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For over a month, Babis Anagnostopoulos has insisted a group of thieves tortured and murdered his wife in front of their 11-month-old daughter. The 32-year-old Greek pilot said the grisly May 11 slaying of 20-year-old Caroline Crouch occurred after three intruders broke into their home near Athens and tied him up. Before they left with £10,000 in cash, the thieves held a gun to his daughter’s […]

Just months before he was murdered alongside his mother, Paul Murdaugh, the 22-year-old son of a prominent South Carolina prosecutor, received death threats for his role in a drunken boating accident that left a teen girl dead, family members revealed Thursday. “I didn’t think it was a credible threat—if it was, I would have tried to do something or notify someone,” John Marvin Murdaugh, one of […]

Alexander Jackson, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, called police Tuesday morning in a panic, claiming a masked intruder had shot him and his father inside their home. When Cedar Rapid officers arrived at the scene, they found Jackson’s parents and his 19-year-old sister—a high-achieving student who introduced then-presidential candidate Andrew Yang during his 2019 visit to Iowa—fatally shot in different rooms of the expansive house. […]

An 11-year-old Florida boy testified against his own father on Wednesday, emotionally describing how he witnessed Ronnie Oneal III kill his mom and disabled sister in 2018 before stabbing him and setting their house on fire. “My dad killed my mom,” Ronnie Jr., who was just 8 when he survived the grisly attack, told jurors via video conference at his father’s murder trial in Tampa on […]

A California man accused of coordinating a group of “armed fighters” to stop the electoral certification of President Joe Biden on Jan. 6 is just a “vanilla kind of guy” who was simply angry at having to wear a mask, his lawyers claimed Tuesday. Russell Taylor, a 40-year-old from Ladera Ranch, is among six men federally indicted last week on a slew of charges, including conspiracy, […]

A pair of GOP lawmakers who were fined for refusing to use metal detectors installed at the Capitol in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection filed a lawsuit on Monday, claiming the penalty was unconstitutional and “a means of harassing” House Republicans. In the lawsuit filed in D.C. District Court, Reps. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Andrew Clyde (R-GA) allege the additional security screenings to enter […]

A Virginia woman who stormed the Capitol alongside her realtor husband while holding a sign protesting COVID vaccines wanted to set the record straight as she pleaded guilty on Monday, telling the judge that her angry Facebook messages about the insurrection also included “kind” words like “pray for America.” Jessica Bustle and her husband, Joshua, pleaded guilty on Monday to a misdemeanor charge of parading, demonstrating, […]

Before she was arrested in connection with missing Houston boy Samuel Olson, Theresa Balboa planned to travel to Louisiana with the 5-year-old’s body, new court documents reveal. A motion for bail obtained by The Daily Beast alleges that after having her roommate help her hide the boy’s body, she schemed to flee the state of Texas with the remains. But her plan was foiled Tuesday night, […]

After helping with the search for Samuel Olson on Monday—and sharing her anxiety about finding the missing 6-year-old with reporters—Theresa Balboa quietly slipped away with a friend. Court documents first obtained by ABC13 state that Balboa went to a storage unit in Webster, Texas, with a friend and lugged a large plastic container into her car. The next day, the friend drove her and the container […]

A Pennsylvania man accused of assaulting several Capitol Police officers during the Jan. 6 insurrection—and leaving one with a concussion—has an “extensive history of violent and assaultive behavior” against women, prosecutors said Wednesday. Ryan Samsel, 38, was charged in February with several crimes, including assaulting a federal officer, obstructing law enforcement, and obstructing a legal proceeding, after he was captured in videos and photos knocking over […]

The girlfriend of the father of missing 6-year-old Samuel Olson has been arrested after she was located inside a motel room where the Houston boy’s body is believed to have been found inside a tote bag. Houston Assistant Chief Heather Morris on Wednesday confirmed that Theresa Balboa will be charged with tampering with evidence in connection with Olson’s case. The little boy’s disappearance was reported on […]

An FBI agent faces an attempted murder charge for shooting a man during an altercation on a moving Metro train near Washington, D.C., last December, according to court records. Eduardo Valdivia, 37, has been indicted on several charges, including attempting second-degree murder, first-degree assault, and reckless endangerment, in connection with the Dec. 15, 2020, encounter on the Metro Red Line train, according to newly unsealed records […]

