A newborn baby has been hospitalized with serious injuries after the infant was allegedly raped. BBC reports that the infant from the Annalong area of County Down in Ireland is in intensive care at a Belfast hospital after the baby was allegedly raped on September 29. Investigators from the Police Service of Norther Ireland’s Serious …
A reputed mobster was gunned down at a New York City McDonald’s on Thursday, just months after his son was shot in a possible targeted attack. The New York Post reports that Sylvester Zottola, 71, was fatally shot at a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Bronx on Thursday. Zottola is reportedly a Bonanno crime family associate, and was …
The man who had been charged with the burning death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers is headed to Louisiana to face charges of murdering a different woman in 2015. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a Mississippi judge declared a mistrial in the Chambers this week after a jury could not agree to a verdict. This was the …
A California mother and her boyfriend are facing numerous criminal charges for the alleged torture and murder of the woman’s 10-year-old son. The Los Angeles Times reports that Heather Barron, 29, and Kareem Leiva, 32, pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in the death of Barron’s 10-year-old son Anthony Avalos. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Anthony died …
A teen high school student is facing three felony counts of rape after female classmates accused him of forcing them into sex acts. Fox 59 reports that Plainville High School student Levi Stewart has been charged as an adult following a report documenting claims that he had been “threatening, intimidating and harassing young female students …
A coroner has completed the autopsy reports for Shannan Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste, who were found dead last month on the property of a petroleum company where Shanann’s husband Chris Watts worked. Watts has been charged with numerous felony counts, including three counts of first-degree murder. The Denver Channel obtained a court notice …
Police are searching for a woman who vanished mysteriously from her home on Sunday night, and her family has growing concerns about her well-being. Kristin Westra, 47, was last seen at her North Yarmouth home on Sunday evening, according to ABC News. Her husband Jay Westra reported her missing at around 9 a.m. on Monday …
The District Attorney who led the prosecution of Jessica Chambers murder suspect Quinton Tellis reportedly spoke to Inside Edition about the hung jury, which led to a mistrial, and plans to try Tellis for a third time. Tellis has been accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in December 2014, and faced his second murder …
Four Navy sailors are expecting to be court martialed following allegations that they engaged in group sex with an underage girl. NBC News has obtained charge sheets showing that four sailors allegedly engaged in sex acts with a girl who is between 12 and 16 years old in September 2017. The alleged assault took place …
After a judge declared a mistrial in the proceedings against Jessica Chambers murder suspect Quinton Tellis for the second time, CrimeOnline’s own Nancy Grace, a former prosecutor, has weighed in. Quinton Tellis was accused of burning 19-year-old former cheerleader Jessica Chambers alive in December 2014. Last year, proceedings against him ended in a mistrial after …
A jury is set to continue deliberations in the murder trial of Quinton Tellis, accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers to death in December 2015. It is possible that a verdict will be delivered on Monday. Both the defense and the prosecution rested their cases over the weekend, and the jury began deliberations on Sunday, …
Newly obtained adoption records have provided a lead in the search for the biological relatives of one of two children who remain missing after the rest of their family was killed in an apparent murder-suicide earlier this year. Hannah Hart, 16, and Devonte Hart, 15, remain missing after their adoptive parents Jennifer and Sarah Hart …
