Donald Ray Lantz, 61, was composed Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, as he testified about the struggles he and his wife, Jeanne Kay ...

A woman accused with her husband of forcing their adopted children to perform hard labor denied confining two of the children ...

A white mother accused of forcing her adopted Black children to work as 'slaves' with her husband, who is also white, has ...

The second defendant in an ongoing Kanawha County trial of the Sissonville couple indicted on 20-counts of child neglect, human trafficking, and civil rights violation-related charges says their ...

A West Virginia mother denied forcing two of their adopted children to stay in a shed despite police locating them in the ...

Under lengthy cross-examination Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2025, Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 62, denied that racist and incriminating ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The prosecution rested its case late Tuesday morning in the child abuse, human trafficking trial of a ...

A teenager whose discovery in a locked shed at her West Virginia home led to the arrest of her adoptive parents has taken the stand in the couple's trial.

The trial for Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz began Tuesday morning in Kanawha County, West Virginia on Jan. 14, ...

The trial of Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 62, and Donald Ray Lantz, 61, continued Wednesday in Kanawha County Circuit Court. They were arrested in October 2023 after two of their five adopted children ...

Donald Ray Lantz, left, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather are shown during a break in the Kanawha County Circuit Court on the first day of their trial in Charleston, W.Va., Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025.