Cristian Bahena Rivera, the Iowa farmworker accused of killing 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts in 2018, has been convicted of murder. After over seven hours of deliberation, jurors in Scott County Court found Bahena Rivera, a 26-year-old Mexican national who worked at a dairy farm, guilty of first-degree murder. Bahena Rivera remained emotionless as the verdict was read. He will now be held without bail until his July […]

A Florida police sergeant has been fired after allegedly conspiring to cover for a colleague who failed to secure an October crime scene—marking the seventh time the lawman has been terminated for misconduct and criminal behavior, officials said Friday. The City of Opa-Locka terminated the employment of Sgt. German Bosque this week after an internal review found he “engaged a subordinate officer to create a false […]

The Florida teenager accused of murdering 13-year-old cheerleader Tristyn Bailey before dumping her body in a wooded area earlier this month will be tried as an adult, authorities said Thursday. Aiden Fucci, 14, was hit with the charge this week for allegedly fatally stabbing Bailey in the early morning of May 9 after the pair were caught on surveillance video walking away from a home on […]

A psychological evaluation has found Lori Vallow—the doomsday mom accused of murdering her two children—“not competent” to stand trial. “Assessment determined at this time the defendant is not competent to proceed and recommends restorative treatment,” Seventh Judicial District Judge Steven Boyce wrote in a Thursday order pausing the case. Prosecutors have already contested the report’s findings, but the judge’s order “remains in effect pending determination of […]

Mollie Tibbetts’ accused killer took the stand on his own behalf Wednesday, sharing a dramatic story with jurors about how he was kidnapped by two armed, masked men and ordered to track down the University of Iowa student before one of them murdered her. Testifying through a translator, Cristian Bahena Rivera, a 26-year-old Mexican national who came to the U.S. illegally to work at an Iowa […]

For nearly four decades, the disappearance of 35-year-old Linda Seymour, who disappeared without a trace just before Christmas, has stumped Illinois investigators. But this week, they may have finally caught a break in the case after receiving a tip to search the backyard of the Northbrook home where Seymour once lived. The Northbrook Police Department confirmed to The Daily Beast that starting on Tuesday, officers and […]

Nearly a year after the remains of Lori Vallow’s two children were found in the backyard of her husband’s Idaho property, the couple has been indicted on murder charges for crimes they allegedly justified with their doomsday-centered religious beliefs, authorities said Tuesday. An Idaho grand jury indicted Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow on several counts—including first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder—in connection with the […]

Defense lawyers for Mollie Tibbetts’ accused killer, Christian Bahena Rivera, argued Tuesday that investigators may have coerced a confession out of the farmhand, leading him to believe he had “blacked out” when he stabbed the University of Iowa student. “What the evidence has shown you and what the evidence will show you is there was a systematic confrontation with my client… and the confrontation continued until […]

An “armed and dangerous” South Carolina man linked to at least four murders in two states was arrested Monday after a weeklong manhunt, authorities said. Tyler Terry, 26, was taken into custody at around 10 a.m. in South Carolina’s Chester County after fleeing from authorities during a May 17 traffic stop and prompting a massive search that came to involve 300 officers. Authorities say Terry and […]

A former Iowa police officer who interviewed Cristhian Bahena Rivera and was present when he confessed to killing Mollie Tibbetts was grilled on the stand this week by defense attorneys, who argued the Mexican national only copped to the crime after hours of interrogation and a visit from federal immigration authorities. Pamela Romero, a three-year veteran of the Iowa City Police Department, spent two days on […]

After almost four decades, a 75-year-old Texas man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a woman before strangling her and setting her body on fire in a field—a grisly crime that a notorious self-proclaimed serial killer once insisted was his doing. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office on Friday said that Thomas Elvin Darnell had been charged with capital murder in connection with Laura Marie Purchase’s March […]

A New Jersey mom awaiting trial for murdering her infant son because he was getting in the way of her affair has been hit with new charges—this time for allegedly conspiring with her boyfriend in a murder-for-hire plot. Heather Reynolds, 43, and boyfriend, 44-year-old Jeffrey Callahan, were charged this week with first-degree conspiracy to commit murder, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said Wednesday. Reynolds was already […]

