A California interior designer has been found guilty of killing her stepfather after finding nude photos of her on his computer. Prosecutors say 39-year-old Jade Janks drugged Tom Merriman and strangled him on December 31, 2020, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The jury in her week-long murder trial deliberated a little more than a day before …
A lengthy barricade situation at a California mobile home park ended early 20 hours after it began Tuesday night with the suspect — the child’s father — dead and the baby safe. KCBS reported that Los Angeles County deputies shot the man at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night after an ordeal that began when state …
Security video on an Albuquerque city bus shows the moment passengers got an Amber Alert about a missing child and realized the 5-year-old girl was on their bus. Oreyana Clinton had been reported missing 13 hours earlier after her father, Nicholas Clinton, showed up at a shelter, drunk and without his daughter. They’d last been …
A 25-year-old Tennessee man faces multiple charges after he allegedly set a woman’s Christmas tree and gifts for her child on fire. The Dyersburg Police Department said that James Walker had an altercation earlier in the day with the victim and her brother, with whom he was acquainted. Investigators said a neighbor saw Walker going …
Florida deputies arrested a Fort Myers couple late Tuesday night after a traffic stop in the Keys found a 2-year-old boy in the vehicle covered in cockroaches and smelling of feces. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said it stopped the Chevrolet sedan, driven by 22-year-old Zachary Sousa Engren, after receiving reports of a reckless driver. …
The 31-year-old delivery driver accused of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand last month has now been charged with multiple, unrelated counts of sexual assault of a child. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Tanner Horner was delivering packages for FedEx on November 30 when he told police he hit Athena with his truck, panicked when she …
Two women who say they were sexually assaulted by an intensive care nurse while they were unconscious have sued the Colorado hospital where the alleged abuse took place. Christopher Lambros has been charged with sexual assault in the case. Police say he recorded himself sexually abusing female patients, including five times in one day in …
A man named Fernando has been barricaded inside a California trailer home in Lancaster for hours with an infant he has threatened to shoot, authorities say. The California Highway Patrol said the incident began shortly before midnight Tuesday with a high-speed chase near Santa Clarita on State Route 14, according to KNBC. The baby was …
A 6-year-old Virginia girl was found dead in an apartment in Spotsylvania County last week, and the girl’s mother and the mother’s boyfriend have been arrested. Cera Harper, 32, and Jonathan Copenhaven, 36, have not been charged with the death of Charlie Grace Sumner, but the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said more charges could follow …
A North Carolina attorney was shot and killed in a murder-suicide this week inside his law office in Goldsboro. Patrick White, 42, pushed the shooter up against the wall in an attempt to get him to stop shooting, a colleague told WRAL. The gunman, a client of the Riddle & Brantley firm identified as Francisco …
A former Fort Worth police officer was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in prison after he was convicted last week of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in 2019. Jefferson was playing video games with her nephew in her bedroom at the back of the house when she heard noises outside …
A California judge has rejected a claim that a juror in Scott Peterson’s trial for the murder of his pregnant wife was biased against him, allowing his conviction to stand. Peterson was convicted in 2004 of the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant with their first child when she disappeared …
