A Miami mom was charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and aggravated child abuse after she allegedly beat her daughter with a metal guitar and broomstick because she had to wait 10 minutes until she came out of school. An arrest report says that 52-year-old Sayda Orellana Castellanos was picking her daughter up …
An FBI search warrant request reveals disturbing details about the murder of a South Carolina paramedic last March by a man who drove across the country in her car and then killed a New Mexico State trooper who stopped to help him with a flat tire. Jaremy Smith pleaded guilty in federal court last month …
On Tuesday, Michigan prosecutors filed murder charges against the mother of a 9-year-old boy who was found buried in a shallow grave last month. On January 6, a landlord in Detroit reportedly discovered Zemar King’s body buried in the backyard while preparing the property for new tenants. The Detroit Free Press reported that King’s hands …
A Florida jury has acquitted 17-year-old Collin Griffith in his mother’s killing, two years after admitting to fatally shooting his father in self-defense. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Griffith faced accusations of stabbing to death his mother, 39-year-old Catherine Griffith, in September 2022. During a 911 call, he claimed she “fell on a knife” amid a …
An investigation is underway in Georgia after a man was found dead during a traffic stop last month. On January 29, Douglas County pulled over a man who was reportedly driving with Malachi Mitchell’s body in the vehicle. According to WAGA, the driver was questioned and released from custody amid an ongoing investigation. Mitchell’s mother …
Accused child killer Megan Boswell’s murder trial started Wednesday morning in Sullivan County, Tennessee: As CrimeOnline previously reported, she was initially facing 19 charges in connection with the death of her 15-month-old daughter, Evelyn, who was the centerpiece of a February 2020 AMBER Alert. Authorities discovered Evelyn’s body on a family member’s property in March …
A lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in New York against Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was accused of sexually assaulting a male entertainer who he met in 2007. TMZ reported that the accuser claimed Combs hired him via an agency to dance and strip but he was eventually forced to perform sex acts. The man claimed …
An AMBER Aleet has been issued for a missing pregnant Wisconsin teen who hasn’t been seen in days. ABC 7 Chicago reports police believe that 16-yea-old Sophia Martin Franklin is with Gary F. Day, 40, the father of her unborn child. Franklin was last seen at her home on February 2 at 9 p.m., near …
Denver police have arrested an accountant for a shooting at a park on Sunday that left one person wounded. Ryan Egelston, 28, reportedly told police he first got into an argument with a man because he asked to sit on a park bench where Egelston was sitting, KUSA reported. He said “he thought the man …
A Kansas couple has been charged with a abuse, torture, and murder of their 6-year-old adopted daughter, who was found last fall dead and buried in their back yard — where her body had been for about four years. Crystina Elizabeth Schroer, 50, was charged with murder, aggravated kidnapping, child abuse/torture, theft, forgery, Medicaid fraud, …
The elected board of supervisors in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, has caved to a flurry of “despicable” racist emails and cancelled a proposal to build a memorial to a 19-year-old Black woman who was killed and dismembered last year, allegedly by the son of a prominent Wisconsin insurance executive. Six of the county’s 18 supervisors sponsored …
A volunteer coach for a community organization has been arrested for “an inappropriate relationship” with a 16-year-old girl. Johnaisha Watson, 28, has been charged with two counts of felony sexual activity with a student, according to WXII. Winston-Salem Police said the incident took place in March 2024 and was reported to authorities in August. Watson …
