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Cops performed a welfare check on a Wisconsin 6-year-old boy. He was pronounced dead 15 hours later and his mother was charged with murder, cops say.

A North Carolina father previously convicted for shaking his 3-week-old son is now facing new charges in connection with the murder of his 3-month-old son.

The owner of a South Carolina Shell station is facing a murder charge after he shot a 14-year-old boy he wrongly suspected shoplifted, authorities said.

A 3-month-old baby girl was found dead along the highway in New York City. Now police say her parents have been arrested in connection with her death.

A man in Idaho will spend the rest of his life in prison after a judge sentenced him for the death of his 4-month-old son.

A couple in Georgia are accused of false imprisonment and cruelty to children after their young son was found wandering the streets looking for food, cops say.

A 40-year-old woman in Detroit has been accused of killing her 4-year-old son after giving him fentanyl that caused him to go into cardiac arrest, police said.

A Massachusetts man was indicted for allegedly killing a 5-year-old girl crossing the street when he tried to pull $20 from his pocket while speeding, cops say.

A 12-year-old girl was allegedly killed after a dispute between a Louisiana love triangle ended in gunfire. Now two people have been arrested, cops say.

A Tennessee teenager who was hospitalized for a possible overdose is now accused of murder after two other high school girls died, authorities said.

New body cam footage has been released showing a New Mexico teenager in the hospital after she allegedly put her newborn baby in the trash, police said.

A mother in Utah was sentenced for the death of her 6-year-old son, who endured 'intentional, heinous and repeated violence' against him.

An Indiana man has been arrested after his 5-year-old son fatally shot himself using the gun he left on couch while using the bathroom, police said.

A New Mexico teenager went to the hospital for back pains, but ended up delivering a baby and then dumped him in the trash, according to authorities.

A jury has found Doomsday Mom Lori Vallow guilty of the double murder of her children and conspiring to commit murder of her husband's first wife.

Fentanyl may have played a part in the death of a baby girl in California, and the child’s mother is now under arrest, officials said.

A man in Pennsylvania has been found guilty of murdering his malnourished daughter, who was found dead in 2020.

The mother and stepfather of a teenager who was killed in Mississippi are both headed to prison after each was convicted of her murder.

A New Jersey man living in his brother’s basement is accused of using an ax to commit the double murder of his young niece and sister-in-law, prosecutors said.

A convicted sex offender in Illinois smothered a high school freshman to death and then disposed of her body in a dumpster, authorities claim.

Leticia Stauch willl spend the rest of her life behind bars after she was found guilty on all counts in the killing of her 11-year-old stepson Gannon Stauch.

A 2-year-old Nashville boy fatally shot himself with a gun he found on a bed. Now, police say the boyfriend of the boy's mother is charged with his murder.

A 6-year-old boy was playing video games with his sisters in Virginia when he was shot dead after a group fired several rounds into his home, authorities say.

A Florida man has entered not guilty pleas in connection with the murders of his 2-year-old son, who was found in an alligator's mouth, and the child's mother.

A former friend of Doomsday mom Lori Vallow took the stand and said Lori threatened to 'cut up' and 'bury' her in 2019, officials said.

A Mississippi man was arrested on a capital murder charge after a 7-week-old baby boy died from head and body trauma, authorities said.

Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom accused of strangling her 3 kids to death, has been moved to a new hospital, her attorney says.

The family of a 16-year-old boy who was killed while riding his bike continues to hope for justice in the murder case.

Doomsday Mom Lori Vallow's hair was reportedly found on the duct tape used to wrap her son't body after he was killed, according to authorities.

A jury has found a California man guilty of three counts each of first-degree murder and attempted murder after a deadly car crash following a prank.

Fingerprints of the adoptive uncle of J.J. Vallow were found on the plastic bag containing his decomposed body, authorities said.

A jury in Alabama has found a teenager guilty of murdering his father, stepmother and three young siblings on Labor Day in 2019.

A woman in Louisiana is accused of killing her boyfriend's 6-year-old daughter and then leaving the body in a bucket on the child's mother's yard, police say.

A mom in Florida has been charged with murder and neglect after her 3-year-old son drowned in a pond and she asked her neighbor to cover for her, police said.

A woman in Virginia has been indicted by a grand jury after a 4-month-old baby died under her care in an unlicensed home daycare center, officials said.

The trial for Doomsday mom Lori Vallow continues, as investigators discuss finding her children's bodies and jurors hear phone call between Lori and her sister.

The medical examiner in Florida has revealed the shocking cause of death for the 2-year-old boy who was found inside an alligator's mouth, officials said.

A pregnant South Carolina woman was arrested after she did drugs and the baby boy she was carrying died, authorities said.

New information has been released about an Oklahoma couple and their six children who were found dead in what police now believe was a murder-suicide.

A couple in Oklahoma has been charged with murder after allegedly dumping a newborn baby in trash and then burying it, according to authorities.

A Mississippi mother and her boyfriend are charged with murdering her three-year-old son, after the boy was found in a pond, police say.

A 9-year-old girl and her mother were found axed to death in their New Jersey home, and police say the suspect was arrested in Maryland.

A father of six-week-old twins in Louisiana is accused of murdering one of them by shaking the baby to death.

A pregnant mother in Texas has been arrested and charged in the shooting death of her 8-month-old daughter, which took place during an argument over a gun.

The daughter of a Colorado murder suspect says she never knew her stepbrother's body was in a suitcase during a cross-country drive, officials said.

A 5-year-old Washington girl was found dead in her home and now police say three people have been arrested and charged with her fentanyl-related overdose death.

A inmate in Texas was at the hospital receiving treatment for suicidal thoughts. She punched a pregnant worker, killing the fetus and now faces murder charges.

A Virginia teenager faces 60 years in prison after admitting that he murdered a 13-year-old girl and it “felt good.”

A Miami jury believes a man murdered the 11-year-old daughter of his former lover, then tried to make it look like she killed herself.

An Illinois woman has pleaded guilty to murder after she threw a 3-year-old child against the wall and didn't seek medical help, officials said.