Author: Maria Monroe

Nearly 23 years after the disappearance of 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart from the California Polytechnic State University on May 25, 1996, the FBI might have found a breakthrough in the case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly told Kristin’s mother Denise to brace herself up for the news they were going to give her, building suspense on the famous missing person case. “Be ready,” the FBI told her. “This is really going to be something you don’t expect,” Stockton Record reported. Smart, on the night of May 25, 1996, decided to stay late at a frat party in Cal…

PENNS GROVE, NEW JERSEY: A New Jersey mother and her two young children were found dead inside their apartment shortly after her estranged husband was found hanging in the nearby woods in what police suspect is a case of triple-murder suicide. The chain of gruesome discoveries was made after a passerby came across the body of 54-year-old Eugenio Severino hanging from a tree in the woods off Sportsman Road in Carneys Point on Wednesday, February 5, according to CBS Philadelphia. The man notified local police, who looked up Severino’s address in Penn’s Grove and contacted fellow officers to request a…

A former rugby player set fire to his estranged wife’s car while she and their three children were still inside before killing himself by stabbing himself in the chest with a knife, on February 19. Rowan Charles Baxter, 42, formerly a player for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League, killed his three children, Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4, and Trey, 3, when he doused his wife Hannah’s white Kia Sportage with petrol and set it on fire.  Hannah, 31, who managed to get out of the flames, however, succumbed to her burns at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital…

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO: A New Mexico man has been arrested and charged after police said he attacked his disabled wife and tried to set her on fire because he was upset that he did not qualify for a coronavirus-related stimulus cheque.  The incident came to light after deputies from the Albuquerque Police Department responded to the mobile home park where Joe Macias, 63, lived at around 8:30 pm on Wednesday, April 1, on reports of a domestic dispute, according to Oxygen. When they reached the scene, they found Macias walking down the street in what appeared to be soiled clothes,…

FLORENCE, KENTUCKY: A Kentucky man sexually abused his foster children for years and used threats and coercion to force them to pose nude and perform sexual acts, police said. Boone County Sheriff’s officials arrested Harry G. Forgue, 28, of Florence, on Friday, May 1, on a warrant for multiple sexual offenses against minors, including child pornography, according to a press release. His arrest was the culmination of a lengthy investigation which had revealed the years of sexual abuse he had committed against his foster children and adopted child. The victims, all males, were either preteen or teenagers when the abuse…

The juvenile involved in the brutal beating of teenager Jacob Gunderson is not dead, reports state. There were mixed reports circulating on the Internet of the juvenile’s death shortly after the hashtag #JusticeForJacob became viral on social media. It was reported that the girl had received death threats as hundreds of social media users on Sunday, May 24, shared the hashtag #JusticeForJacob after a Snapchat video emerged of four teens being involved in the brutal beating of another teenager, Jacob, who was later hospitalized. Multiple Snapchat videos were uploaded on social media on May 21, 2020, showing an inebriated Jacob…

LONGMONT, COLORADO: A Colorado woman who was caught with hundreds of photos of child sexual exploitation, including some that depicted bestiality, was sentenced to half a year in prison earlier this week. Julie Ann Cunningham, 55, came to the authorities in 2018 after they received a tip about her through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to the Daily Camera. They had received messages that she had sent to a man on Facebook, one of which was an image of an underage girl posing naked. Longmont Police subsequently executed a search warrant at Cunningham’s home and seized…

FLINT TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN: A Black teenager who was filmed attacking a white department store employee after claiming he used the N-word has been arrested and charged after evading police for almost a month. Damire Canell Palmer, 18, of Mount Morris, was taken into custody on Thursday, July 9, 13 days after he was formally charged with intent to do great bodily harm in connection to assaulting a 50-year-old employee at the Macy’s in Genesee Valley Center in Flint Township, according to the Detroit News. MEA WorldWide (MEAWW) previously reported how the entire incident, which took place on June 15, had…

The Los Angeles Police Department is making headlines over the rough treatment of protesters after they threw a man down from his wheelchair to arrest him. A video captured the moment that three officers pushed Joshua Wilson onto the ground. They then grabbed him by the back of his neck and twisted his arm behind his back in order to restrain him.  Bystanders and witnesses immediately criticized the actions of an officer who proceeded to drag the wheelchair onto the road away from Wilson. The officer also damaged the wheelchair and one of the wheels was seemingly broken.  Authorities claimed…

Three 15-year-old boys were arrested and are in custody after they were caught illegally entering the grounds of POTUS Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. The teenagers jumped the wall and entered the exclusive club on Palm Beach, all while armed with an AK-47 in a backpack, the police revealed on Wednesday, August 5. As per a Palm Beach Police Department spokesman, the authorities had seen the teenagers parked in a silver Hyundai in the 300 block of Middle Road on Friday, July 31, WPTV reports. As officers came close to the vehicle, the driver had taken off towards Mar-a-Lago. The three…

