Alberto Luperon

6 days ago | lawandcrime.com | Alberto Luperon

A former NFL player has admitted to killing his girlfriend, whose remains were found months after her family reported her missing when they didn’t hear from her on Mother’s Day. Kevin Ware, 44, was ordered to serve 30 years in prison for the grisly murder of Taylor Pomaski, 29, according to court documents out of Harris County, Texas. Pomaski’s remains weren’t found until months after she was last seen alive in April 2021; officials say she had been beaten, stabbed, strangled and burned.

1 week ago | lawandcrime.com | Alberto Luperon

The mother of a slain U.S. airman in Florida has sued not only the sheriff’s deputy who killed him, but also the apartment complex where he lived and the leasing agent who reported a domestic disturbance at his apartment. As Law&Crime has previously reported, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, was killed on May 3, 2024, by Eddie Lee Duran, who at the time was a 38-year-old deputy with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The incident was captured on body camera footage.

1 week ago | lawandcrime.com | Alberto Luperon

A man who told a mother not to be sorry for killing her infant son has been sentenced for coaching her on how to discard the baby, Mateo Harding. Edwin Cosmo Trudeau, 20, is set to spend 74 months in prison with 145 days’ time-served credit for serving as an accomplice after the fact. The mother, Esperanza Rae Harding, 21, was sentenced in March to 32 years in prison for second-degree intentional murder. Both had pleaded guilty.

1 week ago | lawandcrime.com | Alberto Luperon

After discarding his wife’s legs in a dumpster, a California man had the nerve to open credit cards in her name, sell their home, and “pocket all profits” amid his obsession with a woman he met at a strip club. Justice came for Jack Dennis Potter, 72, on Friday in a courtroom in San Diego County after he had pleaded guilty back in February to second-degree murder for killing his spouse, Laurie Diane Potter, 54. He was sentenced on Friday to 15-years-to-life in prison.

2 weeks ago | lawandcrime.com | Alberto Luperon

Bullets pierced the walls of an Oregon apartment, fatally striking a 13-year-old boy in his sleep. Police have yet to say who killed young William “Liam” Spahnle-Bailey and injured a second, publicly unidentified person early Sunday morning. Nor did they elaborate on the alleged circumstance behind the multiple shots fired that night. “You took my little baby brother from me.