Opening statements were delivered Friday in the trial for the 2023 murder of Rachel Morin, a mother of five found dead on Maryland’s Bel Air trail. Morin’s mother, Patricia, listened with tears in her eyes as prosecutors recounted the circumstances of the crime, Maryland’s Hartford County court in Bel Air, where suspect Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez …
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A married Illinois special education teacher, who faces allegations of raping a 15-year-old student, reportedly kept a “memoir” in her phone’s notes app in which she accused him of cheating on her, according to court documents. People Magazine reports that 30-year-old Downer Grove High School teacher Christina Formella expressed her anger, stating she was upset …
On Friday, federal prosecutors in New York filed additional criminal charges against Sean “Diddy” Combs, who will stand trial next month on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. The Associated Press reported that Combs is charged with forcing a woman to engage in commercial sex acts between 2021 and 2024. Prosecutors said Combs transported the woman, …
The body of a 13-yeaer-old California boy was found Wednesday at a state beach, and his family is pushing for answers. The Los Angeles Police Department and FBI responded to McGrath State Beach in Oxnard Wednesday, where they found the deceased boy. The family identified the victim as Oscar Omar Hernandez. LAPD reports that Oscar …
Actor Russell Brand is facing rape and sexual assault charges, following a 2023 investigation. London’s Metropolitan Police announced April 4 that they charged Brand, 49, with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral rape, and two counts of sexual assault. AP News reports that the allegations came from numerous …
On Wednesday, West Virginia police arrested a gravedigger for displacing an infant boy who was buried in 1982. Last Thursday, someone called 911 after discovering a baby while decorating a grave at Baylous Cemetery in Salt Rock. An investigation determined that Matthew Fortner, 49, who was contracted by the cemetery, was digging a burial plot …
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A Georgia woman was criminally charged for allegedly leaving her newborn baby in a trash bag on Monday. Alaynah Rappuhn, 22, reportedly went to a Macon hospital for excessive bleeding after leaving a trash bag on a back porch. Rappuhn’s boyfriend, who took her to the hospital, returned home and heard noises coming from the …
Nancy Grace has exclusively obtained video footage from a neighbor showing suspect Steven Gress allegedly transporting the body of 16-year-old Miranda Corsette after luring her online. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Florida teen Miranda Corsette was reported missing on February 24, days after she disappeared. Gulfport police said the 16-year-old, who was the mother of an …
A physician’s wife in Hawaii is fighting back after her husband allegedly tried to kill her. Arielle Konig, 36, secured a temporary restraining order against her husband, Maui doctor Gerhardt Konig, after he allegedly tried to murder her along a cliffside in Oahu. In her petition, obtained by CrimeOnline, Arielle described the assault, claiming her …
U.S. Marshals in Nevada arrested a man last month for killing a woman who was found dead in Iowa in February. The Gazette reported that Brittany Hopkins, 38, was found dead in a shopping cart in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on February 28. Hopkins, who was pregnant, was wrapped in a comforter bound with electrical tape …
