Six months before Adriana Kuch took her own life, the New Jersey teen heroically saved a young girl from drowning, WNBC-TV reports. Kuch committed suicide earlier this month after being attacked in a hallway at Central Regional High School. As CrimeOnline previously reported, four girls allegedly began assaulting the 14-year-old on February 1 while she was …
Melanie Davis’ cell phone, purse, checkbook, clothes and car were still at her home in Richmond, Virginia, when she went missing in May 2016. The 51-year-old former nurse hasn’t been seen since or spoken with any of her loved ones. For Melanie’s sister Clarice, not knowing what happened has been one of the hardest parts …
A North Carolina woman was found with multiple gunshot wounds on Friday after medical personnel responded to a call about a cardiac arrest at a home near South Mountains State Park. Brandi Deal, 41, died from her injuries, according to the Burke County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said it is investigating Deal’s death as …
A popular self-published romance novelist has been missing since she was released from jail last month in Teton County, Wyoming, where she had led police on a high speed chase. Faleena Hopkins, 52, has been missing since January 30, a friend told the Jackson Hole Daily on Friday. She was arrested on January 27 after …
A Pennsylvania man who reported his friend and business partner missing last month has now been charged with her murder. Blair Watts, 33, reported 43-year-old Jennifer Brown missing on January 4 when he said she failed to pick up her son — who’d spent the night at Watts’ home — at a bus stop, as …
New evidence in an Oklahoma cold case could potentially change the timeline of the death of 18-year-old Brittany Phillips, a college freshman found dead in her Tulsa apartment in 2004. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Phillips returned home to Oklahoma in 2004 to attend Tulsa Community College’s downtown campus, after attending Eckerd College in Florida on …
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with criminal homicide in the death of his ex-girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter after he reportedly admitted to police that he raped and killed her, then hid her body in a freezer. Jason Shackelford, 39, may face additional charges, pending the results of an autopsy and the continuing investigation, according to …
A 16-year-old boy was arrested Friday after he allegedly stabbed a 15-year-old boy to death at a Minnesota high school. Harding High School in St. Paul went into lockdown shortly before noon Friday, and students were kept in their classrooms until nearly 2 p.m., KARE reported. Classes for the remainder of the day and on …
In the weeks before and after Bryan Kohberger allegedly stabbed four University of Idaho students to death, his scholarly pursuits were in turmoil as he faced allegations from supervisors and peers about unprofessional conduct, The New York Times reports. Kohberger, 28, faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary in connection …
It’s been nearly a year since Irene Gakwa last spoke with her parents and siblings, the quietness of each passing day a piercing reminder of her absence. “We can hardly sleep and when we sleep, we keep waking up and it’s like dreaming,” Francis Gakwa, Irene’s father, told PEOPLE magazine as he cried. In 2019, …
A California man found dead in Mexico on vacation with his wife was allegedly the target of an extortion scheme by Mexican police hours before his brutal death, ABC News reports. On January 14, Elliot Blair and his wife, Kim Williams, were celebrating their first wedding anniversary at Las Rocas Resort and Spa in Rosarito …
A popular Oakland baker has been declared dead after she was critically injured during a daylight purse snatching in a bank parking lot earlier this week. Jennifer Angel, owner of Angel Cakes bakery, was in the parking lot of a Wells Fargo bank less than a mile from her shop on Monday when a vehicle …
