Actor Jussie Smollett spends more than six hours on the stand during his first day testifying in his Chicago trial on charges that he faked a hate crime attack on himself. Today, again, 39-year-old Smollett faces prosecutors who say the “Empire” actor was the mastermind of an orchestrated attack. Smollett claimed he was attacked by …
A former Georgia prosecutor is facing five years in prison for allegedly obstructing police in arresting the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020. Ex-Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, 49, was arrested in early September and charged with violating her oath of office and hindering a law enforcement officer. While Johnson …
The attorneys for David Neal Cox, an inmate recently executed in Mississippi, handed over a deathbed confession to the Tupelo District Attorney’s Office last month, which could possibly solve a murder that’s been unresolved for over a decade. According to District Attorney John Weddle, Cox confessed to his lawyers that he killed his sister-in-law, Felicia …
The man allegedly behind a fake online profile used around the time two young teen girls were kidnapped and murdered in a small Indiana town is already behind bars, charged with 30 felonies, including child exploitation and possession of child pornography. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Indiana State Police asked for information from anyone who may …
Last Monday, Washington investigators said they found no evidence that a man who was reportedly murdered by his girlfriend’s father last year was involved in sex trafficking. Spokane police detective Randy Lesser alleged in court documents that John Eisenman, 60, said he was likely high on methamphetamine when he fatally beat and stabbed Andrew Sorensen, …
Murder suspect Kimberly Kessler, accused of killing her co-worker at a Florida hair salon, was once again removed from the courtroom as her trial resumed on Tuesday morning. Nassau County Judge James Daniel gave Kessler another chance to stay in the courtroom Tuesday, following an outburst on Monday that landed her in a holding room …
Add another lawsuit to the mounting legal woes for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh. Last week, the boyfriend of Mallory Beach, both of whom were thrown from a boat driven by a “grossly intoxicated” Paul Murdaugh in 2019, filed a personal injury lawsuit against Paul’s father and other defendants related to the boat crash, …
Idaho State Police have issued an AMBER Alert on Monday for a 15-year-old girl who may be in Washington with an armed and dangerous sex offender. According to the alert, Lillian Dixon is with Jonathan Bowles, 36, with whom she formed a relationship. Bowles convinced Dixon to go with him and “to go along with …
Authorities in North Carolina are looking for a 1-year-old girl with a medical condition believed to have been abducted by her non-custodial mother. Ava Pierce’s father reported the girl missing at 10:30 p.m. Monday night, saying her mother, 34-year-old Roxanne Michelle Parson, had taken the girl during a visit on December 1 and not returned …
Florida deputies have arrested the boyfriend for the murder of 34-year-old Kathleen Moore, a Largo woman last seen on November 29. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Moore took an Uber from a friend’s home in Largo to her boyfriend’s home in New Port Richey late on November 28. A friend said she later Facetimed with Moore, …
Indiana State Police are looking for information about a fictitious online profile used in 2016 and 2017, around the time that two young teen girls were kidnapped and murdered in the small town of Delphi. Liberty “Libby” German, 14, and Abigail “Abby” Williams, 13, disappeared on February 13, 2017, after heading off to the trails …
Jennifer Sybert, AKA Kimberly Kessler, was removed from the court before opening statements on Monday in her trial for the 2018 murder of co-worker Joleen Cummings after an outburst. Cummings mother testified as the trial got underway that it was unusual for her daughter to fail to pick up her children from her former husband, …
