2026.8.11 Person of interest questioned after Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree
Tasia Fortune’s mother says that Fortune she was “at peace” the last time they saw each other and that she doesn’t believe her daughter took her own life.
2026.8.11 NYC subtenant’s viral videos on alleged roommate from hell show padlocked doors, surveillance cameras and jars of urine
A Brooklyn subtenant’s videos documenting his roommate from hell have gone viral on social media, depicting a hellish living situation that includes security cameras, padlocked doors — and roomies forced to go to the bathroom in jars.
Kyle “Bobby” Harvey, 30, said he started filming his nightmare antics of roomie Stephen Pulido in what he concluded was an effort by Pulido to force him and his other roommates out of the four-bedroom, $4,200-a-month Bushwick apartment.
2026.8.10 ‘Inmate hopping’ influencer had relationships with up to 75 prisoners — including murderers: court docs
2026.8.10 NY man fatally shoots parents in murder-suicide weeks after they paid $10K bail to get him out of jail
An ungrateful New York man facing a slew of violent charges killed his parents after they spent $10,000 to bail him out of jail — and then took his own life, police said.
Justin Sislo, 35, fatally shot his parents at their home in Madison on Friday, before turning the gun on himself, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office told WSYR.
Police found Sislo and his mom and dad — Donna Walker-Sislo, 72, and Steve Sislo, 76 — dead in the parents’ home after spotting their “obviously deceased” bodies through a window.
The accused killer and victim in a kidnapping and execution that rocked California were once close friends and had known each other for decades, friends and family have revealed.
Shukur Aikebaer, 60, and Zhengfeng Bo, 67, had known each other for about 20 years after meeting in China, friends told the LA Times.
Their relationship eventually brought them to Southern California, where both built quiet lives — until authorities say Bo kidnapped Aikebaer from his Chino Hills home on July 29 and fatally shot him.
The men’s families had once been close, Tony Lu, a neighbor and friend of Bo, said. “There were no controversies,” Lu said. “No disputes.”
Bo met Aikebaer while overseeing a public works project in China’s Xinjiang region, Lu said. Aikebaer was then a local bureaucrat. Bo eventually hired him as an assistant, and Aikebaer helped identify investment opportunities.
Bo’s nephew, who was not identified by his name, told the outlet his uncle had known Aikebaer for 20 years and called him his “brother.”
The pair’s friendship survived their move to America. Bo came to the US in 2019 so his children could attend American schools, according to Lu.
He had made a fortune through construction and investments and once told Lu his assets were worth about $20 million.
Yet he lived relatively simply, spending much of his time gardening and searching for real estate deals. “He built that project from dirt,” Lu said, describing Bo’s business career.
Lu said he once urged Bo to stop working. “I told him, ‘You’ve gained enough wealth. You have a good family, a good house. Why don’t you retire?’” Lu recalled.
But Bo remained focused on business.
That became a problem with a Pasadena apartment development that Aikebaer had helped bring to his attention, according to Lu.
The project eventually became a financial disappointment, with delays, cost overruns and mounting debt.
Bo grew suspicious that project manager Jason Chiyuan Wang had cheated him by inflating construction costs, Lu claimed. Bo sought an accountant to audit the project and later said Wang had refused to provide records.
Bo told Lu that if the audit proved he had been defrauded, Wang should go to prison. But Lu said Bo never threatened Wang or indicated he planned to hurt anyone.
The financial dispute also did not appear to involve Aikebaer directly. Lu said Bo had not blamed his longtime friend for the Pasadena problems.
That makes the violence that followed even harder for those who knew Bo to understand. In 2022, Bo hosted a gathering at his ranch in northern San Diego County where Aikebaer grilled lamb. Lu remembered the occasion as happy.
“Whatever you can imagine,” Lu said of the fruits, vegetables, grapevines and other plants filling the property.
Bo had told Lu he bought a handgun and shotgun to deal with coyotes. The last time Lu saw Bo, the two brothers were working in their Irvine yard.
Authorities allege on July 29 Bo and his brother, Jianquan Bo, 66, went to Aikebaer’s home, shot him and forced him into a car trunk.
During a subsequent traffic stop, Zhengfeng allegedly opened the trunk and shot Aikebaer again before deputies killed the gunman.
Jianquan, who was a passenger in the car, has been charged with murder and kidnapping and has pleaded not guilty.
2026.8.10 Almost half of NYC homeless deaths tied to drug overdoses or alcohol abuse: study
Almost half of the deaths of New York City’s homeless population were tied to drugs and alcohol, an eye-opening new report found.
Some 285 of the 634 homeless residents who died in a one-year stretch from 2024-25 lost their lives because of drug addiction, overdoses or alcoholism, the Departments of Health and Social Services/Homeless Services said in its 2026 report.
The analysis, which covers documented deaths from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, includes deaths in temporary shelters as well as on the streets, in subways, abandoned properties or while in an acquaintance’s home.
2026.8.9 Joyriding thief breaks into Kim Kardashian’s home and steals car
A brazen burgler broke into Kim Kardashian’s $60 million Hidden Hills manse and swiped a car for a wild neighborhood joyride Sunday, cops said.
Deputies from the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s station raced to the sprawling luxury home around 3:45 p.m. amid reports of a suspect who had broken in and was taking items, law enforcement told The California Post.
The sudden death of a California law student, who was found in her London dorm room, has been linked to a popular weight loss drug, an inquest heard.
Josephine Nasr, 19, died of a cardiac arrhythmia in her room at the University of East London in September 2025, an East London Coroner’s Court heard last week, the Daily Mail reported.
