Montgomery, AL

Columbus, OH

Houston, TX

CBS News

Two men who were seen on surveillance footage with a 12-year-old girl before her body was found in a Houston creek earlier this week were arrested Thursday in her death, police said. One of the suspects tried to jump off a balcony and escape before officers caught him, a neighbor told CBS affiliate KHOU-TV.Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21, and Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, each face a charge of capital murder in the killing of Jocelyn Nungaray, police said. The medical examiner has determined that her cause of death was strangulation.It was unclear if the two suspects had attorneys yet...

Arrests made after 12-year-old Houston girl found dead in creek

Texas State

An American man was executed Wednesday in Texas for the 2001 murder of a woman. Gonzales' attorney had appealed for a stay on his execution to the US Supreme Court, but it was rejected on Wednesday. 

US death row inmate executed in Texas

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Louisiana State

Jackson, MS

Law & Crime

Authorities provided a chilling update in the suspected abductions of two young girls from a home where their mother was "brutally" killed.
The post Abducted 4-year-old found murdered, older sister alive as ‘small animal cages’ discovered at crime scene linked to suspect in mom’s violent death: Sheriff first appeared on Law & Crime.

Abducted 4-year-old found murdered, older sister alive as 'small animal cages' discovered at crime scene linked to suspect in mom's violent death: Sheriff

A suspect in a California gang gun battle that killed six people - including innocent bystanders - has died in jail while awaiting trial. Smiley Martin, 29, was found dead in his cell early on Saturday, his lawyer said. He was one of three men arrested in April 2022 after...

California mass shooting suspect dies in jail

Dennis Jones, an avid runner and photographer, was adored by his children and grandchildren. But in the last few months of his life he withdrew from his family and, having been divorced for years, befriended a woman going by the name Jessie on Facebook. After transferring his savings to Jessie he took his own life. Dennis was one of countless victims of a massive global criminal operation predominantly run by Chinese gangs who have built a multibillion-dollar scam industry in Southeast Asia. There, they’ve assembled an army of scammers, many held against their will in guarded compounds and forced to con people all around the world out of their life savings.

Killed by a scam: A father took his life after losing his savings to international criminal gangs. He’s not the only one

Saint Croix Falls, WI

The Independent

Nearly four decades after a woman in a love triangle was murdered in Wisconsin, an 81-year-old will head to prison for life for the cold-case killing. Mary Josephine Bailey, 81, was convicted on Thursday for the first-degree murder of 45-year-old Yvonne Carol Menke. The victim was shot three times outside her home in St Croix Falls on December 12, 1985. Bailey is set to be sentenced on July 2. The conviction carries a life sentence, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. The octogenarian was charged in November after Polk County Sheriff's deputies worked the cold case for more than two...

An 81-year-old woman nearly got away with a twisted love triangle murder. A footprint did her in 4 decades later

Wisconsin State

The warden of the oldest prison in Wisconsin and eight other prison employees have been arrested following a probe into the deaths of four inmates in the past year. Randall Hepp, warden of the maximum-security Waupun Correctional Institution, was arrested shortly before he was due to appear at a briefing to update reporters about the investigation into the deaths.

US warden arrested after inmate dies of malnutrition

New York Post

A British teacher has told how he spent five months in an “inhumane” prison in Thailand — sharing a cramped cell with 180 criminals.

Jamie Morton, 30, was living in Thailand and teaching English and would get involved in the drug and alcohol scene on the weekends.

In January 2019, Jamie stood on a street corner and claimed he was surrounded by eight people who then took him to IDC detention centre, Thailand.

He said the prison was a “nightmare” and “horrendous” where inmates were only allowed out for one to two hours a day and they would only have running water for a...

I spent five months in a hellish Thai jail — and shared a cell with 180 people: ‘Nightmare’

Sacramento County, CA

NBC News

A suspect who was being held in a California jail on charges connected to a 2022 mass shooting in the state capital died in his cell Saturday, according to police and his attorney. The 29-year-old male inmate died while in custody at the Sacramento County Main Jail around 2:15 a.m.,...

Sacramento mass shooting suspect dies in jail cell, police and attorney say

Alabama State

Morrilton, AR

The "armed and dangerous" suspect accused of four murders -- three in Oklahoma and one in Alabama -- as well as a slew of other crimes, was caught Thursday morning following a nearly two-day manhunt. Stacy Lee Drake, 50, was taken into custody Thursday around 10 a.m., according to the...

Quadruple murder suspect caught in Arkansas after nearly 2-day manhunt: Police

Arizona State

Scottsdale, AZ

USA TODAY

After 30 years, Angela Maher's killer, a woman who never spent a minute in jail, has been found, leaving more questions than answers.

30 years later, a killer is found. But she'll never spend a day in jail.

North Carolina State

A group of unidentified suspects in North Carolina assaulted a family and ransacked their home in a nightmarish incident involving duct tape and hot butter knives.Harnett County Sheriff’s officers responded to the scene around 2am on June 15 in Spout Springs, near  Fayetteville.Five or six male suspects pulled up in a silver Dodge Challenger and entered through an open door in the garage, where the husband, wife, their daughter, and her friend were hanging out. They then forced the victims to move into the house, WRAL reported.The suspects restrained the victims with duct tape before torturing them with kitchenware,...

Family assaulted and tortured with hot butter knives and forks by gang who demanded their money and guns

Huntsville, TX

CBS DFW

A Texas man who admitted that he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and fatally shot the 18-year-old girlfriend of his drug dealer was set to be executed on Wednesday — what would have been the victim's 41st birthday.The remains of Bridget Townsend weren't found until October 2002, nearly two years after she vanished, when Ramiro Gonzales, having received two life sentences for kidnapping and raping another woman, led authorities to the spot in Southwest Texas where he left her body.His execution by lethal injection was planned for Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.Patricia Townsend, the victim's mother, told USA Today...

Texas inmate set to be executed on teen victim's birthday

Oklahoma State

Elk City, OK

Richard Rojem Jr., 66, is set to be executed in Oklahoma four decades after the brutal rape and murder of his 7-year-old former stepdaughter Layla.

Oklahoma man to be executed for the rape and murder of his 7-year-old former stepdaughter

Coffee County, GA

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Daily Coffee Press

The Coffee County Drug Unit, along with deputies from the department, apprehended two individuals last week in separate incidents, one allegedly found in possession of methamphetamine and the other the subject of a prior narcotics investigation who attempted to evade law enforcement.

Coffee Drug Unit Arrests Two in Separate Incidents; Meth Possession and Fleeing Suspect Apprehended

Ashe County, NC

Oxygen

A Christmas tree farm on the borderline of North Carolina and Virginia was known for years for its ties to happy holidays. But on the morning of January 24, 2008, it became the site of a brutal triple homicide. Frederick “Fred” Hudler, 45, his father Ronald “Ron” Hudler, 74, and their employee, John Miller, 25, were dead from gunshots to their heads, reported swvatoday.com.

Three Men Found Dead at Christmas Tree Farm in Apparent Robbery Gone Wrong

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

Yella Clark, 45, an incarcerated Black transgender person, was killed in a fight with other inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La., in April. Clark’s trans identity is just being widely reported now. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The...

Transgender inmate killed in prison fight in Louisiana

Saint Johns County, FL

Hastings, FL

Jacksonville Today

Eight people have been arrested on drug charges stemming from an undercover investigation at a convenience store in Hastings, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

Montgomery Hispanic store burglarized within month of triple murder

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