A Dallas County grand jury has indicted a Polk County woman in the death of a child.
Ashely Cameron faces charges of child abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.
The 13 year old child died in February 2021 after investigators say Cameron failed to get the child medical treatment for a treatable illness.
Less than a month after leaving Missouri State to be the offensive coordinator at UNLV, Bobby Petrino is on the move once again.
Reports say he accepted an offer from Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher Wednesday afternoon to be the Aggies next offensive coordinator.
Petrino is considered one of the premier offensive minds in college football, with a laundry list of All-American talents, most prominently being Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star Lamar Jackson.
A&M will look for the coaching nomad to revitalize an offense that ranked 101st in the FBS last year in scoring, averaging less than 23 points per game.
Petrino spent three years with Missouri State, twice leading the Bears to playoff berths.
This will be the 61-year-old’s tenth different coaching position since 2000, but his first job not as a head coach since he was the offensive coordinator for Auburn back in 2002.
A woman from Lake Ozark is free today after prosecutors dropped charges against her in alleged murder for hire scheme.
Leigh Ann Bauman was facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder after she was accused of hiring a hitman to killer her mother-in-law.
Investigators say Bauman and her husband had gotten divorced, and she was afraid they would sue for full custody of the couples’ children.
During the investigation, authorities uncovered a text Bauman sent to her children that read, “your grandmother will die.”
Camden County prosecutors dropped all charges against her on Wednesday, and have not said where or not they will refile charges.
A woman is wanted in Greene County for charges of child endangerment after missing her December court date.
Reports say 42-year-old Dawn Thomas faces four counts of child endangerment, two of the charges involve drugs.
She was due in court in December, but failed to appear.
Police say Thomas is likely hiding out somewhere in the Springfield area.
She is described as 5-foot-8, 160 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
If you have any information about her whereabouts, contact Crime Stoppers at 417-869-8477
The Missouri Department of Corrections has executed Amber McLaughlin Tuesday evening.
She was the first openly transgender inmate to be executed in the state.
The lethal injection was carried out at 6:39 p.m at the Correctional Center in Bonne Terre.
McLaughlin was sentenced for the rape and murder of Beverly Guenther.
At the time, McLaughlin was known as Scott and Guenther was his ex-girlfriend.
The Missouri Department of Corrections has executed Amber McLaughlin Tuesday evening.
She was the first openly transgender inmate to be executed in the state.
The lethal injection was carried out at 6:39 p.m at the Correctional Center in Bonne Terre.
McLaughlin was sentenced for the rape and murder of Beverly Guenther.
At the time, McLaughlin was known as Scott and Guenther was his ex-girlfriend.
Lawrence County Deputies have arrested a Springfield man who has been the subject of multiple sexual misconduct investigations since 2020.
Springfield Police say 21 year old Noah Stovall has been formally charged with three felony counts of first degree harassment.
Court documents say Stovall has a history of allegedly exposing and fondling himself in front of women who are walking or jogging.
On New Years Eve, he was reported by three women, walking in the Roundtree Neighborhood, who say he kept driving past them in his vehicle.
Springfield Police say one person is dead after a multi-car crash on Highway 65 near I-44 in north Springfield.
Reports say the crash happened at around 9:00 a.m. Tuesday morning just passed the Valley Water Mill Road exit, when investigators say a car travelling northbound crossed into southbound traffic and hit another car.
The northbound driver was the one killed in the crash, but their identity has not been released at this time.
First responders say the driver and a passenger in the other vehicle suffered moderate injuries. It is not clear if they were taken to the hospital.
The crash closed down the highway for close to two hours, but crews were able to clean up the scene and reopen the road at around noon.
A final statement from Governor Mike Parson has denied clemency for a transgender woman scheduled to be put to death in Missouri on Tuesday.
Amber McLaughlin was convicted of murder for the death of Beverly Guenther in 2006.
Investigators say she had stalked Guenther for several months until jumping her on January 3, 2003.
Reports say crime scene investigators determined Guenther had been stabbed several times, and had also been raped.
Experts say this will be the first execution of an openly transgender woman in United States history.
The full statement from Governor Parson can be read below:
Today, Governor Mike Parson confirmed that the State of Missouri will carry out the sentence of Scott McLaughlin as ordered by the Supreme Court of Missouri.
“McLaughlin’s conviction and sentence remains after multiple, thorough examinations of Missouri law. McLaughlin stalked, raped, and murdered Ms. Guenther. McLaughlin is a violent criminal,” Governor Parson said. “Ms. Guenther’s family and loved ones deserve peace. The State of Missouri will carry out McLaughlin’s sentence according to the Court’s order and deliver justice.”
McLaughlin waited outside Beverly Guenther’s workplace, where McLaughlin brutally raped and violently stabbed her as she walked to her vehicle to go home. McLaughlin terrorized Ms. Guenther for months prior, to the point where Ms. Guenther had an order of protection against McLaughlin after McLaughlin broke into her home. McLaughlin’s culpability in Ms. Guenther’s murder has never been in question. Missouri courts have found no issue in the application of Missouri law to McLaughlin, and federal appellate courts have maintained as much.
A man from Nixa is in police custody after investigators say he threatened to kill a woman with a hatchet.
Officers responded to a distress call at around 7:30 a.m. on New Years Day after dispatchers reportedly heard someone on the phone say, “why are you trying to kill me?”
Reports say when police arrived, they found 31-year-old Simon Scholz on top of the victim in a bed at the residence.
After following instructions from authorities, Scholz was arrested without further incident.
He also admitted to taking meth, heroin and PCP earlier that morning, and told investigators that he believed the victim had been taken by aliens, and that he had to kill her.
Scholz faces charges of first-degree domestic assault, armed criminal action, and second-degree kidnapping.