A California man was arrested this week on suspicion of killing his mother over an argument that started while he was playing a video game. According to WCAU, 28-year-old Matthew Nicholson allegedly became upset with his mother, 68-year-old Lydia Nicholson, on Thursday and shot her in the head after an escalating argument. She died a …
A Texas woman is in jail on suspicion of her husband’s murder after investigators found an incriminating entry in her web search history. According to the Waxahachie Daily Light, police say 55-year-old Sandra Louise Garner looked up “how to kill someone and not get caught” on an internet-connected device shortly before her husband, 42-year-old Jon …
Prosecutors in Utah argued this week that the two men accused of leading a cult in that state considered themselves to be married to each other’s young daughters. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a total of four girls were rescued from the Mormon polygamist sect’s compound last month. After an Amber alert was issued for two …
After learning last year that the woman she knew as her mother had actually abducted her as a newborn 18 years earlier, Kamiyah Mobley has taken the unexpected approach of emphasizing her kidnapper’s perceived qualities. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Mobley was found safe in South Carolina last January after she was taken from a Florida …
Authorities in Pennsylvania have arrested a woman they say dropped a bag containing $100,000 worth of heroin in the parking lot of a middle school days before Christmas. According to the Trentonian, 26-year-old Natasha Willis allegedly left the backpack behind Cecelia Snyder Middle School in Bensalem on the morning of December 20. School district staff …
Authorities in Florida have arrested two teens in connection with a shooting Sunday that left another teenager dead. According to WPLG, 16-year-old Eddy Moore and 15-year-old Keyondric Daniels were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of second-degree murder. Police reports indicate the suspects approached 17-year-old Jatavious Williams Sunday afternoon at Blakey Park in Homestead as the victim …
Three members of a Utah family could face criminal charges after a 3-year-old girl tested positive for exposure to methamphetamine. According to KSTU, police were contacted by emergency room staff on Dec. 30 after the victim was admitted to Mountain West Medical Center in Tooele City, where the narcotic was found in her system. Reports …
A British woman and her accomplice were convicted in Australia last year for the gruesome torture and murder of an autistic teen. According to the Sun, 26-year-old Jemma Lilley staged the attack to fulfill a morbid entry on her “bucket list.” Prosecutors presented evidence at trial that she strangled and stabbed the victim, 18-year-old Aaron …
A Washington state man will spend most of the next three decades behind bars for the brutal murder and dismembering of a woman in her home nearly two years ago. According to KCPQ, 39-year-old John Robert Charlton disposed of the Ingrid Lyne’s remains by dumping her body parts in a recycling bin. He had recently …
A Pennsylvania man is serving out a jail sentence, to be followed by a decade on probation, for marrying a woman while he was still married to his new bride’s mother. According to the Patriot-News, 44-year-old Christopher I. Hauptmann married the first woman, Shannon Deitrich, in 2015. The following year, he reportedly married her daughter, …
An Alabama man was arrested last week on suspicion of murdering his father. According to WHNT, 55-year-old Anthony Ray Jones had been missing since before Christmas, after investigators say he was involved in an altercation with his son, 32-year-old Eric Ray Jones. The younger Jones was reportedly pulled over by Madison County Sheriff’s Office deputies …
Employees of a Florida sheriff’s department has some fun recently at the expense of a suspected drunk driver who called 911 for advice. According to CBS News, Michael Lester contacted dispatchers on New Year’s Eve to make a report Polk County authorities have since released on social media. “Allow us to introduce Michael Lester of …
