A Missouri community college teacher set the fire that killed her and her four children earlier this week. St. Louis County Police said Bernadine “Birdie” Pruessner, 39, allegedly set a mattress on fire in her Ferguson home and left a note in her minivan saying she intended to kill herself and the children. the St. …
A South African man who confessed to killing an Alaska Native woman and was captured on cellphone video torturing and killing another was found guilty Thursday in both killings. The Anchorage jury deliberated less than two hours before returning the unanimous guilty verdicts for Brian Steven Smith, 52, in the deaths of Kathleen Henry and …
A pair of girl’s pants led searchers to the body of missing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham in the Trinity River on Tuesday after she’d been missing for nearly a week. Tim Miller, the founder of Texas EquuSearch, told CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace that he spotted the pants along the bank of the river on Saturday. “Not the …
A Michigan teenager has been charged with killing a 78-year-old woman in her sleep after he opened fire from a moving car when he mistakenly thought someone in her home had shot at his mother’s home. Arion James Wagner, 19, visited his mother on January 29 and saw a bullet hole in her window, which …
Convicted child killer Adam Montgomery attempted to throw investigators off by telling them they were wasting their time searching for 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery. As CrimeOnline previously reported, jurors at the Hillsborough County Superior Court in New Hampshire found Montgomery guilty Thursday afternoon of second-degree murder, second-degree assault, falsifying evidence, abuse of a corpse, and tampering …
An Ohio father who allegedly killed his three children last year appeared in court on Wednesday as he seeks to have his confession deemed inadmissible in court. Chad Doerman, 32, said his constitutional rights were violated as investigators ignored at least two of his requests for counsel after his arrest. Doerman’s lawyers claimed that questioning …
An Indiana woman was arrested last week for allegedly killing her 2-week-old daughter last year. According to WXIN, Aaliyah Lykins’ newborn suffocated in October 2023 after she fell asleep while breastfeeding her in bed. Muncie fire crews who responded to the home reportedly found the baby limp and not breathing before she was pronounced dead at …
More details are emerging in the death of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham. Police reveal that the girl’s body was tied on a rope which was then tied to a rock. Today, Nancy talks to the searcher who found the body’s location using sonar and reveals that some of the girl’s clothing was found on the river’s edge. …
Annabel Meenan was only 21, but she had been romantically involved with 33-year-old Leroy Brahm since she was in high school. Their relationship was filled with abuse but on the final night of her life, video cameras placed around the home recorded every hit with a fist and kick with a foot. Joseph Scott Morgan …
In 2004, in one of the most high-profile trials of the past two decades, Scott Peterson was convicted of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, 27, and their unborn son, Conner, with whom Laci was eight months pregnant. Laci disappeared from their home in Modesto, California, on Christmas Eve in 2002. In this episode of Zone …