The second-year law student studying abroad had been prescribed Tirzepatide by her doctor in California, and an empty vial of the popular weight loss drug was discovered by university staff who found her on Sept. 23, 2025, the outlet reported.
Nasr had a body mass index that indicated she was overweight, not obese.
She died just a week after visiting her home in a gated community in Corona, the inquest heard.
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A massive exotic python with a swollen belly was discovered under the floor of a New Jersey family’s shed — with an X-ray revealing its gluttonous last meal.
Leslie Daley spotted the terrifying reptile slithering through her Freehold backyard as she was watering flowers, her husband, Ed, told WABC.
The Daleys then noticed the snake — identified as a roughly 8-foot-long Burmese Python — had crawled through a hole and taken shelter underneath the floor of their shed.
The family hurriedly called the officials with the Monmouth County SPCA, who removed the shed’s floorboards with the help of a local contractor.
Wild video showed the sprawling python, with a large bulge at the center of its body, being carefully plucked from its unusual home by animal control officers.
Burmese pythons are indigenous to Southeast Asia, not native to New Jersey or the US Northeast, animal experts said.
The exotic snakes, however, can be owned in New Jersey with a permit, NBC New York reported.
An X-ray performed by veterinary staff revealed that the rare snake’s last meal was a large opossum, according to the Monmouth County SPCA.
The python has been placed in a secure enclosure with an experienced snake handler while officials work to find it a long-term home.
“Exotic pets do NOT belong in the wild! Releasing them harms local wildlife, domestic pets, and the exotic animal itself,” the Monmouth County SPCA wrote in a social media post.
“If you can no longer care for a reptile, please reach out to a local rescue or shelter instead.”
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2026.8.9 Retired NYPD Chief Anthony ‘Tough Tony’ Izzo, 75, drowns in his Long Island pool
2026.8.8 NYC granny, 87, unaware she was shot in the neck by armed teens until stranger pointed out wound: ‘I was bleeding so much’
She’s one tough granny.
An 87-year-old Bronx woman who was shot in the neck during a broad-daylight burst of gunfire by a trio of armed teens said she had no idea she’d been hit until a stranger pointed out the blood pouring down her neck.
“I just go through this gate, and I was standing,” Elticeal Grant told The Post Thursday from her home behind a metal gate in Wakefield. “Someone said to me ‘You’re bleeding, you get shot.”
2026.8.8 Young punks busted in insane serial armed robbery spree targeting 77 Bay Area homes and cars
2026.8.8 Tribeca jewelry store worker who strangled boss with zip ties gets 20 years to life
2026.8.8 Teen accused of killing Citadel cadet and friend had lengthy rap sheet with few consequences, sheriff says
Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood and Attorney General James Uthmeier criticize State Attorney Monique Worrell’s record
2026.8.7 Shouting homophobic slurs, attackers beat two men on Manhattan street
2026.8.7 Disturbing cause of death for 9 skiers killed in devastating Tahoe avalanche revealed months after tragedy
All nine people killed in February’s catastrophic avalanche near Lake Tahoe suffocated after being buried beneath five to six feet of snow, authorities confirmed this week.
The revelation came as the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office closed its investigation into possible criminal negligence surrounding the disaster and sent its findings to the county prosecutor for review.
The Feb. 17 avalanche struck a 15-member backcountry group near Castle Peak during a historically intense blizzard.
The group included six clients and three guides with Blackbird Mountain Guides, while five others in the party, including one guide and four clients, survived.
It looked like a scene from a horror film: A figure dressed in a baggy black and red clown outfit, their face partially covered, approaching a Ring camera late at night, glaring into the lens and whispering a warning, “I’m looking for you.” But the encounter was not just an elaborate scare.
Illinois State Police say the person wearing a clown costume in video circulating online is a 15-year-old boy in custody in connection with a fatal stabbing of an elderly man in East St. Louis.
East St. Louis police responded to the residential neighborhood east of Interstate 255 around 10 p.m. Monday after receiving a report of a body in the roadway.
St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. identified the victim as 78-year-old John Wesley Allen Sr., and said he had been stabbed multiple times. The Navy veteran and man of faith had been waiting at a bus stop when he was stabbed in a “random attack” by the teen suspect wearing a clown costume, state police and his family said.
Less than an hour before Allen’s body was discovered, a Ring camera recorded the suspect outside a home three blocks away.
Neighbors described an alarming scene that night: Someone moving between homes, peering through windows and carrying a large knife, CNN affiliate KSDK reported.
“I’m thinking he’s going to kill everybody in the house the way he came,” Lee Palmer, whose mother’s Ring camera recorded the footage, told KSDK. He said he’s glad his mother, who is elderly and lives alone, did not open the door.
Police are reviewing purported footage of the person in the clown costume and collecting additional surveillance video.
Authorities identified the teen and took him into custody at a home late Monday night. He faces a delinquency petition alleging a first-degree murder charge in the fatal stabbing of the victim with a knife.
The teen is not being identified because he is a minor.
The St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s Office has asked the court to allow the teen to be prosecuted as an adult. In the meantime, his case remains under the Illinois Juvenile Court Act, the office told CNN.
The teen is represented by the St. Clair County Public Defender’s Office, the State’s Attorney’s Office said. CNN has reached out for comment.
Allen was a retired bus driver, his family told CNN affiliate KSDK.
“My uncle has been driving buses over 35 years, and this is the first time ever something happened to him,” said Allen’s niece, Tenia Stanford.
The man – who was lovingly referred to as “baby boy” because he was the youngest of six siblings – was a loyal churchgoer who spent his life serving others, the family said.
“He’s the best brother that someone took away,” his sister, Marie Stanford, told KSDK through tears. “I’m going to miss him.”
