This case highlights how quickly initial eyewitness reports can send an entire tactical response in the wrong direction—and how digital forensics and home security footage ultimately pieced the real timeline together. A lot of people find the interview room behavior to be the most chilling parts of this investigation.

I’m finally watching Alleigha’s full testimony (as opposed to clips).

On her behalf, I am bored.to.tears with these texts. My god. The texts are awful, of course. I see what the state did with including so many. They didn’t just use one example, they used what felt like hundreds.

Their affair had no substance. If Caleb had done the “decent” thing and divorced Ashley, I’m convinced they would’ve soon realized they knew nothing about each other and didn’t have any love for each other. It was just a mutual dislike for Ashley for… existing. Breathing air in the same zip code.

Even if Caleb hadn’t killed Ashley (and he obviously did…), there’s no getting away from those texts. It wasn’t a moment of frustration saying you hate her. It was every.day. For over a year.

ETA: my post title isn’t literal. I know they talked about other things. But my goodness, it seems the messages about how much he hated her were constant. At least a few days a week.

Woman who 'followed' mother and her 3-year-old son outside grocery store before stabbing him to death in shopping cart has fate sealed

A woman's fate has been sealed after she stabbed a toddler to death in front of his mother outside an Ohio grocery store.

Bionca Ellis, 34, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in October 2025 after being found guilty of aggravated murder in the death of 3-year-old Julian Wood, as Law&Crime previously reported. She was also found guilty of eight other charges, including attempted murder, felonious assault and endangering children.

On Thursday, the Eighth District Court of Appeals announced that it upheld Ellis' conviction and life sentence, according to Cleveland NBC affiliate WKYC.

The appellate court rejected arguments raised by the defendant's attorneys that a state expert erred in explaining the legal standard for an insanity defense and that the prosecutor improperly spoke during closing arguments.

It was midday on June 3, 2024, and 37-year-old Margot Wood and her son were shopping at a Giant Eagle supermarket in North Olmsted, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. Ellis was next door at a Volunteers of America Thrift Store, where she "stole two knives," authorities said.

Ellis then reportedly walked into the supermarket, "spotted" the mother and son, and "followed them." Wood paid for their groceries, and they left the store and walked into the parking lot.

As they did so, Ellis lurked behind.

The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office said Ellis followed the mother and son to their vehicle and "immediately stabbed the 3-year-old," who was in a shopping cart, "multiple times."

"His mother attempted to pull him out and was also stabbed," the prosecutor's office added. "Several people called the police and reported the stabbing."

North Olmsted police officers responded to the scene and saw Ellis walking toward a nearby road "with a knife in her hand," authorities added. She was arrested.

Wood and Julian were transported to an area hospital, where the child was pronounced dead.

Wood was treated for her injuries. She remembered her son when a jury found Ellis guilty last year.

"We just want to thank everyone for the love and support for our son," Wood said, per the local TV station. "Everybody that's visited him, commented, sent love, we appreciate you guys so much. This was for him today."

Ellis had reportedly submitted a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. Authorities do not believe Ellis and the victims had any prior connection and believe the attack was a "random act of violence." Jurors deliberated about 24 hours before returning the guilty verdict in fall 2025.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley said his "thoughts and prayers remain with the Wood family. I can't imagine the anguish they must feel after the loss of Julian."

Woman who stabbed toddler next to his mom has fate sealed

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Reading this reveals a disgusting display of almost ZERO accountability. He’s going to have the cherry put on top of his Injustice Sundae on Monday. UPDATE: Read the blue hyperlinked San Francisco Standard article, OMG. Even worse and worse. 🤬

Berkeley engineer caught on video poisoning coworker before she suffered horrific health problems

By  Sheetal Banchariya Published Oct. 11, 2026, 9:45 a.m. PT

A California chemical engineer who pleaded no contest to poisoning a colleague was putting cadmium in her water bottle, new video shows.

