Tag: Virginia
Mom’s rotting body concealed with 66 air fresheners
The discovery of a 78-year-old woman’s rotting body in a rocking chair led authorities to arrest her daughter, according to officials.
Jo-Whitney Outland, 55, was charged Monday after her mom was found dead surrounded by 66 air fresheners at their home in Bristol, Virginia, the Bristol Herald Courier reported.
Concerned relatives who hadn’t heard from Outland’s elderly mom, Rosemary, decided Monday to check on the woman at the residence, authorities said.
After Outland turned them away, saying her mom wasn’t home, they climbed through a window, according to police.
“They found what they believed was their deceased aunt inside the home,” Sgt. Steve Crawford told the Bristol Herald Courier. “They couldn’t tell for sure.”
The relatives called 911 and authorities entered the home to find Rosemary’s body under more than 50 blankets.
“I pulled back the blankets, and I see the body of an elderly female under these blankets,” Crawford said. “There were all of these air fresheners around.”
Officers wore protective suits as they dug through the blankets, car air fresheners and other items, to recover the body.
Police said there were no signs of foul play on her body and they believe she died from natural causes.
Near the body, there was a letter penned by Outland claiming her mother died in December 2018.
“It’s very bizarre,” Crawford said. “I don’t know what her future plans were.”
Police arrested Outland and charged her with felony concealment of a body.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/15/moms-rotting-body-concealed-with-66-air-fresheners-cops/
Photo Credit: Jo-Whitney Outland – Bristol Police Department
Man arrested for projecting porn onto his garage door
It’s drive-in porn.
Antonio Smallwood, 41, of Virginia was busted last week for allegedly projecting a porn flick on the front of his garage door for his neighbors to see, The Smoking Gun reported.
Police were called to the Newport News home after a neighbor reported to authorities that “pornographic material [was] being displayed,” according to the news outlet.
When an officer arrived, he “observed a movie involving sexual activity being projected on the garage door of the residence,” The Smoking Gun reported, citing a police report.
The cop attempted to serve Smallwood with a summons for screening the X-rated movie, but when the porn buff refused to sign the summons, he was arrested.
Smallwood was charged with obscene sexual display and obstruction of justice, according to the report. He was booked into the local jail.
The man is being held without bond. A court appearance is scheduled for March 8.
via: https://nypost.com/2019/02/11/man-arrested-for-projecting-porn-onto-his-garage-door/
Virginia Couple Faked Wife’s Death, Fraudulently Bought at Least 20 Luxury Vehicles
Alexandra Hatcher pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal conspiracy and fraud charges in connection with an elaborate bank fraud scheme, according to KTLA sister station WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia.
According to court documents, the 49-year-old Portsmouth, Virginia, woman conspired with her husband, Albert Hatcher Jr., to collect on life insurance policies the two had obtained to insure her life.
In 2015, the couple submitted false death claims on at least two of them and then went on to buy at least 20 luxury vehicles by using counterfeit checks and forged documents.
Prosecutors say they even created fake death certificates and published a death notice in a newspaper to support the claims.
Hatcher traveled to Washington state and changed her legal name in August 2015, according to the court documents. Hatcher and her husband also re-titled the cars and used them as collateral for loans and other vehicles.
Documents show that the Portsmouth woman used the legal name she adopted just prior to faking her death to purchase, title, and resell vehicles.
Alexandra Hatcher and her husband both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, possessing and uttering a counterfeit security of an organization, and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
They each face a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, with sentencing for both set for early next year.
via: http://ktla.com/2017/11/02/woman-faked-own-death-to-go-on-shopping-spree-with-her-husband/
Navy Sailor, Pregnant Wife Shot in Virginia While Trying to Buy Phone From Teen on OfferUp App
A Navy sailor and his pregnant wife are in the hospital Monday after being shot multiple times while trying to buy a cellphone through an app used to buy and sell personal items called OfferUp in Virginia.
The young couple, who spoke with KTLA sister station WTKR in Norfolk and asked that their last name not be used, were just starting their lives together.
Frederick joined the Navy in January at the top of his class and married his love, Emily. They were stationed in Virginia at the start of the summer.
On Saturday night, they were using the OfferUp app to buy a cellphone in Portsmouth from an 18-year-old woman.
“My son just recently joined the Navy … his wife is pregnant and they were expecting their first child. He had the whole world ahead of him and someone just took it away in a matter of seconds,” Frederick’s father said.
According to Frederick’s father, his son agreed to meet at a home where the woman said she was babysitting.
He told WTKR his son knew immediately something wasn’t right.
“When they pulled up, six individuals [came out] and then four others surrounded the car. There was one shooter and that one shooter is the one who approached the car and instantly started firing shots,” the father said.
Emily’s parents say they tried to drive away, but Frederick started screaming he couldn’t see.
He was shot through his arm, chest and temple.
Emily, who is four months pregnant, was shot through the chest.
“It missed her heart by centimeters, missed the baby and went out her right side,” the father said.
Now, the family is fighting to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Saturday night after the shooting, the Portsmouth Police Department announced a new designated safe location for people to meet when they are buying or selling items.
