The head of a New York crime family was fatally shot in a gangland-style murder in front of his Staten Island home. The New York Post reports that Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali, believed to be the boss of the Gambino crime family, was shot and killed Wednesday night in front of his mansion in the Staten …
Rod Covlin was found guilty in a Manhattan courthouse for the murder of his wife Shele Danishefsky — nearly ten years after she was found dead. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Danishefsky was found by her 9-year-old daughter in their Upper West Side apartment on New Year’s Eve in 2009. Danishefsky was a multimillionaire with assets upward of …
Aaron Hernandez is a convicted murdered once again after a Massachusetts court reversed a decision to vacate the former NFL’s conviction after his 2017 prison-cell suicide. Deadspin reports that a Massachusetts court has reinstated Hernandez’s 2015 murder conviction for the death of Odin Lloyd, after determining that the legal principle that vacated the conviction was …
The man accused of murdering missing mother Kelsey Berreth spoke to a woman in Idaho who lives near the location where Berreth’s phone last pinged, three days after she was last seen alive. Patrick Frazee was arrested for Berreth’s murder in December, and another Idaho woman, Krystal Lee Kenney, pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence. …
The arrest affidavit for dozens of parents accused in a massive college admission scam reveals that multiple applicants who cheated on college entrance exams pretended to have learning disabilities in order to obtain special accommodations that would facilitate the alleged cheating. In some cases, while applicants may have cooperated with instructions on how to receive …
The little girl is believed to be with man accused of killing her mother — and he is considered armed and dangerous
Actress Felicity Huffman is among those accused in a widespread college admissions scam in which wealthy parents allegedly paid massive sums to conspirators to help their children cheat on SATs and create fraudulent athletic credentials in order to gain admission to elite colleges like Yale and Stanford. TMZ reports that Huffman, best known as the …
A veteran police officer in Columbus, Ohio, is accused of kidnapping women he arrested and demanding sex acts in exchange for their freedom – and he is also under investigation for the fatal shooting of a young woman in a prostitution bust. WBNS reports that Andrew Mitchell, a vice detective with the Columbus Police Department, …
Two siblings are dead and another child was rescued after the car they were in somehow rolled away from where it was parked near a Mississippi supermarket and into a creek. The Clarion-Ledger reports that Steve Smith, 4, Rasheed Johnson Jr., 1, and Raelynn Johnson, 2, were left alone in a locked SUV while their mother went …
The Florida mother who drove her 11-year-old daughter’s dead body to a hospital before allegedly pulling a knife on medical staff confessed to fatally stabbing the girl to keep her from having sex. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Rose Alcides Rivera, 28, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Sunday after she drove to a hospital …
The family of murdered Colorado mother Shanann Watts appeared on “Dr. Phil” on Monday and revealed even more about the August 13 killings at the hands of Shanann’s husband Chris Watts. Last week, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation released audio and a written transcript of an interview Watts gave investigators from the Wisconsin prison where …
R. Kelly is free again after an unidentified person paid the $161,000 he owes in back child support to release him from jail for the second time in two weeks. The Associated Press obtained video of Kelly making a brief statement to reporter after his lawyer and an unidentified man escorted him out of a …
