Erika Hoffman, Author at Dayton Daily Magazine

Mississippi – In a harrowing incident in Mississippi that highlights the serious repercussions of mental health crises, a 37-year-old mother, identified…

Erika Hoffman

2-year-old boy died after his father’s girlfriend, who was ‘taking care of him’ for approximately two weeks, beat the boy to death before performing incriminating searches on the internet; woman arrested

Daycare worker caught on video intentionally shaking playhouse to “warn” 4-year-old boy not to climb, causing the boy to fall from five feet height and split his head open; arrested

10-year-old girl nearly died after she followed through her “part” of the “deal” made with her mother and took a “lot of pills” prescribed to her mother; mother charged

Federal indictment charges 15 members of an Ohio-based drug trafficking operation in a major fentanyl case

Dayton Police Department offers hands-on building search class for adults

Man stuffed his girlfriend’s body in a trash can a day after he strangled her to death and cut her wrists with a folding knife in an alcohol-fueled argument; arrested

Ohio reveals six new projects to create 415 jobs and drive investments statewide

Dayton allocates $300,000 to support new housing in the Wolf Creek neighborhood

Man asked his female schoolmate, whom he considered responsible for his high school troubles, to hang out only to kill her in revenge before burying her body in the mountains; sentenced

“She was disrespecting me,” Man stabbed his supervisor to death only because she was trying to convince his girlfriend to dump him before burying her body in the backyard; sentenced