A Florida mom was arrested this week and charged with trying to hire a hitman to kill her 3-year-old son. Arrest documents say that Jazmin Paez, 18, used the parody website rentahitman.com to request the murder, WTVJ reported. The website owner, Robert Innes, told the station he receives multiple such requests a day but found …
A jury on Wednesday awarded a Florida family $800,000 in a lawsuit alleging a McDonald’s chicken nugget severely burned a 4-year-old girl in 2019. Back in May, the jury reached a split verdict in the suit brought by Philana Holmes and Humberto Caraballo Estevez, parents of now-8-year-old Olivia Caraballo, saying the girl suffered second-degree burns …
One person is dead and another was wounded after a shooting Wednesday afternoon inside a Florida Walmart. Police and medical units responded to the Florida City store at about 3 p.m. and took one person into custody after searching the store, WPLG reported. Miami-Dade Police said the shooting happened during an altercation between two groups …
Russell told investigators in a brief interview Saturday night that she was abducted by a man with orange hair and a woman. They have not spoken with her again.
The wife of suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann has filed for divorce. Attorney Robert Macedonio told Newsdsay that he is representing 59-year-old Asa Ellerup, Heuermann’s wife, and that she filed for divorce on Wednesday in Suffolk County Supreme Court. “I can confirm a summons and a complaint has been filed,” Macedonio told the …
A Florida woman has been charged with the murder of her girlfriend, whose badly decomposed remains were found on a Jacksonville front porch a week after she was last seen. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said that Heather Sheppard, 43, was last seen on June 29, and her remains, “in an advanced stage of decomposition,” were …
An elderly ice cream vendor was robbed on Monday for the third time in a week — and the eighth time in the past decade — leaving him unable to pay his own living expenses or send money back to Peru where his son lives with autism. KNTV reported that the latest armed robbery was …
Dispatch traffic on the night Carlee Russell disappeared reveals officers searching for both the reported toddler on the side of Interstate 459 and Russell herself. The dispatcher tells officers who arrived Thursday night that Russell said she would “stand by for police” to arrive, according to a recording obtained by WVTM. The officers reported finding …
Las Vegas authorities confirmed Tuesday they have served a search warrant connected with the unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur 27 years ago. Shakur was 25 when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. He was shot multiple times and died nearly a week later. The Las …
A man and a woman in Texas have been charged with kidnapping an 18-year-old woman and holding her chained and zip-tied for a month while sexually assaulting her. Harris County constables initially said the woman first met Jose Reyes, 31, who gained her trust and then lured her to his house, KPRK reported. Additional interviews …
The Long Island serial killer investigation sent tendrils out across the country this week as investigators began looking at property suspect Rex Heuermann owns in South Carolina and Las Vegas. CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace gathered a panel of experts to talk about the latest for her Crime Stories podcast. “I immediately said, ‘South Carolina, that is …
As investigators closed in on Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect Rex Heuermann, they worried he would find out he was the target and flee the country. The investigation zeroed in on the 59-year-old architect more than a year ago and was brought to a grand jury last week, as CrimeOnline has reported. “It’s a very …