The family says they were told by police that there have been several incidents reported from people using the OfferUp app. In one such incident in early May, a suburban Illinois father was shot to death after meeting up to buy a cellphone that had been listed on OfferUp.
Frederick and Emily’s family members say they wonder if their children’s injuries could have been avoided.
“That’s one of the things I feel the police department dropped the ball on. The public should’ve been made aware of this several weeks ago.”
The family told WTKR the couple refuse to be separated and have been by each other’s side since Frederick got out of surgery.
A GoFundMe page has been started to help the couple
‘He’ll Never Be in a Fight Alone’: Virginia Dad Makes Feeding Tube to Match 3-Year-Old Son’s
A devoted dad in Virginia is gaining supporters all over the internet after sharing a photo of himself posing with his young son who was born with a congenital heart defect.
Robert Selby, whose 3-year-old son Chace requires a feeding tube, fashioned one of his own and glued it on to match his son in the Instagram photo.
“This was actually a picture from a year ago,” Selby told the “Today” show. “I did this same photo every year from when he was 6 months old, way back. Last year, he asked me, ‘Why do I have a G-tube?’ and I told him it’s because he’s so strong, because he’s Superman. He’s Super Chace. I told him he’s stronger than Daddy, and he said, ‘But you’re Super Dad,’ so I said OK, and I put a G-tube on me, too.”
Chace has had two open-heart surgeries since he was born and requires the feeding tube because he is under weight.
Robert said in the post, “As long as I’m breathing, I`ll always support my son and he’ll never be in a fight alone.”
via: http://ktla.com/2017/05/25/hell-never-be-in-a-fight-alone-dad-makes-feeding-tube-to-match-sons/
Texas Mother Arrested After Videos Allegedly Showing Her Abusing, Burning 1-Year-Old Son Posted on Facebook
A Virginia woman’s efforts to save her 1-year-old nephew from the hands of his abuser — allegedly his own mother — by turning to social media prompted police to investigate the case and resulted in the Texas woman’s arrest.
Ra’Neicha Broadnax, 20, is expecting her first child, but her motherly instinct has already kicked in and that in part inspired her to save her 1-year-old nephew Jaiden from harm, KTLA sister station KDAF in Dallas reported.
After seeing multiple videos of Jaiden being burned, hit and having a bag placed over his head, she reached out from Virginia to contact authorities in Texas, where the little boy’s mother lives.
Broadnax said, at first, she was told that nothing could be done.
Then she turned to Facebook.
Broadnax posted videos of the baby screaming while someone — the baby’s mother, according to Broadnax — taunted the child.
“Tell your daddy that’s what happens when you sit around and play with people,” a woman is heard telling the baby. “Say ‘Dad, you should have just left my mama out your b——-.’ Say that.”
The woman continues, “You just want to keep playing, so this is what you get. That’s too bad, Jaiden. Too [expletive] bad!”
In various videos, the woman can be seen holding a flame to the baby’s hand, tying a plastic bag over his head and stuffing a plastic bag into his mouth, KDAF reported.
Broadnax said she obtained 64 heartbreaking videos showing the innocent child strapped in a car seat, unable to get away from his abuser. Broadnax told KDAF that after watching three seconds of the first video, she was on the phone calling authorities.
Her older brother, who also lives in Virginia, fathered a child with 23-year-old Janelle Peterkin, who lives in Humble, Texas, outside Houston.
Broadnax said Peterkin was angry with the father, who has another girlfriend, and sent the photos and videos of her torturing their son to the couple.
The brother never received those messages because he was blocking Peterkin’s calls, according to the station. But after he was arrested last week, his girlfriend got possession of his cellphone. She unblocked Peterkin’s number and that is when she allegedly found the videos.
“His girlfriend was snooping through his phone and she saw he had (Peterkin) on the ‘Do Not Disturb’ features, so she took it off and the phone vibrated for an hour straight. When she looked, there were over 300 messages from Peterkin and 64 videos,” Broadnax explained.
Broadnax knew Peterkin’s address because she previously asked for it in order to send a gift to Texas for her nephew’s first birthday. She placed the address in Google maps to find the nearest police station.
That led Broadnax to the Humble Police Department, which Broadnax said she called immediately. Broadnax said she asked police to do a welfare check on her nephew, fearing he was dead. She said in one of the videos, she saw the baby’s eyes rolling back. Broadnax claims she explained to them what was happening, but they did not do anything.
That is when she decided to post the videos on social media. After that, she was flooded with responses from law enforcement from all over the U.S., she said.
“After I put the post up, someone from New York Police Department called me and from all different states, police were calling,” Broadnax said. “Then a detective called me from the Humble Police Department asking where Janelle was.”
Broadnax said investigators went to the Jaiden’s day care and called her, saying that they saw no physical evidence of abuse.
But after watching the videos Broadnax forwarded them, the case was handed over to Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables, who conducted an interview. Deputies confirm that Peterkin admitted that she made the videos about 90 days ago to show her ex-boyfriend and father of her child that he did not care enough about their baby.
