The Georgia Supreme Court on Thursday granted a new trial for Atlanta lawyer Claud “Tex” McIver, who was convicted of murder in the shooting death of his wife in 2016. The court ruled unanimously that the jury should have been allowed to consider a lesser charge — involuntary manslaughter, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. Justice …
Kierra Coles was 3 months pregnant when she went missing in 2018. Now Chicago police have released a new video of the postal worker. It is reportedly the last known images of the 26-year-old. The video shows Coles walking into her apartment. Hours later, she is seen getting into her car with a man. At …
Last week, a group searching a Mississippi courthouse located an arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham — the white woman whose false assault accusations against Emmett Till led to the 14-year-old’s lynching in 1955 Mississippi. The Mississippi Free Press reported that the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and filmmaker Keith Beauchamp made the discovery at the …
Florida police arrested a 19-year-old man, charging him with the shooting death last week of another 19-year-old he was afraid was going to out him as gay. Daytona Beach police said Telan Mann was found dead on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds on June 23, WESH reported. Jakari Webb has been charged with first …
New York police are searching for a man who may have been with an aspiring pediatric nurse who was found shot in the head on Wednesday in the city. According to the New York Post, 20-year-old Azsia Johnson, who was found shot Wednesday night, was planning to meet with her baby’s father because she “felt …
A Massachusetts man was charged on Tuesday for strangling his girlfriend earlier this month in an ordeal witnessed by the woman’s two young daughters. On June 8, suspect Thadius McGrath’s mother called officers to Samantha Rementer’s apartment in Northampton amid concerns that McGrath, 35, was suicidal. Responding officers knocked on the door and were met …
A 14-year-old Pennsylvania teen told a police officer that she “Michael Myers’d” her disabled sister, prosecutors said Tuesday during a Lancaster County court hearing, which will decide whether the suspect should be tried as an adult. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Claire Miller is charged with murder in connection with the death of her older sister, …
A New York federal prosecutor said during R. Kelly’s sentencing on Tuesday that the singer secretly sold $5 million in August — months before he was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering. According to Insider, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Geddes made the allegations during R. Kelly’s sentencing hearing. Kelly reportedly made money through his master …
U.S. Marshals confirmed on Wednesday that they have caught a woman who has been on the run since fatally shooting her boyfriend’s love interest in Texas last month. Authorities told VeloNews that Kaitlin Armstrong was apprehended in Costa Rica overnight. She will be extradited to the U.S. — where she will face first-degree murder charges. Sources …
The mother of missing New Hampshire girl, Harmony Montgomery, says she her former boyfriend, who had custody of the child, knows exactly where their missing daughter is. Harmony’s mother, Crystal Sorey, exchanged text messages Tuesday with Boston Globe, following the news that her ex, Adam Montgomery, had been indicted on second-degree assault and gun charges. …
Although the case was closed when she pleaded guilty to falsifying travel documents in 2015, Australian officials have said that Amber Heard remains under investigation for allegedly lying during court proceedings about the illegal importation of her two Yorkshire terriers. ET reported that a spokesperson for the Australian Department of Agricutlure, Water and the Environment …
