Year: 2025

Slain 9-Year-Old’s Adoptive Parents Face More Charges After Another Child Is Found Starved in Home
Child death

A Pennsylvania woman was criminally charged on Friday, a day after her 9-year-old adoptive daughter was found dead in a river. The Daily Courier reported that on Monday, state police charged Sarah Shipley with aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors, simple assault, harassment, and conspiracy-aggravated assault. Fayette County District Attorney Michael …

CrimeCon
September 8, 2025

Newborn Stolen in Broad Daylight: NCMEC Highlights Case of Kevin Verville Jr. at CrimeCon Denver

A supportive audience stood in unison Saturday during CrimeCon Denver, and gave air hugs to a distraught mother who continues to search for her son, who was kidnapped 45 years ago. Saturday’s session, hosted by the Director of Communications for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Angeline Hartmann, centered around the 1980 …

Murder
September 8, 2025

Minnesota Man Charged With Poisoning Roommate With Highly Toxic Thallium Metal

A Minnesota man has been charged with killing his sober living facility roommate in June with thallium after investigators discovered his multiple internet searches — and purchases — of the highly toxic metal. Stuart Hanmer, 35, faces a second degree murder charge, with intent but not premeditated, for the June 22 death of 33-year-old Cody …

Murder
September 8, 2025

Texas Woman Charged With Helping Murder Suspect Dispose of Flight Attendant’s Body

Police in Texas have arrested a second person in connection with the disappearance and presumed death of a flight attendant earlier this year. Joni Thomas, 62, is facing a charge of tampering with evidence, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. Dennis William Day, 66, was charged with Rana Nofal Soluri’s murder in June, after a coworker reported …

Murder
September 8, 2025

Florida Teen Charged With Killing Fellow Group Home Resident in Fight Over PlayStation

A 16-year-old Florida boy has been charged as an adult with the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old boy during a fight over a PlayStation at a group home in Oakland Park. Ruben Whitworth was jailed on a second degree murder with a weapon charge on Thursday, WPLG reported. The murder of 14-year-old Jordan Dowdy took …

Murder
September 7, 2025

Arrest Made Following Discovery of Auburn University Professor’s Body in Kiesel Park

An Alabama man is behind bars after police found an Auburn University professor deceased Saturday in Kiesel Park. Police arrested Harold Rashad Dabney III, 28, Sunday and charged him with two counts of capital murder, in connection with the death of Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle, 59. According to the Auburn Police Department, Schnuelle’s body was …

Missing
September 6, 2025

BOLO: Missing Child Alert Issued for Alabama Girl, 15

An Alabama teen last seen on Friday is listed as an emergency missing child. WVTM reports that Kaylee Traywick, 15, was last seen in Walker County around 4:30 a.m. on Friday. The Jasper Police Department said Traywick was in the area of U.S. Highway 78 when she vanished. Kaylee was reportedly wearing a peach-colored t-shirt …

Crime Stories
September 6, 2025

Crime Stories LIVE: Gabby Petito Family Advocates for Protective Fencing at Domestic Abuse Shelter

CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace hosted a live taping of “Crime Stories” at CrimeCon in Denver Saturday, with special guests Joseph Petito his wife, Tara Petito, and crime experts, Joseph Scott Morgan and Sheryl “Mac” McCollum. Joseph, the father of slain vlogger Gabby Petito, is making significant strides in advocating for domestic violence victims. Along with his …

Reep mugshot
Child sex crimes
September 6, 2025

‘Last Comic Standing’ Winner Indicted on Sexual Exploitation of a Minor

A North Carolina grand jury indicted the 2007 winner of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” on September 2, on multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. WSOC reported that on Friday, following an Internet Crimes Against Children cyber tip on April 15, police arrested comedian Jon Reep in Hickory after the indictment.  Police traced the …

Evelyn Boswell
Trials
September 6, 2025

Tot Killer Megan Boswell Learns Fate After Stuffing Slain Daughter in Play Shed

A Tennessee judge sentenced Megan Boswell to life in prison plus an additional 33 years on Friday. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that Sullivan County Judge Jim Goodwin sentenced Boswell to a life sentence that included an additional 33 years. Boswell’s sentence will keep her from ever being released from prison. At Boswell’s sentencing, the …

Attempted Murder
September 5, 2025

Florida Man Opens Fire on Woman, Companion Who Came to Wrong House

A Florida man faces multiple felony charges after he opened fire on a woman and her companion when she approached his house by mistake over the weekend. Roman Rawicki, 41, told police he thought the woman, identified as TP in a police report, was a prostitute and he feared for “his wife’s safety,” WFTV reported. …