The cousin of a New York woman whose dead body was found decomposing inside a storage container has been charged with her murder, WABC-TV reports. On Saturday, police arrested 21-year-old Khalid Barrow in connection with the death of 36-year-old Nisaa Walcott. As CrimeOnline reported previously, Walcott’s body was discovered Friday in a plastic storage container …
An AMBER Alert has been issued in California after a vehicle was stolen early Sunday with a young child inside, KGO-TV reports. Authorities are searching for a brown 2008 Buick Enclave with unknown paper license plates from Georgia. The SUV has a spare tire on the right front wheel, a blue “Baby on Board” sticker …
A California city is mourning the loss of a police officer who was shot and killed during a traffic stop Friday night, KSBW-TV reports.Officer Jorge David Alvarado of the Salinas Police Department had initiated a traffic stop in the central part of the city at East Market and Griffin Street around 10:40 p.m. Friday.“It is with …
Just weeks before he is scheduled to be sentenced, Jussie Smollett has asked a judge to throw out his conviction or order a new trial on charges related to accusations that he staged a hate crime and lied to police about it, TMZ reports. Attorneys for Smollett filed a motion in court on Friday arguing …
A retired police officer who shot and killed a man over a spat in a movie theater has been acquitted of murder. Jurors deliberated for just three and a half hours before handing down the verdict in the trial of 79-year-old Curtis Reeves, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Prosecutors had charged Reeves with second-degree murder …
More disturbing allegations have surfaced about the horrific abuse of a 4-year-old Texas boy who died from starvation last year, KSAT-TV reports. As Crime Online reported earlier this week, authorities obtained a video allegedly showing the boy being forced to drink hand sanitizer and then crying that his mouth was burning. The boy had reportedly been begging …
A congressional candidate in Oklahoma is facing bizarre accusations that she hurled vulgar and disparaging insults toward pre-teen girls while drinking alcohol at a house party, NonDoc.com reports. Abby Broyles, who is running as a Democrat in Oklahoma’s 5th Congressional District, allegedly went to a friend’s home on February 11 where the middle-school girls were …
An infant was found alive Sunday after five people were discovered dead in a Colorado apartment, reportedly from some sort of drug use, the Denver Post reports. Around 3:45 p.m., Ian Scott was inside his unit at the North Range Crossing apartment complex in Commerce City when he heard a woman scream. Scott stepped out …
A 14-year-old Louisiana teenager allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her former boyfriend and is now facing criminal charges, WWL-TV reports. The ninth-grader is accused of arranging the murder through the website Rentahitman.com, which is a prank site designed to catch would-be killers. Authorities in Baton Rouge have not released the identity of …
A college music student in upstate New York who was on the cusp of graduating is dead after being found shot near campus, WWNY-TV reports. Elizabeth Howell, 21, a music education student at the State University of New York at Potsdam, was found lying along College Park Road – just off campus – around 6 …
The sister of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff is said to have died in a murder-suicide earlier this week in Florida, BocaNewsNow.com reports. The news outlet says 86-year-old Sondra Wiener and her husband, Marvin Wiener, were found dead Thursday evening at their home in Boynton Beach. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has reportedly confirmed a …
Loved ones of a woman who was murdered at their Virginia vacation home is pleading for answers as the case continues to remain unsolved, PEOPLE reports. On July 11, 2017, the body of Peggy Lammers was found in the hallway of her family’s waterfront property in Deltaville on the Chesapeake Bay. Investigators determined that Lammers died …