Allen, who lived in a senior living complex in St. Louis, had gone to the VA hospital for a checkup Monday before planning to visit his sister, who lives near the bus stop where he was attacked, Marie Stanford said.
Tenia Stanford described him as an “amazing man.”
“He was an uncle that you could talk to, you could call,” she told KSDK.
On Monday night, Allen was identified by the hospital bracelet still on his wrist, his family said.
As Allen’s loved ones make funeral arrangements, they are struggling to understand why the random act of violence happened.
“I’m just wondering why this person did this. He didn’t know my brother,” Marie Stanford said.
“Now we have to sit here and go through this pain and suffering because of some random act?” Tenia Stanford said.
2026.8.6 Florida pastor accused of having sex with 14-year-old boy while hiding HIV diagnosis
Timothy Chaneyfield, 42, of St. James United American Free Will Baptist Church in Winter Haven, was arrested and faces multiple charges.
2026.8.6 Nanny says Lindsay Clancy appeared to be a loving mother before killing her 3 children
“I observed a wonderful mom who loved her kids,” Elaine Rossi told the jury on the seventh day of the trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
2026.8.6 Illegal immigrant sex offenders busted in Mississippi child exploitation crackdown: DHS
2026.8.6 Lindsay Clancy sobs while doctor describes autopsy on her baby — as friend reveals visiting mom in hospital after killings
2026.8.5 Former NYC Sanitation big charged with having thousands of vile child sex abuse photos
2026.8.5 NY lawmakers want to bring back sex-fueled bathhouses — 40 years after ban during AIDS crisis
They’re bringing back true hookup “hotspots.”
A steamy new proposal would legalize sex in saunas and bathhouses citywide — repealing a 1980s law that blamed the wet-and-wild romps for spreading AIDS among gay folks.
State Sen. Erik Bottcher and Assemblymember Tony Simone, who represent Manhattan’s LGBT- friendly West Side, said it was time to replace the dusty old ban on “adult-saunas.”
An attorney hopeful lost consciousness and suffered a serious brain injury during the bar exam at Hofstra University, while proctors refused to stop the test and ignored her gasps for help, a shocking lawsuit claims.
Mary Jane Jung, of New Jersey, suddenly slumped out of her chair and allegedly went into cardiac arrest inside the Long Island school’s David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex shortly before a lunch break on July 30, 2025, during the morning session of the New York State Bar Examination, according to court papers filed in Nassau County.
The 36-year-old began “gasping for her air” on the floor, lost consciousness and started turning blue, while the exam’s proctors ordered the hundreds in the exam room to carry on with the test — delaying Jung critical “early minutes” during her alleged medical crisis, her lawsuit against the state and its Board of Law Examiners claims.
Those who tried to come to her aid were “discouraged or admonished,” July 29 court papers said.
“Emergency medical services were not immediately summoned. CPR was not promptly administered. AED equipment … was not deployed during the critical early minutes. “The consequences were devastating.”
Only after the exam ended were emergency responders allowed to treat Jung, according to the court filing.
Hofstra countered that its public safety officers immediately provided CPR and other life-saving measures until paramedics arrived and rushed Jung to nearby Nassau University Medical Center.
The alleged delay allowed Jung’s heart to stop pumping blood which led to a brain injury and required doctors to eventually implant a defibrillator in her chest, court papers said.
“We hope to see accountability through this lawsuit, and bring some closure of a traumatic and painful experience for our client,” Jung’s attorney, Imran H. Ansari, told Newsday.
“More importantly, Ms. Jung’s ordeal will resonate and effectuate change in the manner the test is administered and how those who host the test takers accommodate their needs, particularly in the event of a medical emergency.”
Carmen Beauchump Ciparick, a former judge and current chairperson of the Board of Law Examiners — the group responsible for administering the bar exam — said the university responded to Jung’s emergency within two and a half minutes of her collapsing out of her chair, and three and a half minutes before lunch break.
Jung, a graduate of Fordham Law School, is seeking undisclosed financial damages.
Hofstra University and the state Board of Law Examiners did not immediately respond to
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A friend of the man accused of carrying out a gruesome car-trunk execution said the suspect had raised concerns about a struggling $20 million real estate investment years before the killing.
Tony Lu said Zhengfeng Bo, 67, sought out his help about two years before the deadly attack after raising concerns over a Pasadena apartment complex investment that was no longer generating positive cash flow.
“Basically, there’s no net positive cash flow for him or his business,” Lu told NBC Los Angeles.
Lu added that Zhengfeng, a real estate investor from China, became his friend after the pair were neighbors in Irvine.
“Both our families hung out at his place,” Lu said, adding that he was stunned by the allegations against his former neighbor.
Lu said Zhengfeng also expressed concerns about the victim, Shukur Aikebaer, who was allegedly kidnapped by Zhengfeng before the cold-blooded slaying.
Lu told NBC News that the suspect “was involved in some of his investment.”
“He knew he try to use him to make some money.”
Despite those concerns, Lu said Zhengfeng introduced him to Aikebaer several times over the years and always described him as a “nice family man and businessman.”
Zhengfeng and the owners of the Pasadena apartment complex have been involved in two separate lawsuits — including one filed as recently as last Monday — though the nature of the complaints remains unclear.
Court records show Zhengfeng was the CEO of Panshi Inc., while Aikebaer served as the commercial real estate firm’s chief financial officer and secretary.
Panshi, which owned a 70% stake in the Pasadena apartment complex, has also been locked in a legal battle with Panoptic Development over control of the property after voting in March to remove the company as the building’s manager.
