Jessie Blodgett was a performer and budding activist when Daniel Bartelt raped and murdered her. Her dad Buck has forgiven her killer and turned his pain into activism.
Cody Byrd is being hailed as a hero by local authorities after he confronted a man suspected of trying to kidnap a young girl in a Greensboro, North Carolina Biscuitville, which rewarded the student with free breakfast for a year.
Karen Roche told police she had been waiting 32 years for them to knock on her door after they'd linked her to mystery infant David Paul, who died of exposure in 1988.
“Ashley’s motherly instinct allowed her to protect her young son from the hail of gunfire, which in turn caused her to lose her life,” Ashley Berry’s cousin said. “She was a beloved mother of three and will forever be her children’s hero.”
Investigators discovered five-month pregnant Charli Scott’s maternity skirt near the site of her last cellphone ping. It had been stabbed 20 times where her pregnancy bump would have been.
Horrific hate crimes like the murders of James Byrd Jr., Matthew Shepard, Blaze Bernstein and Heather Heyer sow terror and outrage — but some of them also sparked change.