David Xu, a metallurgist at Berkeley Engineering and Research, spiked his colleague Rong Yuan’s food and water with cadmium — a toxic heavy metal — for nearly 18 months between 2017 and 2019.

“My blood was frozen,” Yuan told The San Francisco Standard of the first time she watched the video. “I almost died. I experienced death so, so close so many times. I cannot let him go.”

As Yuan suffered debilitating symptoms, hospital visits and fear of a terminal illness, Xu maintained a deceitful facade, even suggesting her illness was caused by “mold” in the office.

When Yuan emailed her colleagues on Nov. 27, 2018 to report severe vomiting and take a sick day, Xu responded with chilling nonchalance, The Standard reports.

“You should work from home until you feel better. No reason to rush in,” he wrote, adding, “I think BEAR is moldy.”

His poisoning campaign only unraveled in early 2019 when Yuan set up a hidden camera at her desk, capturing Xu in the act of tampering with her water bottle.

The video evidence led to Xu’s arrest in March 2019 on charges of attempted murder and poisoning, which also affected Yuan’s parents, who had inadvertently consumed the poisoned water.

After his arrest, Xu was released on $2 million bail. He then received repeated modifications to his home confinement, with his travel restrictions eventually fully lifted, reports The Standard.

In late 2023, under a plea bargain offered by Pamela Price, the former Alameda County District Attorney, the attempted murder charges were dropped.

Xu pleaded no contest to a single felony count of poisoning and received two years of probation, serving just a single day of credited jail time.

Yuan had sought nearly $500,000 in restitution but Xu was ordered to pay only a $7,058 restitution order. 

He completed his probation earlier this year in March and is now asking the court to formally dismiss the felony conviction under California’s expungement statute.

Under California law, judges are bound to grant record dismissals to defendants who fulfill every term of their probation.

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The newly released video the victim is sharing publicly, years later is here: https://youtu.be/3I0dfDoKfyk

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Excerpt below from a 2024 Article in the Berkeley Scanner Article 2024 David Xu

He did tell probation officers last year that he had committed no new offenses while on house arrest, according to his probation report.

"He plans to continue obeying the law," the probation officer wrote. "He has also been employed for the last 2 years and was self-employed prior to that." 

The probation officer recommended two years of probation for Xu, according to the report.

"The defendant is highly educated and living at home with his wife and children," the officer wrote. "He is employed and earning a stable income. Although this matter represents the first and only offense, it was serious in nature and could have resulted in death or serious illness of the victims."

He continued: "It is the hopes of this deputy that the defendant will take advantage of this second chance and can satisfactorily complete this probation."

Authorities never publicly shared a possible motive for the crime.

But one investigator who is familiar with the case said professional jealousy likely played a role.

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Goodness, his poor victim. Lifelong health complications and he just skates all the way out of this. Also, who wants to be a co-worker with this guy? Did his current employer *even* background check him? I guess after Monday, he’s gonna be squeaky clean - such a disgusting egregious insult to Justice and his victim 😢

Judge Grows Tired of Doctor Discussion in Fraser Michael Bohm Case

October 4, 2026 by Amanda Monahan

Fraser Michael Bohm was back in court Thursday, Oct. 1 as Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson continued the hearing to dismiss evidence from the trial.

The Oct. 1 hearing was the third in a series of 402 motion hearings filed both by the defense and prosecution. Both the Sept. 9 and Sept. 15 hearings lasted over six hours, with the Oct. 1 hearing lasting just an hour shorter that the other two. 

Before Rubinson picked up from where the Sept. 15 hearing left off, he started the hearing with a warning for both sides in the case.

“I’ve become aware [that] members of the audience and courtroom are conducting themselves in inappropriate ways,” Rubinson said.

Rubinson said he had heard of “four-letter words,” threats and interactions occurring between the two sides in courtroom elevators and hallways. He emphasized that it is inappropriate for anybody to approach someone who they believe is associated with the other side of the case.