Aikebaer was not named in either lawsuit.
San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said investigators believe Zhengfeng, his brother Jianquan Bo, 66, and Aikebaer had a business relationship and that a dispute between them led to the deadly attack.
Authorities allege the brothers kidnapped Aikebaer from his Chino Hills home on July 29 after first cutting power to the residence in an apparent attempt to lure him outside.
When Aikebaer stepped out to investigate, Zhengfeng allegedly shot him once in the torso before the wounded man was forced into the trunk of a Nissan Altima.
A neighbor’s 911 call reporting gunfire and providing a description of the vehicle helped deputies quickly locate the car and attempt a traffic stop, but the suspects led authorities on a brief pursuit of about 2 miles.
Investigators said Zhengfeng then got out of the vehicle, opened the trunk and fatally shot Aikebaer in the head before sheriff’s deputies returned fire, killing him at the scene.
Sheriff Shannon Dicus previously said deputies were unaware anyone was inside the trunk before the shooting.
Jianquan was arrested and charged with murder and a special-circumstances allegation that the killing was committed during a kidnapping.
He pleaded not guilty Tuesday and is due back in court Aug. 12.
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2026.8.5 Murder-suicide of 6 stemmed from plot to save children from claimed abuse: Officials
Investigators said there was no evidence of the alleged abuse.
The mother and grandmother who were found dead along with four children inside an upstate New York apartment allegedly plotted the family’s murder-suicide to escape reported abuse, investigators said Tuesday.
Mechanicville, New York, Police Department Chief William Rabbitt told reporters that after more than a month of collecting evidence, investigators had an apparent motive for Amy Steadman, 64, and her daughter Sarah Myers, 44.
The mother and daughter and Myers’ four children, Harper Harmon, 13, Hudson Harmon, 11, Gavin Harmon, 10, and Gracelynn Harmon, 10, were found dead on June 23 after they weren’t seen for over a week.
Rabbitt said that planning for the deaths took place as far back as June 5, as Steadman and Myers, who lived in the same apartment building, had been allegedly conspiring through texts about their plot.
Investigators also found handwritten notes from Steadman and Myers where they allegedly indicated they did the killings because they wanted to keep the children safe from alleged abuse from their father, who lives in Utah.
Rabbit told reporters investigators have been unable to verify any abuse claims made by Myers or Steadman. He said the father has denied the allegations.
Brady Harmon, the father of the children, could not be reached for comment.
Harmon told ABC affiliate WTEN in June that he had separated from Myers in November 2019 and was planning on picking the kids up for “first parenting time in six and a half years” before they were killed.
Steadman and Myers allegedly made several purchases at pharmacies for sleeping aids and other prescription medication in the days leading up to the deaths, according to Rabbitt.
The chief said the texts indicated the alleged murder suicide took place on June 10 and those messages allegedly showed Steadman and Myers discussing steps of how to give their children the medications.
One of the texts allegedly read that the medication wasn’t working and that one of the children was aware of what was happening, Rabbitt told reporters.
“Those communications are important because they document far more than planning. They show that Steadman and Myers were communicating and coordinating while the murders were taking place,” the chief told reporters.
Gavin Harmon was allegedly stabbed multiple times with a knife as he tried to defend himself, according to Rabbitt. Steadman allegedly made internet searches including, “Where is the most fatal place to be stabbed,” and “find the carotid artery in the neck,” according to the chief.
Rabbitt said that two welfare checks were made on June 13 and June 17, but got no response. Investigators got no response at Myers’ apartment on June 13, but they did not know that she and the children were at Steadman’s apartment in the same building, according to the chief.
Police were called to the grandmother’s apartment on June 23 after neighbors made a call about suspicious odors. The identities of the family members were confirmed two days later after autopsies.
Rabbitt reflected on how the killings have rocked the town, which is located roughly 18 miles north of Albany.
“Amy Steadman and Sarah Myers consistently portrayed these murders as a way to protect the children,” he said. “Whatever they believed to justify their actions, the murder of four children cannot be described as protection.”
The investigation is ongoing, according to Rabbitt.
2026.8.5 Tupac Shakur was killed in Las Vegas in 1996. Here’s who was there that night
LAS VEGAS (AP) — New details about one of hip-hop’s most enduring mysteries — the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur — could finally come to light in the upcoming trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis.
Davis, 63, is accused of orchestrating the drive-by shooting near the Las Vegas Strip that also wounded rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight. Davis’ jury trial will begin Aug. 10, nearly three years after he was arrested in 2023. He pleaded not guilty.
On the night of Sept. 7, 1996, Shakur was in the passenger seat of a black BMW that Knight was driving when a white Cadillac pulled up on their right side and gunfire erupted. Knight was wounded but survived. Shakur died a week later at the age of 25.
Police and prosecutors say the shooting stemmed from a fierce competition for dominance in a musical genre that pitted East Coast members of a Bloods gang sect against West Coast members of a Crips sect that Davis has said he led in Compton, California.
That night, three others were with Davis in the Cadillac, but none of them faced charges in Shakur’s killing before they died.
Here’s what we know about who was in both vehicles from authorities, court records, grand jury testimony, interviews and Davis’ 2019 tell-all memoir, “Compton Street Legend.”
2026.8.4 Harrowing confession letter revealed after NY grandma and mom kill kids in murder-suicide
The grandmother and mom who murdered four children in an upstate New York apartment before taking their own lives carefully planned for and communicated about the killings, cops revealed Tuesday.
