Hello everyone, I have been on a bit of a hiatus from my writing recently. I didn’t intend to be away for so long but things snowballed and here we are.
🗓 Saturday 19th February
Body Found - Serenity McKinney (4) went missing over a year ago. It was announced today that her body had been found in West Point, Kentucky 🇺🇸.
Serenity was last seen on Christmas Eve 2020. Her mother Catherine McKinney (21) and her mothers boyfriend Dakota Hill (26) have been charged with murder and abuse of a corpse.
They were already in custody having been charged with custodial interference last week.
Serenity was reported missing by her grandfather last month, who had not seen her in an unusually longtime and was not happy about the excuses that were being given to him as of why.
RIP Serenity 💛
Gruesome Discovery - A member of the public found bones in Witham Way Country Park, Boston, Lincolnshire 🇬🇧 today, launching a police investigation. It is not yet known if the bones are human.
Cold Case Arrest - Edward Morgan (60) has been arrested after DNA linked him to the sexual assault and strangulation of Mary Jane Thompson (21) in Dallas, Texas 🇺🇸 in 1984.
Forensic genealogy techniques similar to those that were used to nab the Golden State Killer were used to apprehend Morgan.
Missing actors body found - Lindsey Erin Pearlman (43) had disappeared last Sunday. It was confirmed today that the police had discovered her body yesterday morning, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California 🇺🇸.
Edit: It emerged later in the week that Lindsay was found dead in her car just south of Runyon National Park, a spot that is popular with hikers.
AMBER Alert 🚨 - A 7 month old girl from San Antonio, Texas 🇺🇸 was the subject of an AMBER Alert on Saturday night after the car she was sitting in was stolen. Thankfully, police confirmed the next day that the child had been found safe and well.
🗓 Sunday 20th February
DIY Amputation - yes. A 36-year-old man has been charged with murder after he sawed a 66-year-old man’s leg off in a park in North Queensland 🇦🇺.
Torture - Osgur Breatnach has claimed police tortured him in order to get him to falsely confess to being part of a gang that successfully pulled off a brazen train robbery in County Kildare 🇮🇪 in 1976.
The gang of 17 men posed as police and robbed, what today would be £1 million in cash.
Stabbing - A police officer in Chehalis, Washington 🇺🇸 was stabbed in the head and back by a 32-year-old man who was being arrested on suspicion of second degree child rape. The suspect was then shot and killed. The officer is in a stable condition in hospital.
The Met - In the past year, 251 officers and other members of staff from the Metropolitan Police Force have faced accusations of sexual misconduct1.
This figure is a decade high.
140 Times - Joan Burke (61) was charged with first degree murder today after she stabbed her husband 140 times and fractured his skull with a meat cleaver in a particularly vicious attack in the evening of 11th February.
Joan’s son arrived home from work in Palm Springs, Florida 🇺🇸 to discover his step-father Melvin Weller (62) lying in a pool of blood of the kitchen. His mother was found in bed, awake and alert but remaining silent when spoken to.
🗓 Monday 21st February
The Crown Prosecution Service today named the 3 men who have been charged with sharing “grossly offensive” WhatsApp messages in regards to Wayne Couzens.
PC Jonathan Cobban (35)
PC William Neville (33)
Joel Borders (45) - who is no longer a police officer.
Their 1st hearing will be on 16th March.
Necrophilia - Donovan Miller (31) today pleaded guilty to “manslaughter by diminished responsibility” and “sexual penetration of a corpse.”
Phyllis Grant (76) who was Millers grandmother, was found dead from a head injury, in her home in Plaistow, east London 🇬🇧 in March last year.
Miller told paramedics as they were attending the scene “I raped her as well for what it’s worth. Yesterday and today.”
Four-Year-Old fires gun at police - A four-year-old boy fired at police officers on the order of his father at a McDonalds drive thru in Salt Lake City, Utah 🇺🇸 today.
Police were called to restaurant after the man, identified as Sadaat Johnson (27) began threatening the workers with a firearm after he received the wrong order.
When police arrived they were able to remove Johnson from the car, whilst doing so they noticed a gun emerging from the backseat window, the child fired but an officer was able to deflect the gun and the bullet hit an awning of the restaurant.
Also in the backseat of the car was the 4-year-olds 3-year-old sibling.
🗓 Tuesday 22nd February
Missing Girl Found - Avery Ginn was found in the early hours of this morning, sleeping in a horse barn, after going missing the evening before. She is back home safe in Winterville, North Carolina 🇺🇸.
NFT - Andy Parker has created an NFT from the footage of his daughter, Alison Parker’s murder, in a desperate attempt to claim copyright and finally remove the footage from the internet forever.
News reporter Alison and her cameraman Andy Ward were shot dead live on air in Moneta, Virginia 🇺🇸 in 2015.
I wrote about it here.
Her father has been fighting to keep the footage off social media and websites ever since.
I hope his latest bid is successful, what an awful thing for a father to have to do.
Guilty - A jury today found the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery guilty of committing a federal hate crime.
The prosecution argued that, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael (Travis’ father) and William Bryan who was their neighbour “were driven by "racial assumptions, racial resentment and racial anger” when they chased, cornered and shot Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia 🇺🇸 in 2020.
The McMichaels are currently serving life sentences and Bryan will be eligible for parole after 30 years.
Childs body found in freezer - the body of 4-year-old Mason Dominguez was found in a freezer at a home in Las Vegas, Nevada 🇺🇸 today.
Police believe the child died sometime in December.
Masons mother, who is widowed, alerted the police by sending her 7-year-old daughter to school with a note pleading for help.
