Irene Gakwa. The boyfriend of Wyoming nursing studentIrene Gakwawill spend up to the next six years in prison and will have to pay $13,200 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to stealing her money, using her credit cards and deleting her email account after she went missing in 2022. On Wednesday, Campbell County District Court Judge James M. “Mike” Causey sentenced Nathan Hightman, 39, of Gillette, to three- to six-year prison sentences for felony theft and unlawful use of a credit card convictions at his sentencing hearing, theGillette News Recordreports....

Irene Gakwa. The boyfriend of Wyoming nursing studentIrene Gakwahas pleaded guilty to stealing her money, using her credit cards and deleting her email account after she went missing in 2022. On Tuesday in Campbell County District Court, Nathan Hightman, 39, of Gillette, pleaded guilty to three of the five felonies he was accused of — one count each of theft, unlawful use of a credit card and crimes against intellectual property....

Irene Luevano’s body was discovered with “obvious signs of trauma,” according to police.Photo: Phoenix Police The search for a missing Arizona woman ended in tragedy Friday when her remains were discovered in a remote section of La Paz County, a conclusion police say implicate her boyfriend. Irene Luevano, 37, was reported missing in Phoenix on Sunday. On Friday, her body was found roughly 30 miles south of Salome, an unincorporated desert community....

Photo: Freehold Township Police Department For 87 agonizing days, Ed Parze, his wife Sharleen and an army of volunteers searched tirelessly for the couple’s daughter,Stephanie Parze, who’d gone missing on Oct. 30 after getting together with her family. On Sunday, her remains were finally found when two teenage boys happened upon the 25-year-old’s body in a wooded area of Old Bridge, New Jersey, where searchers had looked earlier. Along with the discovery came the revelation that Stephanie’s on-again-off-again boyfriend, John Ozbilgen, 29, had confessed to murdering her in a suicide note before killing himself....

Photo: CBS New York The boyfriend of thepregnant real estate agent, who was stabbed and left in a pool of blood in the entranceway of her Queens, New York apartment building, has been arrested. On Friday, 48-year-old Anthony Hobson turned himself in to police — in the presence of his lawyer, New York Police Department tells PEOPLE. Hobson was taken into custody and charged with murder, tampering with physical evidence, abortion and criminal possession of a weapon after Jennifer Irigoyen, 35, was found at her residence with multiple stab wounds to her neck and torso....

Police in Iowa have ruled out the boyfriend ofMollie Tibbettsas a suspect in the University of Iowa sophomore’s disappearance, which authorities say appears increasingly likely was an abduction. Jackaddressed his missing girlfriendin a recent interview with theDes Moines Register, saying, “I miss you so much and I love you.” The search for the missing 20-year-old continues, says Mitch Mortvedt, a spokesman for the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. According to Mortvedt, local, state and federal officers are following up on a number of leads....

Photo: gofundme Jacob Smith, Partridge’s 24-year-old boyfriend, was on the boat with her when she fell into the water and tried to save her after she had gone overboard,BocaNewsNowreports. “He turned the boat around and couldn’t get to her as fast as he wanted, so he jumped in afterward and swam her to shore and she hit her head. She had a fatal injury in the back of her head,” mom Jessie toldBoston25 Newsof Lindsey’s boyfriend attempting to save her....

Photo: Facebook Six years after a North Carolina mother of two was found fatally stabbed in her home, her boyfriend, who had called 911 to report her death, has been arrested for her murder, according to multiple news reports. Roger Lee Martin, 41, was taken into custody Monday in the 2013 death of 31-year-old aspiring nurse Nova “Nikki” Robinson, 31, who was found dead at her home on Cherokee Street in Asheboro....

Photo: Facebook A Utah man was sentenced Thursday to at least 16 years to life in prison for the killing of a mother and her three-year-old son whose bodies were found in a shallow grave four years after they disappeared. Christopher Poulson, 30, pleaded guilty in August to first-degree felony murder and second-degree felony manslaughter in the 2015 deaths of 23-year-old Emily Quijano and her son Gabriel Almiron. “Seeing Christopher go to prison brings me no joy,” Quijano’s mother, Brenda Marsh, said at the sentencing Thursday, theSalt Lake Tribunereports....

Photo: Facebook After Kiera Bergman disappeared from their shared residence on Aug. 4, her boyfriend went on television to beg for her safe return. Clark said the two had argued the last time he saw her. “I’m sorry. I know that me not having a job was a really big issue. I did get a job, I start on Monday,” he said. “Just come back. I’m not going to ask any questions....

Photo: NYPD Crime Stoppers According to the sources, the girl, Karol Sanchez, was upset her mother planned to move them back to their native Honduras and wanted to stay in the United States with her boyfriend, who has not been publicly named. Sanchez’s story captivated the city and prompted an AMBER Alert after the NYPD released harrowing surveillance footage from Monday night, showing the young girl appearing to be kidnapped right off the street in the Bronx while her mother tries to fend off the abductors....

boygeniusis paying tribute toSinéad O’Connor. The “Not Strong Enough” band also teamed up with the Irish duoYe Vagabondsfor the cover. Together, they create a beguiling, heartwarming indie-folk cover to honor the singer-songwriter whodied at age 56in July. Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus of boygenius and Sinead O’Connor.Ian West/PA Images via Getty;Roberto Finizio/Getty Ian West/PA Images via Getty;Roberto Finizio/Getty Slowed down from O’Connor’s rendition lush with Celtic-sounding instrumentation, the cover is full of muted strings and gentle yet stunning vocal performances....

Photo: Vancouver Police Department Nearly 70 years later, the the boys were identified as 7-year-old Derek D’Alton and his 6-year-old half-brother David, descendants of Russian immigrants who arrived in Canada around the early 1900s. The children lived in Vancouver and had a relative who lived near Stanley Park. “These murders have haunted generations of homicide investigators, and we are relieved to now give these children a name and to bring some closure to this horrific case,” Vancouver Police Department Inspector Dale Weidman said....