The mother of a 7-year-old girl who was kidnapped and killed by a delivery driver last month says she supports prosecutors’ decision to seek the death penalty for Tanner Horner, who reportedly confessed to strangling Athena Strand after he accidentally hit her with his truck. “I support the death penalty,” Maitlyn Gandy told WFAA this …
An Ohio man was arrested in Texas this week for the murder of his 2-month-old daughter in May. John Powers, 24, fled to Texas after the death of Kiera Powers while she was in her care. He was arrested in Gainesville, Texas, after a Butler County grand jury indicted him on murder and endangering a …
A Texas jury deliberated for 13 hours before finding former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean guilty of manslaughter on Thursday in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson in October 2019. Dean shot and killed Jefferson, 28, with a single shot through her bedroom window on October 12 after a neighbor asked for a welfare …
A former University of California, Irvine student apparently threw his mother off a campus building before jumping to his own death in what investigators say is a murder-suicide. Irvine Police said they responded to assist campus police just before 4 p.m. on Tuesday. They found the bodies of Thao Thai Nguyen, 77, and her son, …
Authorities in Michigan have arrested a 36-year-old man on multiple counts involving the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 22-year-old pregnant woman who was allegedly held captive for three weeks. Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson announced the arrest of Michael Barajas in a video posted to the sheriff’s office Facebook page, showing photos of Barajas’s …
A Pennsylvania man already on police radar for domestic violence shot his ex-girlfriend and a man who tried to intervene Thursday morning before turning the gun on himself. Stacie Vereen and Travis Ritter, who tried to disarm the gunman, were taken to Reading Hospital for treatment, but Vereen was transferred to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center …
The suspect, an Ocean Springs veterinarian, also died at the scene.
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Gracc discussed two stories in the headlines Thursday morning on Fox News, telling the network that a suspect arrested in the murder of an Atlanta grandmother should have already been behind bars and that a white car seen speeding away from the Idaho college murders crime scene may be key to solving it. …
A Georgia grand jury has indicted Leilani Simon on 19 charges related to the death of her toddler son, whose remains were found in a Chatham County landfill two weeks ago. The eight page indictment charges Simon with malice murder, two counts of felony murder, concealing the death of another, and 14 counts of making …
A 5-year-old girl in Florida is recovering from a gunshot wound after her parents died in a murder-suicide Tuesday night. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco told reporters the shooting took place shortly after the mother arrived home from work, paid the babysitter, and walked her outside. “As [the babysitter] starts backing out, she sees an …
Remains found in a rural area in July by a Texas work crew have been identified as a woman who disappeared nearly four years ago after calling 911 to say she thought someone was chasing her through the woods. Investigators used cell phone pings to determine the area where 32-year-old Lauren Thompson’s call came from …
A Florida police officer collapsed after finding narcotics on a passenger in a vehicle she pulled over for a traffic stop, and her department says she may have been exposed to fentanyl. Officer Courtney Bannick was found in her patrol vehicle after the traffic stop having difficulty breathing and drifting in and out of consciousness. …