Nearly three years after University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts vanished while on an evening run near her home, a local farmhand is on trial for allegedly murdering the 20-year-old before her dumping in a cornfield. “He admitted he had seen Mollie the night she disappeared…he admitted ‘she was hot,’ in his words,” Poweshiek County Attorney Bart Klaver told jurors in Scott County Courthouse on Wednesday. […]

The death of Andrew Brown, the 42-year-old Black man who was fatally shot last month while trying to drive away from sheriff’s deputies executing a search and arrest warrant, “was justified,” North Carolina officials have determined. During a Tuesday press conference, Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble said that the seven officers who opened fire on Brown on April 21 will not be prosecuted because they […]

For the past three years, 11-year-old Rylee Abbuhl had been working with a counselor to “process her own death” after being repeatedly told she had an incurable medical condition that could cause her central nervous system to fail. While grappling with the reality that she could never play college softball for Notre Dame or enter high school, Rylee was also capturing national attention. Her plight earned […]

A suspected white supremacist is facing charges after allegedly ditching a bullet-riddled car containing three dead men in the parking lot of an Albuquerque hospital this week. Richard Kuykendall, a 41-year-old with an “apparent association” with the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, was charged Friday with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition for his role in the Wednesday triple homicide, according to […]

Five months after Suzanne Morphew vanished without a trace while out on a bike ride last Mother’s Day, the Chaffee County Clerk’s Office in Colorado received a bizarre notification: a mail-in ballot for the 2020 election had been submitted under her name. When a Chaffee County sergeant went to the clerk’s office to check out the ballot, he saw that it had been handwritten and dated […]

An MIT researcher accused in the February murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang has been arrested after spending months on the lam, authorities said Friday. Qinxuan Pan, a 29-year-old who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a researcher at the school’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), was finally tracked down in Alabama, according to the Massachusetts State Police. The arrest […]

A Deputy U.S. Marshal was indicted this week for allegedly orchestrating a wild scheme with his then-wife to frame an innocent ex-girlfriend as a rape predator and have her thrown in jail for months. Ian R. Diaz, a 43-year-old from Brea, California, was hit with a slew of charges on Wednesday, including conspiracy to commit cyberstalking, the Department of Justice said in a Friday news release. […]

Joel Greenberg, a close associate of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), pleaded guilty on Friday to a slew of federal crimes, including sex trafficking of a minor, in a plea agreement that confirms he is now working with the feds. Greenberg, who faced a 33-count indictment, admitted he and other individuals paid a 17-year-old girl for sex and even provided her with drugs. He also admitted in […]

For five years, the identity of a woman whose remains were found stuffed in a plastic container inside a storage unit in North Carolina has remained a mystery. But on Wednesday, Durham, N.C. authorities said they’ve finally cracked the case thanks to DNA technology, identifying the skeletal remains as those of Melissa “Missy” Ann Poitra, a North Dakota woman who vanished without a trace in 2005 […]

A Democratic lawmaker called former acting defense secretary Chris Miller “ridiculous” on Wednesday for trying to walk back his claims that former President Donald Trump incited the violent Jan. 6 insurrection. In his prepared remarks for a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on the riot, and in a March interview with VICE, Miller had called out Trump for directly inciting thousands of MAGA supporters […]

New body-camera footage shown Tuesday to the family of Andrew Brown Jr. showed sheriff’s deputies “standing on the pavement unloading their weapons” on the 42-year-old Black man as he tried to drive away, the family’s lawyers said Tuesday. The family and one member of their legal team were able to view 19 minutes of about two hours of body-camera footage taken during the April 21 incident. […]

Accused murderer Michelle Boat took the stand in her own defense this week, telling jurors that when she decided to follow her estranged husband’s new girlfriend, Tracy Mondabough, last May, she simply intended to tell the woman she wanted her marriage of two decades back. “I wanted to tell her how much I wanted him back, and I wanted her to leave him,” the 59-year-old, who’s […]

Alana Lambert and her friend Shekeria Thomas say they were eager to enjoy some sunny spring weather on Tuesday when they headed to New York City’s Central Park for a bike ride. But just as they were planning to head home after an hour-long ride, Lambert told The Daily Beast, her portable phone charger fell out of Thomas’ bag. Immediately, a woman picked it up and […]

