Year: 2024

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September 9, 2024

Missing California Woman Found Safe in Wilderness, Stranded Nearly 2 Weeks

A California woman missing for nearly two weeks was found safe by search teams in Nevada County. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Esmeralda Marie Pineda, 24, was reported missing on August 26 after vanishing from a mining camp in Nevada City, about 60 miles north of Sacramento. Authorities believed she was last seen near the middle …

Hot Car
September 9, 2024

Twin Toddler Girls Die in Car After Family Member Forgets to Take Them to Daycare

Twin 2-year-old girls in Oklahoma were reportedly supposed to be dropped off at daycare before they were found dead in a car on Thursday. The girls, identified as Ariel and Avery Suter, were found dead in a vehicle in Norman. KFOR reported that the parents had left the girls with a family member who was …

Concealment
September 9, 2024

Suspect Found With Date Rape Drugs Days After Woman’s Body Is Discovered in Suitcase

A suspect arrested on Friday, three days after a New York woman was found dead in a suitcase, was allegedly in possession of date rape drugs when he was taken into custody. The New York Post reported that Ronald Schroeder, 41, was arrested on an outstanding warrant at New York’s Penn Station. He has been …

Court
September 9, 2024

Judge Approves Accused Idaho College Killer Bryan Kohberger’s Request to Move Trial

A judge has agreed to move the trial of accused murderer Bryan Kohberger to a different location, where he will face charges of killing four University of Idaho students. In a Friday ruling, Idaho Second District Judge John C. Judge said there were concerns about media attention and public comments that could jeopardize Kohberger’s chance …

Shooting
September 9, 2024

Kentucky Shooting Suspect Identified as National Guardsman, Still at Large

Authorities paused the hunt for a man who wounded five people on Interstate 75 on Saturday as the sun fell over the southeastern Kentucky mountains Sunday night with plans to return to the hunt Monday morning. Kentucky State Police have taken the lead on the manhunt for Joseph Couch, a former National Guardsman believed to be …

September 8, 2024

Oklahoma Woman Charged With Trying to Drown 2 Children in Public Pool

An Oklahoma woman has been charged with child abuse after she allegedly tried to drown her daughter and a nephew at a public pool earlier this summer. Court documents say that a lifeguard found the children unresponsive at Will Rogers Aquatic Center. They were revived and taken to a local hospital, but police noted that …

Elijah Vue
Missing
September 8, 2024

Remains of Young Child Reportedly Found in Search for Missing Elijah Vue

A Milwaukee radio host is reporting investigators believe they have found the remains of 3-year-old Elijah Vue at a Wisconsin Girl Scout camp. Dan O’Donnell of NewsTalk1130 reports that the remains were found at Girl Scout Camp Manitou-Two Rivers, near a home that was once shared by the toddler’s mother, Katrina Baur, and her boyfriend, …

Domestic violence
September 8, 2024

SWAT Team Rescues 7 Children Held Hostage at Utah Hotel by Their Father

A Utah man was arrested late Saturday night after he allegedly held his seven children hostage at a St. George motel while threatening to harm them. St. George Police said they were dispatched to the Quality Inn in that town at 11 p.m. for a domestic incident. When they arrived, they found Jonathan Dayzie fighting …

Famous Murder Cases
September 8, 2024

Bryan Kohberger: Defense Challenges State’s Intention to Seek Death Penalty in University of Idaho Murders Case

Defense attorneys late last week filed multiple motions aimed at taking the death penalty off the table for Bryan Kohberger, accused of killing four University of Idaho students on November 2022. Kohberger’s attorneys filed 13 challenges to the state’s intention to seek the death penalty on Thursday, court records show. The challenges target several aggravating …