Crime

A Texas woman repeatedly stabbed her fiancé after receiving only a card and flowers from Walmart for Mother’s Day, investigators say.

Paige Parkerson, 20, is charged with first-degree felony murder in the death of Clifton “JR” Barkin, the 22-year-old father of her two children, according to the Daily Mail.

Barkin’s mother, Evetta Wright, received a call from Parkerson early Monday morning informing her that Barkin was dead. “Paige told me that she killed JR,” Wright told the Beaumont Enterprise. “That he was dead.”

Wright last saw her son at 11:30 p.m. the previous night, when she dropped him…

The decision of an enraged father, Mallam Aminu Sule, to force his 10-year-old son Umoru, to use his bare hands to pick up burning coals after beating him over theft of a handset has set him in a face-off with anti-child abuse and law enforcement agencies in Niger State.

The boy, a Primary Three pupil of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida Primary School near the Emir of Minna’s palace, was said to have resorted to the theft and sale of the handset, which reportedly belonged to one of his brothers, for the procurement of his school uniform and…

  The entire environs of Imalefalafia area of Ibadan was thrown into grief over the death of a 22-year-old lady who was suspected to have fallen victim of ritual killers.

We  gathered that the young lady whose name was given as Tope Adenuga left home on Friday, May 4, saying she was going to vigil in a Cherubim and Seraphim church she started attending not quite long before the incident, but to everyone’s suprise, it was Tope’s corpse that was brought back home on Saturday.

Information gathered revealed that Tope collapsed in the church around 2.30a.m.while prayer was going…

Many residents could not hold back tears in Lagos, as a pastor was killed by his daughter’s lover over amorous relationship. Pastor Ahamefula was said to have warned his daughter’s lover, Okechukwu to stop dating her (name withheld). Okechukwu allegedly killed the man of God by pulling his manhood.

A police source at Itire Police Station disclosed that Ahamefula had earlier condemned Okechukwu’s relationship with his daughater ungodly. A man who identified himself simply as Adekunle alleged that all appeals made by Ahamefula to Okechukwu to allow peace to reign proved abortive as the man continued the affair…

Ex-Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic could be right about the efficacy of ‘black power’ of juju in the Black Stars.

This comes after a Kenyan man who was cheating with another man’s wife got stuck in her this week in a guest house in Nairobi.

The husband of the woman had suspected she was cheating on him, so he visited a witchdoctor who applied black magic or juju on the wife, causing the cheating man to get stuck inside her during the act.

For hours, the police could not rescue him from the black magic, and the…

Raga Rasta musician, Sunday Ekwe, popularly known as Ekwe SAMPLE, is in police custody for allegedly killing his lover, Rukayat Idris. Ekwe was arrested by homicide detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos on May 9, 2012 following allegation that he strangled and killed Idris in her Honda Civic car on April 13, 2012.

Police sources told Eagleonline that Idris, a mother of two, was found dead in her car under the bridge close to the Trade Fair Complex Bus Stop on the ever busy Mile2-Badagry Expressway around 8pm.

Her corpse was discovered by passers-by…

Authorities say a longtime security supervisor at a New Jersey airport has been arrested on a charge he was using the identity of a New York City man who was murdered 20 years ago.

Illegal immigrant Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, 54, of Nigeria, was arrested on Monday at his home in Elizabeth.

His co-workers knew him as Jerry Thomas, a man who was murdered in New York City in 1992, the same year Oyewole allegedly assumed his name when he started working at the airport.

It wasn’t immediately clear how Thomas’ personal information was acquired. The Port Authority of…

A schoolteacher reportedly fatally assaulted her teenage maid after catching her being intimate with her husband on their matrimonial bed and hid the body for 12 days.

The body was later found hanging from a tree with some body parts missing. Missing from the maid’s body were feet, which were chopped from the ankles, an ear, breast and private parts.

Itai Mutami (35) — a teacher at Makanda Primary School — assaulted Sarudzai Chitevere (17) after she caught her being intimate with her…

A newlywed bride has been found stabbed to death in her wedding dress in the bathtub of her home. Police said they believe Estrella Carrera, 25, was a victim of domestic violence after she was discovered at her home in the Burbank area of Chicago.

Her family said she got married on Friday to the father of her youngest child. She had two children aged two and eight.

Two cousins said Carrera didn’t tell many people about the wedding, and simply called on the day to invite them to the party.

Her cousin Jaime Lopez said: “This just happened out…

A Nigerian woman, Bola Adebisi, set an unenviable world record for amount of ingested heroin ever recovered when she tried to smuggle five pounds of heroin in 180 pellets into the U.S.

The previous record was four pounds of heroin ingested in 100 pellets. Airport authorities at the Dulles International Airport, USA, say that 52-year-old Bola Adebisi ingested an incredible 180 thumb-sized pellets filled with heroin.

Airport officers became suspicious when she was questioned after arriving on Ethiopian Airlines flight 500 from Adis Ababa.

Adebisi claimed she was visiting her brother in the U.S., but she was unable give details of her…