A Georgia jury began hearing opening statements on Friday, in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old who lost his life while jogging in a Brunswick neighborhood last year. As CrimeOnline previously reported, in June 2020, Judge Wallace E. Harrell of Glynn County Magistrate Court ruled that enough probable cause exists to uphold …
Michigan police gave clearance on Friday for civilian volunteers to help search for missing college student, Brendan Santo. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Santo went to Michigan State University on October 29 and never returned home. Police said Santo is not a student at MSU but has friends who attend. He was last seen a little …
Surveillance video taken at a missing woman’s California home shows the man her ex-husband believes is connected to her disappearance at her front door, leaving a gift behind. As previously reported, Heidi Planck has been missing since October 17, when she left her son’s football game at half time, seeming distracted, her ex-husband has said. …
Two Iowa teens are behind bars after they allegedly killed their Spanish teacher as she took an afternoon walk in Fairfield’s Chautauqua Park on Tuesday. Willard Noble Chaiden Miller and Jeremy Everett Goodale, both 16, are facing murder charges as adults for the death of 66-year-old Nohema Graber. Both teens were students at Fairfield High …
An Alabama woman who in 2018 killed a man accused of raping her was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly violating the terms of her probation by going trunk-or-treating with her children. Brittany Smith was charged with murder for fatally shooting Joshua Smith (no relation) after he allegedly raped her twice and threatened to kill her …
Two high school students have been charged with the murder of an Iowa teacher who was found dead on Wednesday. As CBS News reports, Nohema Graber, a Spanish teacher at Fairfield High School, was found dead the same day she was reported missing. Authorities reportedly said that Graber’s body was found in Chautauqua Park in …
A Missouri mother was criminally charged on Wednesday, nearly three months after her five young children died in an apartment fire. Sabrina Dunigan, 34, was charged with endangering the life or health of a child for the August 10 blaze at her East St. Louis home that killed Loy-el Dunigan, Jabari Johnson, 4, 8-year-old twins, …
An Australian man accused of kidnapping 4-year-old Cleo Smith apparently shouted at the media as he arrived at court on Thursday. Terry Kelly, 36, appeared at the Carnarvon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday morning, where he was read a number of charges against him, including forcibly taking a child under 16. Kelly didn’t enter a plea …
Several men allegedly shot into a crowd of trick-or-treaters on Halloween — killing one 13-year-old and seriously injuring another, police in Indiana said. Thomas DeLaCruz Jr. was killed during Sunday’s shooting in Hammond. Desmond Crews, 23, who is charged with DeLaCruz’s murder and the surviving teen’s attempted murder, confessed to firing into the crowd of …
The lead armorer on the film production where a cinematographer was killed has released a statement reiterating earlier claims made by her attorneys that someone on the set sabotaged the prop weapons. Alec Baldwin was preparing for a scene on October 21 when the prop gun he was handling discharged, hitting Halnya Hutchins, the director …
On Thursday, a juror was dismissed from the Kyle Rittenhouse trial for allegedly joking about last year’s police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, which prompted the protests in Wisconsin where Rittenhouse fatally shot two demonstrators. According to WBBM, prosecutors said the dismissed juror jokingly asked the courthouse deputy, “Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake …
Police in southern California have reportedly obtained surveillance footage video from a downtown Los Angeles building where a missing woman’s dog was found abandoned the same day she was last seen. As previously reported, 39-year-old Heidi Planck vanished on October 17 after leaving her son’s football game at halftime. Her ex-husband Jim Wayne was also …
