INDIANAPOLIS (TCN) — A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to 76 years in prison after pleading guilty to child molestation and rape in connection with a 2024 home invasion. On June 29, 2024, police were called to a home after receiving a report of rape, WXIN reports. Responding officers made contact with a woman who said that both she and her daughter, age 12, had been raped at gunpoint. She stated that a masked man, later identified as Teshon Gardner, came to the door, showed her his gun, and told her to let him in. Gardner then raped her and asked if she was alone after looking at family photos on the wall.  Gardner reportedly walked down the hall to the woman’s daughter’s room and raped the child at gunpoint. WXIN reports he filmed both attacks on his cellphone.Gardner stayed in the home for about an hour, WTHR reports. According to WISH, two other children, ages 1 and 8, were in the home at the time. WXIN reports police tracked down the suspect using cameras and arrested him during a traffic stop. In an interview, Gardner was asked if he had any tattoos and told authorities he had one on his stomach, per WTHR. Authorities confirmed it matched the description given by the victims.He was charged with 19 counts of rape, child molestation, and sexual battery.On Aug. 6, Gardner pleaded guilty to one charge each of rape and child molestation and was sentenced to 38 years for each charge, according to WXIN.MORE: ‘Every family’s worst nightmare’: Pennsylvania man sentenced for home invasion that targeted 25-year-old woman — True Crime News‘Honey, I’m here’: Oregon man broke into home and attempted to rape woman who was holding her baby — True Crime News

INDIANAPOLIS (TCN) — A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to 76 years in prison after pleading guilty to child molestation and rape in connection with a 2024 home invasion. On June 29, 2024, police were called to a home after receiving a report of rape, WXIN reports. Responding officers made contact with a woman who said that both she and her daughter, age 12, had been raped at gunpoint. She stated that a masked man, later identified as Teshon Gardner, came to the door, showed her his gun, and told her to let him in. Gardner then raped her and asked if she was alone after looking at family photos on the wall.  Gardner reportedly walked down the hall to the woman’s daughter’s room and raped the child at gunpoint. WXIN reports he filmed both attacks on his cellphone.Gardner stayed in the home for about an hour, WTHR reports. According to WISH, two other children, ages 1 and 8, were in the home at the time. WXIN reports police tracked down the suspect using cameras and arrested him during a traffic stop. In an interview, Gardner was asked if he had any tattoos and told authorities he had one on his stomach, per WTHR. Authorities confirmed it matched the description given by the victims.He was charged with 19 counts of rape, child molestation, and sexual battery.On Aug. 6, Gardner pleaded guilty to one charge each of rape and child molestation and was sentenced to 38 years for each charge, according to WXIN.MORE: ‘Every family’s worst nightmare’: Pennsylvania man sentenced for home invasion that targeted 25-year-old woman — True Crime News‘Honey, I’m here’: Oregon man broke into home and attempted to rape woman who was holding her baby — True Crime News

MARGATE, Fla. (TCN) — A 36-year-old man is behind bars on charges including attempted felony murder after allegedly attacking his sister with a machete while she was asleep next to her 1-year-old daughter.According to WTVT, Ruben Altidore allegedly attempted to kill his sister on Aug. 3. According to an arrest report obtained by the outlet, the victim, whose name has not been released, was asleep in bed with her toddler daughter when Altidore allegedly repeatedly slashed her with a machete. During the attack, he allegedly said, “Oh my God, why aren’t you dead yet?” WPLG reports that the victim ran from Altidore; home surveillance footage allegedly showed him chasing her with the machete. She reportedly collapsed after ringing neighbor Luis Pereria’s doorbell. Pereria told WPLG, “She ran to the middle of the street and then ran to my front door where she was asking for help. … Apparently she was sleeping when this all happened. I was just baffled by it. How can you do that?”According to WTVT, the toddler was not injured but was covered in blood following the alleged attack. The victim was taken to the hospital, where she was treated for serious injuries including a 10-inch laceration on her thigh that exposed the bone, a laceration to the hand that could lead to the possible amputation of multiple fingers, and a cut on her palm that nearly severed her left thumb.Altidore was taken into custody and arrested. He was charged with attempted felony murder, aggravated child abuse, and violation of probation, according to WPLG. He is being held without bond.A motive in the alleged attack has not been released.MORE: Man accused of attacking kids, brother with machete arrested after SWAT standoff — True Crime NewsNephew charged for allegedly fatally attacking aunt with machete at plant nursery — True Crime News

MARGATE, Fla. (TCN) — A 36-year-old man is behind bars on charges including attempted felony murder after allegedly attacking his sister with a machete while she was asleep next to her 1-year-old daughter.According to WTVT, Ruben Altidore allegedly attempted to kill his sister on Aug. 3. According to an arrest report obtained by the outlet, the victim, whose name has not been released, was asleep in bed with her toddler daughter when Altidore allegedly repeatedly slashed her with a machete. During the attack, he allegedly said, “Oh my God, why aren’t you dead yet?” WPLG reports that the victim ran from Altidore; home surveillance footage allegedly showed him chasing her with the machete. She reportedly collapsed after ringing neighbor Luis Pereria’s doorbell. Pereria told WPLG, “She ran to the middle of the street and then ran to my front door where she was asking for help. … Apparently she was sleeping when this all happened. I was just baffled by it. How can you do that?”According to WTVT, the toddler was not injured but was covered in blood following the alleged attack. The victim was taken to the hospital, where she was treated for serious injuries including a 10-inch laceration on her thigh that exposed the bone, a laceration to the hand that could lead to the possible amputation of multiple fingers, and a cut on her palm that nearly severed her left thumb.Altidore was taken into custody and arrested. He was charged with attempted felony murder, aggravated child abuse, and violation of probation, according to WPLG. He is being held without bond.A motive in the alleged attack has not been released.MORE: Man accused of attacking kids, brother with machete arrested after SWAT standoff — True Crime NewsNephew charged for allegedly fatally attacking aunt with machete at plant nursery — True Crime News

HILLSBORO, Ore. (TCN) — A 66-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the long-unsolved 1994 homicide of an 85-year-old woman.The Washington County District Attorney’s Office announced that Randall Joseph Gall was charged with second-degree murder on Aug. 4. Veta Hardebeck lived on a neighboring property when she was killed on Feb. 16, 1994.KPTV reports Hardebeck lived alone and it was initially believed she had died in an accident or due to a medical condition. An autopsy revealed that her death was a homicide. The case went unsolved for many years until the DA’s Cold Case Unit received additional funding, which allowed them to submit existing evidence to a private DNA lab for testing.After the case was reopened in 2025, KGW spoke to Hardebeck’s daughter, Caroline Ledbury, who said, “I found my mom laying on the concrete. Somebody had severely beat her to a pulp,” Ledbury said. “There’s a kitchen window; they had knocked her through the kitchen window. They knocked her so hard in the kitchen window that it broke the glass, and the glass had penetrated her skull and [was] sticking up out of her skull.”Ledbury told the outlet the scene appeared staged. KGW reports that she said, “Whoever murdered her laid her down, put her head on a hunk of wood — like she’d fallen back and hit her head on the wood is what it looked like. Folded her arms like this and piled them full, these hunks of wood. … My mom was 85 years old, had a woodstove. She’d carry one stick of wood in at a time to stock that stove. That’s all she could handle.”According to the DA, Gall is behind bars without bail. MORE: Convicted serial killer pleads guilty to 1992 murder of elderly man found in burning home — True Crime NewsDismembered remains exhumed in Oregon’s oldest unidentified person cold case — True Crime News