A North Carolina woman died at an Illinois airport on Thursday after she became trapped in a baggage conveyor belt, officials said. Chicago police reportedly responded to O’Hare International Airport’s baggage area after Virginia Vinton, 57, got pinned in machinery at Terminal 5. Surveillance footage showed Vinton, who did not work at the airport, accessing …
Police in Louisiana are searching for a missing woman who is a witness in a case that was set to go to trial next week. According to WBRZ, Jovan Johnson, 40, was last seen at her job in LaPlace on Wednesday. St. John Parish police said they believe Johnson may be in danger as she …
An Arizona man entered a not guilty plea on Thursday in connection with last month’s hot-car death of his 2-year-old daughter. Christopher Scholtes remains out of custody despite being charged with first-degree murder and child abuse for his daughter’s July 9 death. KOLD reported that Schlotes was initially charged with second-degree murder, but a grand …
An Ohio man who pleaded guilty to breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home and stabbing her more than 30 times was sentenced this week to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 31 years. Chance Donohoe, 27, got a break from Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Kim Brown, who could have sentenced him …
A 47-year-old Minnesota woman has been charged with stabbing her ex-boyfriend to death over the weekend, telling police she “would kill him again” while on her way to jail. The Moorhead Police Department said they responded to a home on Sunday and found Willard DeGroat Jr., 47, with a stab wound to his chest. He …
A Colorado mother who strangled her 2-month-old son while suffering from postpartum psychosis was sentenced this week to 40 years in prison. Anna Louise Englund reached a deal with Boulder County prosecutors to plead guilty to second degree murder, according to the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office, and her original charges of first degree murder …
Alabama authorities have ruled the death of a 4-year-old girl, critically injured two years ago in a shooting that killed her father and injured her infant brother, was a homicide. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office made the ruling this week, AL.com reported. Madison Grace Davis died on June 25, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Her father, …
A Georgia woman who disappeared late last month was found dead in a vehicle on Sunday in what authorities are investigating as a homicide. WSB-TV reported that Shakema Toran, 36, was last seen at her Augusta home on July 31. Four days later, her body was discovered in a vehicle parked outside a Kroger in …
A 47-year-old Georgia man has been charged with murder after a 17-month-old child drowned in a bathtub while he was supposedly caring for the child. Kenton Hamilton told police that the toddler fell asleep on his chest while he slept on a couch on Thursday, the Marietta Daily Journal said. Hamilton claimed that the child …
A mother who pleaded guilty in Texas in the death of her 5-year-old son three years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison. Nickolle Aguillar agreed to plead guilty to a charge of serious bodily injury to a child by omission, and District Judge Velia Meza gave her the maximum sentence allowed, KSAT …
One of three men charged in connection with the disappearance and presumed murder of a Kentucky mom in 2015 fired his attorney at a hearing on Thursday, reportedly because he found out the attorney met with a co-defendant’s attorneys behind his back. Steve Lawson appeared before Nelson County Judge Charles Simms III for a hearing …
