Torture

Barber Faces Charges for Alleged Torture and Murder of Six-Year-Old Boy

Ernest Lamar Love, a 41-year-old barber from California, is facing charges of murder, torture, and child abuse following the death of a six-year-old boy he was babysitting. The child, Chance Crawford, was left in Love’s care by his mother, who worked an overnight shift as a nurse’s assistant at St. Joseph’s Hospital. The incident took place in Placentia, approximately 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles. According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, the boy’s …

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Six People Arrested, Including a Teen After Body was Found in Car Parked at Spa

DULUTH, Ga. — A South Korean woman’s remains were found in a car parked outside a spa in Duluth, Georgia on Tuesday, leading to the arrest of six individuals. Authorities suspect the woman was subjected to severe abuse and starvation after she joined a religious group in the U.S. The woman, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of her family in South Korea, was found in the trunk of a silver Jaguar parked outside …

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Woman Found Tortured, Strangled, and Stabbed With Scissors; Daughter Arrested

Johana Ramos, 31, was taken into custody by the Northern York County Regional Police on Friday, charged with criminal homicide and criminal conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, without bond. The arrest was in connection with the murder of her mother, Lourdes Ramos Baez, 67. On June 6th, police responded to a disturbance call at a home in Dover, Pennsylvania, when they encountered Ramos and her husband, William Emilio Torres Gautier, 42. Gautier allegedly became agitated …

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Boy Fatally Abused by Parents, ‘Over 100 Cigarette Burns’ On His Body

Valeria Lynn Hamilton and Shane Robert Shelton, both 27-year-old parents of two young boys, were apprehended and accused of torturing and brutally abusing them, resulting in the death of one and severe injuries to the other. The Detroit Police Department arrived at the scene at a residence on Spring Garden Street. They were responding to a 911 call. When they arrived, they found paramedics placing 5-year-old Ethan Belcher in an ambulance. He was then brought …

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Man Kidnaps and Viciously Tortures Woman

Sammy Joe Martz, 47, of West Virginia, has been taken into custody, according to the Philippi Police Department, on Wednesday, on charges of kidnapping after police say he “tortured” a woman with a butane torch while keeping her locked up in her residence. The police got an emergency call on Tuesday from the Anglin Run Subdivision from the woman who said she was hiding under the porch of her neighbor’s home. She reported that Martz …

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