Year: 2024

Murder
November 26, 2024

Teen Girl’s Murder Solved Through DNA Despite Killer Passing Lie Detector

California investigators linked a man’s DNA to the 1979 cold case murder of a teenage girl in Riverside. On November 20, the Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team identified Lewis Randolph “Randy” Williamson, who died in 2014, as the suspect in Esther Gonzalez’s murder. On February 9, 1979, she was attacked and killed as …

Murder
November 26, 2024

Teen, 13, Rapes and Kills Young Oregon Girl, Refers to Himself as ‘Dexter’

An Oregon jury convicted a teen Friday of murdering and raping a 13-year-old girl after luring her to his makeshift camp in the woods. According to Law&Crime, the jury convicted Daniel Ryan Gore of first-degree murder, rape, and sexual abuse for the 2022 death of 13-year-old Milana Lu. Prosecutors characterized him as a “wolf in …

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Trials
November 26, 2024

Woman Who Killed Neighbor in Dispute Over Children Playing Sentenced

A Florida woman who shot and killed her neighbor in a long-running dispute over children playing was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison. Susan Lorincz told the court she was afraid and “never intended to kill anyone” when she fired a single shot through her closed door and killed Ajike “AJ” Owens, a …

Murder
November 26, 2024

‘I Love My Boys,’ Killer Mom Says After Shooting Kids, 9 and 6, in the Head

A Kentucky mother sentenced last week to to life in prison for the shooting deaths of her two young children told deputies after the murders that she loves her children but video games and YouTube had “mess[ed]their minds up.” Tiffanie Lucas pleaded guilty to killing Maurice Baker Jr., 6, and Jayden Howard, 9, in October …

November 25, 2024

DEVELOPING: AMBER ALERT Issued for Abducted 7-Year-Old Boy Whose Dad Was Found Shot in Home

An Amber Alert was issued on Monday in Colorado for a 7-year-old boy who was reportedly abducted. Crystal Denmon, 26, allegedly took Uriah Saye Jr. from a Lakewood apartment. Officers who reportedly responded to the apartment found Saye’s father shot and the boy missing, according to KUSA. Denmon is considered the suspect in Monday’s abduction …

Missing
November 25, 2024

Dad Kills Himself at Airport Where Missing Daughter Was Last Spotted

The father of a Hawaii woman who has been missing since early November died on Sunday in an apparent suicide Police told KNBC that Hannah Kobayashi’s father leaped from a parking deck at Los Angeles International Airport. Two weeks earlier, on November 11, Kobayashi vanished after missing a connecting New York-bound flight from the same …

Missing
November 25, 2024

Oklahoma Mother Hands Baby Over to Drug Dealer Who May Have Fled to Mexico

Police in Oklahoma identified a child involved in a disturbing missing persons case out of Moore. Moore Police Department stated that London Kerr is now 5 years old and was last seen in April 2022. Her mother, Ashley Rowland, allegedly handed London over to a man named Carlos, a reported meth dealer who said he …

November 25, 2024

Colorado Opera Singer and Professor Found Dead in Apartment, Suspect on the Run

Colorado Springs police announced Monday that they have identified a suspect in the stabbing death of Haleh Abghari, a 54-year-old professor at the University of Colorado. Police discovered Abghari’s body on the morning of August 7 at a residence in the 6400 block of Caddy Point, close to North Powers Boulevard and North Carefree Circle. …

November 25, 2024

BOLO: Police Seek Tips on Missing NC Woman

The Asheville Police Department in North Carolina is asking the public to be on the lookout for a missing  Asheville woman. According to Fox Carolina, Vickie Lynne Wrenn,, 66. She was last seen on November 20, waiting for a ride on Choctaw Street. Wrenn is approximately 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs around 175 pounds, …