A Georgia preschool assistant has been accused of shooting dead her high school sweetheart in their home. Mary Katherine Higdon, 24, was charged with murder after her 23-year-old boyfriend Steven Freeman was shot at their Griffin home last Wednesday.
A woman pulled from the Kansas River on Friday intentionally drove a vehicle into the water to kill her two children, criminal charges filed Monday allege. One of the children in the car, her 5-year-old daughter, did die. The other, her 1-year-old son, was rescued from the river in critical condition, and remained in intensive care Monday.
Two teen brothers are behind bars after they told police they beat their mother to death with a hammer and then buried her in the desert. Michael Wilson and Dakota Saldivar, both 17, confessed to the crime and said they murdered their mother Dawn Liebig because they didn't like her parenting style.
A California girl who claims she was trapped in a world of sex trafficking until recently credits a South Sacramento postal worker with her rescue. via Knit