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted the four former Minneapolis Police officers who were involved in George Floyd’s death. The officers violated 46-year-old Floyd’s civil rights during the tragic May 2020 arrest, the grand jury found. The indictment comes just weeks after Derek Chauvin, the officer who held his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, […]

A Utah man accused of assaulting police officers during the Capitol riots invited several of his MAGA friends to his Thursday court appearance—then wreaked havoc during the hearing, repeatedly screaming at the judge and court officials. “You people fucked this up,” Landon Kenneth Copeland ranted during the Zoom hearing on Thursday. “You’re going to give me a psych eval. I don’t like 70 percent of my […]

An Iowa woman on trial for fatally stabbing her estranged husband’s new girlfriend is “responsible” for the murder but was acting out of intense loneliness and pressure from the coronavirus pandemic, not jealousy, defense attorneys say. “This isn’t a movie, it’s not TV. What’s happening in here is a real-life tragedy,” Jill Eimermann, one of Michelle Boat’s lawyers, told jurors in Marion County District Court on […]

Nearly a year after Suzanne Morphew disappeared without a trace while out on a bike ride last Mother’s Day, the 49-year-old’s husband—who once pleaded for her safe return—has been arrested and charged with murder. The Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to The Daily Beast that Barry Morphew, 53, is currently in custody after being arrested Wednesday morning, just days shy of the one-year anniversary of his […]

The day after John Douglas Wright stormed the Capitol alongside thousands of MAGA supporters, the 54-year-old issued a promise to his local newspaper: “Yesterday wasn’t the end. Yesterday was the first battle of the war. I promise you.” But prosecutors allege the Canton, Ohio, resident had every intention to participate in a “war” after the violent Jan. 6 insurrection to stop the electoral certification of President […]

Karen Sue Boes has been insisting she did not kill her 14-year-old daughter Robin since the day her Zeeland, Michigan, house caught on fire almost two decades ago. As police interrogated her multiple times over six weeks, the 65-year-old maintained she was out shopping with a friend when the tragic fire broke out, killing Robin. But during one grueling questioning on Aug. 7, 2002, police eventually […]

A controversial Georgia sheriff who was charged for accidentally shooting a friend—years after he was acquitted on corruption charges—is in legal trouble once again after being accused of strapping inmates in a restraint chair for hours as punishment. A newly unsealed federal indictment alleges Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill violated the civil rights of four detainees by forcing them to be strapped in the chair for […]

For 36 years, the person responsible for the vicious rape and murder of a 78-year-old woman with dementia in Palm Beach County, Florida, has eluded authorities. That all changed this week with the Friday arrest of Richard Lange, 61, who now faces first-degree murder, kidnapping, and sexual arrest charges for the elderly woman’s slaying in April 1985, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said. While officials […]

Andrew Brown Jr., the North Carolina man who was fatally shot on Wednesday by a sheriff’s deputy executing a search warrant at his home, was unarmed and fleeing the scene when he was shot, a lawyer for his family said. “To my understanding, there is body camera footage to this incident, and it has not been released. A lot of speculation is going on—we’re asking for […]

A North Carolina man was shot and killed on Wednesday morning by a sheriff’s deputy executing a search warrant at his home, authorities said. The Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office said Andrew Brown Jr., a 40-year-old Black man, was shot around 8:30 a.m. while deputies were serving a search warrant in the 400 block of Perry Street in Elizabeth City. Authorities offered few details about the shooting […]

Three New York City men allegedly stole more than $30 million in cash and other valuables as part of an elaborate money-laundering scheme that involved using spy cameras to break into safe deposit boxes around the world. The Department of Justice on Tuesday charged Val Cooper, 56, Alex Levin, 52, and Gari Smith, 49, with money laundering and conspiracy, as well as conspiracy to violate the […]

Connie Ann Smith, of Emmett, Idaho, reported her 8-year-old granddaughter missing on April 12, telling police she’d run away. Three days later, little Taryn Summers was found—stuffed inside a garbage bag in the backseat of the grandma’s black Lexus, according to a probable cause affidavit filed Monday. Authorities have now charged Smith with failing to notify law enforcement of death and destruction of evidence. During her […]

