An Illinois woman was recently arrested, months after she allegedly planned to kill herself and her three children via carbon dioxide poisoning. Emily C. Sparks, 29, was charged with three counts of attempted murder for a reported incident involving her three children, ages 3, 5, and 7. On February 6, someone contacted police and claimed …
It’s been nearly a month since Colorado boy Gannon Stauch mysteriously disappeared. His mother maintains hope that the will be home safe soon but as the days go by without him, she says she can’t help from thinking something tragic may have happened. “The more time that goes by, if he did wander off, whatever …
Lori Vallow, the Idaho “cult” mom whose two children haven’t been seen for months, was arrested on Thursday in Lihu’e, Hawaii, the Kaua’i Police Department said. Vallow was arrested on a warrant issued by Madison County, Idaho, where the Rexburg Police Department is investigating the disappearance of the children. Vallow is being held on a …
A Louisiana high school principal was arrested Thursday on dozens of charges related to illicit behavior with juveniles, including students at his school, the Louisiana State Police said. Brian Biggs, 54, was named principal of Summerfield High School in Claiborne Parish in 2018, according to KTBS. He had previously been an instructional supervisor in the …
Police in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on Wednesday found the remains of two newborns in a recycling center in the city’s industrial area. In a joint statement with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, police they were called to the recycling center just before 9:30 a.m. Wednesday morning and found the body of one newborn. Further …
A bus driver in New Jersey who allegedly fatally mowed down a passenger after dragging him down a street with his arm trapped in the bus door was arrested on Tuesday while trying to flee the country. NJ Transit employee Fayola Howard, 34, was charged with vehicular homicide in connection with a December 31 incident …
A California inmate believed to have beaten two other inmates to death with a cane wrote a San Jose newspaper to confess to the killings, saying he warned prison officials that he would attack an inmate soon if he wasn’t transferred to another facility. Jonathan Watson, 41, has not been charged in the deaths of …
The Cayce Department of Public safety has clarified some lingering questions about the death of the man believed to be responsible for the kidnapping and murder of 6-year-old Faye Swetlik. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Swetlik was found dead on February 13, three days after she vanished from her home in Cayce, South Carolina, shortly after …
Between 1991 and 2001, Mark Douglas Burns was a long haul trucker, and he has now been linked to the unsolved rapes of at least 11 women and girls across the country. Last year, law enforcement matched DNA evidence from those cases to a genealogy DNA database. Burns is currently facing 17 charges in Utah, …
On Thursday, authorities confirmed that a Georgia college student who was found dead days after her disappearance died as a result of homicide. WMAZ reported that Anitra Gunn’s autopsy was completed on Tuesday, the same day her body was discovered in Crawford County, near the Peach-Crawford County line. Gunn, 23, was last seen alive at …
NEW YORK – February 20, 2020 – Nancy Grace, legal commentator, former prosecutor and acclaimed television journalist, joins iHeartMedia, the No.1 commercial podcast publisher world-wide, to bring “Crime Stories with Nancy Grace,” the highly popular true-crime daily podcast where Grace takes listeners inside breaking crime and justice news, to the iHeartPodcast Network. In addition, Grace …
An Indiana woman who was shot and killed on Tuesday is believed to have livestreamed herself exposing a closeted gay man hours before her death. WTTV reported that Jane Waughfield, 40, was shot near the intersection of Lafayette Road and West 30th Street in Indianapolis. Witness accounts indicated that the Camaro the wounded woman was …