She and her 2 children had been held captive by her abusive “boyfriend” Brandon Toseland (35) who had handcuffed her, sexually abused her, prevented her from seeing her children, made her resign from her job as a phlebotomist and threatened to kill her children if she ever left him.
He then, like all abusers do, slowly but surely tightened the net around this poor woman and her children.
RIP Mason 💛
🗓 Wednesday 23rd February
Logan Mwangi - The 14-year-old accused of murdering Logan Mwangi (5) allegedly sang a sick song about how much he loved to punch children in the head.
Today, a jury heard how a social worker overheard him singing “I love kids. I fucking love kids. I love to punch kids in the head. It’s orgasmic” merely 2 weeks after Logan was beaten to death and dumped into the river Ogmore in Bridgend 🏴.
Also charged with the little boys murder are his “mother” Angharad Williamson (30) and her boyfriend John Cole (40.)
A social worker had visited the home on the day that Logan was murdered as the 14-year-old, who was trained in Thai boxing had made repeated threats about wanting to kill Logan.
Later that day little Logan would suffer a violent attack that saw him sustain 56 injuries to his head, face, torso, arms and legs. His liver was torn and his bowel was ripped. He had extensive bruising including on his tongue.
The injuries were consistent with blows, kicks or impact of a weapon. His head injuries were consistent with blunt force trauma.
Logan had suffered a collarbone break in the weeks leading up to his death, suggesting long term abuse.
It is believed he died at his home some hours after the attack, before the family made an concerted effort to cover up the crime, including reporting him missing and suggesting there were signs he may have been abducted.
The 14-year-old and Williamson deny both murder and perverting the course of justice. Cole admits perverting the course of justice but denies murder.
RIP Logan 💛
CCTV - Today CCTV footage was released showing a solicitor walking into 3 supermarkets in Fulham, London 🇬🇧 and injecting food with his blood. Yes.
Leoaai Elghareeb (37) can be seen carrying a bucket filled with hypodermic needles, entering the Sainsbury’s Local, Tesco Express and Little Waitrose and jabbing various food items with the blood filled syringes.
A deep clean found 21 syringes and totalled a loss of £500,000 for the businesses.
Missing Woman’s body found - Kyaira Williams (25) went missing after she was meant to be taking her husband, Brannon Williams (26) to hospital, for treatment for his PTSD.
Williams had recently left the military.
He was approached by Police during a traffic stop on Tuesday, telling them that his wife had fled the car with his pistol and he was looking for her.
This was a lie, Kyaira had gone missing the day before.
Police noted a shotgun in the car and took Williams to hospital for an assessment due to his “manic state.”
Sadly, Kyaira’s body was found today under a bridge of the Julius Schepps Freeway, Dallas, Texas 🇺🇸.
She had been shot and forensics linked the casings to the gun that Williams had in his car.
He has been arrested and charged with Kyaira’s murder.
Trespassing - Actor Michael Madsen (64) was arrested this evening after trying to get back into the Malibu, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 home that he had been evicted from, on 17th February.
He was taken to the hospital before being transported to the police station. He was released at 7am on Thursday.
Michaels son, Hudson, an army vet who had served in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 committed suicide merely weeks ago. He was 26.
🗓 Thursday 24th February
Misuse of DNA - San Francisco 🇺🇸 police have been caught using DNA samples from sexual assault cases to investigate other crimes.
Involuntary Manslaughter - The parents of suspected mass shooter Ethan Crumbley, will stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges it was ruled today.
Baldwin responsible - Matthew Hutchins, Halyna Hutchins widower, has told NBC that the “idea that the person holding the gun and causing it to discharge is not responsible is absurd to me.”
🗓 Friday 25th February
Putin is a war criminal - a nursery and orphanage were shelled by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦
Misogyny - Priti Patel has caused unrest by rejecting attempts to make misogyny a hate crime.
Watch, Listen & Read
🍿 The Bizarre Case of Jenelle Potter - “Jenelle Potter lived in Mountain City. A quiet, sheltered young woman, she developed a crush on Bill Payne. However, when scary social media messages began to appear, her parents were contacted by a mysterious CIA agent, who told them what Bill Payne was really up to...”
🎧 White Hot Hate - “A violent, white supremacist ideology is spreading around the world, with believers trying to create chaos, in order to seize control.
When recruitment posters for a group calling itself The Base start to appear in Manitoba, Winnipeg Free Press journalist Ryan Thorpe decides to go undercover and infiltrate.”
📚 Who is this monster? - “She went undercover to catch a rapist. Two decades later, she finally got her chance.”
📚 Why Hollywood Can’t Quit Guns - “How the industry moved on from the deadly Rust shooting.”
📚 Playing cards could help solve these Hampshire County unsolved cases - “The Massachusetts State Police are circulating playing cards featuring unsolved cases throughout prisons across the state to gather tips from prisoners.”
📚A Mexican woman reported an assault in Qatar. She faces jail, 100 lashes - "Although I had the forensic evidence of the beatings and everything, they believed him," Paola Schietekat said about the incident, which has made international headlines.”
📚 Two Rialto high school officials accused of failing to report sexual assaults for months - “Two assistant principals at a high school in Rialto were charged Wednesday after prosecutors alleged they failed to report on-campus sexual assaults by a student.”
⚠️ Missing
Codi Bigsby (4) was last seen on 31st January 2022 in his father Cory’s apartment in Buckroe Beach, Virginia 🇺🇸.
Cory was arrested on 3rd February and charged with 7 counts of child neglect after admitting to police that he frequently left his children aged, 2, 4 and 5 home alone.
✨ Important Causes
The Ben Kinsella Trust - “We educate young people on the dangers of knife crime and help them to make positive choices to stay safe.” #StopKnifeCrime
Human Rights Watch - “Investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the World.”
190 of these complaints were internal.