A new detail emerged in the case of Cleo Smith, an Australian girl who disappeared from a campsite on Saturday. According to The Guardian, Western Australia police stated a zipper on the tent that Cleo slept in was up too high for a 4-year-old to reach. Inspector Jon Munday announced that authorities were gravely concerned …
A Pennsylvania man allegedly admitted to killing his friend and babysitting client while her son was in the home. According to the Pocono Record, Lavrius Watson, 26, has been arrested for the murder of 41-year-old Elizabeth Leonard at her Mountain Top home on Saturday night. A criminal complaint obtained by the newspaper show that Watson …
A New Jersey woman who sexually assaulted a toddler and recorded the child in a sexually suggestive manner has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for what the prosecutor called depraved acts, NJ.com reports. The sentence against 35-year-old Olga Diaz means she will not be eligible for parole until she’s 64. In April, Diaz …
A Florida environmental park where investigators have been searching for fugitive Brian Laundrie has re-opened to the public for the first time since authorities launched a large-scale search for the person of interest in Gabby Petito’s murder. As the New York Post reports, the city of North Port, Florida, announced on Monday that the Myakkahatchee …
As a man brutally raped a woman on a Philadelphia commuter train last week, passengers not only did nothing to intervene, but they reportedly held their phones up and may have recorded the attack instead of alerting authorities, KYW-TV reports. “There were people witnessing the act with phones in their hands,” Thomas Nestel III, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation …
The husband of California mom, Maya Millette, was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder. Billy Little, a lawyer working with Maya’s family, said that a SWAT team stormed Larry Millette’s Chula Vista residence at close to 11:00 a.m., Fox News reports. The SWAT team also reportedly “set off a flashbang as officers from the Chula …
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh was denied bond on Tuesday, amid allegations that he misappropriated settlement funds related to the 2018 death of his longtime housekeeper. According to the Island Packet, Judge Clifton Newman also ordered Murdaugh, 53, to undergo a psychiatric evaluation as a condition of another bond hearing, which will be determined at a …
The father of a missing 3-year-old boy says he does not know why the child and his mother were in Milwaukee, where the boy’s mother was found dead of an apparent homicide. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Major P. Harris has been missing since at least Thursday, when his mother Mallery M. Muenzenberger was found dead …
The cause of death for “Tiger King” zookeeper Erik Cowie has been released, a little over a month after his death. Officials with the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner stated that Cowie, a zookeeper at the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park in Oklahoma, passed away on September 3 while at a friend’s apartment …
As the search for Brian Laundrie goes on, sightings continue to be reported. Surveillance footage has surfaced of a man resembling the Florida fugitive, riding a bicycle, about three hours north of North Port where Laundrie’s parents live. And on the Appalachian Trail, a Laundrie look-alike, got quite the surprise, when agents stormed into his …
The fatal incident reportedly stemmed from a stolen wallet
