Missing 3-year-old sibling of beaten toddler found; suspect in custody
FIRCREST, Washington — A 3-year-old Fircrest boy who was reported missing after his 18-month-old sibling was found severely beaten Thursday was found and had also suffered injuries, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said. Police said the 3-year-old turned up at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma and was taken to the emergency room. The suspect in [...]
Former junior tennis star charged in gruesome death of his baby son’s mother found strangled at home
A former American tennis star has been charged in the murder of his two-month-old son’s mother found strangled in his father’s home. Benson Harrison O’Brien III, 35, once a top-ranked tennis player in Louisiana, turned himself in to police on the afternoon of his girlfriend’s death, on unrelated warrants for theft. Police say 31-year-old Bridgette Harveston, [...]
Woman pictured minutes after she ‘stabbed lover with a kitchen knife in fight’
A woman was arrested for attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend during a heated argument in the early hours of Friday morning. Yekaterina Pusepa was led handcuffed from the grisly scene in tears, her white T-shirt, jeans and arms covered with the blood of her injured boyfriend, Alec Katsnelson. She was pictured on the [...]
Father breaks down after son, 23, slashed throats of his mother and grandma before dumping bodies
The father of a 23-year-old man accused of slashing his mother’s and grandmother’s throats and dumping their bodies at a school called his son evil. Joseph E. Wright, from Boston, is due in court today to face murder charges in the brutal killing of his mother Donna Breau, 54, and grandmother Melba Trahant, 83. He [...]
Murder Victim’s Last Words May Have Saved Lives
A grandmother’s last words to a grandson accused of stabbing her to death may have spared the rest of her family’s lives, police in Florida say. “I love you,” was the final sentence Barbara Denmark uttered to her grandson,Christopher Chase Whaley. The 23-year-old allegedly murdered his grandmother in her bathtub following an argument on Saturday, [...]
Woman arrested after beating boyfriend with (inflatable) hammer… then trying to nail him with a real one
A South Carolina woman was arrested after beating her live-in boyfriend with an inflatable hammer during a fight. However, she later tried to nail him with a real one as the fight grew more violent, authorities say. Alesha Babock, 33, and Malcolm Beachem, 37, had both been drinking at a wine festival in Myrtle Beach, [...]
Mom ‘repeatedly poured bleach into her toddler’s EYES until her sight was permanently damaged’
A mother from Washington has been charged with assault after it was alleged she repeatedly put bleach into her young daughter’s eyes. Jennifer Mothershead, 29 from Bonney Lake, is thought to have caused permanent vision loss in her 15-month-old daughter’s right eye. Authorities became suspicious in May last year when the little girl was airlifted [...]
No sex for you!!!, Woman, 34, ‘attacked her live-in boyfriend, 27, because he repeatedly refused her demands for sex’
A woman was arrested for allegedly attacking her live-in boyfriend with a metal mop head after he repeatedly refused her demands for sex. Stacey Ann Oritz, 34, a waitress from Port St Lucie, is said to have attacked her boyfriend in the bedroom of their home before chasing him outside in his underwear and breaking [...]
Police hunt man who killed wife, daughter and shot cat and dog before burning down their house
Police are searching for a man whose wife, daughter and pets were found shot to death in their Washington state home before it was set alight. Detectives are still trying to find Peter A. Keller, 41, who lives in the house where the women were found. Keller is considered a ‘person of interest,’ said King County sheriff’s [...]
Man who struck security guard with hatchet guilty of first-degree assault
A jury deliberated about an hour before finding Adrian Jess Kramer guilty Thursday of first-degree assault in a Dec. 12 hatchet attack that cost a Fred Meyer security officer most of his left ear. Sentencing has been scheduled for Wednesday. Cowlitz County Deputy Prosecutor James Smith estimated Kramer faces between 26 and 33 years in [...]
Father ‘beaten to death by his SON’ in attack that leaves wife and another son critically injured
A schools administrator was beaten to death and his wife and son critically injured when his other 19-year-old son, aided by an accomplice, broke into their Farmington Hills, Oakland home and launched a brutal attack, police said. Robert Cipriano, known among friends and family as Bob, was allegedly killed by Tucker Robert Cipriano in a savage baseball [...]
Military doctor ‘shot dead girlfriend AND his colleague’ before turning weapon on himself
A military doctor who allegedly killed his girlfriend, a colleague, and then himself, is said to have been erratic, unstable and a heavy drinker. Dr. Giocondo Navek, 39, ambushed Dr. Payman Houshmandpour, 32, in his car outside his home in a Philadelphia suburb as he was leaving for work on the morning of April 12. [...]