A handwritten confession letter left inside the Mechanicville home where Amy Steadman, 64, was found dead alongside her 44-year-old daughter, Sarah Myers, and Myers’ four children – Harper Harmon, 13; Hudson Harmon, 11, and 10-year-old twins Gavin and Gracelynn Harmon – was signed with the grandmother’s name, Mechanicville Police Chief Bill Rabbitt said during a press conference.
“In that letter, the author accepts responsibility for what occurred and states that they believed killing the children was the only way to keep them safe from alleged abuse in Utah,” Rabbitt told reporters, adding that police could not independently verify any allegations of abuse against Myers or the children.
The kids were supposed to travel to Utah to stay with their father, Brady Harmon, for two months starting just days after they were found dead on June 23. Brady denied all abuse allegations in his interview with Mechanicville police, the chief added.
In the confession letter, “The author also claimed that Sarah Myers had done everything she could and that no one would help her, and acknowledged that the events did not unfold as they planned,” Rabbitt said.
Cops also recovered a series of handwritten notes believed to be penned by Myers inside the apartment.
“Although those writings were unsigned, the author repeatedly referred to ‘my babies,’ expressed anger toward the Utah family court system, made allegations that she and the children had been abused while living in Utah and complained that she had been unable to obtain legal representation,” Rabbitt said.
The chief also revealed the harrowing evidence that led investigators to believe that the mom and grandma “conspired in carrying out the murders of the four children before taking their own lives.”
The investigation found that Steadman had visited multiple pharmacies leading up to the days of the murders, when she and Myers were frequently communicating via text messages about how they were going to carry out the twisted scheme, the chief explained.
“Surveillance footage, purchase records and evidence collected through search warrants documented that [Steadman] obtained multiple doses of over-the-counter sleep aids and multiple medications that had been prescribed to her,” Rabbitt said, adding that “those purchases became even more significant” in light of disturbing text messages sent between the mom and grandma.
Those exchanges revealed “discussions regarding obtaining medications, where the murders would occur, how those medications would be administered, how the children would be brought together, what they would be told and how suspicion could be avoided,” the chief said.
“Those communications confirmed that planning had begun no later than June 5, 2026” – five days before Gavin was repeatedly stabbed to death and the rest of the children were killed by a suspected mass poisoning event, according to Rabbitt.
Disturbing text messages from June 10 reveal the harrowing series of events.
“In one exchange, Sarah Myers instructed Amy Steadman that the medications should be administered between 10:30 a.m. and noon so they could be finished before a scheduled telephone call at 6 p.m. with the children’s father,” the chief said.
Later that morning, “as the children failed to respond in the manner that Steadman and Myers had anticipated,” one of the women messaged the other saying: “‘It’s not working. We need another option,’” Rabbitt said.
“Investigators also recovered a message from Gracelynn, that began, ‘Why would you do that? You both won’t let me puke,’ before describing increasing pain in her stomach.
“Later that evening, Amy Steadman sent a final disturbing message stating, ‘Gracie is aware,’” the chief said.
Investigators also recovered Steadman’s chilling internet search history, which showed “searches about medication reactions, the effects of insulin on non-diabetics and the Utah court system,” Rabbitt said.
“Later searches included, ‘Where is the most fatal place to be stabbed’,” which produced results about a specific artery as well as the neck, the chief added.
Gavin, who had been repeatedly stabbed using a knife, also had a defensive wound, “indicating that he attempted to protect himself during the attack,” the chief heart-wrenchingly revealed.
The final text communication between the mother-daughter duo was received at around 8:41 p.m. on June 10, an hour before surveillance footage captured Steadman visiting a local gas station. She then returned to her apartment, Rabbitt said.
The six family members were found dead last month after a neighbor requested a third welfare check since the relatives hadn’t been seen in 13 days. Cops hadn’t entered the apartment when they were previously called on June 13 and 17, the chief said Tuesday.
The bodies were too badly decomposed for responding officers to immediately identify them, he said at the time.
Rabbitt said that the investigation remains ongoing and that detectives are still waiting for the children’s final toxicology results, though they will likely not share those findings with the public, as they don’t want others repeating the killers’ behaviors.
“Amy Steadman and Sarah Myers consistently portrayed these murders as a way of protecting the children,” the chief said.
“Whatever they believed justified their actions, the deliberate murder of four children cannot be described as protection.”
Brady Harmon told The Post Tuesday that his ex-wife texted him on the day of the murders, claiming that the children were sick.
“I never thought she’d go full on psychopath — both of them,” the grieving dad said.
The dad previously told The Post that the last time he spoke with the children was for 15 minutes on June 7.
“They seemed like happy little kids,” he said.
A funeral for the four children has since been held in Utah, the Times-Union reported.
“We could not bring their bodies home due to the horrific state they were in,” Harmon told the outlet. “Their ashes were spread where my father’s ashes were laid to rest, on top of a mountain here in Utah.”
The Post reached out to the Salt Lake County, Utah, Family Court.
2026.8.4 Authorities arrest arson suspect in connection with one of the devastating Spokane wildfires
Authorities on Monday arrested a 37-year-old man they suspect of starting one of the devastating wildfires tearing through eastern Washington state as many residents were left wondering if their homes had survived.
The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office said 37-year-old Aaron F. Farinacci was arrested and booked on suspicion of arson in connection with the Old Trails Fire. He is being held on $1 million bond. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
The fire that sparked Saturday is one of several burning around Spokane, the state’s second-largest city. They are among the most destructive blazes in state history, together destroying at least 700 structures and forcing roughly 67,000 people to evacuate.
Earlier Monday, some residents returned to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend, covering yards in charred debris. In some cases, only chimneys were left standing.
“There’s nothing to save,” Miriam Sim, 76, said Monday as she and her husband, Daniel Sim, surveyed the ruins of the home where they had lived since 2005.
