The woman found dead inside a trash compactor in the basement of a luxury Manhattan apartment building has been identified, CBS News reports. Investigators say it does not appear foul play was involved in the death of 24-year-old Jaclyn Elmquist, but rather they believe she fell down a garbage chute. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a maintenance …
Los Angeles authorities believe a serial killer may be in their midst after three homeless men were gunned down recently in different parts of the city, KTLA-TV reports. On Friday, LAPD Chief Michel Moore said it appears one person is responsible for the deaths of the victims, who were shot while they slept in the …
A woman’s body was found in a trash compactor at a luxury Manhattan condo Friday, prompting a large police presence and concern among neighbors, WABC-TV reports. The body was found around 2:40 p.m. Friday at the bottom of a trash chute in the basement of the building at 540 W. 28th St. in Chelsea. The …
A Florida woman is accused of posing as a teenager and engaging in sex acts with a middle school boy dozens of times in a case that police say could involve multiple victims, WFLA-TV reports. Authorities say 22-year-old Alyssa Zinger met the victim on social media while she was pretending to be a 14-year-old home-school …
Florida police on Thanksgiving found the dismembered remains of a man in the trunk of his own vehicle and believe the person who killed the victim fatally shot himself, WFLA-TV reports. “The scene our deputies responded to was absolutely shocking,” Citrus County Sheriff Mike Prendergast in a press release about the disturbing case in Inverness, …
The teenage son of a homeless advocate is accused of killing a homeless man in what may have been revenge for attacking his girlfriend, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Authorities allege that around noon Wednesday, 15-year-old Thomas James Niarhos shot and killed 39-year-old Jeremiah Waylon Hawkins in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, as CrimeOnline reported. Hawkins was found with …
A Long Island teen faces multiple criminal charges after he allegedly stabbed a New Jersey high school student in the heart outside a Manhattan axe-throwing bar early Thanksgiving morning, NBC New York reports. Authorities allege that around 1:50 a.m. Thursday, 19-year-old Gianluca Bordone knifed 17-year-old Rocco Rodden and his older brother in front of the …
A manhunt is underway after a Texas mother was allegedly murdered by her abusive husband in front of multiple children, WFAA-TV reports. Authorities say 34-year-old Hilda Gurrola was killed Tuesday afternoon at her home in Balch Springs, a suburb of Dallas. Investigators believe Hilda’s husband, 38-year-old Luis Pardo, stabbed his wife approximately 14 times after …
A New Mexico police cadet was allegedly murdered by her own husband in a suspected murder-suicide, leaving the couple’s young son without his parents, KOAT-TV reports. Shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday, officers responded to an apartment in northeast Albuquerque for a report of a disturbance and found two adults dead inside the unit. Investigators concluded that …
The former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd has been attacked in prison, the Associated Press reports. Derek Chauvin, 47, was stabbed Friday at a federal correctional facility in Arizona. The Bureau of Prisons issued a press release stating that an inmate was assaulted at approximately 12:30 p.m. Friday at the medium-security Federal Correctional …
Missouri authorities are revealing what they say was the key evidence that helped them solve a decades-old cold case, Fox 2 reports. In 1993, 40-year-old Steven Weltig was shot to death at a liquor store he owned in Arnold, Missouri. The case escaped resolution for decades. But in 2020, investigators took another look and reviewed …
A husband and father of two young children is fighting for his life after he was shot in the head while preaching on a street corner near Phoenix, Arizona, Fox 10 reports. Around 6 p.m. Wednesday, Hans Schmidt was promoting a local church service when he was shot by an unknown assailant at the corner …
