The stepmother of a missing New Hampshire girl is facing charges alongside her estranged husband. Police arrested Kayla Montgomery, 31, on Wednesday and charged her with welfare fraud after she allegedly kept receiving benefits for 7-year-old Harmony Montgomery. According to ABC 5, Kayla Montgomery received over $1,500 from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) from …
A Florida couple, both sheriff’s deputies, took their own lives within days of each other, leaving behind their 1-month-old baby. As the New York Post reports, St. Lucie County Deputy Clayton Osteen made a suicide attempt on January 2 and was briefly hospitalized before he was taken off life support and died. His wife, St. …
A Washington state medical examiner’s office has identified a body found in a vehicle trunk last month as a woman who was last seen in early November. The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has not identified Patricia Soto’s cause or manner of death, but investigators said they were investigating the case as a homicide. Soto, …
Update AMBER Alert Girl Found Safe After Father Murders Her Mother: Police Original Story Authorities in North Carolina have issued an Amber Alert for a missing 3-year-old girl. Riley Harper Bockes is described as 2 feet 8 inches tall and 30 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. …
Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial have asked the judge to launch an inquiry about statements made by one of the jurors in the case, but Maxwell’s attorneys said Judge Alison Nathan should just order a new trial. A member of the panel told Reuters that he shared his experiences with sexual abuse with …
A Texas father was fatally shot in a Chuck E. Cheese parking lot on Friday during an altercation with another man. Calogero Duenes, 24, was bringing his 6-year-old daughter’s birthday cake into the Humble establishment when he got into an argument with a man, driving a burgundy Ford, in the parking lot. After hearing gunshots, …
More indictments may be forthcoming in the fraud investigations against disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh — and some of those indictments are likely to include alleged co-conspirators. That’s on top of new civil lawsuits expected to be filed shortly, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Murdaugh is in jail with a $7 million bond, charged with …
South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who remains jailed on financial fraud charges, is reportedly facing at least eight additional civil lawsuits from people who he allegedly scammed. According to Fox News, Murdaugh, 53, is accused of stealing money from a deaf man who was left paralyzed following a 2011 car accident and an ex-highway patrolman …
Twin boys and two adults believed to be their parents were found dead in a rural Missouri home this week. As KFVS reports, the four family members were discovered dead on Tuesday morning. Police were called to the home after an unknown person or people found the family unresponsive. The infant twins were 9 months …
A Pennsylvania woman is facing charges after police say she faked her son’s illnesses, causing him to endure a series of procedures he didn’t need. According to the East Pennsboro Township Police Department, Christine Marie Maxwell, 48, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault of a victim under 13 and related offenses. Police were alerted …
A Colorado mother admitted that she faked her 7-year-old daughter Olivia Gant’s terminal illness, causing multiple unnecessary surgeries and medications that led to her death. On Monday, Kelly R. Turner, 43, pleaded guilty to negligent child abuse that caused her daughter’s 2017 death, along with felony theft and charitable fraud. According to the Denver Post, …
At least thirteen people, including seven children, were killed on Wednesday in a blaze at a Pennsylvania rowhouse that also left two people injured. WCAU reported that the fire occurred in Fairmont, a neighborhood in Philadelphia, in a two-unit rowhome. It is believed that 26 people resided in those two units, which are owned by …