As George Floyd cried out for help on May 25, 2020, the “pavement tearing into his skin” as he repeated he could not breathe, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin continued to press his knee into the 46-year-old Black man’s neck. Chauvin “heard him but he just didn’t listen. He continued to push him down, to grind into him, to shimmy, to twist his hand,” prosecutor […]

A heavy metal guitarist and self-described “founding” member of the Oath Keepers who stormed the U.S. Capitol armed with bear spray has become the first Jan. 6 insurrectionist to plead guilty and cooperate with the feds, prosecutors said Friday. Jon Ryan Schaffer, a 53-year-old from Indiana, pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and entering a restricted building with a deadly or dangerous weapon during […]

The Brooklyn Center police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright, after allegedly mistaking her handgun for a Taser during a traffic stop, was arrested Wednesday and will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, a person with direct knowledge told The Daily Beast. Potter, a 26-year veteran of the Brooklyn Center force, was arrested at 11:30 a.m., the Minnesota Department of Public Safety Bureau of Criminal Apprehension […]

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s defense team began their case on Tuesday, focusing on George Floyd’s previous arrests and the “very aggressive” crowd that may have spooked officers during the fatal May 25 arrest. “I was concerned for the officer’s safety because of the crowd, so I wanted to make sure the officers were OK,” Minneapolis Park Police officer Peter Chang, who responded to Floyd’s […]

The white Brooklyn Center Police officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop on Sunday after apparently mistaking her handgun for a Taser has resigned. “I have loved every minute of being a police officer and serving this community to the best of my ability, but I believe it is the best interest of the community, the department, and my fellow officers if I […]

As former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin and his colleagues pinned George Floyd on the ground for over nine minutes, the 46-year-old Black man’s airflow was so restricted it was “as if a surgeon had gone in and removed” his lung, a renowned pulmonologist testified Thursday. “A healthy person subjected to what Mr. Floyd was subjected to would have died as a result of what he was […]

A New Jersey man accused of being at “the front line” of violence during the Jan. 6 insurrection boasted about his involvement online—then googled “Countries where you can buy citizenship” once he realized he would probably be caught, prosecutors say. Christopher Joseph Quaglin was arrested Wednesday in New Brunswick, New Jersey on a slew of charges, including assaulting an officer and civil disorder. Prosecutors allege that […]

The death of a 13-year-old boy, who dreamed of joining the police but was gunned down by a cop in an “armed confrontation” this week, has horrified the crime-weary city of Chicago, prompting demands for answers from the mayor on down. The Cook County Medical Examiner confirmed to The Daily Beast that Adam Toledo died of a gunshot wound to the chest on Monday. His death, […]

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin did not follow police policy when he held his knee on George Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes during a May arrest, his former peers have testified in his murder trial. Over the last two days, two current and former Minneapolis police officials have slammed Chauvin’s decision to use a restraint position that they said was not only against police […]

A Capitol Police officer was killed on Friday afternoon after a car rammed a barricade outside the Capitol and the driver brandished a knife, sending the complex into lockdown just three months after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said two officers were rammed by the suspect’s car after he drove through a barricade at about 1:02 p.m. The driver jumped […]

Authorities have identified 44-year-old Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez as the gunman who allegedly opened fire inside a California office building on Wednesday, killing four people in what officials said was a “business dispute.” During a Thursday press conference, police said they were looking into whether Gonzalez chained the gates to the Orange County office complex and lay in wait before opening fire and killing four people—including a […]

George Floyd’s girlfriend broke down in tears on the stand Thursday as she told jurors about her three-year relationship with the 46-year-old “mama’s boy” who loved his children, food, and exercise—but struggled with a “life-long addiction” to opioids, like so many Americans. “Floyd liked to work out every single day, lifting weights. He did sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, just within his house. He would go biking…he loved […]

A former employee of luxury mattress manufacturer Hästens filed a lawsuit against the company on Wednesday, alleging its CEO fostered a “deeply misogynistic and sexist work culture” and pushed his bizarre spiritual beliefs on staff, including mandatory hypnotherapy. In the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, Lizandra Vega claims that after joining the company in January 2020 as an executive recruiter she endured sexual harassment, wage […]

