A toddler waiting in the car Wednesday night was caught in the crossfire of a shooting that erupted when an adult left him there to step into a grocery store. Nearby Rochester Police officers heard the gunshots just before 6 p.m. and rushed to the scene, WHAM reported. The boy was hit at least once …
A newborn was found dead Tuesday afternoon in a far north Georgia creek. The Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office says the infant was lying face down at the edge of South Chickamauga Creek, with the umbilical cord and placenta still attached, near the Graysville canoe launch area. Deputies described the infant as “lifeless” and “underdeveloped” and …
Prosecutors painted a grim picture Wednesday of the lives led by two special needs children whose father now stands trial for the murder of one of them — 8-year-old Thomas Valva, who died after spending a frigid winter night locked in the unheated garage of his father’s Long Island home. Forty-three-year-old Michael Valva, a former …
In lengthy motions filed with an Idaho court on Tuesday, Chad Daybell’s attorney asked for a delay in the start of his murder and conspiracy to commit murder trial and asked that his trial be severed from that of his co-defendant — wife Lori Vallow Daybell. Daybell and Vallow Daybell have been charged in the …
A 14-year-old Maine boy who disappeared after walking away from home last week was found dead in Maquoit Bay Tuesday morning. Theo Ferrara’s body was located near Bunganuc Point by the Maine Marine Patrol shortly after 11 a.m. Staff at the Office of the Maine Medical Examiner identified the body, the Portland Press-Herald reported. Freeport …
A 21-year-old man visiting a patient at an Arkansas hospital was shot dead Wednesday afternoon. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police responding to the shooting found the victim on the fourth floor of CHI St. Vincent North in Sherwood. The suspect was located by Little Rock Police at a gas station about 15 miles from the …
A mother and father were arrested this week on 26 charges related to the 2016 death of an adopted child. John Snyder II and Katherine Snyder, both 51, were charged with murder in the death of 8-year-old Adam Snyder, who died from blunt force trauma to the head, according to Hamilton County, Ohio, Assistant Prosecutor …
A U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and his wife entered new guilty pleas Tuesday to plotting to sell confidential information about nuclear-powered warships to a foreign country. It was the second time Marylanders Jonathan and Diana Toebbe have pleaded guilty since their arrests last October. A judge last month rejected a plea deal that called for …
A California murder suspect and the 15-year-old daughter he allegedly kidnapped were killed in a shootout with police on Interstate 15 Tuesday. An Amber Alert had been issued on Monday for Savannah Graziano after Anthony John Graziano allegedly shot and killed her mother near an elementary school in Fontana, according to KABC. On Tuesday morning, …
A 6-year-old Florida boy with autism warned his mother that his father wanted to take him away a year before he finally did so. JoJo Morales disappeared on August 27, along with his father and grandmother, just ahead of a custody swap, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Yanet Concepcion arrived at his father’s home to find …
Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found on fire last Saturday night in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Knoxville Fire Department initially responded just after 10 p.m. to a call for a tire fire near Sharp’s Ridge in North Knoxville. But once the fire was extinguished, they found the body and called …
An Alabama man who fled to Alaska after he was accused of having sexual relations with a young girl has been returned to the south to face those charges. James Everett Steen, 34, was met by Alaska police when he got off his flight to Anchorage in June, according to WBRC. Steen fought extradition and …
