A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to life in prison last week for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl and the rape of a second victim afterward. Jason Shackelford, 40, pleaded guilty to first degree murder, rape of a child, two counts of rape, three counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, four counts of …
A North Carolina mother has been charged with the deaths of her 4-year-old twin sons on Saturday. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said the twins’ father reported them dead when he arrived at his estranged wife’s home to pick them up for custody. Later that day, the estranged wife, identified as Genevieve Springer, was arrested …
A 12-year-old Texas girl missing for more than a week after she was last seen getting into a pickup truck near her home has been found. E’Minie Hughes was found in Columbus, about 70 miles from her home in the Houston suburb of Missouri City, KRIV reported. Columbus Police said they found the girl with …
A Pennsylvania woman has been found guilty in the shooting and stabbng deaths of her father and his girlfriend in 2021 in New Jersey. Sherry Lee Heffernan, 57, told a court in Pennsylvania in 2021 that she was “being framed” for the murders of 87-year-old John “Jack” Enders and 75-year-old Francoise “Frenchie” Pitoy, The Associated …
A patient and former three staffers at a state-run Ohio mental health facility were indicted this week on charges related to the beating death of another patient at the facility in 2022. According to The Associated Press, a 24-year-old patient at Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare in Columbus attacked the 57-year-old victim on July 23, 2022, …
The body of a Tennessee woman missing for two weeks was found Saturday in a creek in north Nashville. Metro Nashville Police say Emily Bradley, 44, died from blunt force trauma, WKRN reported. Bradley was last seen leaving her home off Norvel Avenue on February 18, as CrimeOnline reported. She may have driven away in …
A California nurse has been arrested and charged with raping an unconscious patient in January, and police suspect there may be more victims. Jacob Daniel Hartman, 27, is charged with several sexual assault counts, including sexual battery of an unconscious person. He’s already out of jail, however, after posting a $55,000 bail. The incident occured …
A Florida couple drove across the country to Washington state and kidnapped a relative’s baby last month, with the man posing as an Amazon delivery driver to gain entry to the house. Marrly Jariana Ardila-Urrego, 33, and Chun Ho Vincent Lai, 42, have been charged with kidnapping, robbery, burglary, and assault. The were captured three …
The shotgun-wielding homeowner who fired two shots at a car that turned into his driveway accidentally, killing a 20-year-old woman, was sentenced to the maximum allowed on Friday. Kevin Monahan was convicted on January 23 on second degree murder, reckless endangerment, and tampering with evidence, as CrimeOnline reported. On Friday, Judge Adam Michelini told the …
A Florida man was found guilty this week of killing his wife, hiding her body in the woods, and later telling police she was “in heaven” when they asked where she was. Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court Judge Steven Henderson sentenced Timothy A. Upthegrove to life in prison after a Brevard County jury found him guilty …
The Florida man suspected of killing 13-year-old Madeline Soto appeared in court Saturday on charges of sexual battery and possession of child sexual abuse material, just hours after Soto’s body was found in rural Osceola County. Stephan Sterns, Soto’s mother’s boyfriend, refused to appear in court on Thursday after his arrest on Wednesday, as CrimeOnline …
Police on Long Island are investigating after several body parts — belonging to a man and a woman — were found in a park in Suffolk County on Thursday. According to the county medical examiner, a woman’s head, parts of two legs, and an arm, and two arms belonging to a man were found, WABC …
