(CNN) — A young girl, known only as Fátima, was last seen being picked up from school by an unidentified woman in Mexico City on February 11. The next day, the 7-year-old girl was reported missing. She was later found dead, her body inside a plastic bag. The news of the killing was shocking, and […]
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A 17-year-old girl with a small social media following in upstate New York was killed by a man she’d met recently on Instagram, who then posted photos of her corpse online, police said Monday. The gory pictures were redistributed widely, including by online posters who made light of or celebrated the teen’s death. Others urged people […]
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A Massachusetts teenager who killed and beheaded his high school classmate in 2016 was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 30 years. Mathew Borges, 18, was convicted in May on a charge of first-degree murder with premeditation and extreme atrocity/cruelty. He will be eligible for parole because he was just 15 […]
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A Lennox man who bashed his nursing instructor’s skull in with a hammer in 2016 was convicted of first-degree murder Monday. A defense attorney for Jackie Jerome Rogers, 35, admitted during his opening statement that his client killed 36-year-old Lisa Marie Naegle on Dec. 18, 2016, but told jurors that it was a crime committed […]
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Warning: This article contains details that may be upsetting Investigators say a Denver teenager facing charges in the death of her 7-year-old nephew told them she was upset with the boy because he lay on her bed and refused to leave her room after he asked her to play video games with him. “She told […]
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Sheriff’s detectives announced Monday they have arrested the last of four men wanted in the beating death of a young man whose body was found over the side of a mountain road in the Angeles National Forest. Matthew Luzon Martin-Capiendo, 21, was arrested about 6:30 p.m. Saturday in Montebello, according to the Los Angeles County […]
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Four men face capital murder charges in connection with the killing of a man whose body was found entangled in brush off an Angeles National Forest road in California. Hercules Balaskas, 18, of Glendora; Jacob Hunter Elmendorf, 19, of La Verne; and Francisco Amigon, 19, also of La Verne were arrested in the death of […]
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A nanny who was convicted of brutally murdering two small children in her care while their parents were out was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without parole during a dramatic courtroom encounter. Yoselyn Ortega wept as she spoke briefly — a rare show of emotion in a lengthy trial at which she was […]