Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein rolled into a Manhattan court in a wheelchair Wednesday as prosecutors said they may have more claims of sexual misconduct before his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges. An appeals court overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction, which sent him to prison for 23 years, in April, as CrimeOnline reported. The …
A minor actor was arrested this week and charged with stabbing his ex-girlfriend more than 20 times at her home in Los Angeles. An arrest warrant for Nick Pasqual, 34, was issued on May 24, a day after the attack on special effects make-up artist Allie Shehorn, 35, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office …
A new law is heading to desk of Governor Jeff Landry that would allow judges to order surgical castration of men and woman convicted of child rape. The law would allow a judge order a man’s testicles or a woman’s ovaries removed if they are over 17 and the victim is under 13, according to …
An Illinois grandmother believes her missing grandson is alive and perhaps living in a remote Mormon enclave 13 years after the boy’s disappearance. Timmothy Pitzen was 6 when his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, took him out of school on May 11, 2011, and onto a two-day road trip that included zoos and waterparks in neighboring Wisconsin, …
A California judge has denied all but one request for new DNA testing from convicted murderer Scott Peterson’s new defense team on Wednesday. Peterson was convicted and sentenced to death in 2004 for the murders of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child, as CrimeOnline reported. He was initially sentenced to death but got …
Turns out, the inheritance didn’t exist, and her boyfriend had been tricked into believing it did.
A former South Dakota mayor and law enforcement officer has been charged with murder in the small town he once served. Jay Ostrem, 64, appeared in court Wednesday to face three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Paul Frankus, Zach Frankus, and Timothy Richmond on Monday night, the Argus Leader reported. Ostrem did …
Several media outlets, including the New York Times, received responses when they wrote to an email address connected with an attempt to “foreclose” on Elvis Presley’s iconic home in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Massachusetts man suspected of stabbing four children in a movie theater and killing a man in Connecticut on Saturday pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he stabbed two McDonald’s employees at a rest area in Plymouth. Jared Ravizza, 26, has been charged with two counts of assault and battery and assault with intent …
Law enforcement is warning southern Californians about so-called “crime tourists” who target wealthy people with burglaries and thefts. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says the so-called “South American theft groups” are stashing hidden cameras in their rich victims’ gardens to stake out their targets, KTTV reported. The groups are “highly organized criminal enterprises” and …
