Crime

Chrystul Kizer pleaded to second-degree reckless homicide and received 11 years plus five years of supervision. The plea avoided a mandatory life term. She remains at Taycheedah.

A Los Alamos post-office box holder slipped an AirTag into a package, reported the next theft, and led Santa Barbara County deputies 16 miles to two suspects holding mail from…

A Dothan jury convicted Leroy Thomas Joyner Jr. of transporting a minor across state lines for illegal sexual activity. On August 8, 2024, a federal judge imposed 300 months in…

Helotes resident Paul Moses Alden, 46, was arrested August 1, 2024, and charged with arson after police said he planted pressure-activated novelty fireworks under toilets at Wash Tub car washes,…

Prosecutors say Muhammad Aadil and Ronei Harris killed Lutalo Henderson, 46, moved his torso on a Metro-North train in a shopping cart, and set it on fire under a Yonkers…

Louisiana became the first state to let judges order surgical castration for certain sex crimes against children under 13. Gov. Jeff Landry signed Act 651 in June 2024; it took…

Elliott Dugan, 51, died on April 6, 2024, after a stolen 2019 Lamborghini Huracan hit 113 mph on Sherman Way in Los Angeles and tore apart on the median. No…

Rendell Hoagland pleaded guilty on January 16, 2026, to first-degree murder in the starvation death of his daughter Malinda, 12. Girlfriend Cindy Warren still faces trial; a family civil case…

Savannah Kriger, 32, and her son Kaiden, 3, were found March 19, 2024, in a drainage ditch at Tom Slick Park. The Bexar County Medical Examiner ruled Kaiden's death a…

Lashawnda Walters, 51, of Mason, Ohio, took an indefinite 7-to-10.5-year sentence on May 2, 2024, after pleading guilty to scalding her 2-year-old granddaughter and deleting the cameras that recorded it.