A Pennsylvania high school choir director has been arrested, accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old female student, after her husband learned of the relationship and reported it to school officials. New Wilmington Borough police last week charged Olivia Lois Ortz, 26, with two counts of sexual contact with a student, one count …
An Alabama father and his adult daughter were charged Wednesday with elderly abuse and first-degree neglect, and the father was additionally charged with manslaughter. The Valley Police Department said it responded to a call on March 16 and found 72-year-old Janice Ramsey Hawkins dead in the living room. Hawkins’ husband, 74-year-old Walter Alfred Hawkins, and …
An Alabama-born Florida man is expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal wire and mail fraud and money laundering charges, all related to his alleged romance scams that netted him more than $750,000 from at least 21 women in eight states. Brian Brainard Wedgeworth, 46, was indicted last October and arrested in Nashville not long …
A Florida man called 911 after fatally shooting his elderly wife and his adult stepdaughter on Wednesday in what is being investigated as a double murder-suicide. Thomas Schultz, 64, was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Riverside home, where the bodies of his 80-year-old wife and stepdaughter, who was in her 50s, …
New details were released in the murder investigation of slain Delphi girls, Abby Williams and Libby German. The Murder Sheet podcast made public a redacted search warrant submitted by an FBI agent explaining why there was probable cause to search the property of Ron Logan. The girls’ bodies were found on Logan’s property. The court …
Investigators think the bodies of slain Delphi girls, Abby Williams and Libby German, were staged and moved at the crime scene, court documents obtained by The Murder Sheet podcast revealed; the show’s founders joined Nancy Grace and her expert guests on Wednesday’s “Crime Stories” to discuss the case. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 13-year-old Abby and …
Alabama corrections officer Vicky White allegedly paid a homeless sex offender $100 to reserve the Indiana motel room she and fugitive capital murder suspect Casey White stayed at until they were tracked down. The Courier and Press reported that the man who secured the Motel 41 room in Evansville, Shawn Gardner, 51, was subsequently arrested …
Louisiana police said that they have arrested a woman after a 10-month-old was found dead at a residence during a welfare check on Monday. According to KLFY, Broussard police officers also found a 2-year-old in critical condition. Though the nature of their injuries was not disclosed, Tammy Clause, 49, was arrested in connection with this …
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh allegedly made a series of unsubstantiated — and contradictory — claims about a housekeeper who suffered a fatal fall on his property in 2018 to receive substantial insurance payouts. FITS News, citing 911 calls and various documents, reported that at the time of Gloria Satterfield’s fall, Murdaugh had an …
A New York prosecutor said Sunday during a bond hearing that 9-year-old Shalom Guifarro cried out for her mother, Shemene Cato, 48, to help her before the child’s brutal death. Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney David Ingle provided disturbing case details during a Sunday bond, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. As CrimeOnline previously reported, …
The reward for information leading to 5-year-old Washington girl, Oakley Carlson, has passed $20,000 this week, according to The Chronicle. Oakley’s former foster mom, Jamie Jo Hiles, has been selling T-shirts and hosting fundraisers in an attempt to increase the reward fund, which happened thanks to Light the Way Missing Persons Advocacy Project, which added …
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane has accepted a deal in the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, appearing in Hennepin County Court Wednesday morning to plead guilt to aiding and abetting second second degree manslaughter. KARE reported that the deal will require Lane, one of three former officers charged with aiding and abetting …
