Winter Haven, FL

Columbus, OH

Toms River, NJ

HuffPost

Authorities believe Maxwell Johnston went on the run after shooting his girlfriend, Gabriella Caroleo, and then killed the owner of the home where he was hiding out.

Detectives Investigating Woman’s Murder Find Another Man’s Remains In Bags

Sanford, FL

A Florida woman’s brutal killing nearly 25 years ago has been solved after authorities arrested the suspect this week, according to the Sanford Police Department.

A Florida woman was killed 24 years ago. DNA evidence just helped police make an arrest in the cold case

Georgia State

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Fitzgerald, GA

Daily Coffee Press

A 30-year-old woman from Fitzgerald has been charged in connection with the death of a four-year-old child. According to officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), agents were contacted on Wednesday, July 24, by the Fitzgerald Police Department to investigate the child's death. The GBI reports that the child was left unsupervised in an apartment and later gained access to a vehicle.

South Georgia Woman Charged with Murder After 4-Year-Old Found Dead in Vehicle

Tampa, FL

New York Post

Terrifying doorbell video has captured the moment a Florida couple was ambushed, shot and robbed just outside their home after hitting a slot machine jackpot at a casino. 

Kim Chambliss and her boyfriend Val Delacruz were targeted by two masked assailants soon after they cashed their $3,300 winnings at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa on Aug. 2, Fox 13 reported. 

The two alleged perps — later identified as Marcus Jenkins, 34, and Tristin Wright, 36 — had watched the couple gamble and play the slots for roughly two hours before tailing them home just before 5 a.m.,...

Wild doorbell camera footage captures Florida couple being ambushed, shot and robbed after winning casino jackpot

Dover, OH

Fox News

A missing 12-year-old Georgia girl last seen in May was found safe in Ohio and a suspect, identified as Antonio Agustin, has been arrested.

Georgia girl, 12, missing since May, found safe in Ohio; suspect arrested

Bay County, FL

RadarOnline

A Florida woman has been arrested for the “gruesome” stabbing death of her elderly mother, RadarOnline.com can reveal.On July 24, deputies were alerted to a woman “appearing to be in distress” walking along US 231, Front Page Detectives reported.A deputy made contact with 37-year-old Tiffany Braddock, who reportedly “began making statements to him that she had killed her mother at their shared home,” officials said.A welfare check was conducted at the mother and daughter's shared home and deputies found the victim, 73-year-old Elizabeth Braddock, dead “with signs of foul play.”In a statement to WJHG, Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford said...

Florida Woman Admits to 'Gruesome' Stabbing Death of Elderly Mother for ‘Using Curses on Her’: Cops

Los Angeles, CA

The Mirror US

General Hospital actor Johnny Wactor was shot and killed in a robbery gone wrong in downtown Los Angeles back in May and the suspects involved remain at large

Cops ask for help as they release photos of General Hospital star Johnny Wactor murder suspects

Jacksonville, FL

NBC News

Florida authorities this week announced the arrests of four suspects in the slaying last month of the rapper Foolio, all of them charged with murder, and say one suspect is still at large. The slaying was fueled by an ongoing feud between rival gangs, Tampa police said in a statement...

4 suspects arrested in killing of Florida rapper Foolio, a slaying police blame on gang rivalry

Buena Park, CA

NewSantaAna

How depraved and brazen would you have to be to stick your cell phone under the door of a changing room at a store to get a picture of a woman trying on clothes? Well, that happened in Buena Park on July 19, at 10:40 a.m.

Man recorded a woman who was in a Buena Park Target dressing room

Ocala, FL

A white woman with a history of harassing children and using racial slurs was convicted of manslaughter on Friday in the fatal shooting of a Black neighbor last year in Ocala, Florida. Susan Louise Lorincz, 60, killed Ajike “AJ” Owens with a single shot from a .380-caliber handgun as Owens...

Susan Lorincz, white Florida woman who fatally shot Black neighbor, found guilty of manslaughter

A newly released arrest warrant details disturbing allegations related to the killing of a man at a New Jersey home allegedly used to harbor a suspect in another murder.

