Former megachurch leader Leticia McCormack and her mother, Adella Tom, were ordered held without bail in the death of McCormack's 11-year-old adopted daughter Arabella McCormack.
Prosecutors had initially sworn out arrest warrants for five members of the Makarenko family in an August 2021 incident that left a gay man permanently blind. They've now declined to prosecute Pavlo Makarenko and dropped charges against his twin brother, Vladyslav.
A woman extradited from South Korea made her first court appearance in New Zealand Wednesday after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases.
The FBI - Atlanta used DNA to confirm that bones found at a Savannah-area landfill belonged to missing 20-month-old Quinton Simon. Leilani Simon, the boy's mother, has already been charged with his murder.
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.
