All tagged child murder
According to People, the search for a missing two-year-old Taylen Mosley has been called off by St. Petersburg police after he was found dead inside an alligator mouth. An Amber Alert was issued for the toddler on Wednesday and the search involved the state, federal, and county authorities.
Veronica Youngblood, 37, was convicted last week of killing her two daughters, Sharon Castro, 15, and Brooklyn Youngblood, 5. The Virginia woman fatally shot the young girls in their McLean home on Aug. 5, 2018.
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.
British nurse Lucy Letby, who is accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder another ten, began crying in court when a doctor gave his testimony about a child Letby attempted to kill.
Carlos Lugo, 14, was last seen on Jan. 21, 2023, after his mother, Rosa Lugo, dropped him off at a friend’s house. According to People, the teenager was reported missing on Jan. 23, 2023. His body was found in a field on Feb. 4, 2023.
After fifty-five years, the child known as “the boy in the box” has been identified by Philadelphia Police as 4-year-old Joseph Augustus Zarelli.
Jayveyon Burley, 22, of Inglewood, California, was charged Tuesday with the murder of his 1-year-old daughter Leilani Dream Burley after her remains were found in the Los Angeles River.
In October 2021, police discovered the body of four-year-old Judah Morgan. Authorities have since discovered a video of Morgan’s father, Alan Morgan, repeatedly punching his son before his death. Alan Morgan has been sentenced to seventy years in prison.
In May 1979, Etan Patz, then six years old, left his parent’s apartment in Soho, Manhattan. He never returned home, and it would be decades before Patz’s case would be solved. The notoriety of his disappearance, however, would label him as one of the first “milk carton kids.”
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.
April Wright, 28, of Merrillville, Indiana plead guilty Tuesday to one count of felony neglect resulting in the death of a dependent after months of neglect led to her 10-year-old brother’s 2020 death. Her wife, Rachel Wright, 28, has also been charged with the boy’s murder.
Texas woman Taylor Parker was sentenced to death Wednesday following her conviction on capital murder charges last month. In October 2020, she killed Reagan Simmons-Hancock who was 34 weeks pregnant with the intention of taking her unborn child.
Indiana State Police Superintendent Doug Carter announced Monday that 50-year-old Richard M. Allen was arrested Wednesday in the murders of Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14. Williams and German were killed in February 2017 in Delphi, Indiana. Their murders have been known nationally as the “Delphi Murders.”
Fourteen years ago this week, tragedy tore through the close-knit family of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson. When Jennifer's sister Julia Hudson tried to separate herself from her possessive husband, William Balfour, domestic abuse escalated to triple homicide.
Nearly three years after five-year-old Harmony went missing, her father, thirty-two-year-old Adam Montgomery has been charged with her murder. Harmony was last seen in December 2019 and not reported missing until December 2021.
On Halloween night in 1974, Texas, Timothy O’Bryan ingested Pixy Sticks supposedly given to him while he was out trick-or-treating and died an hour later. Police would discover traces of cyanide mixed with the sugar. Timothy’s father, Ronald O’Bryan, would later be arrested and executed for his son’s murder.
Elizabeth Olten was just 9 years old when she disappeared from her neighbourhood in St. Martins, Missouri on October 21st, 2009. Authorities were puzzled as to how this sweet girly-girl could have vanished so suddenly, and so close to home. The mystery deepened when the child was found brutally murdered two days later. The whole community was shaken when an unlikely suspect was identified.
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.
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.
On Halloween in 1974, father of two Ronald Clark O’Bryan took his children, Timothy and Elizabeth, trick-or-treating in their neighborhood. Just after Timothy ate a pixy-stick later in the evening, he began complaining of stomach pains and ultimately collapsed. He would later die from cyanide poisoning and his father would be dubbed ‘The Candyman’ for his role in Timothy’s murder.
