The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office says missing 9-year-old California girl, Melodee Buzzard, was spotted in a small Utah town last month. According to the sheriff’s office, Melodee was seen between the Colorado–Utah border on October 9, on a return route, after her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, rented a car in California and took a cross-country …
A Kentucky woman was found dead in a fish and wildlife area in Indiana, and investigators are looking at a person of interest in her death. But Henderson, Kentucky, officials haven’t said if they’re looking at a murder investigation. The body was found Sunday in Indiana’s Blue Grass Fight and Wildlife Area, a few miles …
An Arizona man who pleaded guilty his 2-year-old daughter’s death “took his own life” Wednesday morning ahead of sentencing. Christopher Scholtes, 38, was found dead when he failed to turn himself in after his guilty plea, as CrimeOnline previously reported. His sentencing had been scheduled for November 21. He faced up to 30 years in …
Investigators are looking for an Indiana man they say manipulated his girlfriend into killing an ex-lover three years ago. Cordero Cervantes, 35, and McKayla Archambeau, 25, were both initially arrested in July 2022 in connection with the death of 31-year-old Taylor Hawkins a month earlier, as CrimeOnline reported. Cervantes was initially indicted on one count …
A Wisconsin man has been charged with crashing his car while driving drunk and then leaving his mother to die alone while he hid out in the house he shared with her. Casey Yiannackopoulos was charged with reckless homicide and hit-and-run after the Sunday evening crash. He refused to take field sobriety tests, and results …
Two of five defendants in the murders of two Kansas women last year were rearraigned and pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. Cole Twombly and Tad Cullum were rearraigned after Texas County District Attorney George H. Leach III filed paperwork last month saying he would seek the death penalty against the two men, KAMR reported. The …
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A former morning news anchor has been charged with murder in connection with the Kansas stabbing death of her 80-year-old mother. Angelynn Mock, 47, made her first court appearance Tuesday; she’s facing a first-degree murder charge for killing Anita Avers “unlawfully, intentionally, and with premeditation,” ABC News reports. Sedgewick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said …
The mother of a missing Florida girl was arrested on Tuesday on child neglect charges. Though Gabrielle Terrelonge, 10, was first reported missing on October 29, she was last seen in Broward County on June 21. The FBI said it was only after Terrelonge’s mother, Passha Davis, 34, was arrested that it was realized her daughter …
Christopher Scholtes, an Arizona man convicted of murder after leaving his tot daughter inside a hot car, has died. According to News 4 Tucson, Scholtes, 38, was scheduled for a court hearing on Wednesday, at the Pima County Superior Court, but failed to show up. Scholtes had been ordered to turn himself on Wednesday, with …
A Washington woman was arrested on Monday for sexually abusing a teen boy who allegedly fathered the baby she had earlier this year. Police got involved after Robyn Polston, 43, reportedly gave birth to the victim’s baby in January. Though Polston claimed the father was a man in her 20s whom she had not seen …
A North Carolina man has been indicted on murder charges following a grisly discovery in Johnston County last month. According to ABC 11, a Johnston County grand jury indicted Wellington Dickens III, 38, on four counts of murder Monday. The indictment followed an October 27 incident in which Dickens called 911. During a nearly 7-minute …
