A controversial state of emergency in Belize to crack down on a surge of gang-related murders and other violent crimes has led to the arrest of nearly a hundred people. The order, announced on Tuesday, gives police the power to search homes without a warrant and detain suspects for up to 90 days. Originally implemented […]
The man accused of killing seven people at a 2022 Independence Day parade in Chicago has rejected a deal requiring him to plead guilty to seven charges of murder in a stunning courtroom scene just days before the second anniversary of the attack. Appearing in a Lake County courtroom, Robert E Crimo III, 23, refused […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Nearly three decades after two young women were found with their throats slashed in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park, federal authorities announced Thursday that they have identified a now-deceased serial rapist from Ohio as the person they believe was responsible for the killings. The bodies of Julianne “Julie” Williams, 24, and her […]
MORRILTON, Ark. – Authorities said the man arrested after a three-day manhunt in Morrilton will go before a judge on Friday. Authorities said 50-year-old Stacy Lee Drake is expected in the Conway County Courthouse Friday at 9 a.m. A judge will likely decide on extradition to Alabama or Oklahoma. Morrilton manhunt suspect Stacy Drake’s criminal […]
MORRILTON, Ark. – The search for the armed suspect tied to multiple killings in Oklahoma is over as Conway County Sheriff’s Department confirms he was taken into custody. Officials said that 50-year-old Stacy Lee Drake of Alabama was taken into custody Thursday morning. Arkansas State Police say armed fugitive sought in Oklahoma killings still in […]
A man wanted in connection to three slayings in Oklahoma and Alabama was arrested in Arkansas on Thursday morning, authorities said. Stacy Lee Drake, 50, “was located and arrested this morning in Arkansas by the Morrilton Police Department and Arkansas State Police,” according to a statement by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Stacy Lee […]
Police allege that Alisha Gardner, Harvel Breland and 2-year-old Asiyra Cole were killed by two South Carolina men GoFundMe Asiyra Cole, left, with her mother, Kaylee Pak Two men have been charged in connection with a May shooting that left a 2-year-old, her grandmother and another man dead in South Carolina. Early on the morning […]
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – Both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the early stages of the Gaza war, a U.N. inquiry found on Wednesday, saying that Israel’s actions also constituted crimes against humanity because of the immense civilian losses. The findings were from two parallel reports, one focusing on the Oct. 7 […]
One of four original suspects in the 2016 Pike County massacre case is appealing his conviction for the crimes. George Wagner IV claims there were nine errors in his fall 2022 trial, where a jury found him guilty on 22 counts related to the shooting deaths of seven members of Pike County’s Rhoden family and […]
A fourth person who was injured in a brutal beating in Linn County last week has died. Brent Anthony Brown, 34, of Marion, died Friday, according to a news release from the Linn County Sheriff’s Office. He had been flown to a hospital with life-threatening injuries on Wednesday after Luke Truesdell, 34, of Marion, allegedly […]
In 2010, the search for Shannan Gilbert, a 24-year-old aspiring actress from New Jersey, led authorities to the remains of 10 other people along Long Island’s Gilgo Beach. Almost 13 years later, police arrested architect Rex Heuermann, 59 at the time of his apprehension, in three of the deaths: Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber […]
The New York architect accused of murdering multiple women and leaving their corpses scattered along the Long Island coast kept a “blueprint” of his crimes on his computer, prosecutors revealed Thursday as they brought charges against Rex Heuermann in two more killings. Heuermann, 60, appeared before a judge to be arraigned in the deaths of […]