It’s been nearly 33 years, but police in Alabama hope that new advances in forensic investigation — including DNA — will help them solve a mystery. A 14-year-old boy found a body on September 22, 1990, in a creek bed in Opelika. The young Black man had a gunshot wound to the head, according to …
Investigators were seen searching a California home’s back yard and a nearby park for evidence in the disappearance of a software executive more than two decades earlier. Belmont Police Lt. Pete Lotti told KNTV that FBI agents and local authorities were seeking “to try to bring closure to the case” of Ylva Hagner, 42, who …
A Florida man has been arrested after he allegedly fractured the skull of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son with a mop handle because the boy urinated in his bed. An arrest report says Shawn Stone, 32, was charged with aggravated child abuse after the girlfriend watched the incident unfold in a camera on her phone, WOFL …
Eric Richins thought his wife was trying to kill him for months, possibly even years, well before his death from a fentanyl overdose last March — and his wife’s arrest for his murder earlier this week. The couple took a trip to Greece a few years ago, family members told detectives investigating his March 2022 …
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with pepper-spraying three people, including a toddler. A Gainesville police arrest report says that Axel Valentin-Cruz, 26, got into an altercation on Sunday with some people and pepper-sprayed them, including the 2-year-old boy who was with them. According to the Alachua Chronicle, the victims were a family …
An Amber Alert has been issued in Texas for a 5-year-old girl who may be headed toward Louisiana with an adult relative. Trinity Edwards is described as having brown hair and eyes and was last seen wearing a purple nightgown Tuesday morning. She is 4 feet tall and weighs 50 pounds. She is believed to …
Chicago police have taken a woman into custody they say attacked at least nine other women with a metal bat in six different incident this week. The attacks took place on Sunday and Tuesday, police said, in neighboring communities on the city’s northwest side, WMAQ reported. Witness reports say the woman, who has not been …
Jurors in the murder trial of “cult mom” Lori Vallow Daybell saw body camera footage from January 2020, when police officers finally tracked down her and new husband Chad Daybell and served her with a court order requiring that she present her missing children to authorities in Idaho. The video was obtained by KSAZ in …
A California man was arrested this week after he walked into Tracy police headquarters and told officers he had shot his wife and her girlfriend. Satnam Sumal, 55, has been charged with two counts of murder in the death of Satbinder Singh, 39, and Nabjiba Belaidi, 37. Officers found both women dead at the home …
Alabama authorities have arrested a man suspected of opening fire at a Mississippi Cinco de Mayo celebration Friday night, killing a 19-year-old man and wounding six others. Fadarius Davon Williams is being held in the Mobile County Jail awaiting extradition, WLOX reported. The incident took place at about 11 p.m. at The Scratch Kitchen in …
A Ohio woman was found beaten, stabbed, and “stuffed and folded into a small, black tote” last week and is now hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. Cleveland police have not released the 60-year-old woman’s name but said Dalontay Edmond-Geiger, 31, was arrested at the scene and charged with multiple felonies, including attempted murder, WOIO reported. A …
The wife of a Baltimore mother convicted in the death of her 4-year-old son in 2019 has also pleaded guilty in the boy’s death. Malachi Lawson was scalded in a bath and left without medical attention for nine days before he died, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The stepmom, Shatika Lawson, was allegedly distracted on the …
