JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County grand jury has indicted two people on 2nd-degree murder charges after a 2-month-old died with meth in the child’s system. According to the Cole County Sheriff’s department, the baby died on Sept. 30 at a home on the 800 block of Pitchfork Ally in Cole County Missouri. An
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police repsonded to a report of shots fired near La Quinta Inn, 2500 I-70 Dr. SW just after 9 a.m. Officials say later calls report that shots had been fired from a vehicle in the area of Bernadette Drive and Interstate 70 Drive SW. During the investigation, police found property damage
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Sedalia man is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old in an abandoned cargo container. The victim told Sedalia police in Nov. 2020that Nathaniel Siefkas had a sexual relationship with her when she was 14 and possibly fathered her child that was born in Jan. 2020 according to the
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) On Feb. 5, Moberly police responded to the scene of a wreck and a reported robbery in area of Holman Road and Rothwell Park Road. According to police, an F-250 rear ended a maroon sedan. The driver of the truck told police the driver of the sedan robbed him at gunpoint of
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A Boone County grand jury has indicted a Moberly woman accused of killing a man at a Columbia drive-thru. Angelica Benitez is charged with 2nd-degree murder and armed criminal action after she allegedly shot Marqukis Hayes in the drive-thru line at McDonald’s. A probable cause statement says Benitez was in a pickup truck in December
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NIXA, Mo. (AP) — An assistant principal at a southwest Missouri junior high school who is facing charges related to child pornography has been fired by the local school board. The Springfield Leader-News reports that the Nixa school board voted Monday to fire 41-year-old Colby Fronterhouse. Fronterhouse was charged last month in federal court with
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Columbia police say one person was arrested on suspicion of a late Tuesday night robbery on the Business Loop.
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SLATER, Mo. (KMIZ) A Slater woman is accused of abandoning a corpse after a body was found over a month since the person was last seen. According to a probable cause statement, Deseray Heyer is accused of the crime after a woman’s body was found last Wednesday at 242 East Emma Street in Slater. Heyer
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CAMDENTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A man is accused of shooting at someone with a rifle after an incident involving a possible kidnapping in Camdenton. According to court documents, Camden County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a possible kidnapping on Bear Ridge rd. A person told deputies that Michael Horonzy took his girlfriend and the other man fired
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police responded to a vandalism call Friday evening that escalted into more charges. According to court documents, Christopher Super admitted to damaging a side door at the Caniff Circle Apartments but the victim didn’t want to press charges just to get the door fixed. However, while police were on scene to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police release more information regarding a 17-year-old that is being charged as an adult with two counts of 2nd-degree murder. According to court documents, Columbia police responded to the area of Volunteer Drive and Grace Lane on July 5, 2020. Once on scene, officers found five gunshot victims. Two of the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has been sentenced to prison for abandoning his wife’s body. The Boone County prosecutor’s office says Frank Spencer received a four-year sentence today after he pleaded guilty to abandonment of a corpse. According to court documents, he buried the body of his wife Nikki Lee Boring behind a home
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KINGDOM CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri State Highway Patrol stopped a vehicle near the US Highway 54 – Interstate 70 interchange just after midnight in Callaway County. According to troopers, Callaway County Sheriff’s Office K9 Iro responded to assist and helped make another drug seizure. Officials say 11.1 lbs. of marijuana, 235 grams of THC concentrate,
Continue Reading CENTRALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Former Centralia officer Clint Baer was sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty in October, to try and have sex with a minor. According to a release, Baer began talking to someone he believed to be the mother of a 14-year-old girl through a social networking site. Â Over the
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On Friday, Cole County prosecutors filed charges against two men accused of involvement with a late December shooting.
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Officers were sent to the 1000 block of Claudell Lane at about 12:45 a.m. on a report of shots fired.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man is in the Boone County Jail tonight after being accused of a Columbia sexual assault. Prosecutors have charged 24-year-old Xavier Gee with armed criminal action, two counts of 1st-degree sodomy, robbery and 3rd-degree assault. According to court documents, the victim was meeting Gee at a hotel. Police say once she
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) – The suspect in a 1991 Cole County murder case wants several pieces of evidence left out of a future trial. The requests filed by attorneys for William “Chris” Niemet include leaving out newly-tested evidence for DNA, a 1991 lie detector test and witness statements made about a possible weapon used
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Jefferson City police say at least one person was hurt and two were arrested in a shooting at a shopping plaza Thursday night.
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The uncle of a Missouri woman accused of participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last month is now facing charges himself.
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