An Akron, Ohio, man who claimed that Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak told him to kill his mother was found not guilty of the woman’s murder. According to the Akron Beacon Journal, Derrick Williams, 48, also believed that his mother, Alaine Williams, 78, was using witchcraft on him when he bludgeoned her to death with …
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A South Carolina woman is accused of murdering her boyfriend’s toddler daughter, after the three-year-old was found dead of blunt force trauma. The Herald Online reports that Kayla Cook, 25, was arrested Dec. 29 and charged with homicide by child abuse. Lillian Schroeder, 3, was pronounced dead earlier in December after police responded to a call about …
A Massachusetts man will serve jail time after police say he set up multiple cameras inside the bathroom of a vacation home in Maine that he once rented with family and friends. New York Post reports Joseph J. McGrath, 32, was sentenced to a month in jail after police found numerous cameras, some disguised as vase-shaped …
Kidnapper wanted $1 million he wrongly believed the victim buried in the desert
Former That 70s Show star Danny Masterson has lost both his Netflix show and now his agent following multiple claims that he drugged and raped women in the early 2000s. Deadline reports that Masterson has parted ways with his agency United Talent Agency (UTA.) A representative for UTA reportedly confirmed that the agency is no …
New information was revealed in regards to the Virginia teenager who allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend’s parents, before turning the gun on himself in a failed suicide attempt. HuffPost reports that 17-year-old Nicholas Giampa, of Norton, has been named as the person responsible for taking the lives of his girlfriend’s parents, Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, and Scott …
Police investigating a husband’s alleged knife attack on his wife discovered that the had been having an ongoing affair with a teen student at the school where he was a math teacher. WZZM 13 reports that James Philip Chelekis, 32, of Wyoming, Michigan, pleaded guilty to three felony charges, including assault with intent to murder. Chelekis …
The daughter of former Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke appeared in court Thursday, one day after she was arrested on suspicion of assault stemming from an incident at a New York City restaurant on New Year’s Eve. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jacqueline Kent Cooke was arrested Wednesday after allegedly engaging in an antisemitic verbal …
The mother and nurse who was stabbed to death trying to save her daughter from a knife attack was laid to rest this week, and her daughter carried the coffin with visible injuries on her face. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jayne Reat died on Christmas Day trying to shield her 21-year-old daughter Charlotte Reat from a …
Boy’s father: “I don’t blame the breed of dog, I blame the owner because of what he taught the dog”
A Kansas woman died in a hail of bullets following an armed standoff with police inside an Olathe residence. In police camera footage obtained through a lawsuit by the Kansas City Star, 26-year-old Ciara Howard’s final moments on Aug. 23 can be seen as she attempted to barricade herself inside a laundry room. The ordeal, …
