Year: 2022

READ: Full Arrest Affidavit Released Following ‘Super Mom’ Sherri Papini’s Arrest for Allegedly Faking Her Own Kidnapping
Fraud

Sherri Papini, a California mother and wife whose disappearance more than five years ago prompted a massive search, was arrested Thursday for allegedly lying to the feds about her disappearance. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Sherri Papini disappeared on November 2, 2016, while jogging in her Shasta Lake neighborhood. Authorities later found her on Thanksgiving Day …

Murder
March 4, 2022

Woman’s Headless Torso Found Stuffed in Shopping Cart

Police in New York City are investigating the apparent homicide of a woman whose dismembered torso was found stuffed in a bag in a shopping cart. According to NBC News, a witness made the horrific discovery early Thursday morning. The man began pushing the shopping cart, found near a collection of businesses at the intersection …

AMBER Alert
March 4, 2022

URGENT: AMBER Alert Issued for Kidnapped 13-Year-Old Girl

Authorities in Tennessee have issued an urgent AMBER Alert for a 13-year-old girl who reportedly left home with a adult male now wanted for kidnapping. According to Knox News, 13-year-old Alexis Smiley is believed to have left her home Lenoir City with a man nearly a decade her senior: William Tyler Nicholson, 22. Tennessee Burea …

Sherri Papini
Fraud
March 3, 2022

Sherri Papini: California Woman Charged With Lying About 2016 Abduction

A California woman whose disappearance more than five years ago prompted a desperate three-week search was arrested on Thursday and charged with lying to federal agents about being kidnapping and defrauding California’s victim compensation board. Sherri Papini, 39, was reported missing on November 2, 2016, and found 22 days later just off Interstate 5 near …

Rape
March 3, 2022

Miami Beach Lyft Driver Charged With Raping Texas Tourist: Reports

A south Florida Lyft driver has been charged with raping an intoxicated passenger over the weekend and ordered held on a $500,000 bond. The Miami Beach police report says that Kevyn Rojas, 26, is charged with sexual battery on a physically helpless victim, according to the Miami Herald. He was ordered to give up his …

Police
March 3, 2022

Philly Cop Accused of Forcing Murder Confession From Man Who Is Later Exonerated: Reports

A Philadelphia grand jury has indicted a veteran homicide detective for his part in a violent interrogation of a man who spent 11 years in prison for murder  before he was exonerated. James Pitts has been accused of assaulting Obina Onyiah during his interrogation for the 2010 murder of a jewelry store owner. Onyiah confessed …

Rape
March 3, 2022

Ohio Man Takes Woman’s Prosthetic Leg, Ties Her to a Tree, and Rapes Her: Court

An Ohio man set to go on trial on abduction charges was arraigned Thursday for a 2019 rape in which he allegedly took a woman’s prosthetic leg and kicked her unconscious before the sexual assault. Prosecutors said Yoder was identified as the suspect in the July 2019 rape via DNA testing, WKRC reports. At Thursday’s …

Taylor Williams: Mom Pleads Guilty to 2nd Degree Murder in 5-Year-Old’s Death
Court
March 3, 2022

Taylor Williams: Mom Pleads Guilty to 2nd Degree Murder in 5-Year-Old’s Death

A Florida mom who reported her 5-year-old daughter missing back in 2019 pleaded guilty Thursday to killing the little girl. Brianna Williams, who was a Navy petty officer when she was arrested, had been charged with aggravated child abuse, lying to police, and tampering with evidence, as CrimeOnline previously reported. She pleaded not guilty. The …

Orrin and Olson West
Crime Stories
March 3, 2022

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace: BOMBSHELL in Case of Missing Brothers Orrin, 3, and Orson, 4

The adoptive parents of 3-year-old Orson West and 4-year-old his brother Orrin, send the boys outside to play just days before Christmas. Mom is inside wrapping presents. The brothers haven’t been seen since. The dad was outside collecting firewood when he says he couldn’t see the boys. After confirming the boys weren’t inside the home, …