Alabama authorities said on Thursday that the deaths of a Mississippi woman and her 3-year-old daughter, whose bodies were found in Alabama, were a case of murder-suicide. Shardee McGill, 32, and Janae McGill vanished from Jackson, Mississippi, on September 21, two days before her unoccupied car was discovered near the Tombigbee River in Alabama. WBRC …
New York City prosecutors are pushing to reinstate a murder conviction in connection with the 1979 death of Etan Patz. According to CBS News, the prosecution is in hopes that the Supreme Court will reinstate Pedro Hernandez’s conviction, although they are in the process of preparing for a retrial. A federal appeals court overturned the murder …
A North Carolina nurse was arrested on Thursday for sexually assaulting two incapacitated patients. WRAL reported that Duke Health nurse Jomil Uy Tugado, 39, assaulted a patient in May and another in December. Duke Health officials said Tugado was put on administrative leave on December 7, a day after the second alleged incident. WTVD reported …
A Utah woman will spend decades behind bars for breaking into her parents’ home and fatally shooting them. According to KUTV, a Salt Lake City judge sentenced Mia Bailey to two consecutive 25-year sentences for the deaths of her parents, Joseph and Gail Bailey, and up to five years for assault. As CrimeOnline previously reported, …
Two Michigan men were charged earlier this month after one of the men allegedly used the other as a stand-in for a court-ordered paternity test. On September 18, Derek Harrison, 36, reportedly signed into the Macomb County Administration Building as Mark McCracken, 34, (pictured left) and submitted a DNA sample while impersonating McCracken. Macomb County …
Convicted killer Joran Van der Sloot reportedly tried to take his own life last week, inside a Peruvian prison. According to officials at Challapalca Prison, guards found Van der Sloot with a towel around his neck and “near death,” 1819 News reports. The guards intervened while serving the inmates breakfast on December 12. Following the …
UPDATE Javier has been found safe, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in Rochester, New York. No additional information has been provided. Initial Coverage The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office in New York is searching for a 17-year-old boy. According to ABC 13, Javier Melendez was last seen Thursday at around 2:30 p.m., in Henrietta. …
The man suspected in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday night in New Hampshire. Providence Police Col. Oscar Perez announced the suspect was Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a former Brown student from Portugal whose last known address was Miami, Florida. He was found dead in …
A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly shot her two ex-husbands to death on Wednesday. Manatee County deputies arrested Susan Avalon after they were called to a home in Bradenton and found a 54-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital, where he later died, but told investigators before …
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The family of Texas A&M student Brianna Aguilera continue to search for answers, following her untimely death last month. Aguilera’s mother, Stephanie Rodriguez, told People magazine that the family want an independent autopsy completed after Austin authorities labeled Aguilera’s death a suicide. “I just want justice for my daughter,” Rodriguez said. “I know something happened …
Authorities are also looking into the possibility of a connection between the Brown shooting and the slaying of an MIT professor Monday night.
