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For more than four decades, a woman killed in a hit-and-run was known only as “Laguna Beach Jane Doe.” Now, advances in DNA technology have finally given her back her name. Authorities have identified the woman as Virginia Irene Nelson, known as “Ginny” to her family. She was 46 years old when she was struck and killed along Pacific Coast Highway in January 1982. On January 30, 1982, a passing driver discovered a woman’s body along the side of Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach. Investigators determined she had died only hours earlier and had been struck in a hit-and-run.…
A five-year-old Louisiana boy was so severely neglected that when he died, his emaciated body fit inside an infant-sized body bag, according to deputies, who say it’s one of the most disturbing child neglect cases they have ever encountered. Marlon Perilloux, 33, and Raynisa Young, 27, have been arrested and charged with negligent homicide in the death of their son Marley Perilloux, who weighed only 19 pounds, according to the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office. Perilloux and Young are also charged with second-degree cruelty to juveniles, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and illegal carrying of weapons.…
A deadly, targeted shooting outside a historic New Orleans restaurant left a 19-year-old man dead and three others wounded — and now Crimestoppers has doubled the reward for information leading to the gunman’s arrest. The shooting happened around 8 p.m. Friday at Dooky Chase Restaurant on Orleans Avenue in Tremé, according to the New Orleans Police Department. Authorities say the 19-year-old victim ran into the 85-year-old civil rights landmark while someone else was shooting at him. He then collapsed inside. He was identified by his family as Kareem Harris, a 2024 graduate of New Orleans’ Livingston Collegiate Academy, his sister…
Parents in Florida have been charged with neglect after their sleeping baby was found with cockroaches crawling over his body – even after his mother flipped his playpen upside down each night to “shake the insects out” and sprayed a tight circle of Raid around it, police say. The disturbing discovery was made during a welfare check at a Palm Coast apartment that deputies later described as reeking of a “vile and putrid odor” and was covered in animal and insect feces. Authorities say the Raid spraying did nothing to protect the child, or an 81-year-old family member, both of…
A California man was arrested on suspicion of murder Friday after a brazen daytime attack in affluent Beverly Hills, where authorities allege he dragged another man with his car, ultimately killing the victim. Police said the incident happened at 12:42 p.m. with multiple 911 callers reporting an assault with a deadly weapon near Wilshire and San Vicente boulevards. Authorities say a verbal dispute between Christopher Cornelius, 54, of San Bernardino, and the unidentified victim escalated into a violent attack. Witnesses reported that Cornelius beat the man with a metal object, like a pipe or hammer. Cornelius then allegedly drove a…
For nearly 35 years, Ana White has lived with the same unanswered question: what happened to her sister on the day she never came home? Andrea Jerri White, the youngest of the White siblings, was more than just a little sister to Ana. With a 13-year age gap between the two, Ana, the eldest, often cared for her as her own. “She was like my baby – I’d get up in the middle of the night just to rock her back to sleep,” Ana recalled to The Independent. “She was just so special.” Known as “Chick” to her loved ones,…
A California man faces federal charges after threatening to place pipe bombs in Disneyland during a visit by Vice President JD Vance and his family last summer. Marco Antonio Aguayo is accused of writing comments on Disney’s Instagram page on July 12, 2025, the same day the Second Family visited the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim. “Pipe bombs have been placed in preparation for J.D. Vance’s arrival,” one comment read, according to a federal complaint seen by The Independent. Another added: “It’s time for us to rise up and you will be a witness to it.” A third comment taunted law…
A man has been charged with murder over the death of a woman in Georgia, who was fatally shot as she tried to confront burglars breaking into her home. Marquel Heard, 33, was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday, almost four months after the killing in DeKalb County. Investigators said that 36-year-old Ana Scott had arrived home on September 20, 2025, as the burglary was taking place. One of the three suspects fired into her car and hit her. Officers from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene and found her Jeep filled with bullet holes. Scott was…
Derek Rosa, a Florida teenager accused of the 2023 murder of his mother when he was 13 years old, confessed just four days before his trial was set to begin. Rosa pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and will receive a 25-year sentence through a deal he made with the prosecution, according to Local10.com. Police in Hialeah, Florida, said Rosa – now 15 — stabbed his 39-year-old mother, Irina Garcia, 46 times while she was sleeping next to her infant daughter. The stabbing took place at her apartment on October 12, 2023. At his hearing, Rosa simply said “I’m sorry” before…
An 11-year-old boy from Pennsylvania is facing homicide charges after he admitted to shooting and killing his father, according to state police. On January 13 at around 3:20 am, officers responded to a home in Duncannon Borough, which is approximately 94 miles west of Allentown, after receiving an emergency call. They found Douglas Dietz, 42, dead from a gunshot wound to the head at the home, according to court records obtained by WGAL News 8. Police found Dietz inside the bedroom he shares with his wife. The room connects to his son’s room through a closet. Clayton Dietz, 11 —…