5-year-old child articles
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5-year anniversary marked in murder, discovery of 5-year-old AJ Freund from Crystal Lake
The five-year anniversary was marked Wednesday in the discovery of AJ Freund, the 5-year-old Crystal Lake boy who was murdered by his parents and falsely reported missing before his body was found. JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr., the parents of AJ, reported the boy missing on April 18, 2019. Andrew Freund Sr. told dispatchers […]
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Childhood friends of 12-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by homeless man say child killer sentences should be longer as 76-year-old faces parole
Edward Crowley stabbed Diego Pineiro-Villar, 12, around 30 times in March 2000, in a case that shocked the nation and shone a spotlight on failings in the justice system even 20 years ago.
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Mother guilty in torture death of 5-year-old daughter gets 45 years in prison
Mercedes Losoya, 5, was killed in February 2022 as a result of what was ruled extreme physical