Barbara Gagne 
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
DELMAR TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — A quiet rural home became the scene of an unthinkable tragedy when a 61-year-old woman was shot and killed by her husband during an argument — and the messages she sent just hours before may be the most haunting part of the story. Penny Boom never made it out of her … Read more
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia — Jennifer Mulligan walked into that courtroom having already admitted to everything. She shot her 90-year-old father once in the head while he sat in bed. She made no attempt to hide it. She called 911 herself. But on Tuesday, it was the judge’s words — not the sentence — that silenced … Read more
MIAMI, Florida — A routine lobster-diving trip off the Florida coast turned into a life-or-death situation when a man allegedly jumped into the water and shut off a teenager’s air supply — all because he was angry that someone else was diving in what he considered his spot. It started early on July 29, when … Read more
COLUMBIA, Tennessee — A Tennessee jury has sentenced a man to death for the early-morning slaughter of his mother and two siblings inside the family home — a crime so brutal that even the prosecutor said it “cried out” for the ultimate punishment. Nathanial Pipkin, now 25, was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder … Read more