GREENSBORO, North Carolina — She was just driving her son home. He was 3 years old, sitting in the backseat, probably unaware of how fast the situation outside was turning dangerous. It started when a man cut her off on Interstate 85. She honked — the kind of thing any driver would do. That single … Read more
ALAMEDA COUNTY, California — Eight reports. Seven in a single year. And a little girl who never got the help she desperately needed. Sophia Mason was 8 years old when her body was found decomposing in a bathtub in Merced on March 11, 2022. In the months before her death, she had been forced to … Read more
DELRAY BEACH, Florida — It started as something teenagers do without thinking twice. A group of friends, a revolver sitting on the counter, and the assumption that it wasn’t loaded. That assumption cost a 16-year-old boy his life — and sent his friend to prison for more than a decade. A Night That Went Horribly … Read more
TRIMBELLE, Wisconsin — A 3-week-old boy is dead, and the details that investigators uncovered in the days that followed are as heartbreaking as they are disturbing. On March 14, deputies from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence in the town of Trimbelle — a small community about 45 miles from Minneapolis — … Read more
SPRING, Texas — A little girl, just two years old, had no way to call for help. She couldn’t explain what happened. She couldn’t tell anyone who hurt her. She could only survive — and hope someone would notice. On Thursday, deputies with the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office responded to an Exxon gas … Read more
ST. LOUIS, Missouri — A mother called her son just to check in. She never imagined that call would become the last time she heard his voice. On March 2, 2022, 19-year-old Jadun Byrd had taken a Lyft to meet his mother at work. He was on FaceTime with her when a white Dodge Journey … Read more
MANDAN, North Dakota — A mother allegedly told her children’s father to “say goodbye to your kids” — and then made good on the threat in the most devastating way imaginable. Kailey Erhart, 22, is accused of killing two of her own children and attempting to kill a third inside a home on South Frontier … Read more
ALBANY, Georgia — The courtroom went quiet when Melassia Thornton stood up and looked directly at the man who killed her daughter. She did not scream. She did not curse. She begged. “You have an opportunity to give me that closure by telling me where my baby’s body is,” Thornton said, her voice breaking. “Please … Read more
ORLANDO, Florida — A little boy walked into a bedroom holding his stomach and collapsed. He was 4 years old. He had just been shot in the chest. What happened next — and what the teenager in that room chose to do — is what has left this community shaken. A Normal Afternoon That Turned … Read more
WACO, Texas — Most kids look up to their fathers as protectors. For one 11-year-old girl in Central Texas, that trust was shattered on a single summer afternoon. Christopher Alaman now faces child endangerment charges after police say he drove drunk with his young daughter in the car — and then pulled a knife on … Read more