Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Another chapter is coming to an end in perhaps one of the most infamous true-crime cases in the past 15 years. The case of Clauddine "Dee Dee" and Gypsy Rose Blanchard has gone down in American ...

GETTING ready for bed, Cindy Buckshon slips on her breathing mask and settles under the covers. The mask is a treatment for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Munchausen by proxy is a rare mental disorder and can become a serious form of child abuse. Recently, the condition has gotten ...

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been celebrating her first week of freedom after being released from prison last Thursday. Blanchard, 32, was released on parole after serving 8 years for the second-degree ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A lawsuit has been filed against Lehigh Valley Health Network and its doctors. The network is accused of misdiagnosing families with medical child abuse. In all of the cases, ...

Last year, a California woman was sentenced to five years in prison for an online scheme that netted her over $105,000 in donations. Amanda Christine Riley, age 37, cultivated followers on Facebook, ...

TRINITY, Texas (KTRE) — A Trinity ISD teacher has been arrested and placed on administrative leave after he and his wife were arrested in a Munchausen-by-proxy case. Jon Thomas Holcomb, 51, of Trinity ...

No empirical data exist on the number of cases of the syndrome in all its forms. But researchers say that, on average, 600 cases of suffocation and poisoning related to Munchausen by Proxy occur each ...