Texas prisoner Billy Chemirmir, who was convicted of killing two women and accused of murdering many more, has been killed by his cellmate this week while serving a life sentence, prison officials confirmed. Chemirmir, 50, was found guilty last year of killing two women. He was caught after a 91-year-old woman, Mary Bartel, survived an
A sheriff’s deputy in Texas has been arrested and fired from his job after police learned he had left his two-month-old baby in a hot car for three hours, local media reported. Antonio Almaraz, 31, has been charged with abandoning a child, child endangerment and causing serious bodily injury to a child after his baby
Two families are reeling after learning that their daughters, both models in Los Angeles, were found dead in luxury apartments in the city’s downtown last week. The bodies of Maleesa Mooney, 31, and Nichole (Nikki) Coats, 32, were discovered late last week in apartments just a few miles from each other.Mooney’s death is being investigated
Police in a small city outside Atlanta have uncovered a grim murder allegedly tied to a religious organization called the “Soldiers of Christ.” Five adults and a 15-year-old juvenile were arrested in Duluth, Georgia after a dead body was discovered stuffed inside the trunk of a car.The body belonged to a woman who weighed approximately
A Seattle police officer is under investigation after he was caught on video joking about a young woman who died after being struck by a police vehicle and suggested her life had “limited value.” Officer Daniel Auderer, who is also the vice president of the city’s police union, inadvertently left his body camera running after
An escaped murderer who captured international headlines for “crab-walking” out of a Pennsylvania jail has been captured, police say. Pennsylvania State Police announced the capture of 34-year-old Danelo Cavalcante in a post Wednesday morning on X.Lt. Col. George Bivens told reporters that authorities picked up a heat signal in their search area around 1 a.m. local, shortly after responding to a
A former U.S. Secret Service agent is calling into question the prevailing theory of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, casting doubt on the Warren Commission’s single-bullet theory. Paul Landis, who witnessed the assassination and long believed Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he killed Kennedy, says he’s beginning to have his doubts about
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Florida man was arrested by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) last month after he attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade contraption similar to a human-sized hamster wheel. Reza Baluchi, 44, was arrested on Aug. 26 about 110 kilometres (70 miles) off Tybee Island
Authorities in Nevada were investigating a death at the site of the Burning Man festival where thousands of attendees remained stranded Saturday night as flooding from storms swept through the Nevada desert. Organizers closed vehicular access to the counterculture festival and attendees trudged through mud, many barefoot or wearing plastic bags on their feet. The
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Tens of thousands of revellers attending the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada desert have been asked to shelter in place and conserve food and water on Saturday after a rainstorm turned the site into mud. Access to and from Black Rock City, the event’s site, was