New details emerged this week regarding the 2015 bankruptcy filing by Chris and Shanann Watts. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Colorado couple had serious money trouble in the years prior to the deaths of 34-year-old Shanann Watts and their two young daughters. Chris Watts is facing charges including murder in connection with the homicides. According …
A Texas father is facing capital murder charges for allegedly fatally stabbing his 16-month-old son Sunday afternoon in his apartment’s courtyard. According to The Dallas Morning News, neighbors watched in horror as a father slammed his son on the sidewalk and repeatedly stabbed him. The barbaric attack only stopped after a neighbor reportedly fired a …
A surveillance video provided to authorities by a local Iowa resident played a critical part in detaining a man on Tuesday, accused of kidnapping and murdering University of Iowa student, Mollie Tibbetts. According to the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Mollie Tibbetts, 20. …
A recent inquiry revealed that a nurse at a U.K. mental health hospital who killed herself five months earlier did so following relentless bullying from her colleagues. According to the BBC, a court learned that coworkers’ at Swansea’s Cefn Coed Hospital made Rhian Collins’s life “very difficult.” So much so, that the mother-of-two reportedly hanged herself …
A Texas priest who stands accused of molesting teen boys and embezzling from his own parish has gone missing, the Dallas Morning News reports. Church officials from St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Dallas believe Rev. Edumundo Paredes may have fled to his native country of the Philippines, after serving as a pastor at the parish …
A surrogate mother in California who became pregnant with twins and learned that one of the babies was her biological son is suing, alleging that the surrogacy agency wanted her to pay them to get her son back. According to the Daily Mail, Omega Family Global matched Jessica Allen, 31, with a childless Chinese couple (called the Lius …
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and “fixer,” pleaded guilty Tuesday to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying he and Trump arranged the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels and a former Playboy model to influence the election. Under a plea bargain …
The father of a pregnant woman found murdered with her two daughters faced her accused killer in court on Tuesday — the day after police unsealed an arrest affidavit showing that Chris Watts claimed his now-dead wife killed their little girls. NBC News reports that Shannan Watts’s father Frank Rzucek Sr. appeared for Chris Watts’s …
Florida officials are hopeful that DNA technology will finally allow them to identify the infant girl who was found floating facedown in a Gainesville pond on August 21, 2003. Per The Gainesville Sun, the Baby Jane Doe was so decomposed that authorities initially had difficulty determining her race. It was through DNA testing that they ascertained that she …
UPDATE: Police arrest Cristhian Rivera in connection with Mollie Tibbetts murder Authorities found a body on early Tuesday morning in Iowa and although they’ve yet to confirm the identity, it’s likely of missing University of Iowa student, Mollie Tibbetts. A local pig farmer who was questioned by authorities during the search for Mollie lives near …
A 12-year-old Michigan girl is hospitalized with severe burns after attempting a disturbing trend dubbed the “fire challenge” on Friday, Fox 2 Detroit reports. The girl’s mother, Brandi Owens, reportedly told the media outlet that the injury happened after she was making pancakes for her daughter, 12-year-old Timiyah Landers, and two of the girl’s friends …
“Once they catch their breath, this will turn into a weapon going the other direction to catch the person who did it”
