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Get you up to speed: Fresh twist in case of missing woman ‘found’ in Mexico after family raised doubts it was her | News World
Mexican officials announced they had located Shayna Feinman alive in Tijuana, but investigations later confirmed that the individual was not her. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office stated that they utilised physical evidence to identify the woman found, ruling out her connection to the missing person case from Arizona.
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the identification of the individual found in Mexico was based on physical evidence. Detectives are still investigating Shayna Feinman’s disappearance, and a $20,000 reward remains available for information regarding her whereabouts.
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the woman located in Mexico is not Shayna Feinman, stating the determination was made based on physical evidence. Investigators continue to collaborate with Shayna’s family, while a $20,000 reward remains available for information concerning her whereabouts.
What remains unclear — Investigators have not revealed whether there are any further leads in Shayna Feinman’s disappearance.
US investigators confirm woman found in Mexico is not missing Shayna Feinman
Shayna Feinman, pictured here with her sister Kara, has been missing since March 2024
A woman found in Mexico was wrongly identified as an American who had vanished more than two years ago, police have confirmed.
Mexican officials announced that they had located Shayna Feinman alive, but her family questioned whether they had found the right person.
Shayna was 38 when she disappeared in Arizona back in March 2024.
Her sister Kara raised doubts about the identification before American investigators confirmed that the woman found in Tijuana wasn’t Shayna.
The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office issued the correction yesterday, saying the finding was based on physical evidence.
Its statement said: ‘Today, U.S. authorities confirmed to YCSO detectives, utilising physical evidence, that the individual located is not Shayna Feinman.’
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Kara questioned Mexican officials’ claim that they had found her sister alive
When authorities thought Shayna had been found, Kara told FOX 10: ‘There are a ton of people that are short like she was and have dark hair, everywhere.’
She was waiting for confirmation from investigators in Arizona. She said: ‘I can only hope and pray [for] good news, but right now, we have to be realistic, rational and calm.’
The announcement came from Tijuana’s security and protection service, known as the SSPCM, which said officers had found the woman in the Encino neighbourhood on October 23. It claimed that her physical characteristics matched Shayna’s.
Shayna was 38 when she disappeared near Seligman, Arizona
Mexican officials said they had confirmed her identity and taken her to a safe location. They said this would allow contact with her family and US consular authorities.
But investigators in Arizona hadn’t verified the identification. Sheriff’s office spokesman Paul Wick initially said: ‘We are aware of reports indicating that Shayna Feinman may have been located in Mexico. At this time, the information remains unconfirmed, and there is insufficient evidence to verify her identity.’
Tijuana officials had also released a photograph of the woman they believed was Shayna. Local news outlet Arizona’s Family reported that her identity hadn’t been made public after US authorities ruled out the match.
Shayna disappeared in the Peach Springs and Hyde Park area near Seligman, Arizona, more than two years ago. Investigators believe she had been walking to a friend’s house, but she never arrived.
US investigators confirmed that the woman found in Mexico wasn’t actually Shayna
A neighbour who had been looking after her dog reported her missing when she failed to collect the pet. The neighbour also found her car near the property where she’d been staying with her boyfriend.
Her wallet and identification were still inside the vehicle. Detectives later recovered her mobile phone on a nearby property.
Shayna’s boyfriend Cavett Richards and another man, William DalCerro, faced second-degree murder charges in 2024. The allegations also included conspiracy and concealment of a dead body. Court records showed the murder charges against both men were dismissed in January 2025.
The investigation proceeded without a body being found. Police also appealed for residents to check camera footage for anything that might help with the case.
A $20,000 reward remains available for information about Shayna, seen here with her sister Kara
Shayna’s father Eliot and sister Kara travelled to the area where she was last seen to seek answers at the time. During the visit, they were given some of her belongings and reunited with her dog.
Kara told Arizona’s Family that there had been other reported sightings of her sister. She said those reports had been disheartening when there was little evidence to support them.
The sheriff’s office says detectives are continuing to work with the family. A $20,000 reward remains available for information on Shayna’s whereabouts.
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October 12, 2024
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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