2026.8.4 What we know about the In-N-Out Burger shooting suspect
The suspect, Chad Williams, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Some details are emerging about the man suspected of opening fire outside an In-N-Out Burger location in Idaho over the weekend, killing three people, as a motive in the mass shooting remains under investigation.
The suspect in Saturday’s shooting — 24-year-old Chad Williams — died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after police say he opened fire near a busy shopping area in Twin Falls.
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumed Monday with diary entries from the months leading up to the killings in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023.
Clancy described feeling anxious and overwhelmed with motherhood, including her struggles to get her newborn Callan to sleep and constant worries of his being sick. She also expressed concerns about going back to work as a labor and delivery nurse, not being able to breastfeed, and feeling disconnected from her children and her then-husband.
“I’m so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to find something physically wrong with me,” she wrote in a Nov. 18, 2022, entry.
Clancy’s defense says she was a loving mother who was overmastered by postpartum psychosis, a dangerous psychiatric condition that afflicts a small proportion of women after childbirth and affects their hold on reality.
Prosecutors contend that she acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged in age from 8 months to 5 years.
Clancy’s lawyers don’t dispute that she killed the children. But in the criminal trial and a medical malpractice lawsuit, her attorneys say the 35-year-old had bipolar disorder that wasn’t fully diagnosed until after the killings.
Her attorneys say her condition seemed to worsen on an ever-shifting lineup of psychiatric prescriptions, some of them problematic for bipolar patients.
Her diary sheds light on the mental health issues at the heart of the case
In the three months before the killings, various clinicians prescribed a range of antidepressants, sleep aids, an antipsychotic and other medications while she reported increasingly profound insomnia, anxiety, despair and confusion about what was real, according to her lawsuit.
Both the prosecution and her defense attorney read pages from her journal Monday as she chronicled those difficult months.
“I want help. I want to be well,” Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington read from one journal entry.
She also wrote of feeling “incredibly sad and guilty” about not breastfeeding and was “obsessed” with Callan’s sleep and nap schedule.
“I have crazy brain fog. I feel like I can’t make a plan,” she wrote in another, undated entry. “I live moment to moment waiting for the next nap time. I’m terrified of Cal getting overtired now because I feel can’t help him.”
In separate lawsuits, Lindsay and ex-husband Patrick Clancy allege that various providers failed her, and should have recognized she was a risk to herself and the children. The providers, at least those who have responded to date, deny the allegations and dispute that she clearly told them she intended to harm the kids.
Lindsay Clancy was seeking help before the killings
When she sought care at a postpartum depression program in late December 2022, providers noted that her symptoms might be due to medication, according to her lawsuit. It says those clinicians told her to taper off the antipsychotic drug and then discharged her after a day.
Clancy checked herself into a psychiatric hospital that New Year’s Eve and spent several days there. Once home, she resumed appointments with her psychiatrist, who last saw her for 17 minutes on Jan. 23, 2023, according to her lawsuit.
The next day, she believed a commanding voice was telling her to “kill the children so you can kill yourself,” according to her lawyers.
That evening, she asked her then-husband to run some errands, a request that prosecutors cast as a ploy to get him out of the house.
Father returns home to a shocking scene
Lindsay Clancy wept at the defense table last week as Patrick Clancy and other witnesses testified.
He told jurors about returning to a horrible scene at their house: a bloodied bedroom, an open window, his wife on the ground below it, the children in the basement, throttled with exercise bands.
“She killed the kids!” he told a 911 dispatcher on a call played in court.
Lindsay Clancy remains paralyzed from the waist down because of the fall.
In the hospital two days later, when a forensic psychologist asked Clancy how she felt, she responded: “horrified.” She also asked if she had a lawyer and whether her body and legs were broken. She was intubated and could only communicate through written messages on a whiteboard, the psychologist testified.
“She then asked, can she have visitors, and where her family is,” Dr. Jhilam Biswas of Brigham and Women’s Hospital recalled.
Doctors testified Monday that 8-month-old Callan was in cardiac arrest when he arrived at a hospital in nearby Plymouth. He needed a ventilator at Boston Children’s Hospital to help him breathe, but did have a heartbeat. He died after three days.
Prosecutors will try to keep the spotlight on Clancy
Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham sought in an opening statement last week to keep jurors’ focus on the defendant, not her doctors.
“This is not a public debate about women’s mental health and how the medical system treats women,” Buckingham said.
If convicted of murder, Lindsay Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.
The New Jersey babysitter who is accused of child sex assault for posting a sick video of a toddler on Snapchat could be getting a plea deal, prosecutors said Monday.
Victoria Anne Cranmer, 25, whimpered and appeared on the verge of tears in a Toms River courtroom as she appeared in pink handcuffs during a short hearing.
Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Lynn Juan said that the Snapchat video, which allegedly shows Cranmer laughing as the child touched her private parts, is the primary evidence in the case.
However, at least one other mother whose children Cranmer watched also reported concerns about her, according to court docs.
Juan said that she and Cranmer’s lawyer were working out a plea deal, but needed more time to hammer out the details
The ex babysitter faces charges of sexual assault, manufacturing of child sexual abuse material, possession of child sexual abuse material and endangering.
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State police released a composite sketch and are asking for help identifying a man whose skeletal remains were found in 1982.
Police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man whose skeletal remains were discovered more than four decades ago in Atlantic County, New Jersey.
The remains were found May 14, 1982, in a marshy meadow next to Golden Hammock Thorofare in Brigantine City, according to the New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit.
Investigators believe the man died sometime between 1981 and 1982. He is also believed to have been a white man between the ages of 35 and 45, about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighing around 165 pounds.
