A fugitive who escaped from an East Tennessee jail last summer was found dead in Mexico this week, and suspected cartel members allegedly contacted the man’s family seeking a ransom for the return of his body. Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton said that someone in Mexico sent the family a video of 35-year-old Charles Kennedy’s …
On Friday, a Wisconsin judge approved a measure to destroy the gun Kyle Rittenhouse used in the August 2020 protest shooting that left two people dead. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Rittenhouse, 18, agreed to the arrangement — which entails authorities destroying the Smith & Wesson M&P 15 rifle at the state crime lab …
An Arizona couple has been sentenced to probation after their guilty pleas in a case involving the deaths of three children, who drowned when the family drove into a flooded wash. Lacey Rawlings, 34, was formally sentenced to four years probation on Thursday, while her husband, 38-year-old Daniel Rawlings, was sentenced to five years of …
The body of 13-year-old Minnie Soriano is found by a homeless man in a dumpster. The girl has been sex abused and strangled. Now after 22 years, 49-year-old Joseph Martinez has been arrested. Officials allege that Martinez, who teaches astronomy on the street, knew Soriano because he lived in her building. The teen also had …
Four family members are dead in Tennessee after a father reportedly shot his wife and two daughters before turning the gun on himself. According to the New York Post and The Tennessean, an unidentified man called 911 early Friday from his home in Goodlettsville and told the dispatcher that he had shot his wife, 32, …
‘A federal judge on Friday reduced Joe Exotic’s prison sentence by one year for violating federal wildlife laws and devising a murder-for-hire plot targeting controversial animal activist Carole Baskin. According to KOCW, Exotic, 58, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, learned of his new 21-year sentence in an Oklahoma City courtroom. Exotic was originally sentenced …
Thousands attended Friday’s funeral in New York for a rookie police officer who died last week in a shooting that also claimed the life of his partner. According to the New York Post, fallen NYPD officer Jason Rivera, 22, was posthumously promoted to detective first grade during his funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. In addition …
A Chicago man who lived close to 20 years behind bars for murder has been released after his twin brother confessed to the crime. NBC News reports that Kevin Dugar walked out of the Cook County jail on Tuesday night as loved ones surrounded and supported him. Dugar was convicted of the 2003 murder of …
The parents of four children who went missing but were later found safetly have been arrested after they allegedly refused to cooperate in the search. As Syracuse.com reports, four siblings ranging in age from 4 to 13 years old went missing following a welfare check at their Skaneateles, New York, home on January 12. The …
An online petition has received more than 240,000 signatures in support of two Texas brothers and a friend who are accused of killing the brothers’ stepfather. The Change.org petition asks Governor Greg Abbott to release Alejandro Trevino, 18; Christian Trevino, 17; and Juan Eduardo Melendez, 18, who are facing various charges for killing the Trevinos’ …
Authorities in California are urging the public to come forward with tips about the murder of a 16-year-old girl whose body was tossed from the Los Angeles 110 freeway earlier this month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Tioni Theus of Compton was found dead near a freeway on-ramp on January 8. She had left her home …
Pennsylvania police are searching for a man they say followed a woman home from a grocery store after she accidentally bumped into her and opened fire. The suspect was identified as Moenell Coleman, 26, according to WPVI, which said he’s been charged with two counts each of attempted murder and aggravated assault and other crimes. …
