A South African man who confessed to killing an Alaska Native woman and was captured on cellphone video torturing and killing another was found guilty Thursday in both killings. The Anchorage jury deliberated less than two hours before returning the unanimous guilty verdicts for Brian Steven Smith, 52, in the deaths of Kathleen Henry and …
A pair of girl’s pants led searchers to the body of missing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham in the Trinity River on Tuesday after she’d been missing for nearly a week. Tim Miller, the founder of Texas EquuSearch, told CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace that he spotted the pants along the bank of the river on Saturday. “Not the …
A Michigan teenager has been charged with killing a 78-year-old woman in her sleep after he opened fire from a moving car when he mistakenly thought someone in her home had shot at his mother’s home. Arion James Wagner, 19, visited his mother on January 29 and saw a bullet hole in her window, which …
The suspect in the New York hotel murder of Denisse Oleas-Arancibia — and two knife attacks on women in Arizona — was also charged last year with an attack on a woman in Florida, but a state attorney’s office there dropped all the charges except an auto theft charge. Raad Almansoori bonded out of jail …
The man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl last year from a New York state park pleaded guilty on Wednesday to kidnapping and predatory sexual assault against a child, agreeing to a prison term of 47 years to life. Craig N. Ross Jr. will be formally sentenced on April 17, the Albany Times-Union reported. The …
A jury has been sworn in to hear the case against Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the set of the Western movie “Rust” who has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence in the death of the film’s cinematographer during a rehearsal. No “homicide” charges have been filed in the case. Gutierrez-Reed, 24 …
A Minnesota man has been arrested in the murder of an aspiring model found dead in her downtown Los Angeles apartment last year. Maleesa Mooney, the 31-year-old sister of Guyanese pop star Jourdin Pauline, was found bound and gagged in her refrigerator on September 12, 2023, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Mooney’s wrists and ankles were …
A Florida man has been charged with shooting his mother to death as she celebrated her 78th birthday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Joanne Turrell’s body was found by a neighbor who checked on her at the request of Turrell’s daughter. The neighbor found the woman, covered in a blanket, and called 911. Deputies …
A 3-year-old boy was found Tuesday night in a bathtub at his home with his throat slit. One of the toddler’s relatives called a family friend to the house in Lancaster, California, a source not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation told the Los Angeles Times. That friend found the boy in the tub …
Jurors in the case against Adam Montgomery for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter deliberated for about two hours Wednesday afternoon before going home for the day. Montgomery is charged with killing Harmony Montgomery on December 7, 2019, as CrimeOnline reported. The girl reportedly soiled herself in the car where the family was living, and …
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend on Friday after officers saw him chase her down, tackle her, and repeatedly stab her. Trevor Christopher Weigel, 23, was charged with criminal homicide, burglary, possession of an instrument of crime, disorderly conduct, and harassment and ordered held without bail, the Bucks County District …