When George Floyd handed Christopher Martin a $20 bill to pay for a pack of cigarettes, the 19-year-old Cup Foods employee was immediately suspicious. “When I saw the bill I noticed it had a blue pigment to it…I found that odd so I assumed it was fake,” Martin told a Hennepin County courtroom on Tuesday, noting that he “took it anyways” and allowed the 46-year-old to […]

An off-duty Minneapolis firefighter and trained EMT testified Tuesday that she begged officers to let her help George Floyd as he died—but one of the law enforcers “didn’t let her into the scene” and told her off. “If you really are a Minneapolis firefighter then you know better than to get involved,” Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao told Genevieve Hansen, according to her testimony in Hennepin […]

A Texas lifestyle coach and essential oils guru has been charged after storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with her QAnon-obsessed boyfriend who documented “patriots [going] to war” on his social media. Elizabeth Rose Williams, a Kerrville, Texas resident, and her boyfriend, Bradley Stuart Bennett, were arrested last week for violent entry and disorderly conduct and knowingly entering a restricted building. In a newly unsealed […]

Moments before opening arguments in the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck, the 46-year-old’s family issued a message to prosecutors: “America is watching.” “It’s cold out here, but the heat is on,” his brother Philonise Floyd, flanked by family and attorneys, said ahead of Derek Chauvin’s long-awaited trial in Hennepin County court on Monday in front of dozens […]

Hours before Oklahoma pastor David Charles Evans was fatally shot in his bed on Monday morning, the 50-year-old warned his parishioners that the devil would seek to “destroy and kill them” for witnessing God’s power. “Sometimes, I just stop and think. If the devil is not attacking you with everything he’s got in trying to destroy and kill you, maybe [it’s] because you’re not the reason […]

A right-wing video blogger accused of calling a cop a “fucking oath breaker” and “piece of shit” while he stormed the Capitol in January wants a federal judge to remove his court-mandated GPS monitor—insisting he loves law enforcement and has led an “exemplary life” with a “Christian upbringing.” Anthime Joseph Gionet, the far-right activist better known as “Baked Alaska,” was charged in January with violent entry […]

A former Marine who broke into a Minnesota home and fatally shot a 65-year-old man was acquitted of murder on Wednesday, with a judge ruling that due to his mental illness he “did not understand that his act was wrong.” Brady Zipoy, 24, was found not guilty of second-degree intentional murder for the June 8 death of Timothy Guion after Scott County District Court ruled his […]

Hours after thousands of MAGA rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, sent a text message to his followers comparing their coordinated effort to that of revolutionaries during the Boston Tea Party. “The founding generation Sons of Liberty stormed the mansion of the corrupt Royal Governor of Massachusetts, and trashed the place. They also jumped on board a ship carrying East […]

Oath Keeper Kelly Meggs wasn’t planning to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6 alone. On top of the more than two months of preparation and coordination with fellow members of the far-right group, the 52-year-old boasted that he was keeping busy forming alliances with the Proud Boys and other paramilitary groups ahead of the insurrection, new messages released by federal prosecutors suggest. In the private Facebook […]

The Boulder Police Department on Monday responded to an “active shooter” situation at a local supermarket. While details of the incident remain unclear, police told The Daily Beast that reports of a shooting at a King Soopers grocery store on Table Mesa Drive came in around 2:30 p.m. local time. Authorities have asked residents to avoid the area. The incident comes at the heels of a […]

A federal judge on Monday blasted the West Virginia man accused of attacking Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with bear spray during the Jan. 6 siege, calling his actions “an assault on our nation.” “I’m very aware that my rulings affect the person in front of me and everyone who loves them,” Magistrate Judge Michael John Aloi said as he ordered George Tanios to be detained […]

Sun Cha Kim was “a fighter.” After immigrating to the United States from Seoul, South Korea to provide for her family, the 69-year-old worked “two to three jobs” even though she spoke “very little English.” But the mother-of-two never complained—and was seen as a “rock” for her three grandchildren. “Stay strong in life…when you’re happy, I’m happy,” she would tell her grandkids during weekly phone calls, […]

