A man was caught on camera stealing from a donation jar at a Pulaski County gas station and the family who set the jar to raise money for their diabetic daughter wants to find out who that man is and why he would steal from them.

Surveillance cameras at the Burnside Shell Station on US 27 caught the man taking the jar sometime Thursday evening.

Ritha Morrow’s 15-year-old daughter, Callie, was diagnosed with type one diabetes seven years ago. The family wants to buy her a medical alert dog.

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“It made me mad and frustrated and hurt because we’re trying to raise money for her to help her,” says Ritha Morrow.

“I won’t have to live in the constant fear of not knowing when my sugar’s getting high or low and I’ll actually feel like I have the upper hand on my disease,” says Callie.

The service dog will cost $25,000. So far the Morrows have raised $8,000 thanks to fundraisers like a pancake breakfast and the donation jar.

“We’ve had numerous people step in and help and donate,” says Ritha. “The fact that they can take off charity. It doesn’t matter, they don’t care about anything else.”

The video has been turned over to the Burnside Police Department.

“Even if he doesn’t spend jail time or whatever I would like him to feel ashamed of what he’s done,” says Ritha.

If you recognize the man in the video, contact Burnside police.

The Morrow Family has a chili supper fundraiser planned later this month. Viewers can also donate by clicking here.

A Madison County man was sentenced to life in prison in two separate cases – the shooting death of a man at his Berea apartment and the murder of a couple whose bodies were found two years after they went missing.

Matthew Denholm was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole in 25 years in the deaths of Charles “Chew” Walker and Sonsary Warford, who were found buried in a field in 2012.

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Denholm was also sentenced Wednesday to life with possibility of parole in 20 years in the sniper-style attack in November 2011 that killed Zachary Flower at his Berea apartment.

In August, Denholm pleaded guilty in both cases avoiding the death penalty.

Denholm, an Iraq War veteran, told the judge then in his own words what happened the night the couple was killed, as the families of the victims sat in court.

“I was given money to kidnap Charles Walker at his residence and Sonsaray Warford happened to be there,” Denholm said. “I shot Ms. Warford. I was present when Mr. Walker was killed and later they were placed in an unmarked grave.”

The couple went missing in 2010 and their bodies weren’t found until 2012. Denholm said he was given money to kill Walker who allegedly stole money from someone else.

The couple’s relatives cried listening to Denholm admitting to the crime.

“I don’t really see justice,” said Gregory Todd, Warford’s father. “We just waiting for God to have his way at the end of it.”

In an unrelated case, Denholm pleaded guilty to killing aspiring rapper Zackary Flower by shooting him multiple times through a closed door in 2011. But in his explanation, Denholm eluded he acted out of self-defense and the judge didn’t like it.

“I just did it… what I practiced doing,” he said.

“That was not satisfactory,” the judge answered.

Only after Denholm said he intentionally killed Flower, did the judge accept his plea.

Lebruce Ellington is also accused in the death of Walker and Warford. He pleaded not guilty in January 2013. Daniel Keene is also charged in the case.

Louisville Metro Police have ruled a child’s death as a homicide after he was found unresponsive at Cherokee Park Tuesday afternoon.

During a news conference Wednesday morning, LMPD identified the child but did not release his name. Police said the boy was 12-years-old and lived in Southern Indiana.

The coroner later released the child’s name – Ray Etheridge – but did not release the cause of death.

Greater Clark County Schools superintendent Dr. Andrew Melin said Etheridge was a 7th grader at Clark County Middle/High School and was well regarded by staff and students.

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Melin said Etheridge was in school Tuesday, but was signed out by his mother due to “transportation issues.”

“Kids like him, he was fun to be around, just had a good personality about him,” Dr. Andrew Melin, superintendent of Greater Clark County Schools, said. “As you can imagine, the staff and the students there are taking this pretty hard. Our thoughts and prayers obviously are with Ray’s family.”

Passersby discovered Etheridge near the Scenic Loop around 4 p.m. and called 911.

“We do know that he sustained some type of injuries, but specifically what those injuries were from and how they occurred is still under investigation at this point. So because of that our homicide unit is treating this as a death investigation,” LMPD public information officer Alicia Smiley said.

The boy was transported to Kosair Children’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Police did not discover the identity of the boy until they said his mother and stepfather filed a report Tuesday night around 10 p.m.

Despite living in Indiana, the mother told police the family frequented the area near Cherokee Park and Mid City Mall where Etheridge was last seen. Police said the 12-year-old is 5’4, 118 lbs., tan skin with blonde/brown hair. He was wearing a gray fleece and Jordan tennis shoes.

