COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boonville woman charged with incest in Benton County was arrested Thursday in Boone County. Troopers arrested Kimberly D. Schnieders, 35, on a warrant for statutory sodomy, child endangerment involving sexual conduct and incest on Thursday afternoon, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol online arrest report. Charges were filed against Schnieders
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man charged with manslaughter has settled with the family of a woman who was killed in a crash in February 2024. Court documents filed on Thursday show Matthew Shilling settled with the family of Christina Mayfield for $25,000 in her death. Shilling is currently facing criminal charges in Boone County, including
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The U.S. Justice Department has released transcripts of a deputy attorney general’s two-day interview with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The department posted transcripts from each day of the interview, along with 16 audio files, on the Justice website on Friday afternoon. Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security prison after her
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By Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard members patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, to begin carrying their service weapons as they fulfill President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the nation’s capital, according to a US defense official. The directive from Hegseth represents a notable shift in guidance
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CNN By Evan Perez, Kristen Holmes, Michael Callahan, Shania Shelton, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — The FBI conducted a court-authorized search Friday at former national security adviser John Bolton’s home and office as part of a renewed investigation into whether he disclosed classified information in his 2020 book, according to two people familiar with the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The City of Columbia’s Office of Violence Prevention is considering adding two “community navigation liaisons” to help defuse problems on the city’s public transit. “What this program does is it puts individuals on the transit lines with the driver to de-escalate and to actually navigate folks to services so that they’re not,
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By Cindy Von Quednow, Michael Callahan, CNN (CNN) — A “cruel hoax” sent Villanova University students sheltering into place on the first day of orientation after a false report of an active shooter, the school’s president said, prompting a massive response by local and federal law enforcement as they worked to secure the campus. No
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The trial for a Jefferson City man who was accused of assaulting a man who later died in 2023 ended in a hung jury, according to Cole County Prosecutor Locke Thompson. Jeremy Alexander, 24, was charged in the case with first-degree assault. He was also previously charged with second-degree felony murder, but
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Celeste Springer PUEBLO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — In a bizarre turn of events, 13 Investigates has uncovered that the Pueblo County Coroner is accused of hiding bodies in a secret room of his privately-owned funeral home, Davis Mortuary. According to records by the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), Brian Cotter’s funeral home was due
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kansas City man was charged in Boone County after he allegedly led law enforcement on a high-speed chase last month on Interstate 70. Beau Barrera was charged in Boone County with first-degree attempted assault and aggravated fleeing. A warrant was ordered and no bond was set. He was charged in Montgomery
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors are seeking to amend a charge for a man who is scheduled to go to trial next month for his alleged role in a shooting that occurred in December outside of a Boone County bar. Steven Jones, 45, of Columbia, is charged with illegal gun possession and is being held at
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A U.S. House Committee voted this week to release redacted portions of the Epstein files. Committee members are set to start receiving files this week. The public release will come later, and a spokesperson for the committee told reporters that members will consult with the Justice Department on the release. The department has a questionable
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who has been trespassed from more than 25 businesses in downtown Columbia has been charged with a felony. Michael Paddock, 49, of Columbia, was charged on Monday with first-degree burglary and a pair of misdemeanors: Stealing and disturbing the peace. He is being held at the Boone County Jail on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man was charged with a pair of child sex crimes on Tuesday after authorities say he raped a child. RolandNazarowski, 30, was charged with first-degree child molestation and first-degree statutory rape of a child younger than 12 years old. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was who allegedly involved in a chase with law enforcement on Friday in Miller County died the same evening, according to a Monday social media post from the Miller County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office wrote Albert Clark, 54, collapsed after he was detained. He was brought to Lake Regional
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COLUMBIA, mo. A man was charged with multiple felonies after he allegedly fired gunshots at a family in California, Missouri, on Friday. Ruben Obando-Romero was charged in Moniteau County with second-degree assault, armed criminal action and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child. He is being held at the Moniteau County Jail without bond and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Codefendants Samarion Robins, 20, and Oscar Ashford Jr., 21, were denied a bond reduction by a Boone County judge on Monday. Their Sept. 8 trial date was also pushed to Nov.18. The trial was pushed back after Judge Jeff Harris revealed that prosecutors handed more than 900 pages of discovery to the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Kansas man was charged in Cooper County after he allegedly broke into a home and pointed a gun at the homeowner on Sunday morning. Rivanold Truman Tegomo Tekombo, 25, of Olathe, Kansas, was charged with first-degree burglarly, second-degree kidnapping, armed criminal action and two misdemeanors: Fourth-degree assault and stealing. He is
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Audrain County man was charged with several felonies on Friday after authorities claim he helped a teenager commit a shooting in March in Mexico. Casey Minter Jr., of Mexico, was charged in Audrain County with conspiracy to commit a felony, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action, endangering the welfare
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, man was charged on Friday with a pair of felonies after he allegedly strangled a woman multiple times this summer. Jonathan Swiney was charged in Audrain County with two counts of first-degree domestic assault. A warrant was issued and no bond was set. The probable cause statement says a
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