A dead body that witnesses believed was a burning mannequin was found in an open field in Ruskin, Florida this weekend.
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A dead body that witnesses believed was a burning mannequin was found in an open field in Ruskin, Florida this weekend.
On Saturday evening, a Kansas man notified authorities after stumbling upon a skeleton on his search for deer antlers.
According to People, authorities are investigating the discovery of an unnamed man who was found wrapped in a plastic sheet inside a shopping cart. The victim was found near the entrance of a Food Maxx grocery store in Chico, California, and it is believed he was left there for multiple days.
Amber-Leah Valentine, 41, and Jon Imes, 41 were among three people arrested after they allegedly told police that their 16-year-old son ran away when they actually discarded and hid his dead body. According to People. Valentine and Imes have been charged with felony abandonment/concealment of a dead body.
According to People, Keylin Yolibeth Chavez-Dominguez, 20, was last seen by her family and friends on Dec. 30, 2022, around 6 p.m. in her apartment. She was reported missing on Jan. 2, 2023. The search for Chavez-Dominguez has come to a tragic end nearly a month after her disappearance after authorities found her body in a park.
In 1991, hunters discovered the body of an unknown individual in a shallow grave near a farm in Ohio. Authorities have finally identified the John Doe as Robert A. Mullins, who had gone missing between 1988 and 1989.
Richard Cottingham, 76, plead guilty Monday to the 1968 murder of Diane Cusick near New York City and confessed his involvement in four murders. Cottingham is believed to be one of America’s most prolific serial killers and has previously been convicted of 11 other killings.
Cecily Aguilar, 24, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of accessory to murder after the fact and three counts of false statements or representation in her involvement in the 2020 murder of Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen.
The Chatham County Police Department announced Monday the arrest of Leilani Simon, 22, in the murder of her 20-month-old son Quinton Simon following the discovery of remains police believe belong to Quinton.
A man called the police after his dog returned carrying what appeared to be a severed arm over the weekend. Police traced the rest of the body minus the victim’s head to an abandoned house. As of now, the victim has not been identified.
Judson Taylor of Chicago was charged with murder Monday morning after sanitation workers found parts of a dismembered body last week in the city’s Austin neighborhood.
In 2021, Spanish teacher Nohema Graber was found beaten to death with a baseball bat. An Iowa court has now established a “poor grade” as the motive for her killing by Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale, who were charged with her murder. Miller’s lawyer now seeks to suppress evidence regarding court documents as their hearing takes place.
Melissa Towne, 37, was charged with capital murder Monday after authorities allege she stabbed and strangled her 5-year-old daughter, Nichole, before wrapping her body in trash and mesh bags and taking her to a local hospital.
Halloween 2010 was meant to be like any other day for 16-year-old Devon Griffin. Noticing how quiet his home was, he attempted to search for his mother and stepfather, Susan and William Liske. As he entered their bedroom, he found a blanket pulled over their heads. Believing it was a Halloween prank, he removed the blanket from their heads. His gruesome discovery would lead to his stepbrother, BJ’s, arrest for the brutal murders of Susan and William Liske, and Susan’s son Derek Griffin.
Prosecutors in Merced County, California charged Jesus Manuel Salgado Monday with four counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances following the quadruple murder of a California family.
In Lawton, Oklahoma, 1977, the parents of nineteen-month-old Nima Louise Carter put their daughter in her crib on Halloween night. The next morning, Nima was missing. She was eventually found a month later in a fridge in an abandoned home. To this day, her case remains unsolved.
In Philadelphia, February 1957, a college student came across a box discarded in the woods, which held the body of a malnourished boy between the age of three and seven. The cause of death appeared to be blows to the head. While several major theories have been developed as to who the boy was and what happened to him, his case remains unsolved after over sixty years.
As the front woman for Seattle-based rock band The Gits, Mia Zapata was building herself a promising career before she was killed on July 7, 1993. Her killer would walk free for ten years before finally being linked to her brutal murder.
Richard Wilson, 21, was arrested Sunday after he allegedly killed his parents, Richard Wilson, 47, Ellen Otterman, 50, his sister Rudy Wilson, 16, and his niece, 5-year-old ReNaya White.
On July 27, 1981, six-year-old Adam John Walsh was abducted from a Sears department store in Hollywood, Florida. His severed head would be found two weeks later along a Florida Turnpike. In the aftermath of the horrifying crime Adam’s father John Walsh became a victims rights advocate.