Crime Alert Hourly Update

Shock ripples through a small North Carolina town after its police chief is jailed on child sex charges, with prosecutors detailing allegations involving secret photos taken while a child slept. A tight-knit Missouri community is mourning after a one-year-old boy died in a tragic accident involving a toy slide at an in-home daycare. Drew Nelson reports.

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Barry Morphew has once again entered a plea of not guilty in connection with the alleged murder of his wife, Suzanne Morphew, who was reported missing over three years ago. Suzanne's remains were discovered in September 2023, following her disappearance on Mother's Day in May 2020.

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In Tennessee, a driver fell victim to a "targeted attack" when he was carjacked and abducted by individuals masquerading as police officers.

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A toddler’s fatal shooting inside an Alabama home is now a criminal case as prosecutors charge his mother, saying unsecured firearms turned a brief moment of inattention into a deadly outcome. A running car is stolen in Atlanta with a sleeping girl inside, a case officers call a parent’s worst nightmare. Drew Nelson reports.

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A Michigan probate judge who called herself a “new racist” is now off the bench after more than a year on paid leave following secretly recorded calls. A Texas death row inmate convicted of a brutal double killing is now two weeks from execution after exhausting his appeals. Drew Nelson reports.

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During a court appearance in Clay County, Daricka M. Moore entered not guilty pleas to a total of 11 charges, which encompass capital murder, first-degree murder, attempted murder of a minor, attempted sexual assault, burglary, and vehicle theft, but told reporters he killed “13”.  

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An arrest warrant accuses the actor of engaging in illegal sexual activities with twin boys aged 11.

Body of missing Chicago teacher found. 

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• Seventy years later, an Alabama disappearance remains the state’s longest-running cold case

• Mississippi authorities charge a suspect after six people are killed in a series of shootings

• A former federal agent goes on trial in Virginia in the deaths of his wife and another man

• Florida schedules its first execution of the year in a case dating back to 1989

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A jealous ex-husband will be hauled back to Ohio to face charges, and the needle, for the Ohio execution death of a beloved dentist & his wife. 

A monster father is convicted for committing a decade of death, slaughtering his 5 infant children and then tossing them out like trash. One baby boy was found stuffed in a sunken cooler.  Plus, a tyke's telephone trouble leads to a pardon by police. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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A So Cal woman unleashed by a judge after killing a cyclist allegedly murders two more innocent people in a high-speed hit & run. 

A stalker ex-husband is indicted in the smothering chemical execution ambush - that melted a mom of threes insides. Plus, Cali cops on the hunt for a "less attractive" Jason Statham. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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