A New Mexico man was convicted on Wednesday for killing a man in 2021 and playing soccer with his decapitated head. KFOX reported that Joel Arciniega-Saenz was found guilty of first-degree murder for stabbing James Garcia, 51, 84 times at a Las Cruces park. In addition to severing Garcia’s finger, Arciniega-Saenz decapitated him and played …
Alabama prosecutors filed a motion on Wednesday asking for more time to investigate the disappearance of a 2-year-old boy who was last seen in September. WABM reported that Kahleb Collins’ mother and grandfather, Wendy Bailey and John Bailey, 22 and 50, have a preliminary hearing for March 11. However, Andrew C. Hamlin, the District Attorney …
A circuit judge ordered this week that Donna Adelson remain in jail until her trial this summer. Judge Stephen Everett denied Adelson’s bond request in a three-page ruling unsealed Tuesday afternoon. Her attorneys said the 76-year-old felt unsafe in jail, citing alleged assaults, threats, and extortion. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Adelson is charged with the …
Brevard County police in Florida located the remains of a 72-year-old woman who was reported missing earlier this week. Authorities confirmed that Jesse Kirk was murdered after her burned remains were discovered several miles from her torched car. Investigators found the vehicle on a dirt road off State Road 520 and located her remains near …
Newly released transcripts of text messages between the surviving roommates of the 2022 University of Idaho murders and their 911 call reveal the frantic chaos of that night as the two women gradually understand what has happened. The documents identify Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke by their initials, revealing Mortensen’s initial text to Kaylee Goncalves, …
An Indiana woman has been charged with drowning her cousin’s 4-year-old daughter while babysitting more than a year ago. Nakia Martin, 39, was arrested in December and extradited to Texas, where the drowning took place on September 8, 2023, WISH reported. Courtney Fischer, Harris County District Attorney’s Office chief of communications, said told the station …
A New York grand jury this week indicted seven people for the torture-murder of a Minnesota trans man and for the first time revealed that one of the perpetrators of Sam Nordquist’s gruesome death forced two children to participate. But prosecutors still declined to seek hate crime charges for the defendants, saying now that Nordquist’s …
A Wisconsin judge declined Thursday to block the conditional release of a woman who was 12 when she stabbed a classmate to appease the fictional character Slender Man in 2014. Judge Michael Bohren ruled in January that Morgan Geyser, now 22, could be released, but prosecutors tried last week to block her release, saying her …
An Illinois couple has been charged with beating an 11-year-old boy because he didn’t clean the bathroom the way they wanted. Loves Park Police said Alexandria Thompson, 30, and Branden Crane, 35, were arrested for a December 29, 2024, incident after a weeks-long investigation, WTVO reported. Police were called about that incident on January 1, …
A Michigan woman was convicted this week of driving drunk into a birthday party at a Monroe boat club last year, killing two children and injuring a dozen other people. The jury deliberated less than two hours after a four-day trial before returning guilty verdicts for Marshella Chidester on all counts, including two counts of …
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