Police shared composite sketches showing what the man is believed to have looked like at the time his remains were discovered.
Anyone who recognizes the individual or has information that could help identify him is asked to contact the New Jersey State Police Missing Persons Unit at 609-882-2000, ext. 2554, or missingpinformation@njsp.gov.
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A bicyclist was stabbed by a hatchet-wielding maniac in the ribs after an argument in Fresno on Monday morning.
The Fresno Police Department received reports about the stabbing on Belmont Avenue and Effie Street at around 7:45 a.m. according to The Fresno Bee.
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2026.8.3 Nancy Guthrie ransom notes were written by two different people, expert claims — and what this could mean
The two Nancy Guthrie ransom notes were not written by the masked prowler seen loitering on the porch of the missing 84-year-old matriarch’s Arizona home, a forensic psychologist has claimed, suggesting two authors with different motives were behind the messages.
Gary Brucato claimed an intelligent person wrote the first note, which demanded millions in cryptocurrency, while someone who is more emotional was behind the second message, which said that Guthrie had died and was “buried in nature.”
“These two ransom notes… do suggest to me two different people who are perhaps experiencing some kind of rupture in terms of their attitude about what happened,” Brucato told NewsNation journalist Brian Entin Friday.
2026.8.3 The surprising reason why Brooklyn Bridge naked jumper may have survived ‘overwhelmingly fatal’ plunge
The miraculous survival of a disturbed man who leaped from the Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday could have come down to a handful of factors — the likeliest being the precise position of his body when he landed in the East River, an expert told The Post.
“Jumping or falling from extreme heights – such as a 270-foot bridge tower – is overwhelmingly fatal,” said Dr. David S. Shapiro, a trauma surgeon with more than 30 years of experience.
“It generates extreme kinetic energy that causes widespread, life-threatening trauma,” added Shapiro, who works in the trauma department at Hartford HealthCare.
2026.8.3 Disturbed Brooklyn Bridge jumper is Kazakhstan activist who plotted plunge on birthday: roommate
The naked man who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge is an activist against Kazakhstan’s government — and bragged he was going to make the daring leap on his birthday, his roommate revealed Monday.
“He was telling me he was going to do it,” Josh Karadag, 43, the roomie of accused jumper Galymzhan Abaildayev told The Post.
“Yesterday was his birthday,” he said, adding he was recently inspired by two people who leaped off the bridge last month.
2026.8.3 Naked jumper who leaped from Brooklyn Bridge and miraculously survived identified
Police have identified the naked man who miraculously survived after jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge Sunday.
Galymzhan Abaildayev, 44, is facing several charges after he was filmed scaling the bridge’s north tower, stripping his clothes and leaping off the north tower on the Manhattan side of the iconic bridge into the East River.
The Brooklyn native also erected several flags on the top of the bridge before he jumped, including a Kazakhstan flag, sources told The Post.
‘I’m sorry, it came out of me. I didn’t know what to do,’ Alexee Trevizo said in the footage
The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that the body camera footage of a woman confessing to hiding her newborn baby in a hospital trash can in an attempt to conceal her pregnancy cannot be used by prosecutors in her murder case because of doctor-patient confidentiality.
Alexee Trevizo, who was 19 when she was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence in 2023, was captured on police body camera admitting to hospital staff and her mother that she dumped the baby boy in the trash after workers reported the incident to authorities.
But the court ruled in a unanimous decision that all statements made in front of a police officer in the hospital room cannot be used at trial because her confession was protected under doctor-patient confidentiality, People reported. The state’s high court also upheld the Fifth Judicial District Court’s ruling that surveillance video showing Trevizo inside the hospital and any body camera footage captured by police were also not admissible in court.
Trevizo’s doctor entered the room with two officers and informed the then-high school cheerleader and her mother that a dead newborn was found in the trash and had to be reported, the body camera footage shows.
2026.8.2 Rotting corpse found with knife in neck inside NYC home: sources
A rotting 58-year-old man’s body was found with a knife sticking out of his neck inside a Brooklyn home Sunday afternoon, according to cops and sources.
Police were summoned to the home for a wellness check when they made the gruesome discovery around 12:41 p.m. inside a brownstone at 716 Madison St. in Bed-Stuy, police said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
It’s unclear how long he was there, but sources said his body was “highly decomposed” with a knife protruding from his neck.
2026.8.1 Officials release Nancy Guthrie ransom note and grim follow up letter in hopes someone recognizes writing patterns
Nearly six months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home in the Catalina Foothills neighborhood of Tucson, Arizona, investigators released the full contents of a ransom note and a follow up investigators believe may contain clues that someone familiar with the alleged kidnappers may recognize.
Law enforcement is urging the public to look at the linguistic patterns of the notes.
Authorities said the messages feature “distinctive patterns of word choice, syntax, and phraseology” that reflect the writer’s unique style that people who knew them could recognize. The notes could also provide insight into the author’s mindset, motives and how their tone changed over time — and provide a new lead that could help bring authorities closer to finding Guthrie.
CNN has reached out to a Guthrie family spokesperson for comment on the release of the notes.
The first, a ransom note sent a day after her disappearance, came from someone who claimed they have her, and that “she is safe but scared” and would not be released until payment, $4 million USD in bitcoin, is received, according to the full messages released by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI Phoenix Field Office on Friday.
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2026.8.1 Savannah Guthrie pleads for answers about missing mom Nancy in new post after ransom notes released
“Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie asked again for answers in the disappearance of her mother Nancy in a message shared Saturday morning, one day after Arizona officials released the ransom notes the Guthrie family received in the days after the 84-year-old’s disappearance.
