An Illinois child welfare worker was killed Tuesday when she was reportedly stabbed during a home visit. Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) investigator Diedre Silas, 36, was murdered while responding to reports of children in danger at a home in Thayer. Six children, between the ages of 1 and 7, were at the …
A North Carolina girl who was the centerpiece of an AMBER Alert Wednesday has been found safe. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 3-year-old Riley Harper Bockes disappeared on Wednesday from her home in the 3900 block of Lee Avenue in Sanford. Police found the child’s mother, Deanna Michelle Bocke, deceased inside the home. The child’s father, …
Harmony Montgomery was last seen at a home in October 2019. She was just five years old, but police say they weren’t notified until recently. Now we learn in the last 24 hours, her father, Adam Montgomery has been arrested. Montgomery was charged with felony second-degree assault against Harmony, as well as one misdemeanor …
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 …
