After a month-long search in "grueling and hazardous" conditions, Chatham County authorities said they'd found human remains believed to be 20-month-old Quinton Simon in a local landfill. His mother Leilani Simon has been charged with murder.
District Judge Steven W. Boyce issued an order on Tuesday declaring Lori Vallow once again "fit to proceed with trial" after a mental health competency hearing last week.
Charges are pending against Heidi Matheny in the death of her 93-year-old grandmother, Alice Matheny, after she allegedly confessed to drowning the elderly woman in a sink.
“I just killed my whole family,” Michael Paton told emergency dispatchers about his wife, Tamara, and their teenagers Kyndel and Evan in February 2021.
Prosecutors in the case oppose the move, but Daybell's lawyers say the couple will offer "mutually antagonistic defenses" that would make it impossible for both to be acquitted if tried together.
Yanelly Solorio-Rivera and her newborn daughter, Celine, were allegedly murdered in their sleep by her sister, Yarelly Solorio-Rivera, and Yerelly's boyfriend, Martin Arroyo-Morales, in September.
Megan Hargan was convicted of murdering her mother and sister and attempting to stage the crime scene to look like a murder-suicide. On Wednesday, a judge overturned her conviction after finding a juror acted inappropriately when trying to test whether such a suicide was even possible.
Leticia McCormack and her parents, Stanley and Adella Tom, have been charged with abusing and murdering McCormack's 11-year-old adopted daughter Arabella.