder case that spent more than a year moving through evidence hearings and competency proceedings ended with a 35-year prison sentence for Brianna Rich after she pleaded guilty to killing … Read more
The 20-year-old was sentenced for attempted first-degree assault after originally facing an attempted murder charge tied to a 2025 confrontation. MAPLE VALLEY, Wash. — A criminal case that began with an attempted first-degree murder charge against a teenager accused of approaching her ex-boyfriend’s home with a shotgun ended on a different offense, with Trinity Morley … Read more
Kirwin Hinds was remembered as a devoted husband, father and brother after a routine work assignment ended in his fatal shooting. DECATUR, Ga. — Kirwin Hinds’ sister remembered the parking services worker as the older brother who taught siblings to ride bicycles and swim, the father who joined his daughters for tea parties and the … Read more
A Conway caregiver’s arrest centers on a property transaction completed under existing deed rules while lawmakers consider a new title-theft felony. CONWAY, S.C. — A deed transferring a 75-year-old man’s home to his caregiver for a stated $5 has become evidence in a criminal case and a separate civil dispute, highlighting the difference between recording … Read more
Jacob Bailey and Renee Carpenter ultimately pleaded guilty after investigators compared their statements with extensive evidence of injuries to Robert Sikes. VINITA, Okla. — The stories Jacob Bailey and Renee Carpenter gave investigators did not remain the same after their roommate Robert Sikes died, according to an arrest affidavit, but the case eventually ended with … Read more
Mental-health proceedings, attorney changes and repeated delays preceded Heather O’Neill’s negotiated resolution of a case once charged as attempted homicide. MERRILL, Wis. — What began in June 2023 as an attempted homicide prosecution against a Wisconsin mother took more than three years to reach its final form, passing through bond disputes, a mental-illness plea, forensic … Read more
Prosecutors allege three deaths formed a connected course of conduct, while a second charge concerns a young child present in the home. WICHITA, Kan. — The prosecution of a 21-year-old Wichita man accused of killing his parents and sister has moved beyond the initial homicide investigation into a capital murder case, placing the allegations under … Read more