Author: Ashley Herzog

An American teenager and her boyfriend who allegedly killed her mother and stuffed the body in a suitcase could face the death penalty in Bali. Heather Mack, 19, was charged alongside her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, who was also in Bali. Indonesian police said on Saturday they could face charges of premeditated murder, carrying a […]

It’s one thing to discover that your husband is already married. It’s quite another to find this out via Facebook. After snooping around the social networking site, a South Carolina woman discovered her husband is a serial bigamist married to three other women in three states. The woman from South Carolina, whose identity has been […]

In 2006, Brooklyn father Cesar Rodriguez murdered his 7-year-old daughter Nixzmary Brown because she allegedly ate his yogurt. The case shocked New York and forced an overhaul of the city’s child protective services. Now Nixzmary’s stepbrother, 15, is accused of raping two relatives eight years ago–but says he stepfather forced him to do it. Rodriguez’s […]

As angry demonstrations raged in Ferguson, Missouri, Obama was dancing the night away at a party. The photographer who snapped the party pictures, Elizabeth Cecil, has since quietly deleted this photo from her Instagram. The photos featured President Obama dancing and one of him offering a birthday toast to Ann Jordan at a party at […]

Is there a clearer manifestation of the “I’m gonna get mine and screw everyone else” mentality than this story? 4-year-old Fae Platten lost consciousness on a plane when a man four rows behind her insisted on eating nuts, despite being warned three times not to open the package. After boarding the Ryanair flight to London […]

A 19-year-old Georgia mother named Kayla Walker was home alone with her 10-month old child when home invaders broke in. But instead of finding a sitting duck, they were in for a nasty surprise. One of the men straddled and began beating her, WALB-TV reported. The beating was cut short, however, when Walker crushed his […]

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with the rape and murder of 6-year-old Jenise Wright, whose body was found dumped in a wooded area four days after she disappeared from a Washington trailer park. Neighbors say Jenise often wandered the trailer park alone. “Yesterday, we made a promise to 6-year-old Jenise Paulette Wright that we […]

After thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of custom road bikes from her family’s garage, 6-year-old Roxy Thompson put up a yard sign shaming them for stealing. What happened next is pretty remarkable. ‘Shame on you bike thieves!!!’ wrote Roxy, according to KATU. ‘Your mom would be so disappointed! Even if she was a villain, […]

A British woman named Joanne Berry will spend six years in prison for encouraging men in sex chat rooms to burst into an ex-colleague’s home and rape her. Joanne Berry, 30, devised and executed the bizarre plot in a revenge attack on the victim who had angered her for an apparently frivolous reason. Maidstone Crown […]

“Had an argument. She was cheating on me. I won.” That was the cryptic message posted on Facebook by Keith Belajonas after he allegedly murdered his wife Christina in front of their two sons, age 4 and 5. A dad shot and stabbed his wife to death before posting a chilling Facebook message which read: […]

You’d be angry,too, if you witnessed your son’s murder by two illegals on a family fishing trip. The most enraging part? The men who killed Marie Vega’s son, Javier Jr., had been deported six times before. Javier Jr and his father bravely tried to fight them off, but the off-duty Border Patrol Agent was fatally […]

A Pennsylvania courtroom gave the judge a round of applause when he decided to jail Mary Rader and her parents, Dennis and Deanna Beighley, before they stand trial for starving Rader’s 8-year-old son. The boy was in such grave condition that he allegedly weighed 25 pounds and resorted to eating bugs off the porch. A […]

A Pennsylvania mother claims she didn’t know her disabled son was dead until she asked her husband about the stench inside their home. Apparently, the boy had died several days earlier, locked inside a squalid bedroom. The mother of an 8-year-old disabled boy whose decomposing body was found in his squalid bedroom insists she did […]

Is it just me, or does this sound like something out of Mao’s Little Red Book? A Massachusetts middle school is implementing a “social justice model” of education that emphasizes “fairness.” John J. Duggan Middle School is undergoing more than a name change this fall as it begins a four-year transition from a Grade 6 […]

“Lady the Labrador,” the dog who walked 30 miles home to a Kansas family that didn’t want her, has a new home with Florida heiress. Cindy Barclay Powell posted about the dog she called Ma on Facebook, begging for someone to adopt the animal. ‘The senior lab walked nearly 30 miles to come home,’ Powell […]

Potheads love to preach about how marijuana is a totally harmless, all-natural herb that has never harmed anyone, anywhere. (Seriously–no other category of drug users is as obsessed with defending its use as marijuana aficionados. Even the most shameless bar rat: doesn’t pretend alcohol never hurts anyone.) This story suggests otherwise. A Kansas foster dad was […]

A Florida man named Richard McTear is facing death for his “ultimate act of revenge”: tossing his girlfriend’s 3-month-old baby from a speeding car to spite her after an argument. McTear is believed by authorities to have taken the child on a drive after an argument with Jasmine Bedwell, 22, and tossed him out of […]

And who could have possibly predicted that? An 11-year-old visitor at a Brazilian zoo was mauled by a tiger after he climbed into its cage and began petting it. Who allowed him to enter the restricted area? His dad. Witnesses say the 11-year-old cried ‘I’m going to die, I can’t feel my arm’ after he […]

Jose Luis Aguilar, a convicted sex offender, has decided to plead guilty to killing his girlfriend’s 9-month-old daughter. Aguilar allegedly raped the baby and then repeatedly slammed her against a wall, hoping her death would cover his sorry, sorry ass. (Since I don’t want to subject readers to the killer’s ugly mug, above is the […]

Talk about a wake-up call! A 13-year-old Texas girl awoke to find her bed: and pillow on fire after the battery in her Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone overheated. She told KDFW she placed the phone under the pillow before she fell asleep. Later that night, she smelled something burning. ‘I didn’t think much of it, so […]

What’s going on in my home state? First there was Ariel Castro…now this. Jessica Hunt has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for helping her boyfriend keep a mentally handicapped woman as a slave, threatening to: harm her daughter, and threatening the woman with a python. The couple were accused of holding the woman captive […]