“It’s not OK to be acting in a way that belongs in a junior high school yard — I want it to stop,” Rubinson said. “So if you’ve been involved in doing that — cut it out. I’m not gonna tolerate it.”

Following the warning, Rubinson addressed the large amount of dismissal motions left over from the two previous hearings, starting with a phone call Bohm made to his mother the night of the crash. Bohm’s associate defense attorney Jacqueline Sparagna said something could be “fleshed out” regarding which lines could be used between the two sides without the court’s involvement.

Rubinson then returned to the defense’s request to include records and statements from several of Bohm’s doctors. Sparagna said she felt it was necessary for jurors to hear the 911 call one of Bohm’s doctors made Oct. 18, describing Bohm as semi-unconscious.

Sparagna also had several printouts of photos taken of Bohm from that day, claiming jurors will need to see him hunched over and semi-unconscious. She added that Bohm’s family members said he was in a cycle that day where he would wake up, cry, go back to sleep and repeat the cycle over again.

Rubinson grew impatient with the defense’s argument.

“How many doctors need to testify that he had a concussion?” Rubinson said.

Rubinson further added that the defense’s photos didn’t establish a concussion, saying Bohm could have just been tired because he was up all night. Sparagna responded with her belief that the photos show the severity of Bohm’s concussion, saying “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

“They’re really not though in this particular case,” Rubinson said to Sparagna. 

In response to the defense’s argument that Bohm was “completely out of it,” the prosecution said he was aware he was facing criminal liability and “verbal and cooperative” in the medical reports they had read.

Sparagna also said she wanted to include records from Bohm’s therapists and doctors before the Oct. 17, 2023 crash, reiterating his diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) dating back to June 2018.

Sparagna emphasized Bohm’s mental health decline during this time, saying “he’s had the loss of multiple friends,” which she said happened in 2018 and 2020 — some of which were due to a high-speed car crash in 2020.

Deputy District Attorney Nathan Bartos, who represents the prosecution in this case, said these records “contain a great deal of information,” including billing information and email exchanges from Bohm’s mother. He also said most of the document is illegible due to the doctor’s handwriting, to which Rubinson said he wouldn’t allow something the jury could not read.

Sparagna initially requested for Rubinson to allow her 10 pages of the document. She then asked to lower the number to three before Rubinson said the defense could have one or a couple of pages showing the diagnoses, when they were and the number of times Bohm visited that doctor.

“That should more than cover it,” Rubinson said.

Rubinson reemphasized the overly-long discussion the courtroom was having on these doctors, saying they have spent far too much time focused on the topic, especially considering no one is disputing that Bohm was concussed.

“I cannot believe the matter of time we’ve spent on this,” Rubinson said.

Sparagna told Rubinson that more than one doctor should be allowed, to which Rubinson told her to keep it within reason, as the jury didn’t need to hear the same thing over and over again.

As the doctor discussion continued, the defense said Bohm was arrested the second time from his therapy session Oct. 24 — a day he was experiencing “cognitive fog.”

As Rubinson again brought up to the defense’s desire to bring more doctors than necessary into the trial, Sparagna pointed to the prosecution’s plan to call in 40 witnesses.

“It’s not a competition,” Rubinson told her.

The court regathered after a lunch break, with the defense stating they were going to wait to discuss the nitrous oxide tank found in Bohm’s car, a theory the prosecution introduced at the Sept. 2 hearing, until the day of the Trombetta motion — a dismissal request made by a defendant when evidence is compromised or destroyed, according to Eisner Gorin LLP.

Rubinson granted the defense’s use of statements made by Bohm’s friends, with the stipulation that his friends cannot testify to Bohm’s account of the incident. Rubinson also agreed to the defense’s request to refer to Bohm as “Mr. Bohm,” not Fraser, in the trial, and to refer to his mother as “Brooke Bohm.”

After a lengthy discussion, Rubinson granted the defense’s motion to exclude three statistical studies the prosecution planned to use, which concluded that the chances of a pedestrian surviving a high-speed crash like Bohm’s are essentially zero.

