A Pennsylvania man is behind bars for allegedly taking a clothes iron and burning 60% of his girlfriend’s body because he thought she was cheating on him.

Burton L. Byrd proceeded to hold the woman captive in their Pittsburgh appointment from Saturday to Tuesday, not allowing her to leave to seek medical attention, a probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime said. When he did release the alleged victim, he told her to make up a story about being assaulted near a Wendy’s and threatened to hurt her family if she spoke the truth, according to the affidavit.

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Pittsburgh cops responded to the hospital around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday about a report of a possible domestic violence situation. The woman told police she and Byrd were at their apartment on Saturday when he accused her of infidelity.

“He figured he would punish me,” she told cops.

Byrd allegedly forced the woman to strip naked and tied her hands together with shoelaces. He began beating her with a belt and punching her in the face, cops said. Officers noted the woman had bruising around her eye and broken blood vessels in her right eye, suggesting she had been struck several times in the face.

After a court tossed out the confession, a California man pleaded down from a murder charge to voluntary manslaughter for killing his then-girlfriend’s 1-year-old daughter. Derrick Dimone Woods, 47, was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years and eight months in prison for killing Amanda Owens, 16 months, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office announced.

He also pleaded guilty to physical child abuse for hurting and injuring Amanda’s 3-year-old brother, Elijah, and to false imprisonment by force or violence regarding both children.

A 22-year-old New Hampshire man stands accused of beating his girlfriend’s 23-month-old son to death when he was alone with the boy and she was grocery shopping.

Annthoni Bliss is charged with second-degree murder in the January 2024 death of Luca Hudson, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office said in a statement. The Keene Police Department and medical personnel responded the morning of Jan. 14, 2024, to an apartment for a young child in medical distress. They arrived to find Luca unconscious and not breathing. Paramedics rushed him to the hospital where he died three days later, just a month shy of his second birthday.

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A year-plus long investigation led to charges being filed against Bliss, who had started dating Luca’s mother about a month prior to the incident after knowing each other for several years, a probable cause arrest affidavit said. The medical examiner determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma to the head and the manner of death homicide.

Bliss and the boy’s mother denied doing anything to hurt Luca. Bliss had been staying at his girlfriend’s apartment along with Luca and the boy’s older brother, cops said. Detectives noted that Luca showed no signs of injury in the days leading up to his death.

Through interviews and reviewing surveillance footage, investigators believe the abuse happened the night before cops responded to the apartment when Luca’s mother made a nearly hour-long trip to the grocery store, according to the affidavit. In text messages between her and Bliss while she was out, the defendant made no mention that anything may have been amiss. He said Luca’s older brother had fallen asleep.

“How’s shopping baby,” Bliss allegedly texted her.

“going to check out now,” she responded.

“Okay my love,” Bliss texted.

The “mangled up” body of a man killed by his girlfriend’s teenage son was discovered on a busy Louisiana bridge last week — leading to murder and accessory charges for his partner, her 17-year-old and the woman’s mom — after the family tried wrapping him in a blanket and dumping him over the side with a kettlebell, officials say.

Coshelia Conley, 36, of Baker, was trying to cover up her boyfriend Gerard Nicholas Richard’s death last Thursday after her son, Da’Sean Conley, shot and killed him while the two were arguing and fighting that night, according to their arrest affidavit, which was filed by the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office and obtained by local CBS and ABC affiliates WAFB and WBRZ, respectively.

A 32-year-old man in Texas was arrested for allegedly killing his girlfriend’s father in front of the girlfriend, fatally shooting the 43-year-old victim after the two got into an argument about paying a cover charge at a night club.

Franco X. Summers was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with one count of murder in the slaying of Christopher Paul Fuentes, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Officers with the San Antonio Police Department responded to reports of a shooting at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday near a taco restaurant in the 18000 block of Blanco Road, San Antonio CBS affiliate KENS reported. Once there, first responders found a man — later identified as Fuentes — suffering from what appeared to be multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

An 18-year-old man in Texas has been arrested and charged with a felony for allegedly helping his 17-year-old girlfriend kill herself by drowning in a local pond last year. Zander Tashman was taken into custody over the weekend and charged with one count of aiding the suicide of another individual, Ellyse Suarez, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Frisco Police Department, officers on Nov. 20, 2023, responded to a call regarding “suspicious activity” at Frisco Commons Park, which is in the 8000 block of McKinney Road in Frisco, Texas. Frisco is about 30 miles north of Dallas.

Upon arriving at the scene, first responders said they found the body of a 17-year-old girl — later identified as Suarez — in the pond. She was pronounced dead on the scene in what appeared to be a suicide.

Suarez’s cause of death was ultimately determined to be drowning.

“After an exhaustive investigation, evidence collected in the case indicated that 18-year-old Zander Tashman of Frisco aided the deceased, his 17-year-old girlfriend, in committing suicide,” police wrote in the release. “Subsequently, Detectives obtained a warrant for his arrest, and Tashman was taken into custody on February 18, 2024.”

A shocking video showing a man shooting his girlfriend’s son in the ear is making the rounds on social media.

It shows the altercation from the view of the victim, Kyle W. Spitze, who was recording from his phone. The incident occurred around 8:15 p.m. Aug. 25 in Friendsville, Tennessee, about 20 miles southwest of Knoxville. Billy Ragland, a firearms instructor, posted the video on X, the website formerly known as Twitter, and it has amassed over 22 million views.

A 50-year-old dentist and oral surgeon in Maryland will spend more than four decades behind bars for killing his 25-year-old girlfriend who fatally overdosed on addictive anesthesia medications administered through an at-home IV station the doctor had set up for her in the rental house they shared. State Circuit Court Judge Cheryl A. McCally on Wednesday ordered James Michael Ryan to serve a sentence of 45 years in a state correctional facility, authorities announced.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, a Montgomery County jury in August deliberated for less than three hours before finding Ryan guilty of one count of second-degree depraved heart murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Sarah Harris. He was also convicted on charges of possession with the intent to distribute midazolam and distribution of ketamine and diazepam.

Ryan had been facing a maximum sentence of 55 years in prison before Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, however, the state sentencing guidelines had been calculated at between 10 to 25 years, the Washington Post reported. McCally reportedly said she decided to far exceed those guidelines due to Ryan’s significant contribution to Harris’ death — providing her with the drugs stolen from his practice — as well as his exploitation of a position of power over the former beauty queen who began working for him for several years before her death. Prosecutors said that he “often administered” the drugs to Harris himself.

During the sentencing hearing, McCally reportedly recounted “the march to Sarah’s death,” emphasizing text messages showed Ryan on at least one occasion administered ketamine to Harris while she was asleep.