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Death investigation
August 9, 2024
Horror at Airport After Dead Woman is Found ‘Entangled’ in Baggage Conveyor Belt
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 …
Missing
August 9, 2024
URGENT MISSING: Witness in Criminal Case Vanishes Days Before Trial
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 …
Hot Car
August 9, 2024
Gamer Dad Charged With First-Degree Murder in Daughter’s Hot Car Death
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 …
Court
August 9, 2024
Ohio Man Gets Life with Possibility of Parole in Brutal Stabbing Death of Ex-Girlfriend
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 …
Murder
August 9, 2024
Minnesota Woman Stabs Ex-Boyfriend to Death, Tells Cops She’d ‘Kill Him Again’
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 …
Court
August 9, 2024
Colorado Mom Who Strangled Infant in Throes of Postpartum Depression Sentenced After Guilty Plea
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 …
Murder
August 8, 2024
4-Year-Old Alabama Girl’s Death Ruled Homicide; She Had Been Injured in Shooting & Car Crash That Killed Her Father
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, …
Homicide
August 8, 2024
Mom of 3 Sent Peculiar Texts to Family Before She Was Found Dead in Parking Lot
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 …
Child death
August 8, 2024
Dad Claims 17-Month-Old Son Climbed 2 Flights of Stairs, Started Water in Tub, and Drowned
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 …
Child Abuse
August 8, 2024
Mom Pleads Guilty in 5-Year-Old Son’s Death, Sentenced to 15 Years
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 …
Court
August 8, 2024
Defendant in Crystal Rogers Murder Case Abruptly Fires Lawyer
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 …