Author: Jack Bogart

A Massachusetts woman was attacked and killed by her dog on Monday. The three children of Jeriline Brady-McGinnis, of Boston, released a statement following her death. “Our mother was a loving and caring mother,” the statement said. “The heart and soul of our family is gone.” According to the statement, Brady-McGinnis cooked dinner for her dogs every night. But on Monday, Nov. 18, at around 4:30 p.m., one of her dogs attacked her and her husband. When two police officers arrived, that dog wasn’t on the property. Officers immediately administered first aid to Brady-McGinnis and her husband. “While they were…

The Santa Monica Police Department released bodycam footage Thursday of an attack on an officer in October that ended in a knife-wielding man being shot and killed outside the department’s headquarters.The incident took place at around 5:21 p.m. Oct. 5, when the officer was heading outside the building to talk to a woman about an unrelated call, according to the department. The officer’s bodycam video showed three people outside – the suspect, later identified as 28-year-old Deyaa Abdelhadi Halaibeh, the woman and another man.”Let me talk to them first, and then we can talk,” the officer can be heard telling Halaibeh,…

When Javier Bardem’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menéndez Story costars visited Erik and Lyle Menéndez in prison, he wasn’t very interested in tagging along. The actor, 55, who portrays their late father, José, on the Ryan Murphy-led show, admitted that he “didn’t want to” meet the brothers in prison ahead of his performance. “First of all, I didn’t know much or more basically anything about the story when [series co-creator] Ryan Murphy talked to me, because it wasn’t that big in Spain,” he told Variety. “And then once I dig in, I was like, ‘Wow, this is really, really…

NEW YORK – The defense has rested its case in Daniel Penny’s New York City manslaughter trial – after the final witness took the stand and revealed that Jordan Neely had an open bench warrant at the time of his death.Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran and architecture student, grabbed the 30-year-old Neely in the middle of a schizophrenic, drug-fueled outburst on a subway car that witnesses said included death threats and had them fearing for their lives. Although Neely still had a pulse when Penny let go, he later died.Brian Kemef, who works for the court clerk’s office, revealed that…

A Brazilian citizen living in the United States illegally, and wanted in his home country for drug trafficking, was arrested by federal authorities in a Massachusetts sanctuary city near Boston.The unidentified suspect was taken into custody on Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Somerville, which will be voting next week on a resolution to reaffirm its sanctuary status and would even provide taxpayer-funded legal services to illegal immigrants, while its police department commits to not cooperating with ICE in the detention of illegal migrants.The Brazilian crossed into the U.S. through El Paso, Texas, in 2022 and was…

Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother convicted of killing her two children in 1994, was denied parole on Wednesday, Nov. 20, ABC, NBC and The Washington Post report. Susan appeared before the parole board Wednesday morning, saying, “I know that what I did was horrible,” CNN reports. She reportedly added: “I am a Christian and God is a big part of my life and I know he has forgiven me and I know that is by his grace and mercy … And I just ask that you show that same kind of mercy as well.” Prior to her hearing, on…

A Tennessee cheerleader, 13, was allegedly stabbed to death by a 15-year-old with a pocket knife and left alongside a dirt road. Now, prosecutors hope to try him as an adult in court.Savannah Copeland met with the 15-year-old around midnight Oct. 22, when he allegedly attacked her and fled, according to a petition released by Knox County court Oct. 24. It is unclear how the two teens might have known each other. Michael Copeland, the victim’s father, told 8WVLT his daughter had been missing in Powell for several hours before he tracked her using her cellphone information and found her body.FAMILY…

Six tourists — including an unnamed American man — have now reportedly died in Laos after drinking alcohol that authorities suspect was tainted with methanol. On Friday, Nov. 22, the family of 19-year-old Australian, Holly Bowles, released a statement confirming the teenager had died after being on life support in a Bangkok hospital, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The statement, which was also published by the Associated Press, read: “We are so sad to say that our beautiful girl Holly is now at peace.” “We find comfort and solace in knowing that Holly brought so much joy and happiness to…

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned for president in 2016 in part by styling himself as a tough-on-crime contender who, if elected, would institute a national anti-crime agenda, crack down on immigration and bring “very strong, very swift,” law and order. His incendiary rhetoric and messaging on crime had set off alarm bells among many Democrats and criminal justice advocates ahead of his January 2017 inauguration. “I am the law and order candidate,” he told voters, before adding in the next breath, “I am also the candidate of compassion.”But the second part of his remarks did little to assuage fears that under Trump, the…

John Bennett Ramsey has been married to his wife, Jan Rousseaux Ramsey, since 2011. The Other Side of Suffering author’s 6-year-old daughter, JonBenét Ramsey, was killed on Dec. 26, 1996. JonBenét’s death, which is the subject of Netflix’s three-part docuseries Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét, remains unsolved despite theories of a potential intruder and one alleged false confession. John was previously married to Lucinda Ramsey and to JonBenét’s mother, Patsy Ramsey, from 1980 until her death of ovarian cancer in 2006. On July 21, 2011, 15 years after JonBenét’s murder, he tied the knot with fashion designer Jan per CBS…