Nancy Guthrie went missing from her Tucson, Arizona, home six months ago. Guthrie wrote that she and her family have “lived every moment, every breath, and every heartbeat in agony and despair ever since.”
“Every day, we wake up and try to be strong and go on — because that’s what our joyful and resilient Mom taught us to do,” Guthrie wrote on social media, alongside an undated photo of Nancy. “But make no mistake — our hearts are in ruins.”
The second of the two notes shared by the kidnappers said that Nancy Guthrie had “perished shortly after she was taken” and was “buried in nature now.” The note said her death may have been related to heart-related causes.
Guthrie said the family spends “every waking moment thinking of her, longing for her, looking for her,” and wants to “find out what happened to her, so that we can give her the dignity of a proper goodbye — a celebration of her remarkable life that she so deserves.”
Guthrie asked that anyone who recognizes the writing in the ransom notes or who noticed “something different, strange, troubling or just unusual” come forward. She said tips can be given anonymously, and that a “reward is available.” The Guthrie family has offered $1 million for information leading to Nancy Guthrie’s recovery.
“There is a way to end this situation and do the right thing,” Guthrie wrote.
“We will never stop looking for answers — and we will never stop looking for the light. We will always be hoping and praying and believing in the best of our world — in spite of circumstance. This is what our faith makes possible,” she added. “Please. Bring her home.”
The replies to the post were filled with messages of support, including from former CBS “Evening News” host Norah O’Donnell.
The ransom notes were released by the Pima County Sheriff’s Office on Friday afternoon. In a statement, the department said it hoped the public release of the notes would lead to someone recognizing the “distinctive linguistic characteristics” in the messages.
The first message, addressed to Guthrie and sent to the tip line for CBS affiliate KOLD-TV in Tucson on Feb. 2, asks for a multimillion-dollar ransom. The second, sent four days later and addressed to the Guthrie family, said the kidnappers “did not fully grasp the seriousness” of Nancy Guthrie’s physical condition and said her death had been unintentional.
“Nothing you could have done could have changed the outcome. We want your family to know this and hope you all can find peace. We are truly sorry,” the note said.
Guthrie said in March that she believed the notes were genuine and that the family had responded to them.
Authorities believe both missives were likely sent by the person or group of people who kidnapped Nancy Guthrie, according to investigators familiar with the case. Both messages were sent from the same IP address, the investigators said.
Nancy Guthrie was last seen at her Arizona home on Jan. 31. She was reported missing the next day. Despite surveillance images, DNA testing and multiple pleas from Guthrie, no suspect in her disappearance has been identified, and no arrests have been made. Still, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS News on Thursday that the case is “far from being cold” and that law enforcement will “continue to work it.”
A task force of Pima County investigators and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents is continuing to investigate the kidnapping. The FBI tip line is 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324). The Guthrie family is offering a reward of $1 million, on top of the FBI’s reward of up to $100,000.
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The career criminal charged with killing an innocent 12-year-old son of a retired NYPD cop in the Bronx was too much of a coward to face the victim’s family, who packed the courtroom Friday for the routine hearing.
William Ferrer, 45, was a no-show in Bronx Criminal Court — just days after he was slapped with a slew of serious charges, including second-degree murder, for allegedly killing 12-year-old Jacob Freytes and wounding two others last Saturday in the Mount Eden section of the Bronx.
Ferrer, who was brought to the courthouse by the Department of Corrections, had his appearance waived last minute by his attorney Raymond Gazer as both Freytes’ mom and dad, along with other family members, sat inside the courtroom to face their son’s alleged killer.
Freytes, the son of retired NYPD Det. Sgt. Jesus Freytes, was caught in the crossfire during the afternoon gunfire outside Wanda Deli Grocery — where he was struck in the chest by a bullet and died later at a Bronx hospital, prosecutors have said.
Freytes’ anguished mother, Migdalia Martinez, told The Post in an exclusive interview that she fears her son’s murder is just the latest example of crime on the rise throughout the city.
“The system works more for the criminal than they’re gonna work for the victim,” Martinez said in the fiery interview, while criticizing lawmakers for making the city a playground for criminals.
“The city’s making it easier for the criminal. It’s too much. Criminals aren’t scared anymore, the laws aren’t tough anymore,” she said Wednesday.
According to law-enforcement sources, Ferrer — who has a half dozen previous arrests — was trying to settle some beef for his brother with the other men when he opened fire, striking Freytes.
Two men were also hit during the shooting, one in the buttocks and one in the foot, according to the criminal complaint.
Freytes was struck after biking over to the bodega to buy a ball, prosecutors have said.
Heartbreaking security footage showed the poor boy watching the fight before a man pulled out a gun and started shooting, at which point Freytes is seen clutching his chest and running back into the bodega.
In court Friday, prosecutors said they were in the process of presenting the case to a grand jury to secure an indictment on murder and other charges.
Bronx Criminal Court judge Joseph Sorrentino ordered the brute to remain remanded on Rikers Island until his next court appearance on Sept. 17.
Ferrer is charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the shooting.
He faces up to life in prison if convicted on the top charge.
Loved ones and politicians, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, attended a vigil for Freytes Friday night at the scene of the senseless shooting.
“This has been a murder that has shaken this entire neighborhood, borough, and city,” Mamdani said.
“Too many children are being stolen from our city. Too many moments where it becomes too easy to accept gun violence as if it is normal. We will not accept this in this city,” he added.
The youngster’s mom, Martinez, shed tears for her slain son as she spoke to the crowd.
“I would have never thought his life would end here,” she said.x1200
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