The boy’s stepmother reportedly confessed that she beat him with a frying pan and a dog leash. A prosecutor said she locked him a closet at night, forcing him to sleep there
Five children have been killed and their mother is severely injured in a possible attempted murder-suicide. Citing the German news outlet Bild, BBC reports that five children were discovered dead at a residence in Hasseldelle. According to the report, police are treating their deaths as a criminal act. Also citing Bild, Express reports that a …
The adult male found dead with his family is the son of a philanthropist who had reportedly been depressed
A Florida father is suspected of killing his toddler son before taking his own life late last week. WESH reports that Miguel Leonardo-Hernandez, 28, and his 19-month-old son Kevin Leonardo-Cisnero were found dead in Lake George in Orlando on Thursday evening. Investigators reportedly believe the father drowned the toddler boy in the lake and then …
The suspect, who is related to the victims, reportedly told police that he had a headache and his family members were ‘yelling’
An FBI agent involved in the investigation that led to the discovery of two missing children buried behind a home in Idaho revealed how authorities knew where to focus their search. As CrimeOnline previously reported, investigators found the bodies of 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and her 7-year-old brother Joshua “JJ” Vallow in the backyard of Chad …
Suzanne Morphew’s brother said his sister had been confiding in a friend before she vanished on Mother’s Day weekend. “Maybe things weren’t hunky dory,” he said
In northeast Ohio alone, about 200 children are missing. A new task force is trying to find them, WBTV reports. “These are kids that have been abused, neglected. Some involved in human trafficking,” U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott told the television station. Operation Safety Net, which has been running for about two weeks, has recovered at …
An Oklahoma man has been arrested after his daughter was found dead of an apparent murder. As KOTV-DT reports, an unidentified 5-year-old girl was found dead, apparently with her body burned, in Gypsy on Wednesday afternoon. Authorities have not yet publicly identified the girl or commented on a cause of death. According to the report, …
Barry Morphew denied ever being asked to take a polygraph test, and claimed detectives destroyed evidence at a possible crime scene
Logan Baker’s father has been charged with first-degree murder. In recent years, he was twice charged with endangering the welfare of a child
A 6-year-old girl who died in July after numerous reports of possible abuse or neglect had a massive amount of an anti-psychotic drug in her system, according to a recently released autopsy report. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kerrigan Rutherford was found dead in Montgomery, Illinois, on July 2, in a home that police described as …
