A Los Angeles jury on Saturday convicted a soon-to-be-father of hiring a hitman to murder his girlfriend and unborn child. Prosecutors alleged that Derek Smyer, 36, was responsible for the 2001 contract killing of his pregnant girlfriend at the time, 27-year-old Crystal Taylor, because she wouldn’t have an abortion, the Mirror reports. Jurors found Smyer …
Convicted killer Jodi Arias’ appeal will be delayed until next year due to numerous errors and omissions in courtrooms transcripts that took two years after her appeals process started to complete. ABC reports that the Arizona Court of Appeals had to repeatedly push court reporters to finish up court transcripts that have been left undone …
A Latrobe, Pennsylvania, father is accused of selling drugs out of a maternity ward mere hours after his daughter was born. Greenburg police said they caught Cody Hulse, 25, Thursday with 34 stamped bags of heroin and assorted drug paraphernalia. Officers confronted Hulse in his girlfriend’s room, where he admitted to selling heroin to people …
Two Joshua Tree hikers found dead with their arms around each other both died of gunshot wounds, CNN reports. Though initial reports were interpreted to suggest that the couple died accidentally, authorities now believe the man killed the woman and himself in a murder-suicide. Rachel Nguyen, 20, and Joseph Orbes0, 22, of Orange County, California, …
After experts determined a bone found in Aruba did not belong to missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, the sister of another woman who went missing on the island is trying to determine if it might be a lead in that case. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Holloway’s father and a private investigator reported their ongoing investigation …
A Florida murder suspect is claiming an unusual defense, telling authorities his “best friend” asked to be strangled to death in a motel room Wednesday night. According to the Daily News, 26-year-old Rex Drew Stewart was arrested after police found the body of Gerald Richard Breen Jr., 36, at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in …
A sergeant in the U.S. Air Force killed his girlfriend and best friend before shooting himself to death in what authorities called an ambush-style attack, the Daily Mail reports. Investigators believe that Michael Zamora, 30, shot Savannah McNealy, 22, and Tristan Kemp, 26, before killing himself with a gun on Thursday in a Fort Collins, …
The woman who police believe murdered her 3-year-old daughter in England on Thursday had just recently split from her executive husband, The Sun reports. Claire Colebourn, 35, was arrested earlier this week in connection with the child’s death. Police and emergency crews descended on the family’s home in the U.K. Thursday night responding to a …
Actor Jim Carrey wants a protective order after a therapist’s notes were leaked alleging he lied about giving his late girlfriend, Cathriona White, sexually transmitted diseases, according to the Daily Mail. The notes leaked were recorded by his late girlfriend’s therapist. The actor reportedly filed a motion Monday, October 9, and if it is approved …
Police have arrested a suspect in a triple homicide that left a mother and her two young daughters dead in their Arkansas home Wednesday night. Forrest City authorities say Cordale Stacy, 30, identified by the victims’ family as the deceased mother’s boyfriend, surrendered Thursday morning but was not immediately charged with a crime. According to …
Police are looking for an Indiana man they say fatally shot another man as both were at a memorial service for a homicide victim. The Indianapolis Star reported that police have identified 43-year-old Jeffery R. Buckley as a suspect in the September 30 shooting that left Kirk Shurill dead. At the time of the shooting, …
Police have arrested a Utah woman who allegedly robbed a man as he had a seizure in a Midvale 7-Eleven. KSL reported that Alexandra Justine Dewsnup, 28, was arrested Wednesday and charged with violation of parole, theft, and possession with intent to sell transfer information of a financial transaction card. Dewsnup is accused of stealing the …
