Police in Florida have identified a woman found dead and wrapped in plastic in a steamer trunk in 1969. The “Trunk Lady,” as she became known, is Sylvia June Atherton, who was 41 when she died, according to St. Petersburg Police. According to WBBH, two juveniles saw two men pull up in a pickup truck …
A southwestern Missouri emergency room doctor missing for more than a week has been found dead in northwestern Arkansas. John Forsyth’s brother Richard posted a brief notice on Facebook, while the Benton County Sheriff’s Department in Arkansas said it was investigating, KOLR reported. Forsyth, 49, was reported missing on May 21 when he didn’t show …
Adam Montgomery, the father accused of killing 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, goes on trial on weapons charges beginning Wednesday. He is charged with being an armed career criminal and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Jury selection is ongoing, carried live by WMUR on their website. The weapons trial is not connected to Harmony’s 2019 …
On Wednesday, convicted double murderer Alex Murdaugh appeared in a South Carolina court and pleaded not guilty to a host of federal charges related to financial crimes he admitted to during his murder trial. Murdaugh was indicted last week for schemes to steal millions of dollars from clients, friends, and his family’s more than 100-year-old …
A Tennessee mom missing for nearly a month has been found safe and her boyfriend arrested on a failure to appear warrant stemming from a theft incident. Nikki Alcaraz, 33, and her 33-year-old boyfriend, Tyler Stratton, set off for Orange County, California, early this month to visit her uncle, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Within days, …
A California appeals court panel has reinstated a parole grant for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten after Gov. Gavin Newsom blocked her release earlier this year. The 2-1 ruling by the panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal does not mean Van Houten, 73, will be released from prison, Deadline reported. The …
A 33-year-old mom from Tennessee who hadn’t been seen or heard from since May 6 turned up on video at a California Walmart where she was selling her cellphone. CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says that’s alarming. “What woman in her right mind would sell her cell phone?” Grace asked on Fox News, noting that was Nikki …
New Jersey officials announced an arrest Tuesday in the shooting death of a Sayreville borough councilwoman outside her home in February. Eunice Dwumfour, 30, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in her white Nissan SUV just before 7:30 p.m. on February 1, CrimeOnline reported at the time. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Rashid …
A 58-year-old South Carolina woman was found dead outside her home early Monday, and police shot and killed her suspect boyfriend while trying to subdue him. Landrum Police and Spartanburg County deputies responded to the home at about 4 a.m., the Tryon Daily Bulletin reported. They found Shana McClain dead in her wheelchair of apparent …
A New York man has been charged with murder after his 3-month-old daughter was found dead in a wooded area near the homeless shelter where the family lived. Investigators found the body of Genevieve Comager at about 10:30 p.m. just steps away from a pedestrian overpass of the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx, as …
Survivors of notorious 1970s serial killer Ted Bundy note the similarities between his crimes — especially his 1978 attack at Florida State University’s Chi Omega sorority house — and the killings of four University of Idaho students at an off-campus rental last November. Washington State University criminal justice grad student Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been …
A Florida father has been arrested on manslaughter charges after he shot and killed his toddler son. St. Petersburg police said Armani Creary, 2, was shot shortly after 8 p.m. at the home and he and his father shared with the dad’s parents, WTVT reported. Aaron Creary, 22, reportedly got into a fight with his …
