JoAnn Cunningham has pleaded guilty to the murder of her 5-year-old son, AJ Freund, months after his body was found in a shallow grave in suburban Chicago. Cunningham, 36, made the plea Thursday at the McHenry County courthouse in Woodstock, McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick D. Kenneally said in a statement. She faces 20 to 60 […]
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A homicide investigation was underway Thursday into the killing of a woman at her Lake Elsinore home. The victim, whose name and age were not immediately released, was fatally assaulted about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in her house on Monroe Street, near Garfield Street, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Sgt. Ken Thurm said deputies […]
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An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department is under investigation after his body camera allegedly caught him fondling the body of a dead woman. The officer and his partner were responding to a call about a possible dead body in a residential unit, sources told the Los Angeles Times, which first reported the incident. […]
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The remains of Taylor Rose Williams, the 5-year-old Florida girl who was reported missing earlier this month, were positively identified Monday, according to T.K. Waters, chief of investigations with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Taylor was reported missing by her mother November 6. Human remains were then found in Demopolis, Alabama, two weeks ago and a […]
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A search and rescue team recovered a body Thursday below Angels Landing, a 1,488-foot tall rock tower in Utah’s Zion National Park. The body is consistent with the age and gender of a hiker who was reported missing Wednesday, the National Park Service (NPS) said in a news release. The hiker is believed to be […]
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A San Diego man who’s accused, along with an Indio woman, in the killing of a Victorville resident whose body was dumped on a Coachella roadside opted for a lawyer Monday after several months of representing himself. Alexis Daniel Rosas’ decision to seek legal counsel resulted in the postponement of a scheduled preliminary hearing for […]
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As public works crews cleaned up a rural Southern California area after the Tick Fire, they noticed something strange sticking out from the ashes. It was a human skull. By late Sunday, the Tick Fire had burned through about 4,615 acres and was 70% contained. Investigators were called to a stretch of Sand Canyon Road […]
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The man who confessed to police that he had a dead body in his vehicle and had killed three other people at his home was identified by police as Shankar Hangud, a 53-year-old from Roseville, California. Roseville Police Capt. Josh Simon said Hangud drove to Mt. Shasta Police Department on Monday with the body of an adult […]
