BIBB COUNTY, ALABAMA — A 57-year-old Alabama man has been indicted on capital murder-for-hire charges after prosecutors say he helped kill a man, burn his body along with his pickup truck, and bury both together in a massive hole dug with a backhoe. John Wesley Collum, accused of killing 36-year-old Oscar De Santiago Soto for…
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — A 52-year-old Texas man is behind bars after police say he barricaded himself inside his home for hours and threatened to dismember his roommate and “feed him to the cat” during an explosive confrontation sparked by accidentally released pets. Bobby Rocha surrendered to police Sunday following a seven-hour standoff at his…
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS — A Texas man is facing serious charges after police say he spent Thanksgiving Day calling a law-enforcement tip line and threatening to carry out a mass shooting at the San Antonio River Walk and a San Antonio Spurs NBA game. 31-year-old Christopher Stowe is accused of making terroristic threats after a…
WACO, TEXAS — A 52-year-old Texas man is facing three felony counts after police say he whipped, beat, and violently threatened his young grandchildren — including smashing a child’s hand onto a table and tackling another — during a pattern of escalating abuse inside the family home. Cody Wayne Ainsworth was arrested on three counts…
CULLMAN COUNTY, ALABAMA — A 74-year-old Alabama attorney is facing attempted murder, elder abuse, and domestic violence charges after prosecutors say she tried to kill her husband three different times in September by putting fentanyl into his food and drinks — and even plotted the attacks with at least one other person. Authorities say one…
SALT LAKE COUNTY, UTAH — A Utah man is facing automobile homicide charges after police say he drove the wrong way on Interstate 15 while drunk, crashing head-on into a car carrying a teen couple whose vehicle became fully engulfed in flames. Both victims — 18-year-old Leo Shepherd and 17-year-old Anneka Wilson — were pronounced…
PORT WENTWORTH, GEORGIA — A Georgia man faces life in prison after a jury convicted him of shooting his ex-girlfriend nearly a dozen times — pausing to reload his weapon and continuing to fire into her lifeless body while their 5-month-old child watched, according to prosecutors. Shawn Bolden Jr. was found guilty of malice murder,…
GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA — An 18-year-old Florida woman has been arrested after police say she dragged two women to the ground by their hair during a violent bathroom fight at a college bar, then punched a female employee who attempted to escort her out of the building. Sierra Halton Lindberg faces three assault charges after two…
INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI — A Missouri man accused of setting a house on fire while four people were inside — and then allegedly laughing as he watched it burn — has been arrested and charged with arson, according to authorities. 35-year-old Tylor A. Burghoff was taken into custody on Nov. 20 after firefighters and police responded…
TAMARAC, FLORIDA — A New York woman who traveled more than 1,000 miles to confront her ex-boyfriend’s new partner — and then brutally stabbed her dozens of times — will spend the rest of her life in prison. Sakiyna Thompson, 31, was sentenced to life bzehind bars on Monday after a Broward County jury convicted…