Lauren Wallen, 31, was four months pregnant and missing for nine days before police found her body buried in a wooded area of Damascus, Maryland. But before the high school teacher was found dead, police had suspicions that Laura's boyfriend Tyler Tessier may have had something to do with it. They held a press conference to announce they were investigating Laura's disappearance as a missing persons case and appealed to the public for information. But the press conference was really a set up to see what Tessier had to say. Now, the state has agreed not to play a tape of Tessier's voluntary police interview in court. But the jury will likely see clips from the press conference where Tessier shed his crocodile tears.

A newly released autopsy report describes the brutal condition in which three-year-old Mariah Woods was discovered days after she was reported missing by her mother. According to police, the girl was wrapped inside three plastic trash bags and a zippered couch cushion cover, weighted down by a chunk of cement tucked inside. The report also confirmed that Woods was killed by chloroform poisoning but mentioned there was no evidence that the North Carolina girl was sexually assaulted. Adolphus Earl Kimrey II has been accused of Woods' murder and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

A Queens woman was found strangled to death inside her Queens apartment, according to local police. 29-year-old nurse Samantha Stewart was found wrapped in a white sheet on the floor of her bedroom - with her teeth knocked out and her tongue hanging out of her mouth. She had trauma to her neck and head when she was discovered by her brothers, who were concerned when she was not returning their phone calls.

Tonight, the hunt for two men who attacked a pedestrian with baseball bats - and the whole thing was caught on camera. The attack began when two men got out of a Range Rover in the Bronx. In the video, both men are seen swinging at the 32-year-old victim, who is now in stable condition. via Knit