Katie Sorenson was convicted of falsely reporting a crime for claiming in a viral social media video and to police that a Latino couple, who have since come forward as Eddie and Sadie Martinez, attempted to kidnap her young children.
Heather Barron and Kareem Leiva were convicted of first-degree murder in the 2018 death of Anthony Avalos, who they subjected to horrific, sustained abuse.
In 2004, police in Pennsylvania and Michigan realized two rape cases from years earlier were connected. Genealogical DNA testing and spittle left behind on a coffee cup led them to finally arrest Kurt Rillema for the two sexual assaults on Monday.
"It keeps me up at night thinking that whoever did this to her — blunt force trauma to the head and neck, I mean that is violent — that person is walking around," said Ariel Hamby, the stepsister of slain mother-of-three Joanna Speaks.
The body of Tiera Strand, 25, was discovered in a ditch between Temple and Waco, days after she was seen in an altercation outside a bar in Austin, 70 miles away.
"[Afaf Assad] was left on a bathroom floor with her head exploding. A casino bathroom, where people go to urinate and defecate and do God knows what else. That's how her life ended, not with her family and friends around her," Judge Timothy Freer said at Kimesha Williams' murder trial sentencing.
"You would think if somebody went and crawled up on the rails [of the Golden Gate Bridge] with all those people and bike riders, somebody would have called [911] ... that never happened," said Scott Dudek, a private investigator hired by missing Sydney West's family.
The family of slain Christian Obumseli is suing OnlyFans model Courtney "Tailor" Clenney for failing to "maintain the subject premises in a safe and danger-free manner" in their apartment when she fatally stabbed him last April.
Brett Gitchel, 46, is expected to be charged with the murder of 58-year-old Leticia Martinez-Cosman, who was last seen on a date with him at a March 31 Seattle Mariners game.