Peterkin was then arrested and charged with child endangerment, according to KDAF. She was released from jail after posting a $15,000 bond.
Broadnax said her brother, who has three children, had no idea his son was being abused. The brother learned about Jaiden’s abuse while watching television in jail.
“My brother was watching TV and saw me on the news and thought it was for my other brother’s baby until he heard his son cry,” Broadnax said.
She said he wishes that his son’s abuse had not been publicized on social media, but is grateful that his sister took action to make sure the baby was saved.
Still, Broadnax does not feel the baby is completely safe because he remains in the custody of Peterkin’s family. Broadnax said Peterkin has a history of displaying erratic behavior and has previously vandalized her brother’s vehicle.
“Her craziness is what got her on the blocked list,” Broadnax said. “My brother loves his kids; he has three little babies. Janelle has taken him through hell.”
Broadnax said she called Peterkin after seeing the videos, asking why she hurt Jaiden.
“She was so nonchalant with an ‘OK, I don’t care’ attitude, and she was saying it is her son, and that we did not do anything for the baby,” Broadnax said. “This is all about my brother. This is about nothing else but my brother and I want everyone to know that.”
Broadnax also wants her nephew to heal and never be harmed again.
Neither Peterkin nor her family has given a statement to KDAF.
West Virginia Mom Allegedly Killed Kids by Setting Their Beds on Fire and Locking Trailer Doors
A West Virginia woman allegedly killed her young sons intentionally by setting fire to their beds and locking the door of their trailer home, PEOPLE confirms.
A statement issued by the West Virginia State Fire Marshals confirms Wednesday’s arrest of Molly Joe Delgado, 28, of Falling Waters, for the Jan. 24 fire deaths of her boys Delmer, 3, and Justin, 5.
Delgado faces murder and arson charges.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE, Delgado allegedly set fire to her sons’ beds as they slept.
She exited her family’s trailer, allegedly locking both boys and her husband inside.
Smoke awoke Delgado’s husband, who tried to save their sons but was unable to do so because of the flames. Delgado’s husband survived the fire.
Delgado’s father, Drew McCombs, who lives across the street, heard his son-in-law crying for help from a kitchen window and opened the trailer door, which had been secured from the outside, the criminal complaint alleges.
According to reports, McCombs tried to save his grandsons, but the heavy smoke made it impossible for him to find the boys.
“I got in there and I couldn’t see, I couldn’t see nothing — at all,” McCombs told the Associated Press. “I couldn’t find them.”
Delmer and Justin Delgado were pronounced dead at the scene.
Wednesday’s arrest follows a six-week investigation that involved personnel from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, the Loudoun County Fire Marshal, the West Virginia State Police and the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department.
Delgado is being held without bail and has yet to enter a plea to the three charges she is facing.
Court records do not indicate if she has a lawyer and efforts to reach her relatives Friday were unsuccessful.
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/west-virginia-mom-allegedly-killed-201013717.html
Thousands Sign Petition to Publicly Hang West Virginia Man Accused of Sexually Assaulting, Killing Baby Girl
A petition to publicly hang Benjamin Taylor, the West Virginia man accused of brutally sexually assaulting a 10-month-old girl who died this week, was removed from the White House’s website Friday after receiving tens of thousands of signatures.
The website did not specify a reason beyond stating that the petition violated its terms of participation. It was not immediately clear when the petition was taken down, but it had received at least 50,000 signatures before being removed.
The petition on the White House’s “We the People” calling for Taylor to be publicly hanged was posted Tuesday by a person identified as “J.R.”
The petitioner wrote: “Prison is too good for child rapists and their ilk. I would move to say that our ‘justice system’ is even a part of the problem, in that incarceration is hardly justice when it comes to such an awful act … Let us hang these creatures publicly. Let us make examples of them, and allow the American people to attend these hangings so that the accused may be ridiculed.”
Had the petition received the required 100,000 signatures by Nov. 4, the White House would have had to issue a response, according to the website’s policy.
The petition was started one day after Taylor, 32, was discovered with his girlfriend’s severely injured baby in the basement of the apartment they shared.
Emmaleigh Elizabeth Barringer was naked, covered with blood and unconscious when she was found by her mother, according to the baby’s aunt.
At the time the petition was posted, Emmaleigh had already been pronounced brain dead. She died the following day from her injuries, which were described by family members as “extensive.”
Taylor was initially charged with one count of first-degree sexual assault, but a murder charge was added after the girl’s death, Jackson County Sheriff Tony Boggs told West Virginia-area television station WSAZ.
Boggs described the case as one of the worst he’s seen in his career.
“I have not and hope to never again,” he said. “I don’t know of any normal human that could fathom what would possess somebody to do that.
West Virginia abolished capital punishment decades ago, though another case spurred one state lawmaker to promise that he would introduce legislation to bring the death penalty back to the state in the next legislative session, West Virginia Metro News reported.
A vigil for Emmaleigh is scheduled for Friday night in Pasadena, Maryland, according to aGoFundMe page set up by the family to help cover funeral costs. The infant’s funeral will take place on Oct. 17.