A Pennsylvania jury took less than an hour Thursday to return guilty verdicts for a man and a woman charged in the murder of a school teacher and mom shot dead in her car in a Dunkin’ drive-thru with her 11-year-old son in the back seat. Rachel King, 35, was taking her son to violin …
Utah investigators on Friday found the bodies of two men who have been missing since February 26. As CrimeOnline reported, the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office announced earlier this month it was looking for William “Drew” Bull, 29, and Chritopher “Topher” Owens, 28, and that it had arrested their roommate for obstruction of justice. They …
A 64-year-old Ohio man has been charged with the shooting death of his 60-year-old girlfriend in Columbus. Stewart Butler initially told police he shot Marchelle Freeman in self defense, but later said he shot her because he was mad that that she kicked and poked him, WSYX reported. He told police the grabbed his gun …
Police in California last week arrested a pastor and a man he allegedly hired to kill his daughter’s boyfriend last fall. Samuel Pasillas, the 47-year-old pastor of a Spanish-language church in Victorville, has been charged with solicitation for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, and assault with a deadly weapon, Riverside police said. Juan …
Police are searching for two squatters who somehow got into a vacant upscale Manhattan apartment, killed the woman who owned it, and fled the state in her stolen Lexus. New York Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Thursday that the two suspects, a man and a woman, crashed the vehicle in Pennsylvania and then were …
Chad Daybell, the Idaho doomsday writer whose wife has already been convicted of killing her children and his first wife, has been transferred to Ada County where his own murder trial will be held. Daybell’s trial is set to begin April 1 in the same courtroom where Lori Vallow Daybell was tried and convicted last …
Philadelphia Police have arrested a fifth suspect in the bus stop shooting earlier this month that wounded eight high school students and charged one of the other suspects with murder in a separate shooting in February. Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore said the latest arrest is a 15-year-old boy who was inside a Dunkin’ by …
A third teenager has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a 21-year-old man found dead earlier this week in a remote Utah desert. Taylorsville Police said the 17-year-old boy, taken into custody Thursday morning, joins another 17-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy now charged with the death of Alex Franco, as CrimeOnline …
Kansas City police have charged a third adult suspect with murder in the shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade and rally in February. The February 14 shooting killed popular radio host Lisa Lopez-Galvan, 43, and wounded at least 25 others, many of them children, as CrimeOnline reported. Jackson County prosecutors announced Thursday …
The parents of a 36-year-old Louisiana woman with autism found “melted” into her couch were sentenced this week to 40 years in prison with 20 years suspended. Clay and Sheila Fletcher entered no-contest pleas to manslaughter charges in February, WAFB reported. “You know, you wouldn’t treat your animals like that,” West Feliciana District Attorney Sam …
The state of Georgia executed its first inmate in more than four years Wednesday night, putting to death a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend nearly three decades ago. Willie James Pye, 59, made no final statement but accepted a prayer from a clergyman before the state injected pentobarbital into his veins. The clergy member …
A Florida mother was arrested last week after she let her 2-year-old son take her Glock 43 to day care in his lunchbox. Shanae Davis, 39, reportedly told police that she put the gun in her son’s lunchbox because she didn’t have a purse and didn’t want it out in the open, WPTV reported. Then, …
