Danny Masterson, right, and his wife Bijou Phillips arrive for closing arguments in his second trial, May 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. A jury found “That ’70s Show” star Masterson guilty of two counts of rape Wednesday, May 31, in a Los Angeles retrial in which the Church of Scientology played a central role. (AP…
Patrick Leon Nicholas, left, and Sarah Yarborough, right. (King County Sheriff’s Office) A Washington State man will almost certainly die in prison for the cold case rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in 1991. Patrick Leon Nicholas, 59, was found guilty by King County jurors earlier this month of one count each of murder…
Aiden Cicchetti appears in a mugshot in May 2023. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) A teenager in Las Vegas, Nevada, allegedly raped a “drunk and incoherent” girl while a group of others watched, laughed, and recorded the attack on their cellphones, authorities say. Aiden Cicchetti, 17, stands accused of three counts of sexual assault. He…
Ryean L. Floyd (Metro Nashville Police Dept.) A 24-year-old man in Tennessee is facing multiple felony charges for allegedly kidnapping and raping a mother who was feeding her baby in a public park last week. Ryean L. Floyd was taken into custody on Friday and charged with one count each of aggravated rape causing bodily…
Chace Cook (Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office), Madeline Bills in a Northeastern Oklahoma A&M basketball uniform (image via the school’s tribute to Bills) An ex-boyfriend is under arrest and facing rape and murder charges in the April 2023 death of an Oklahoma high school senior who was a star student, a standout basketball player, and a…
Mexican prosecutors announced Saturday night that they are withdrawing a case against a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for killing a man as he raped and attacked her. In a ruling last week that touched off a public outcry, a court in Mexico State said that while it agreed 23-year-old Roxana…
Mexican prosecutors said Saturday they’re dropping a case against a woman who was hit with a six-year prison sentence for killing a man as he raped and attacked her. The reversal comes after protests erupted when a court in Mexico State agreed last week that 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, but was still…
The suspect who is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl and a woman on a Maryland hiking trail is in the U.S. illegally, according to officials. Jose Roberto Hernandez-Espinal, 20, was arrested for allegedly raping a woman and stealing jewelry at Burnt Mills East Special Park in Silver Spring on Tuesday. Officials told FOX 5 DC that Hernandez-Espinal…
A burglar busted for breaking into a Brooklyn Heights building, but released because the charge wasn’t bail eligible — broke into a nearby apartment where he sexually assaulted a sleeping mom eight days later, police sources told The Post. The first crime happened around 3:30 a.m. on May 4 on Joralemon Street when Jayquan Martinez…
William Rex Beckam (Dallas County Jail) A 34-year-old man in Texas was arrested last week for allegedly kidnapping and raping two young boys, ages 12 and 13, at gunpoint just days apart, with authorities saying there may be more victims who have yet to come forward. William Rex Beckam was taken into custody on Friday…
A former science teacher who was charged with raping a student in 2022 and went on to violate her bond conditions by seeing the child numerous times post-arrest now faces even more legal trouble, the local sheriff’s office said. Elizabeth Suzanne Bailey, a 37-year-old from Statesville, North Carolina, allegedly admitted that she had been drinking…
A Mexican woman who killed a man while defending herself when he attacked and raped her in 2021 was sentenced to more than six years in prison, a decision her legal defense called “discriminatory” and vowed to appeal Tuesday. The ruling against Roxana Ruiz spurred anger from experts and feminist groups who said it speaks…
John Cole (Genesee County Sheriff’s Office) A 55-year-old man in Michigan who already spent several years in prison for intentionally infecting his adult sexual partners with HIV was arrested again last week after he allegedly “groomed, raped, and sexually assaulted” a juvenile teen while also infecting the young victim with the disease. John Cole, also…
April Duncan (Scott County Sheriff’s Office), Tommy Duncan (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation) A jailed former sheriff’s deputy was indicted Thursday for child rape and murder more than a year after his deputy wife, a mother of three, was shot to death at their Tennessee home. Authorities said that Tommy Duncan, 33, was served the indictments…
Patrick Leon Nicholas, on the left, and Sarah Yarborough, on the right. (King County Sheriff’s Office) Sarah Yarborough was 16 when she was killed in the parking lot of Federal Way High School in December 1991. Well over 30 years later, a man has finally been convicted of her murder in the cold case that…
A University of Utah student-athlete fled the country after he was accused of raping a college student in her dorm room at the start of the school year, prosecutors said. Benjamin Smyth, of Canada, is wanted on rape, forcible sodomy and forcible sexual abuse charges, Salt Lake County District documents obtained by Gephardt Daily show….
Ronald Tobin Antinore (via the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office) A 53-year-old man who gave his child up for adoption when she was an infant was arrested in Florida earlier this month after he met his biological daughter for the first time in decades and allegedly drugged and raped her in a hotel room. Ronald Tobin…
() — The video of former President Donald Trump being questioned during a deposition in a civil rape lawsuit against him has been made public. Jurors at the trial over a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll got to see the video Friday, providing a glimpse of his emphatic, often colorful denials. He called the…
Aidan Ralph appears in a mugshot and his former Iowa State University football roster photo (Story County Jail; Iowa State University) A 20-year-old linebacker and redshirt sophomore from Chicago who played football for Iowa State University has been kicked off the team after being charged with pushing a woman into a stairway and raping her…
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” star Shangela has been accused of raping a former HBO production assistant, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday. The drag queen, who also stars on the hit HBO show “We’re Here,” was slapped with a lawsuit by Daniel McGarrigle, who claims the alleged attack took place…