For almost two weeks, police have been desperately searching for Sarm Heslop, a British flight attendant who vanished from a boat off the coast of the U.S. Virgin Islands. That search, however, has become increasingly harder after her American boyfriend, 44-year-old Ryan Bane, stopped cooperating with police and barred them from searching the vessel. To make matters worse, it appears Bane has a history of domestic […]

The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office is having a bad day. In a Thursday statement, Sheriff Frank Reynolds tried to explain why department spokesperson Jay Baker pinned Tuesday’s massage parlor shootings on a 21-year-old white man’s “really bad day”—saying Baker was also having a tough time. “Comments made by Cherokee County Sheriffs Office Captain Jay Baker have become the subject of much debate and anger,” Reynolds said. […]

A retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier is facing charges after allegedly attacking several police officers, including beating one with a flagpole, during the Capitol riots. Jeffrey McKellop, from Virginia, has been charged with several crimes, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly weapon, and violent entry. Prosecutors allege that during the Jan. 6 siege, McKellop can be seen fighting with a line […]

At least eight undocumented people are dead after a head-on collision during a high-speed chase with law enforcement in south Texas, marking the latest grisly tragedy as U.S. officials scramble to respond to a spike in desperate border crossings. Authorities say the crash occurred outside Del Rio at around 1:30 p.m. on Monday, after Texas Department of Public Safety troopers began to pursue a speeding red […]

At least eight people were injured when a driver plowed into a sidewalk near San Diego City College Monday morning, then fled the scene. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department told The Daily Beast that the driver, who has not been identified, hit several people in a tunnel underneath the downtown college at around 9 a.m. local time before running off. Officers arrived at the tunnel shortly […]

A New Mexico man who is sought in connection with the murders of at least five people, including his ex-wife, in two states has been arrested after a nation-wide manhunt. Sean Lannon, 47, was arrested Wednesday by U.S. Marshals in St. Louis after being wanted in connection with a spree of murders in the last week. On Monday, an unidentified man was killed in New Jersey […]

A British police officer has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Sarah Everard, a London woman who has been missing for a week. The Metropolitan Police on Wednesday said the officer, who has been identified as a 40-year-old serving in the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the disappearance of Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive. Authorities said Everard went […]

Jury selection began Tuesday in Derek Chauvin’s high-profile trial—despite an ongoing legal dispute over the possible reinstatement of a third-degree murder charge against the former Minneapolis police officer. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill on Tuesday made the unusual decision to move the 44-year-old’s trial forward, worrying prosecutors who argued this week that proceeding before the third-degree charge has been decided on by an appeals court could […]

When Whitney Murphy was found fatally shot in her Idaho home in 2014, authorities thought her death was the tragic result of a home invasion. Now, six years later, authorities are pointing the finger at her husband—whom they allege murdered the 26-year-old in a staged robbery just weeks after taking out a lucrative $650,000 life insurance policy in her name. Jimmy Lee Murphy, 32, was slapped […]

A Dallas police officer has been arrested for allegedly ordering the kidnapping and murder of two people. Bryan Riser, who has been with the Dallas Police Department since 2008, now faces two counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of two victims, 31-year-old Lisa Saenz and 61-year-old Albert Douglas, in 2017. Authorities allege that Riser paid an old friend almost $10,000 to kidnap and […]

The self-described white nationalist who stormed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and posed for gleeful photos during the Capitol riot doesn’t believe he should be in jail—and he’s had a temper tantrum in court to make his opinion known. “They’re dragging this out. They’re letting everyone else out,” Richard “Bigo” Barnett yelled during his Thursday court hearing, insisting that “it’s not fair” that he is still […]

After almost four decades, a 70-year-old Colorado man has been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of two women who were most likely hitchhiking when they disappeared. Alan Lee Phillips was arrested on several charges, including kidnapping and murder, for the 1982 deaths of Annette Schnee, 21, and Barbara “Bobbi Jo” Oberholtzer, 29, the Park County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday. Authorities say the women, who […]

A North Dakota state representative is facing growing calls to step down over allegations he’s repeatedly sexually harassed staff members and interns. Now, one of his Republican colleagues has come forward, revealing she was forced to move her seat on the House chamber floor to escape his harassment. In a Saturday statement, Rep. Emily O’Brien (R-Grand Forks) said the inappropriate behavior by Rep. Luke Simons (R-Dickinson) […]

