WSOC(GASTONIA, N.C.) — A body believed to be missing boy Maddox Ritch was found on Thursday, days after the 6-year-old vanished in broad daylight in a North Carolina park, city officials and the FBI said. Maddox, who has autism and does not talk, was at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia […]
Enfield Police Department NC(ENFIELD, N.C.) — A woman in North Carolina allegedly concealed her mother’s dead body for months in their home so she could “see the stages of death,” police said. The case began when Donna Sue Hudgins, 69, went to a funeral home to make arrangements for her […]
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Alison Turkos was 16 when she said she was raped at a friend’s graduation party. A 19-year-old man entered the room where she was sleeping, got on top of her and put his hand over her mouth. It was her first sexual experience. When she came downstairs […]
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — New crime data released by the FBI show violent crime went down in 2017, bucking a two-year upward trend. Overall, there were nearly 300,000 fewer violent crimes in 2017 than the year before, a drop of 0.2 percent, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Murders were […]
Simsbury Police Department(SIMSBURY, Conn.) — Authorities released a gut-wrenching video on Wednesday that shows a Connecticut man entering a police department lobby and confessing to a brutal murder. William Leverett was accompanied by three members of his church last week when he turned himself over to police in Northern Connecticut […]
WFAA(DALLAS) — When Dallas firefighters arrived on the scene of a dispute in a home near Fairpark on Sunday night, there were residents outside yelling that there had been a shooting involving two victims, according to the Dallas Fire-Rescue Department. One of the victims died later that night. A dozen […]
Melissa Swailes(LOS ANGELES) — It was a big day at David and Melissa Swailes’ home on Feb. 26, 2016. It was their youngest son’s second birthday. “We had planned, as a family to go to Disneyland,” said Melissa Swailes. But when she arrived home that day, Melissa found David dead […]
Volusia County Sheriff’s Office(DELAND, Fla.) — A would-be burglar who recently tried to rob a Florida convenience store got stuck on the roof instead, according to authorities. The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office released body camera footage of the incident, which shows the shirtless man stranded on the roof of the […]
Georgetown Preparatory School(WASHINGTON) — One was on the varsity basketball and football teams and wrote for the school newspaper. The other was two years younger and was elected as the student body president and also a member of the debate and international relations clubs. These two former high school students, […]
WCVB-TV(NANTUCKET, Mass.) — A fishing boat captain told members of the U.S. Coast Guard that a crew member went “crazy” when he allegedly stabbed multiple people on board, a mayday call for help reveals. The call, released by the Coast Guard, begins as the Virginia-based fishing vessel, the “Captain Billy […]
