Amber Heard’s legal team is asking for a new trial because a person not called to jury duty was inadvertently seated on the jury, but CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says the move “stinks of desperation” and won’t work. At issue is a 52-year-old man who responded to a jury summons for the defamation suits Heard and …
A heroic New Mexico mother sprang atop her SUV earlier this month when a carjacker attempted to steal the vehicle with her two young children inside, KOAT-TV reports. Melody Maldonado, 33, had parked her white Hyundai Santa Fe in front of a store in Hobbs, New Mexico, on July 4, so she could buy a …
The ex-boyfriend of a missing California woman allegedly wrote down directions about where to find her body before he was killed by police last month, Fox 2 reports. Now, police have provided those notes to the family of 27-year-old Alexis Gabe, who has not been seen since January. The directions reportedly include highly specific and detailed …
Authorities say they have cracked a cold case involving a young California girl who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered 40 years ago, KION-TV reports. Five-year-old Anne Pham went missing on a rainy morning on January 21, 1982, while she was walking to Highland Elementary School in Seaside. Two days later, a military investigator looking for an …
A family vacation to Bali turns deadly. Sheila von Wiese-Mack is found bludgeoned to death inside a suitcase. The socialite’s 25-year-old daughter Heather Mack and her 21-year-old then-boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer are charged and convicted by an Indonesian court. Police say Schaefer bludgeoned von Wiese-Mack with a bowl and then he and Mack stuffed her body …
A 19-year-old Tennessee volunteer firefighter has been arrested and charged with starting several fires in Waverly that damaged a number of buildings, including a Masonic Lodge and a church. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said that Leslie Winchester started his string of arsons with a fire in June, with four others taking place between July …
A Mississippi grand jury has indicted a man for the murder of an ex-state lawmaker who was shot to death while doing yard work at a mobile home where her sister-in-law died. Former State Rep. Ashley Henley, 40, was shot in the back of the head in June 2021 as she was mowing the grass …
A 10-year-old boy is “hurting pretty bad” after his mother and half-sister disappeared while on a camping trip with her estranged partner. Jill Sidebotham, 28, 38-year-old Nicholas Hansen, and their 2-year-old daughter Lydia Hansen left to go camping near Phillips, Maine, on June 27, even though the couple is separated, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Sidebotham’s …
A 64-year-old Florida woman was arrested this week after investigators determined she hid her 93-year-old mother’s body in a freezer so she could keep collecting her disability benefits. Sebastian Police were called to Marie Hoskins’ home in late April after neighbors reported they hadn’t seen her in some time, as CrimeOnline previously reported. When they …
