Diana Keel, an emergency room nurse, went missing from her home and her husband, Lynn Keel, didn't contact police for several days. Her body was found in a wooded area of Leggett, North Carolina.
Emiel Hunt, who has been charged for the murder of 9-year-old Trinity Love Jones, was previously convicted of child abuse and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Police said Janea Payne left her three children in a parked SUV while she ran into a store to shop, but the vehicle rolled into a nearby creek, quickly submerging the vehicle.
"I knew. I swear to God I knew. ... I woke up the whole house. I said, 'Something's wrong with Shanann,'" Sandy Rzucek said of the day her daughter was murdered.
A 40-year-old British father was slapped with a 16-year prison sentence for enlisting the help of five other men to spray his toddler son with sulphuric acid.
Chrystal Walraven says that she "definitely didn't abandon" her children after police discovered her kids at her dirty home without parents or guardians present.