A pregnant South Carolina woman attempted to kill herself and her three children by driving her minivan into the Atlantic Ocean.
Now police officials are saying that 31-year-old Ebony Wilkerson talked about demons before she drove away from the home according to her sister who called police. Daytona Beach stopped Wilkerson but she appeared lucid and didn’t qualify to be held under the state’s mental health act.
“The children were in the back seat, they were buckled in and were not in distress. Although the sergeant said she looked like she had some mental illness, she did not fit the criteria for going into custody under the Baker Act,” Police Chief Mike Chitwood told Fox News.
Two hours later, Wilkerson drove herself and her three children, ages 10, 9 and 3, into the ocean. Bystanders, police and lifeguards pulled the children from the van as it began to sink.
The children are in the custody of state welfare authorities.
A new report from a United Nations investigative panel has found atrocities in North Korea that the panel compared to crimes committed by Nazi Germany.
The report said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered women kidnapped from China to be strapped to a table and injected with abortion drugs. He also ordered women who had infants to drown them or smother them in his presence if there was any possibility the children were fathered by Chinese nationals.
“The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world,” the U.N. Commission on Inquiry wrote in a 372-page report.
The Commission took the unprecedented step of warning the North Korean leader that he could be tried for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court for his actions.
The forced abortions were part of a campaign by Kim Jong Un to create a “pure Korean race” and that any child which is not purely North Korean is “contamination of ‘pureness’.”
The report also found multiple “secret” prison camps where hundreds of thousands of North Koreans and kidnapped people from South Korea or Japan were executed.
A woman who had been accused of stabbing a man to death after luring him to a meeting using the social media site Craigslist shocked officials when she not only admitted to the murder but many others.
Miranda Barbour, 19, said that she stopped counting the number of people she killed when she reached 22. Barbour said that not only did she remember every killing but also that she could point out on a map the locations of all of her victims.
Barbour said that she joined a satanic cult when she was 13 and living in Alaska with her mother. She said that she then killed people in Alaska, Texas, North Carolina and California and that all killings were being done for the cult.
Barbour and her husband Elytte are facing the death penalty for the killing of Troy LaFerrara.
“He said the wrong things,” Barbour told the Sunbury Daily Item. “And then things got out of control. I can tell you he was not supposed to be stabbed. My husband was just supposed to strangle him.”
A judge has granted a request for a forensic psychiatrist to evaluate Barbour.
Polin Pumandele just wanted to sell some firewood to buy food to eat.
Instead, around 9:30 in the morning, a gang in the middle of a street in Bangui, Central African Republic murdered him in cold blood.
Why? Because he was a Christian. No other reason.
A Washington Post reporter was standing near the attack as the mob of Muslims grabbed Pumandele and slit his throat before throwing his body in a ditch to watch him die. The group threatened the reporter until he fled the area.
After Pumandele was dead, the gang loaded his body into a wheelbarrow, pushed it to the nearest Red Cross office and dumped the corpse on the doorstep.
According to sources connected to international peacekeeping forces in the area, the Muslims tried to claim that Pumandele had been part of a group that threw grenades into a mosque and thus his murder was justified. However, an investigation showed there was no grenade attack on the mosque.
The violence in the country is still onging despite 6,500 French and African soldiers in the country that try and maintain peace. Christians are being killed by Muslims on a daily basis.
A Texas woman has been arrested on suspicion of capital murder after police claimed she killed her baby and stuffed into a duffel bag that was found at a trash recycling plant.
Nidia Alvarado, 25, was taken into custody on Tuesday night at her home.
A police spokesman said that Alvarado gave birth to the baby boy and then strangled it to death before throwing him away. The baby was discovered on an intake belt at a Waste Management facility in San Antonio.
The woman reportedly gave a false name at the hospital where she gave birth. Poilce investigators did not tell the media how they were able to track down Alvarado but credited “tips from the public” for helping the investigation.
