The victim told police that Sammy Martz held her hostage, “threatened to kill her and had burnt her with a torch on her stomach and her leg,” per charging documents.
Shane Shelton and Valeria Hamilton have been charged in the death of her son, Ethan Belcher, whose other family says he had “over 100 cigarette burns on his body” in addition to the wounds that caused his death.
Memphis police officers Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, Jr. and Justin Smith were fired on Jan. 20 following an internal probe into the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols.
Teacher Telma Boinville, 51, was working as a cleaner to earn money on the side, when she was murdered by Stephen Brown and, allegedly, his girlfriend Hailey Dandurand in 2017.
Kayla Kelley, 33, had planned to blackmail Ocastor Ferguson, friends told police, after she discovered her boyfriend was married and using an alias, per an arrest affidavit.
The family of the 6-year-old, who hasn’t been identified, insisted that the firearm their son used to shoot 25-year-old first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner was “secured."
“Flood the area with her precious face," the Cornelius Police Department told their community on Facebook this week, hoping to generate more tips in the case.