Investigators said they do not believe family members are involved in the death and they are going in a certain direction with the investigation. However, they did not release any suspect details in an effort to preserve the integrity of the investigation.

Police are asking anyone who believes they saw Etheridge in the the area to call the anonymous tip line at 502-574-LMPD.

Police in Louisville are trying to identify a boy who died after he was found injured at a park Tuesday,

Police say a visitor to Cherokee Park found the boy, who appeared to be about 11-years-old, in a heavily wooded area. Police say the boy suffered unexplained wounds to his chest. EMS took the boy to Kosair Children’s Hospital where he later died.

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“Specifically, the nature of his injuries we are unsure of at this point and we’re going to have to await the autopsy,” LMPD spokeswoman Alicia Smiley said. “So right now we’re treating it as a death investigation.”

Police say no parent or family member has reported a missing child.

Officials say a mother and son reported missing in northern Kentucky Tuesday night were found in a wrecked vehicle Wednesday morning.

Authorities in Pendleton County issued a missing person alert for Teresa Rick and her 8-year-old son Jake Locknane Tuesday night. They were last seen at the Taco Bell in Highland Heights around 10 p.m.

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Around 7 a.m. Wednesday, dispatchers confirmed Rick and Locknane were found inside a crashed SUV near Sharp Middle School on Wright Road in Butler. Officials say mother and son were undergoing treatment for unspecified injuries.

A car crashed into a front porch in Winchester Wednesday morning.

Witnesses say the car crashed onto the porch of a home along East Hickman Street at full-speed, taking out a lawn mower. The car engine caught fire. Witnesses pulled the driver from the wrecked vehicle.

There was at least one person on the porch who managed to get out of the way as the car came speeding toward it.

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Witnesses say the driver appeared to experience some kind of medical condition right before the crash, possibly a seizure. Officials could not confirm that.

Officials did not release any information on the driver’s condition.

Investigators determined that skeleton remains of a woman found in Vernon are not connected to two open missing persons cases in New Haven.

DNA evidence collected from family members of two missing New Haven women, Lisa Calvo and Evelyn Frisco, didn’t match the remains, according to Officer David B. Hartman, media liaison for the New Haven Police Department.

“The skeletal remains are not those of either Lisa Calvo or Evelyn Frisco,” Hartman said in a news release. “The New Haven Police Department’s cases remain open.”

The remains were found a year and a half ago at a former landfill in Vernon and Vernon police believe that the skeletal remains are those of a white woman about 40 to 50 years old. They released a sketch on Sept. 16 showing what she may have looked like.

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Hartman said that the New Haven cases “never had forensic or evidentiary ties to the Vernon discovery” and that the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NAMUS) cross-references “found and missing persons cases where similarities or locations may lead to case closures.”

“The only similarity was that the women who went missing were about the same age of the person [whose] remains were discovered,” he said, adding that “the Vernon case had been compared to over a dozen cases since the remains were discovered in March of 2013.”

He said that the procedure is a “common investigative tool.”

“This type of comparison or case inquiry occurs hundreds, sometimes thousands of times each day and is mainly computer generated,” Hartman said.

Meanwhile, Vernon police continue to investigate, working to identify the human remains.

Investigators say a South Carolina woman stabbed her boyfriend to death after seeing some text messages on his phone.

Police said Courtney Price, 23,of Orangeburg, S.C., is charged with murder in the stabbing death of Samuel Denzel Simmons, 24.

“She looked into his cell phone and saw messages of him communicating with another female and when he was confronted about those messages, that’s when the stabbing occurred,” said Lt. Alfred Alexander with the Orangeburg Department of Public Safety.

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According to the incident report, Price told officers she went through Simmons’ phone and found texts from a woman that stated he had fathered another child. The report also said she “had enough of his abuse” and she “cut him.” Simmons is the father of Price’s infant son.

“Once (police) made contact with her she informed them that there was a gentleman upstairs that had been stabbed,” Alexander said. “Our officers went upstairs, found Mr. Simmons laying on the floor between the bed and the dresser drawer.”

Simmons was pronounced dead after Emergency Medical Services arrived.

“My primary check of her criminal history and his, there was none existing. We didn’t have any prior history of going to that residence,” he said.

There also was no history of police calls from Simmons’ other two listed addresses in Cameron and Myrtle Beach.

Alexander said this is Orangeburg’s second homicide of the year.

“We’re not used to seeing so much so often,” he said. “It’s kind of got everybody up in arms about it because this is not something that we’re used to, to have two violent crimes follow each other back to back,” Alexander said.

