Photo: Polk County Sheriff’s Office Orlando Ortiz, 30, and Jeffrey Marrero, 34, were located about 150 feet apart in Lake Eloise, thePolk County Sheriff’s Office confirmedon Monday. Marrero, Ortiz and his girlfriend, Velcky Velasquez, were aboard the 16-foot rented ski boat on Saturday evening — along with Marrero’s 8-year-old and 10-year-old daughters — when Velasquez jumped into the lake with the boat’s anchor to secure the vessel. When the boat began to float away “due to the wind and heavy chop to the water,” the men jumped into the water in an effort to save Velasquez....

Photo: ABC 7 NY/ Youtube Police in New Jersey are investigating the deaths of two newborn babies whose bodies were found hours apart on Wednesday at the same commercial recycling business in New Brunswick. Detectives are trying to determine what the connection may be between the unidentified newborns, and they want to know how they ended up there. Police are also anxious to identify their parents and are seeking the public’s help in identifying them....

Photo: THE VELLEMAN FAMILY/bringdebraandsuehome.com After more than 690 hours of searching, the remains of two retired teachers have been found. The bodies of friends Debra Ann Velleman, 70, and Sue Borries, 57, were discovered inside a plane after it crashed off the coast of Panama last month due to engine failure, Panamanian officialsannounced Tuesday. The retired teachers, from Waukesha, Wisconsin, and Teutoplis, Illinois, respectively, boarded a small plane on Jan. 3 after spending New Year’s Eve weekend at a bed and breakfast on the Isla Contadora in Panama,ABC Newsreports....

Photo: ABC 7The bodies of two unidentified women, bound together with duct tape, were found lying on rocks near the Hudson River Wednesday, the New York Police Department tells PEOPLE.At around 3 p.m., NYPD responded to a 911 call from eyewitness Martin Castillo, 40,who saw the womenin the vicinity of Riverside Park in New York’s Upper West Side while riding his electronic bike,New York Daily Newsreported.“The bodies were on stones. One of them was facing up....

Photo: Baltimore County police department/Facebook A Maryland woman has been arrested in connection to the deaths of her niece and nephew after the children’s bodies were found in her car’s trunk during a traffic stop. On Wednesday, just after 11 p.m., Baltimore County officers conducted a routine traffic stop during which the bodies of two deceased children were discovered, according to apolice news release. The children’s bodies were transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner while the driver of the vehicle, 33-year-old Nicole M....

Police in California are investigating the deaths of three unidentified young people after their bodies were found inside the trunk of a car.On Sunday night, San Diego police officers responded to a call regarding a suspicious vehicle after the BMW had been parked on the residential street for two days, theLos Angeles Times,Fox5andKUSIreport.When officers opened the vehicle’s trunk, they found three bodies inside. The bodies appeared to belong to two women and one man in their late teens or early 20s....

Sometimes the bodies can’t even be counted. At an “extermination site” in Nuevo Laredo, a Tamaulipas municipality just miles from the border, forensic experts were weighing charred remains six months after uncovering the site and still unable to estimate the number of dead,the AP reported from the site in 2022. The bodies that are recovered and remain unidentified are in the tens of thousands. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?...

Jennifer Whitman and her children.Photo: gofundme A mom of five is among the four people found dead in the trunk of a car parked at an airport garage in New Mexico earlier this month. Police found Jennifer Lannon’s body — along with the bodies of Matthew Miller, 21, Jesten Mata, 40, and Randal Apostalon, 60 — around 1 a.m. on March 5 at the Albuquerque International Sunport garage after airport security personnel reported a foul odor, according to theAssociated Press....

The remains of the four people who died in a helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico have been found and brought to shore. On Dec. 29, a Bell 407 helicopter carrying four people “crashed into the Gulf of Mexico” at roughly noon local time “while departing the West Delta 106 offshore drilling platform,” the Federal Aviation Administration said in a release shared with PEOPLE. The FAA said it and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating....

Photo: Harrisonburg Police Department During apress conferenceon Friday, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said that the suspect, Anthony Robinson — who was taken into custody and charged with two deaths last month — may be involved with the deaths of at least two other women. According to police, Robinson, 35, allegedly met his victims on dating websites and reportedly lured them to local motels. He would then kill them and use shopping carts to transport their bodies to vacant lots to get rid of them....

Photo: Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP The remains of six individuals have been pulled from the St. Lawrence River, which is located near Canada’s border with the United States. The Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service (AMPS) said thebodies were foundThursday afternoon in a marshy area in Akwesasne, Quebec. “Thesix individuals are believed to be from two families, one of Romanian descent, and the other believed to be citizens of India,” police said during a press conference on Friday....

Anthony Nagore (left) and Lucas Brewer.Photo: Connecticut State Police; GoFundMe A summer day at a Connecticut river took a fatal turn for two teenagers after their bodies were found in the rocky waters four days after they were reported missing, authorities said. The victims were identified as Lucas Brewer, 15, and Anthony Nagore, 17, in apress releasefrom the Environmental Conservation Police of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP)....

Brittany Brewer, Ivy Webster.Photo: GoFundMe, Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook The bodies of seven people, including two missing teenage girls and a convicted sex offender, have been recovered from the man’s Oklahoma property, according to multiple outlets. Citing the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office,CNNreports the remains of Ivy Webster and Brittany Brewer were found at Jesse McFadden’s Henryetta, Okla., property Monday. Ivy, 14, and Brittany, 16, were last seen around 1 a.m., that morning, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol....