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Fox News True Crime Newsletter: Riley Strain found, BTK cold case, Eric Clapton's drummer, Danny Casolaro

RILEY STRAIN FOUND: Nashville police locate missing college student’s body. ‘GRACE OF GOD’: ‘The devil’ who ended the tragic life of Shauna Harvey wasn’t BTK. ‘CORRUPTION AND COVER UPS’: Missing woman’s mom begs Biden for help on Caribbean island. Riley Strain disappeared after he went out with friends on Broadway in Nashville on the evening of March 8. (Family handout) …

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Michigan man pleads guilty to kidnapping, killing 2-year-old

A Michigan man pleaded guilty Friday to kidnapping and killing a 2-year-old girl whose disappearance last summer led to a 100-mile search that stretched from the state capital to the Detroit area. Rashad Trice, 27, admitted that he took Wynter Cole Smith from her home in Lansing as part of a dispute with a former girlfriend who was the girl’s …

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Study finds organic farming results in conventional farms ramping up their pesticide use

Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby conventional farms applied more pesticides, likely to stay on top of an increased insect threat to their crops, the researchers said. Ashley Larsen, lead author of the study …

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Parkland victim's dad slams VP Kamala Harris' 'photo op' visit to 'push an agenda': 'Slap in the face'

After Vice President Kamala Harris announced her plans to walk the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a parent of one of the victims of the deadly 2018 school shooting shared his frustration about the blatant “push” and “promotion” of gun control. Ryan Petty, whose 14-year-old daughter Alaina Petty was tragically killed in the Parkland, Florida …

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Florida mother charged after day care staff find gun inside her 2-year-old’s lunchbox

Authorities said a mother in Florida has been charged after day care staff found a handgun inside her 2-year-old son’s lunchbox. Shanae Davis, 39, faces several charges including allowing a minor to obtain a firearm and child neglect after a teacher at Jackson’s Daycare Center in Riviera Beach opened the lunch box with a 9mm Glock 43 handgun inside it. …

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Two arrested in Pennsylvania after New York squatters allegedly killed woman, stuffed her in duffel bag

Police have captured two people of interest after a New York woman was allegedly killed by squatters and stuffed into a duffel bag in her apartment. Two people connected to the death of 52-year-old Nadia Vitels were captured in York, Pennsylvania, Friday by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, the New York Police Department told Fox News Digital. Halley Tejada, …

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Florida couple’s political debate turns violent when Republican attacks his Democratic fiancé, authorities say

An argument between a Florida couple about their differing political views turned violent Wednesday, investigators said. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office was called to a home in North Fort Meyers after a 70-year-old man allegedly grabbed his fiancé’s neck and squeezed, an affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital states. The woman, a “Democrat,” called for help, investigators said. “She (and …

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California teacher's sexting turned into yearslong sexual abuse of student: police

A 40-year-old California drama teacher faces a slew of felonies after police learned of her yearslong sexual relationship with a female student who was 15 years old at the onset, police said. San Diego Police wrote in a press release that Mt. Carmel High School teacher Stacey Michelle Walker “began engaging the 15-year-old victim in conversations that became sexual in …

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77-year-old Philadelphia man released after serving decades in prison for a murder he says he did not commit

William Franklin, recently released after serving 44 years in prison, could walk from a Philadelphia courtroom an exonerated man on Friday, or he may face another trial for a 1976 murder he says he did not commit. His 1980 conviction based on tainted testimony was overturned after the lone eyewitness against him recanted. His conviction dates to a high-crime era …

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Missing woman's mom begs Biden for help in Caribbean paradise where murders have gone unsolved

The mother of a U.K. woman who vanished from her American boyfriend’s yacht in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2021 sent an open letter to President Biden on Friday, demanding he do something about the “failures” of police in the tourist hot spot, known for gorgeous beaches and a leisurely island life. Sarm Heslop vanished overnight between March 7 and …

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