A Tennessee woman was arrested this week in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill a witness in the murder of her son in November 2022. Ashley Brown, 42, was charged with soliciting first degree murder after she allegedly tried to hire a confidential informant to make the hit, telling the informant she had information about …
Prosecutors say a man charged with killing the husband of a California Highway Patrol captain last year did so as part of a murder-for-hire plot involving the captain and that they intend to seek the death penalty. Cumberland County, Kentucky, prosecutors say that Thomas O’Donnell shot Michael Harding to death “in a conspiracy with the …
A Texas judge this week rejected a plea deal offered to a Waco man who admitted killing his estranged wife’s dog and laying their bodies out in her parking space at the church where she worked. The McLennan County District Attorney’s Office offered Scott Riggleman deferred probation for 10 years in return for pleading guilty …
A Florida mother charged last month with child abuse has now been charged with her 2-ear-old son’s murder. Rebecca Louise Gussage-Johnston, 24, was initially arrested on May 19 after the toddler died from injuries he suffered a day before, when Gussage-Johnston admitted to “punishing” the boy because he was “acting out,” WESH reported. After the …
A Texas woman reported being kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom during Galveston County’s annual Go Topless Jeep Weekend last month. The woman said she was forced into a pickup truck on May 21 and taken into Humble, where one of the men raped her. She said her abductors demanded a ransom in order for …
A newborn baby girl was found dead in the back of an Ohio garbage truck on Thursday, the umbilical cord still attached. Plain City Police said the the city’s contracted waste management company found the infant in the back of the truck Thursday afternoon on Bluestem Lane. The baby was taken to the Montgomery County …
A Pennsylvania truck driver was found guilty Friday of gunning down 11 Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 and wounding seven more people — five of them police officers — before police shot him and ended the rampage. The jury in the federal trial deliberated for five hours over two days before returning guilty …
A family friend has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after she was caught on camera beating and slamming a toddler onto a sofa. Kristla Holmes told WCBS that she was at work when she took a look at her surveillance camera and saw Chantal Mason cover her 2-year-old son with a …
A Manhattan attorney charged with a series of rapes in Boston 15 years ago was released on bail on Thursday. Court records said that Matthew Nilo’s fiancee paid the $500,000 bail after he agreed to conditions set by the court, WCVB reported. Nilo, 35, pleaded not guilty last week to three counts of aggravated rape, …
Nathan Carman was also suspected of killing his wealthy grandfather.
An Oklahoma toddler whose body was found stuffed in a dresser drawer in an abandoned Indiana house died of “unspecified means,” a county coroner said this week. The Morgan County Coroner’s Office classified the death of Oaklee Snow, who died just shy of her second birthday earlier this year, as a homicide, the Indianapolis Star …
New York police have arrested a woman accused of stabbing a mother on a Brooklyn street as she was pushing her 3-year-old daughter in a stroller. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the stranger first threatened the toddler, then stabbed the 34-year-old mother when she got between the attacker and the little girl. The victim was stabbed …
