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A German woman vacationing in Florida has been charged with the murder of her 5-year-old grandson who is from Roswell, Georgia. Authorities said 71-year-old Marianne Bordt drowned her grandson in a bathtub and then tried to kill herself.

Bordt is being held without bond in Franklin County Jail. Read more...

DNA evidence has led detectives to issue an arrest warrant for an Idaho convict in the 1998 murder of a 10-year-old Salt Lake City girl who was found stabbed to death on the front porch of her home. Matthew John Breck has been linked to the murder by DNA evidence collected from under the fingernails of Anna Palmer.

Breck is currently serving time in Clearwater County, Idaho for a 2001 conviction of sodomy and lewdness of a young girl. Read more...

A 21-year-old Michigan woman who was abducted from the restaurant parking lot where she worked by her ex-boyfriend was found near death at a rural cabin in the northern part of the state. Police said Courtney Beard was suffering from a loss of blood and hypothermia when she was found.

Arrested at the cabin was Brandon Smith, 23, a father of two whose family owned the Antrim County cabin. Read more...