A 12-year-old Oklahoma girl stabbed her 9-year-old brother to death earlier this year and sobs hysterically that she doesn’t know why in body camera footage recorded by responding police officers. Tulsa Police said the incident took place just before midnight on January 5 in an apartment where the siblings lived with their mother, Law and …
Early on a Thursday morning in April, Angela Crute, her 22-year-old special needs daugher Takai, and an unknown woman boarded a Kalamazoo Metro Transit bus and rode it to the Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Texas Township, Michigan. There, they walked behind the school and into the Al Sabo land preserve. Michigan State Police say …
Chicago police have alerted residents and businesson on the city’s Southwest, West, and Northwest sides of a string of armed robberies and carjackings they believe were carried out by the same suspects. Investigators say three or four suspects carried out each of the nearly 50 incidents since April 22, all wearing black ski masks, dark …
An escaped convict whose body was found in the Ohio River this week drowned, preliminary autopsy results say. Bradley Gillespie, 50, and James Lee, 47, escaped the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution near Lima, Ohio, last week, sparking an all-out manhunt for the two, as CrimeOnline reported. Lee was serving time for burglary and breaking and entering, …
A Florida man ended an argument with another man over the weekend by pouring gasoline over the other man and lighting him on fire. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Earl Hargrove Jr. and another man got into a verbal dispute at a Mobil gas station in Tampa, Fox News reported. With the dispute seemingly …
A 24-year-old Michigan mother has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 5-year-old son, who was found frozen to death in a Clinton Township park in January. Prosecutors said that Derricka Fleming put her son, Lamar Tyrone Mitchell, to bed in their apartment on January 23 before going upstairs to visit a …
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 …