Jessica Watkins, an Oath Keeper accused of preparing and training for at least two months to “fight hand to hand” to take over the Capitol, spoke out publicly for the first time in court Friday, claiming she plans to leave the far-right paramilitary group behind. “My fellow Oath Keepers have kind of turned my stomach against it,” Watkins said during an afternoon detention hearing. “We’re done […]

Days after Sen. Ted Cruz ditched Texas during a deadly winter storm for the sandy beaches of Mexico, the Republican made light of the scandal in a bizarre speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando. “I gotta say, Orlando is awesome. It’s not as nice as Cancun, but it’s nice,” Cruz quipped in his speech, titled “Bill of Rights, Liberty, and Cancel Culture.” The […]

A Pennsylvania teenager accused of fatally stabbing her disabled older sister had previously said she was having “suicidal and homicidal thoughts,” authorities have revealed in court records. Claire Elaina Miller, 14, has been charged with homicide after hysterically calling authorities on Monday night to admit she stabbed her sister, 19-year-old Helen Miller, while her parents were asleep, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s office. The […]

A Pennsylvania teenager is facing charges after allegedly fatally stabbing her wheelchair bound older sister—then hysterically calling 911 to confess to the crime. Claire Elaina Miller, 14, has been charged with homicide after calling authorities on Feb. 22 to admit she stabbed her older sister, 19-year-old Helen Miller, while her parents were asleep, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s office. The elder Miller, who had […]

As the coronavirus raged through communities across the U.S., some fed-up gym owners defied state lockdown restrictions in the name of fitness—and freedom—insisting an indoor workout was harmless. “All of our other safety measures have kept our members safe and as you can tell with the 83,000 visits and no outbreaks linked to the facility,” Ian Smith, a co-owner of Atilitis Gym in New Jersey, told […]

All seven Rochester officers involved in the death of Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who suffocated to death after police pinned him to the ground, have been cleared of wrongdoing, authorities said Tuesday. New York Attorney General Letitia James said that while her office “presented the strongest case possible,” a grand jury decided “not to indict any officers” involved in the March 23, 2020 death. […]

The top law enforcers in charge of ensuring the U.S. Capitol was secure on Jan. 6 claimed that a series of unanswered calls, withheld information, and conflicting orders led to the systematic breakdown that allowed thousands of MAGA rioters to breach the government building. Testifying before two Senate committees on Tuesday, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund slammed the Pentagon for taking hours to send in […]

The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug cartel leader who was sentenced to life in prison, has been arrested for her alleged role in the international drug trafficking scheme. Emma Coronel Aispuro, 31, was arrested on Monday at Dulles International Airport in Virginia and faces a slew of charges, including “participating in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana for importation […]

The Aurora, Colorado, police officers who stopped Elijah McClain as he was was walking home from a convenience store—and then put him in a carotid hold in which he repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe before injecting him with ketamine—did not have any legal basis for the August 2019 altercation, an independent investigation has concluded. The 157-page report, commissioned by the City of Aurora after McClain’s death […]

A retired Ohio couple who joined the Oath Keepers have been charged with conspiracy for allegedly plotting for months with other members of the far-right militia group to storm the U.S. Capitol. Sandra Parker, 60, and her husband, Bennie Parker, 70, have been charged with several federal crimes, including conspiracy, destruction of government property, and aiding and abetting, for their plan to disrupt the Jan. 6 […]

A seemingly politically connected Maryland man has been charged after allegedly fighting a crowd of cops multiple times during the Jan. 6 riot and screaming into a fellow rioter’s live-stream, “We’re not backing away; this is our house.” Daniel Dean Egtvedt, a self-described “award-winning sales professional,” has been charged with several crimes, including assaulting an officer and obstruction of justice. According to a newly unsealed criminal […]

The father of a MAGA-loving Georgia teen who allegedly shoved a police officer while forcing his way into the Senate chamber on Jan. 6 regrets bringing his son to D.C.—and pushing baseless voter fraud conspiracy theories on his family. “I feel responsible for bringing him up into that environment. I feel embarrassed that we drank in a lot of this rhetoric from so-called leaders that never […]