On Friday, a Texas jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay an additional $45 million in punitive damages for defaming the parents of a 6-year-old Sandy Hook shooting victim. The same jury on Thursday ordered Jones, 48, to pay the parents of Jesse Lewis $4.1 million in compensatory damages. Jones’ lawyers said they plan …
More salacious details were revealed as more than 6,000 pages of documents have been unsealed in the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard defamation trial. Both sides have filed for appeals in the case. This document dump reveals lots of evidence each side wanted to bring into the US courtroom, but was excluded by the judge. Among the …
Ten British teens were sentenced to life in prison this week, in connection with the murder of an 18-year-old, who was attacked for a little over a minute with punches, kicks, and a knife. DailyMail reports that 18-year-old Jack Woodley was beaten to death in October 2021, after a group of teens “surrounded and isolated” …
A search is underway for a 15-year-old girl who reportedly disappeared in Texas on May 31. According to Sanaf News, Jazmin Perez, 15, was last seen traveling in an unknown direction in southwest Houston. Additional details regarding her disappearance are unavailable, but she may be endangered and need medical attention. Perez may be in the …
A 2-year-old girl who was found dead at her mother’s boyfriend’s home last month was allegedly killed by the man in 2019, and New Jersey police say her mother never reported her disappearance. Edison police performed a welfare check for Monique Durham’s twin 5-year-old daughters on July 26. An investigation determined that one of the …
Stunning footage shows the moment that a speeding black Mercedes barrels through a California intersection and slams into traffic, killing at least five people including a pregnant woman and an infant, and injuring eight others. The fiery crash occurred shortly after 1:30 p.m. Thursday in the Windsor Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, according to NBC …
A New York man took his own life after allegedly killing a restaurant delivery driver, reportedly over duck sauce. As CrimeOnline previously reported, NYC police arrested Glenn Hirsch, 51, in June and charged him with first-degree murder, in connection with the April death of Zhiwen Yan. Yan, a delivery driver for Queens’ restaurant, Great Wall, …
A woman who was reportedly seen being dragged into a truck in New Jersey on Wednesday was found safe on Thursday. The woman — and man previously suspected of abducting her — were located in Woodbridge. They were found after employees at Gabrielli Truck Sales in Dayton provided police with surveillance footage as the pair …
A California jury heard from a man Wednesday who testified that the accused killer of Kristin Smart joked that her body was at his mother’s house. As CrimeOnline previously reported, suspect Paul Flores, who attended California Polytechnic State University in 1996 with 19-year-old Smart, stands accused of her murder. Flores’ father, Ruben, 81, is facing …
The New York McDonald’s employee who was shot over a complaint about cold fries is dead, CBS News reports. On Friday morning, the NYPD announced that 23-year-old Matthew Webb succumbed to his injuries following Monday’s shooting at a McDonald’s in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Police are now treating the attack as a homicide, …
Authorities in a rural Florida county are investigating the deaths of two men who the sheriff said were “brutally murdered,” News4Jax reports. On Monday, the bodies of 54-year-old David Daniel Sigers and 49-year-old James Michael Thomas were found in a home in Macclenny, approximately 30 miles west of Jacksonville near the Georgia state line. “Autopsies …
