Crime Alert Hourly Update

A U.S. Army sergeant is charged at both the state and federal level after police say a three-year-old boy was beaten because he did not want to learn his ABCs. An overnight bus ride from New York City to Washington, D.C., spirals into chaos after passengers say the driver kidnapped them and refused to take them to their scheduled destination. Drew Nelson reports.

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A father called 911 to report that he had killed his children. Police learn that he was busy on the dating app Tinder while his children decomposed in the garage and trunk of his car.  

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The South Carolina Supreme Court has announced the date for oral arguments regarding Alex Murdaugh's appeal following his double murder conviction.

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A six-year-old boy is killed in California after a hit-and-run driver strikes him while he rides his bike in a Pacific Beach alley, then runs him over as she flees. Twin brothers in Texas are accused of carrying out twin killings in Fort Worth, including what investigators believe was a revenge shooting tied to a humiliating armed robbery years earlier. Drew Nelson reports.

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A woman in Alabama now faces up to forty-one years in prison after a jury convicted her in two fatal dog attacks happening one day apart. A teenage fast-food worker in Texas is charged after police say he accidentally shoots himself in the groin while on the clock. Drew Nelson reports.

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The tragic event claimed the lives of five people and left two others injured, including a Raleigh police officer. Investigators report that Thompson began the rampage by fatally shooting his older brother within their family home before taking a shotgun and a handgun into the neighborhood and opening fire.

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Timothy Busfield, the actor and director best known for his role in "The West Wing," has been granted eligibility for release from a New Mexico jail after a judge determined there was insufficient evidence to keep him detained on charges of child sexual abuse.

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In Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, Chazzity Candelario says she was trying to keep her son from eating too many hot dogs when she chained him to an oil tank. A Louisiana child abuse case is unfolding after a kindergarten age boy is found dead weighing less than a house cat, and investigators say his parents starved him to death. Human trafficking fears intensify in the search for a missing Texas teenager after a nonprofit group says it received a phone call believed to be from the girl herself. Drew Nelson reports.

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A NC dad who confessed to killing his 4 kids, allegedly swiped right on a gay dating app as their little bodies rotted in the trunk of his car...warrants reveal. Now authorities are trying to figure out when the hook-ups occurred in conjunction w the homicides. 

An ex-con's freak shot kills a dad-to-be mid-dinner on his couch. The bullet blasted a hole through a wall executing the man. Plus, an ending one writer wasn't banking on! Jennifer Gould reports. 

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A Memphis mom is feeling the heat after she allowed her tot to bikini wax her naked clients. Her lawyers are arguing that bad parenting doesn't amount to child abuse.

A teen who butchered his sleeping mom, 46 times, gets 25 years in a shocking plea flip. Plus, a case of rear end resistance!  Jennifer Gould reports. 

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