Police in Philadelphia on Friday released a disturbing video of a group of teenagers brutally beating an elderly man to death with a traffic cone, NBC 10 reports. The recording shows the victim, 73-year-old James Lambert, attempting to walk across Cecil B. Moore Avenue shortly before 3 a.m. on June 14. Seven teens – four boys …
A Georgia swimming instructor will not face criminal charges after a 4-year-old boy drowned at a swimming lesson, but his family is still pushing for answers, NBC News reports. On June 14, Israel “Izzy” Scott was attending his second day of a group swimming class in Hephzibah, Georgia, when he was spotted in the deep …
A 2-year-old girl and her parents are missing after they failed to return from a camping trip in Maine, prompting fears about their safety and pleas for the public’s help for information, Fox 23 reports. Police say that 28-year-old Jill Sidebotham, 38-year-old Nicholas Hansen and their 2-year-old daughter Lydia Hansen were expected to return from …
A new report finds that the California “House of Horrors” siblings who were abused and imprisoned by their parents were later failed by social services agencies and government officials, according to ABC News The 630-page report found that some of the rescued children were placed with other abusive caregivers, while authorities also failed to distribute …
An Idaho woman and her teen daughter with special needs, who had not been seen since leaving for a camping trip on June 30, have been found dead from an apparent murder-suicide. Dawna Roe, 52, and Gabrielle Roe, 16, were last seen in their van heading west on Interstate 84 near Fruitland, as CrimeOnline previously …
A woman seen in a surveillance video with a missing toddler early Thursday morning was an “angel” for taking care of 2-year-old Jailee Latson after finding her wandering the streets. “Jailee, I think they call her Jelly Bean, had an angel with her all day, so we were glad that [this is] the outcome that …
Federal authorities have filed new charges against love triangle murder suspect Kaitlyn Armstrong, accusing the Texas yoga teacher of using someone else’s passport to flee the country. The complaint doesn’t say whose passport Armstrong used, but CrimeOnline previously reported that she had her sister’s passport in her possession when she was arrested at a hostel …
‘Those officers that were in those hallways, I want them to resign.’
Atlanta lawyer Claud “Tex” McIver’s murder conviction has been overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court. McIver was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of his wife. The court ruled unanimously that the jury should have been allowed to consider a lesser charge — involuntary manslaughter. Diane McIver died after …
A Missouri man is behind bars after authorities allege in just-released documents that he beat a former nurse to death with a baseball bat. According to court documents obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 76-year-old Eileen Schnitker, of Berkeley, Missouri, was found deceased on her front porch Wednesday, at her residence on Kathlyn Drive. The …
A Pennsylvania 911 dispatcher was criminally charged last week for a July 2020 incident in which he allegedly refused to send an ambulance for a woman who ultimately died. Diania Kronk, 54, reportedly died of internal bleeding a day after her daughter, Kelly Titchenell, 38, called 911 for help. The Associated Press reported that during …