Woman Was Allegedly Photographed While Dismembering Murder Victim’s Body

New Jersey State

Hollywood, FL

The Independent

 A mother in South Florida was charged with child neglect after she was accused of leaving her four-year-old daughter in a hot car while she shopped at a Walmart, according to the Hollywood Police Department. Her charges have since been dropped.Anastasiya Motalava, 34, allegedly left her child in a hot car on Sunday. At the same time, she spent more than a half-an-hour inside a nearby Walmart, police said, citing security video taken inside the retailer. Hollywood Fire Rescue reached the child first and broke into the car to remove the child just before 3.15pm.  Local police said...

Screaming child rescued from hot car in South Florida as mom shopped at Walmart

Orlando, FL

Skai Jackson Arrested For Domestic Battery After Incident w/ Her Boyfriend, Allegedly Told Police She Is Engaged & Pregnant. Child star Skai Jackson has been arrested after an altercation with her boyfriend. Per reports, local authorities were called after security saw her and her boyfriend allegedly getting into a fight...

Skai Jackson Arrested For Domestic Battery After Incident w/ Her Boyfriend, Allegedly Told Police She Is Engaged & Pregnant

Lake County, FL

Groveland, FL

A White woman who falsely accused four Black men of rape in the Jim Crow-era South in 1949 has died at the age of 92.

White woman who wrongfully accused ‘Groveland Four’ of rape in Jim Crow-era South dies at 92

Mississippi State

Port Gibson, MS

ABC News

Two men escaped from a Mississippi jail in early July. ABC News has since learned that the escape was not recorded and that the jail was experiencing camera issues.

Mississippi jail where murder suspects escaped had surveillance camera issues

Hernando County, FL

 Florida police say they have solved the cold case of an unidentified woman found dead in woods five decades ago.On July 19, 1972, the previously unidentified woman was found slain near the highway in Hernando County, Florida, wrapped in a hotel-style twin-size blanket. Police had no clear leads and were unable to identify the body, let alone who might’ve killed her. Fifty-two years later, things have changed. Florida police announced Thursday they had solved the murder of Peggy Joyce Shelton, who they say was killed by her ex-husband Jerry Lee Fletcher, a man responsible for a string of killings...

Her body was abandoned in the woods 52 years ago. Cops say a potential serial killer was behind it

Arizona State

Phoenix, AZ

InsideEdition

"She was living in fear," private investigator Steve Fischer said of Doris Aguilar. Family members in Honduras told Fischer that Aguilar would often speak about her stalker, and even share her fears that the man might do something drastic.

Terrified Arizona Woman Who Spent Year Trying to Escape Stalker Found Dead in Car With Him, PI Says

Milwaukee, WI

 Prosecutors in Milwaukee have charged four hotel workers with being a party to D'Vontaye Mitchell's murder after scouring video showing them piling on top of the Black man in an incident Mitchell's family says is disturbingly similar to George Floyd's death.Mitchell's family spent weeks pressuring prosecutors to charge the hotel workers in the June 30 death. District Attorney John Chisholm finally filed a count of being a party to felony murder against each of them on Tuesday.Here's what to know about Mitchell's death and the Hyatt workers, who now face sentences of up to nearly 16 years in prison...

Former Milwaukee hotel workers charged with murder after video shows them holding down Black man

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Douglas, GA

Last week, a 32-year-old was arrested on trafficking charges after allegedly fleeing from a traffic stop and abandoning the vehicle with a child in the passenger seat. The chase resulted in the discovery of 230 grams of methamphetamine, which the suspect allegedly threw out while fleeing on foot. According to local detectives, the vehicle the suspect was driving was registered to NFL football player Tyreek Hill.

Man Driving Vehicle Registered to Tyreek Hill Arrested on Drug Trafficking Charges in Douglas

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Homeland, FL

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Winter Haven detectives make arrest in deadly stabbing of 26-year-old woman in July

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Winter Haven detectives make arrest in deadly stabbing of 26-year-old woman in July

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