SPRINGFIELD, Missouri — Dylan Hoyt did not have to stop. He could have kept driving like everyone else. But when he and his group spotted an overturned tractor-trailer on the westbound lanes of Interstate 44 near Miami, Oklahoma, on July 12, Hoyt did what people who knew him say he always did — he stopped … Read more
FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina — For nearly five years, Laniyah Whitted’s family searched for answers. They walked the streets. They combed through wooded areas. They waited. Last week, those answers finally came — and they were devastating. Human remains discovered in a wooded area near Fayetteville have been identified as Laniyah Whitted, a 17-year-old girl who … Read more
LONG BEACH, California — A quiet street in Long Beach turned into a crime scene in the middle of the night — and a family is now left without answers about why their loved one had to die. Just before 1 a.m. on July 31, Long Beach police responded to reports of a shooting on … Read more
JUNEAU, Alaska — When a family member started cleaning out a deceased relative’s home, they never expected to find what was inside an old chest freezer in an outbuilding on the property. What they found was a human body, wrapped in a tarp. Juneau police have now identified the remains as those of Ross Pasquan. … Read more
COBB COUNTY, Georgia — A Tuesday night drive turned fatal when a 22-year-old driver crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a passenger riding in a minivan on Sandtown Road. It happened at 9:20 p.m., just south of Booth Road. Carlos Garcia, of Marietta, was driving a black and white pickup truck northbound on Sandtown Road … Read more
MECHANICVILLE, New York — Four children went to their grandmother’s apartment. None of them came home. Harper, 13. Hudson, 11. And 10-year-old twins Gavin and Gracelynn. All four were found dead inside Amy Steadman’s Mechanicville apartment on June 23. What police uncovered in the weeks that followed was worse than anyone initially feared. She Had … Read more
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — A 38-year-old mother is dead, and her children are left with memories no child should ever have to carry. Police say Antwon Shirley, 43, kicked in a bedroom door on Agnes Avenue in the North Town Fork Creek neighborhood and shot Nevada N. Mosley twice while her children were inside the … Read more
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida — He was 91 years old, exhausted, and watching the woman he had spent his life with slip further away each day. His wife, Mary Lippold, 87, had Alzheimer’s disease. She was blind. And he was the only person taking care of her. According to investigators, William Albert Lippold spent nearly a … Read more
WINNECONNE, Wisconsin — On the morning of July 31, Jeffrey Manke walked into a courtroom to finalize his divorce. By that evening, police were at his door for a welfare check. What they found inside shook the small community. Manke, 57, was found dead alongside his two daughters — Jaelyn, 16, and Lenora, 11. Authorities … Read more
POTEET, Texas — A mother is facing serious criminal charges after she allegedly left her two toddlers home alone and drove nearly 30 miles to visit her boyfriend — leaving her children without any adult supervision in the middle of the night. Angelina Herrera was arrested earlier this week and charged with two counts of … Read more