A father accused of stabbing his teenage daughter to death has claimed that they were just play-fighting in the kitchen when the incident occurred. On Tuesday, January 14, Teesside Crown Court in Middlesborough, England, heard that Simon Vickers, 50, denied causing the “tragic death” of his 14-year-old daughter, Scarlett Vickers.
A United Airlines passenger has been charged with reckless behavior and fined $10,000 for allegedly urinating in his seat during a flight that had to be diverted to Dublin, Ireland. Zachary Greear, 34, from New York City, was given a two-month suspended sentence, a €5,000 ($5,154) fine, and ordered to
A Florida children’s book author and her husband are going to prison for severely abusing and neglecting their three adopted children. The abuse included causing serious sores, beating the children with a “whacker,” and feeding them only a mixture of cereal and vegetable puree. Jennifer Wolfthal, 45, and her husband,
A Florida woman, Terry Taylor, has been charged with second-degree murder after her husband, Stanley Taylor, died from injuries allegedly caused by a cane with an illegal blade. Terry Taylor, 58, was arrested after police responded to a medical emergency at her home on January 13. When they arrived, they
Content warning: The following article contains disturbing descriptions. A former New Jersey school janitor is facing eight years in prison after admitting to tainting children’s utensils and cafeteria food with feces, urine and bleach. On Monday, Jan. 13, Giovanni Impellizzeri, 27, of Vineland, pleaded guilty to second-degree official misconduct, according
A man in Slovenia is accused of killing his wife, who he married in her home country, the Philippines, just days after she moved to Slovenia. Marvil Facturan-Kocjančič was beaten and stabbed to death in an apartment in Bled, Slovenia. Reports from Slovenske Novice, Newsline Philippines, and Gulf News say
A man from California, who has a history of domestic violence, will be sentenced to 16 years to life in prison after admitting to stabbing his girlfriend in front of their two young children while having a restraining order against him. Rodrigo Bravo, 31, pleaded no contest to second-degree murder
In Washington State, authorities found the bodies of an elderly couple inside a freezer on New Year’s Eve, along with the bodies of their son and his girlfriend elsewhere in the house. William Vosler, 68, and his wife Eileen, 66, along with their son Shane Vosler, 33, and his girlfriend
A 28-year-old school bus monitor in New Jersey has been sentenced to prison after failing to check on a 6-year-old girl she was supposed to protect. The child, Fajr Williams, was strangled by the safety harness of her wheelchair while on the way to school. A jury in Somerset County
A French woman lost over $800,000 to scammers pretending to be Brad Pitt. They convinced her that she was dating him and that he needed help paying for medical care. According to reports from the U.K. paper The Times and French news outlets AFP and BFM TV, the woman, named