Former police officer Tou Thao has revealed that his “heart sank” when he learned that George Floyd had died. Thao was one of four officers involved in the arrest of Floyd. Thao’s colleague Derek Chauvin had knelt on the neck of Floyd for a sickening eight minutes despite Floyd saying that he was unable to breathe. Eventually, Floyd lost consciousness and died with none of the officers even trying to move Chauvin off his neck.  While Chauvin knelt on the neck of Floyd, Thao did nothing to intervene and stop the situation. Two other officers involved, Thomas Lane and J Alexander…

A Tinder date for a man went horribly wrong after he was beaten and stabbed to death during sex by a couple in Indonesia, police said. The suspects also cut the body of the victim, identified as Rinaldi Harley Wismanu, into eleven pieces before stealing $6,427 (£5,000) from him. The remains of the 32-year-old were found wrapped in plastic bags and hid inside suitcases in Jakarta. A representative of Wismanu’s family called the gruesome murder a “heinous act that is beyond humanity”. The victim was working at a Japanese construction company as a human resource development manager. He was not…

MIAMI, FLORIDA: A 46-year-old man called Raul Mata has been arrested by the Miami-Dade police for the murder of his teenage stepdaughter 16 years ago. Mata, as per reports, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Dilcia Mejia, whose life was taken just five days after her 16th birthday. Mata was arrested by the Watsonville Police Department in Watsonville, California, and his extradition to Florida is pending, cops said. “An unsolved murder leaves a surviving family with an unending pain and fear that their loved ones will be forgotten,” Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in…

A 75-year-old woman was rescued by a young man after she was attacked and carjacked at a Safeway in San Francisco’s Richmond District. According to ABC7, surveillance videos from a witness show the moment the Good Samaritan realized there was something wrong when he was walking out of a shop around 5 pm on Thursday, March 11. As per SFPD, the old woman was attacked by three young women as she was walking back to her Lexus. They tried grabbing her car keys and purse, and that was when the young man leaped to her defense. He dropped the jug…

WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS: Sage Wright, 22, and Christian Bishop-Torrence, 24, were arrested Friday, June 18, 2021, after their one-year-old baby girl died under their care. Their baby girl died gasping for air, covered in dirt, sores and blisters. She allegedly weighed eight pounds at the time of her death. The couple was arrested following the two warrants for the offense of Injury to a Child, Elderly, or Disabled Person with intent of causing serious bodily injury or mental injury. The parents are being held in the Wichita County jail on bonds of $500,000. This is not the first account of…

CARNEGIE, PENNSYLVANIA: A Pennsylvania father was arrested after his four-year-old son died from a fentanyl overdose. The boy died in May but the father was charged in July because the police department was waiting for the toxicology report. Van Marcus Redding, 36, was denied bail and is listed for a preliminary hearing on Friday, July 9. Police reports reveal that Avant Redding, 4, died on May 7, 2021, after ingesting fentanyl at a residence on Hutton Street in Carnegie. According to police, Van got into a car accident while rushing his son to St Clair Hospital. He told the police…

QUEENS, NEW YORK CITY: A man who dragged an 11-year-old girl into a Queens alley and threatened her with sexual assault before fleeing with her belongings on Sunday, July 25, is wanted by the NYPD, said reports.  The NYPD had announced that in June 2021, overall index crime in the city rose 3.1% compared with June 2020. Earlier this week, an off-duty FDNY firefighter walking his dog in Queens was attacked by a swarm of ‘100’ angry kids. The same week, a man by the name of Elvis Nina Pichardo had reportedly tried to rape three women in one hour…

HOUSTON, TEXAS: Two very young boys reportedly steered a car to safety in Houston after their father was shot and killed while driving. Authorities are currently looking for the person who opened fire on the SUV the victim was driving on the East Freeway overnight. After watching their father slump over the steering wheel of the car, the two boys had to take control of the vehicle before seeking help. While it’s uncertain whether this was an incident of road rage, news of this comes months after the harrowing killing of toddler Aiden Leos left the nation rattled. Leos was…

ROME, ITALY: Two teenagers from San Francisco on a “drug holiday” in Rome, accused of murdering an Italian policeman, have been arrested on charges of murder and attempted extortion in connection with the fatal stabbing of the cop on Friday morning. One of the teens, identified as 19-year-old Lee Elder Finnegan, confessed to stabbing 35-year-old paramilitary policeman Mario Cerciello Rega to death after an apparent drug deal went wrong. Italian authorities, on Saturday, released a statement saying that a second California native, identified as 18-year-old Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth, was also involved in the incident which resulted in Rega’s demise.…

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: A former Brooklyn jail guard, who had nicknamed his penis “horse” and was convicted of sexually abusing multiple female inmates, will spend more than two decades behind bars. Eugenio Perez, 49, was a federal correctional officer with the rank of lieutenant employed by the United States Bureau of Prisons at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn when he sexually abused five female inmates, according to a July 31 press release by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Between January 2013 and September 2016, Perez was accused of using his power as…