According to the National Center for Missing or Exploited Children (NCMEC) roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States, which is about 2,000 a day. A large number of these are stranger abductions cases.
Officials are keeping tight-lipped about the reason why, but the area beneath the Interstate 10 bridge over the Calcasieu River has been declared a crime scene and is closed to the public.
His crime is particularly heinous. He allegedly broke in to the 26 year old women's home, raped her then brutally stabbed her in front of her 4 year old step-son. That was in 2008 and he is still on the run.
Special Agent Rick DesLauriers of the FBI, who is leading the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings, just held a press conference in which he revealed that there are two suspects. The FBI released photographs and video of two men believed to be responsible for the attacks.
File this under unexplainable: A Winnsboro woman ends up in the hospital Sunday night covered in third-degree burns. She says she was attacked by three men in white hoodies. On her car, someone has painted "KKK" and racial slurs. Just when everyone's hackles get raised, authorities say that the truth was, she set HERSELF on fire. Say what?
A man drove from Long Island, New York, into Lower Manhattan earlier today in a van he thought was filled with explosives. He parked the van close to the Federal Reserve building, just a few blocks from the World Trade Center, and planned to detonate it using a cell phone from a nearby hotel.
The explosives, however, were fake.