Price remains in custody awaiting a bond hearing.

The couple’s child is in the care of Price’s mother.

Authorities searching the grounds of a cement company early Tuesday found the body of a real estate agent who disappeared almost a week ago, and upgraded charges against a suspect in the case from kidnapping to capital murder.

The body of Beverly Lyn Carter, 49, was found overnight in a shallow grave at the Argos Concrete Co. in a rural area in Cabot, about 20 miles from where she was scheduled to show a house to a prospective buyer last Thursday.

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The suspect, Arron Lewis, was arrested Monday and questioned for 12 hours. He admitted kidnapping Carter “but would not divulge her whereabouts,” Lt. Carl Minden, spokesman for the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office, said in a statement.

Lewis, who was on parole after being released from prison in August 2013, used to work at the cement company.

During a “perp walk” early Tuesday to the county detention center, Lewis spoke briefly to reporters and denied killing Carter.

“I haven’t seen her for two days,” he said. “Now they are showing me pictures of this.”

Asked why he had targeted Carter, Lewis, who has admitted abducting the real estate agent, said she was “a woman who worked alone, a rich broker.” Asked if he had comment for her family, he said he was “sorry.”

In denying killing Carter, he mentioned a “co-defendant” named “Trevor” who he said works at an Air Force base and had texted him. Authorities say they have no other suspect in the case.

Lewis formally entered preliminary pleas of innocent to charges of capital murder and kidnapping on Tuesday and was ordered held without bail.

Upon leaving the courthouse after his hearing, Lewis told a reporter he had pleaded not guilty “because that’s what my lawyer said to do,” KARK-TV reports.

Asked by KARK’s Shannon Miller if he initially said in the courtroom that he wanted to plead guilty, Lewis said he had, adding, “I just want this all over with.”

Shortly after booking the 33-year-old Lewis into jail Monday morning, investigators “obtained information” that led them to the site in Cabot where Carter’s body was found, Minden said.

“We have reason to believe he’s been on the property and is familiar with it,” he said.

Carter was reported missing by her husband, Carl Carter, on Thursday after she was supposed to meet an unknown person at a home in Scott, just outside Little Rock, to show a house around 5:30 p.m.

When she didn’t return home later that night, Carl Carter went to the house and found her SUV parked outside with her purse in it and the door to the home open.

“Her car was there, and the house was wide open, and I knew that something was wrong,” Carl Carter said.

He also said he received a bizarre set of texts from her phone about 1 a.m. Friday that didn’t sound like her at all.

“All of a sudden I received three texts in a row,” Carter said. “One said, ‘Yes.’ Then she sent another text that said, ‘My phone’s low. The battery’s down, and I’ll call you whenever I get signal.’ And, then, straight back-to-back, I received a text that said ‘Oh, I’m out drinking with some friends.’

Carl told police that his wife did not drink.

An arrest warrant was issued for Lewis on Sunday, although authorities did not say at the time how he was linked to the case.

On the day that he was implicated in Carter’s disappearance, Lewis was also involved in a car accident in which his vehicle apparently collided with a concrete barrier at about 9:55 a.m. Sunday, according to an accident report.

The reporting officer said Lewis, from Jacksonville, Ark., indicated that another vehicle ran him off the roadway, but witnesses said that Lewis was speeding and began to fishtail prior to the crash.

He was taken to Baptist Hospital to be treated for shoulder and neck injuries, and written a citation for careless driving and no seat belt. A photo taken immediately after the accident also showed injuries on his face including a bloodied nose, and what appears to be a large gash on his forehead.

He left the hospital, however, before authorities had linked him to the Carter case

Kentucky State Police have found the car of a missing University of Cincinnati assistant professor in Madison County, according to reliable sources.

Randy Russ has been missing for nearly six weeks, and his Ford Focus wagon was found in a random location around Fort Boonesboro in Madison County, sources told LEX 18.

The vehicle was apparently located within a week, but police are still trying to figure out how it got to that location or who may have been with Russ, who was last seen on Aug. 17 at his Grant County home.

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When loved ones couldn’t get in touch with him, they had people check on him, who then found a door unlocked and his beloved pets hungry, apparently not fed for some time. His family says it’s not like him to just vanish and that he would never abandon his beloved pets.

While police aren’t ready to say foul play, Russ’ family believes something bad has happened to him.

State police say there has been no activity on Russ’ bank cards or cell phone.

If you have any information about the vehicle or Russ’ whereabouts, state police really want to talk to you. The family says they are in a horrible holding pattern and deserve answers.