A South Dakota teen pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the October 2019 killing of 16-year-old Shayna Ritthaler.A Colorado man is facing two counts of attempted murder following an alleged stabbing attack on his parents.Finally, in Australia, police arrested a suspect in the 1988 murder of American mathematician, Scott Johnson, whose body was found under a beach-side cliff. Johnson’s death was initially ruled a suicide, but a 2017 coronary inquest found he was likely ‘thrown, frightened or hounded’ off the cliffs by two or more people, in an anti-gay hate crime.

May 13, 2020

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Multiple law enforcement agencies in California are hunting for an armed suspect, who allegedly ambushed Paso Robles police officers on Wednesday morning.A New York woman has been charged with the murder of 100-year-old WWII veteran, Gerald Early.Finally, an Ohio inmate, who has pleaded guilty to hiring a hit man to murder a social worker, filed a lawsuit against the intended victim, demanding $25,000 in damages for infliction of mental and emotional distress.

June 12, 2020

A man involved in a slow-speed chase in Fort Lauderdale is being investigated in connection with a double homicide.In Texas, a three-month-old girl was found dead in a submerged vehicle, after allegedly being abducted by her father.Finally, Steven Carrillo, an air-force staff-sergeant, who is accused of ambushing two Santa Cruz County sheriff deputies, made posts condemning the police in the 48 hours before the incident.

June 11, 2020

A Utah mother allegedly drove her minivan into a golf-course pond, with her 18-month-old son still strapped into his car seat, killing the child.Miami-Dade police are investigating the murder of Aubrey Figg, who was discovered dead inside her Miami Beach apartment last week.Finally, prosecutors in Virginia say that a man who drove his truck into a crowd of protesters in Richmond is a self-proclaimed leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

June 10, 2020

An Arizona couple has been charged in connection with the death of Brittany Hand.Authorities in Texas have issued an Amber Alert for seven-month-old Serenity Berry, who is believed to have been kidnapped by her mother.An Active-Duty Air Force Sergeant is accused of being behind an ambush attack that killed one Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputy and left another critically injured.Finally, additional details come out in the West Virginia slayings of Jonathan Riddle, Heather Grogg, and Danielle Tyler.

May 13, 2020

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