University of Georgia police have arrested a 26-year-old Athens resident for the murder of Augusta University nursing student Laken Hope Riley. Riley was found dead with “visible injuries” near the UGA intramural fields on Thursday after a friend reported that she’d gone for a run and not returned, as CrimeOnline reported. UGA Police Chief Jeff …
A Los Angeles jury has begun deliberations in the case, but prosecutors say she violated a protective order and provided reporters with evidence that was not presented to the jury.
Police are questioning a ‘person of interest’ after the body of a woman with “visible injuries” was found at the intramural fields of the University of Georgia in Athens. UGA Police Chief Jeff Clark said, “The victim was not a student at the University of Georgia, but the victim was a student at another school.” …
Police have shut down the entrance to a landfill in Calumet County, Wisconsin, as they search for a 3-year-old boy who was reported missing on Tuesday. Elijah Vue was last seen at about 8 a.m. on Tuesday, as CrimeOnline previously reported. An Amber Alert was issued, but no information about a possible abduction was provided. …
A Missouri community college teacher set the fire that killed her and her four children earlier this week. St. Louis County Police said Bernadine “Birdie” Pruessner, 39, allegedly set a mattress on fire in her Ferguson home and left a note in her minivan saying she intended to kill herself and the children. the St. …
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 …