Police said that other children at Alvarado’s home were taken into custody by child protective services.
A 16-year-old Chicago youth has lost his life over a computer gaming system.
Raymond Galloway was shot by his 13-year-old cousin as he slept around 6 a.m. Sunday. He was rushed to a Chicago area hospital where he died about 90 minutes later.
According to a police report, the two teens had been fighting earlier in the evening over an Xbox.
The boy confessed to police that the shooting was in the presence of his mother. He was taken into custody and charged as a juvenile with first-degree murder. The judge decided not to allow bail in the case.
Police say that they do not know where the boy obtained the 9mm semi-automatic handgun used for the shooting. No adults have been charged in the case.
A sniper with the Lebanese army launched an unprovoked attack on an Israeli soldier. The soldier was driving along the border late Sunday night when he was shot by the sniper.
Two Lebanese soldiers were then killed early Monday morning by Israeli troops.
The shootings are causing concern that the area will see hostilities resume after a mostly peaceful season after a one-month war in 2006. Israeli officials said they do not want to see an escalation of the violence and they would take no actions to add to that atmosphere.
Lebanon’s National News Agency confirmed the killing of the Israeli soldier was by a member of their army but did not mention why the sniper chose to assassinate the Israeli.
United Nations officials have called on both sides to provide information for an investigation into the incident without delay.
A pair of Pennsylvania newlyweds decided that the way to celebrate their three-week wedding anniversary was to commit murder.
Officials say the case graphically brings home the dangers of meeting a stranger from the internet.
Sunbury police said that Elytte Barbour and his wife Miranda had been using the website Craigslist to lure in men through a “business” where Miranda would rent herself out as a “companion” for as much as $850 a night. The couple said they were searching for someone that would fit their desire to kill someone.
They found that person in 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara.
Barbour reportedly told police that after receiving contact from LaFerrara they arranged to meet him at a mall. When the victim sat in the passenger seat of Miranda’s Honda CRV, her husband appeared from the back seat and held down LaFerrara while his wife stabbed him to death.
The body was dumped in an alley in Sunbury, PA.
The two are being held in separate county prisons facing charges of criminal homicide. They are being held without bail.
Police officials said that if you are going to do business through an internet site that it’s best to meet someone in a visible public place surrounded by others.
Nigerian Islamic terrorist organization Boko Haram has taken to a new tactic to try and boost the morale of their soldiers. They are kidnapping Christian women, forcing them to convert to Islam through violence and then are forcing them to marry terrorist fighters.
A 19-year-old woman identified only as Hajja escaped from the group after four months of captivity. The Christian woman said she was forced multiple times to kneel and beaten while her captors yelled at her to worship Allah. She said she eventually pretended to go along with them because a fighter told her she was about to be beheaded.
She told reporters that she was forced to be a slave for a group of fourteen terrorists and was used as bait to lure in civilians working with the military so that the terrorists could slit their throats. She reported being forced to watch multiple murders at the hands of her captors.
Hajja now lives in the nation’s capital city of Abuja and is free to worship Christ. She says that she has trouble sleeping at night because of nightmares related to her captivity.
The man believed to have carried out a gun attack at Los Angeles International Airport could be facing the death penalty if convicted of the charges against him.
Paul Ciancia, 23, has been charged with murder of a federal agent, violence at an international airport and multiple other charges. He remains hospitalized after being shot in the mouth and legs by police.
LAX has reopened fully after the investigation on-site was completed.
Police reported that the gunman did not initially kill 39-year-old TSA agent Gerardo Hernandez, the first TSA agent killed in the line of duty. Ciancia had wounded Hernandez before shooting at other agents then returned to kill the fallen agent.
The FBI says Ciancia carried a handwritten note stating he made the conscious decision to kill TSA employees to “instill fear into their traitorous minds.”
He pushed through screening gates and was 100 yards into the secure area before law enforcement reached him and he opened fire near a food court.