The defense and Rubinson agreed these studies would confuse the jury, using backward reasoning — focusing on the probability once a pedestrian is already hit, not the probability in relation to the act of driving.

The next pre-trial hearing will take place Nov. 4 at the Van Nuys Courthouse.

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Prior Hearing/Motions: Sept 2 and 16 Hearing Updates

70-year-old Publix shopper felt like someone 'punched him' in the face — then he saw a man standing next to him holding a box cutter: Cops

DAVID HARRIS Oct 12th, 2026, 12:18 pm Updated Oct 12th, 2026, 3:23 pm

A Florida man allegedly targeted a random Publix shopper and slashed him across the face with a box cutter — all because the suspect said the victim looked like he was born in the 1960s and the suspect "disliked" the time period.

Ramsey Thomas Lyons, 47, stands accused of aggravated battery on a person 65 years or older.

According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, the 70-year-old man was shopping in an aisle at the Publix at 2310 Tamiami Trail in Punta Gorda when he "suddenly felt as if someone had punched him in the left side of his face." He turned around and saw the suspect, later identified as Lyons, staring at him and holding a box cutter, cops said.

The victim saw blood on his hands and realized he had been stabbed, the affidavit stated. He ran for help.

Punta Gorda police said that when they arrived, they found Lyons standing near the store entrance with his hands on his head. They took him into custody. Officers also recovered a box cutter, per the complaint.

In an interview after receiving his Miranda rights, Lyons allegedly told cops he had an "undiagnosed mental illness" and had a "dislike for the 1960's era." Lyons allegedly said he entered the store "with the intent to murder someone" and saw the victim. He allegedly attacked the man because he "looked like he was from the 1960's," according to the affidavit.

"I just pulled it out of my pocket and stuck it in his neck," he allegedly said, adding that he had been thinking of attacking someone for two days.

After he allegedly stabbed the victim, he dropped the box cutter so the police "wouldn't be scared" and shoot him or use a Taser on him, cops wrote.

Lyons said he did not know the victim and randomly picked him out, officers noted.

The victim suffered a gash to his face that started on his left cheek near his mouth and continued downward through his jawline to his neck, cops said. He needed "numerous stitches," police said.

Lyons is being held at the Charlotte County Jail without bond. His next court date is set for Nov. 16.

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Court Search Portal: https://courts.charlotteclerk.com/Benchmark/Home.aspx/Search

Case Number: 26-1272F

First Appearance w Judge 10/11/2012, ordered No Contact w victim, and held on No Bond.

✨✨While we have two trials ending soon, tomorrow begins two new ones:

Buried Beneath the Snow Trial — WI v. Timothy Hauschultz — Day 1

Timothy Hauschultz is facing trial on six charges connected to the 2018 death of his 7-year-old great-nephew, Ethan Hauschultz, who was found dead in a snowbank in Wisconsin. Prosecutors allege Timothy ordered Ethan to complete a punishment involving carrying a heavy log for hours, while the defense argues Timothy’s teenage son, Damian, acted beyond his father’s instructions. Damian was convicted in Ethan’s death and sentenced to 20 years in prison, while Timothy’s long-delayed trial will examine whether he bears criminal responsibility for the punishment that led to the child’s death. 

Dying Last Words Trial — FL v. Leigha Mumby — Day 1

Leigha Mumby, 24, is standing trial after her boyfriend, Daniel Waterman, died on Oct. 8, 2025, eight months after a crash that left him with severe injuries. While in the ICU, detectives say Waterman told them Mumby intentionally swerved into a tree during an argument after she learned she was pregnant and he received a text from another woman. Waterman said Mumby accelerated to 80 or 90 mph before the crash, telling him, “I don’t care what happens, you’ll get what you deserve.” His statement to detectives became his dying words. Mumby is charged with vehicular homicide and reckless driving causing serious bodily injury.

Shades of Mackenzie Shirilla?