A coalition of 33 news organizations filed a request Thursday urging an Idaho judge to reject a motion to ban cameras from the courtroom during the upcoming trial of “cult mom” Lori Vallow Daybell. Vallow Daybell and her husband, Chad Daybell, are charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death’s of Vallow …
Chicago police are looking for a man who offered a mother cash for her 5-year-old daughter and then tried to snatch the girl by the hair. Police said the incident took place just before noon on Thursday on West Fullerton Avenue on the city’s northwest side, WLS reports. The mother and the girl got away …
Two Georgia deputies were killed Thursday while serving a warrant for failure to appear in court. Cobb County Sheriff Craig D. Owens said the two deputies were outside their cars just before 8 p.m., talking with the suspect when he opened fire, followed by gunfire from a second suspect inside the house. “From my understanding, …
A 45-year-old Illinois man has been charged with stabbing his parents to death Wednesday morning in their apartment in the well-to-do Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Barry Goldberg was ordered held on a $5 million bond at a hearing Thursday in the case, WMAQ reported. The bodies of Ronald Goldberg, 79, and Renee Goldberg, 74, …
A 16-year-old Florida boy has been charged with the brutal stabbing death of his 57-year-old grandmother, an investigator for the Florida Commission on Offender Review. Jaylin Christian reportedly used at least two knives to stab Muriel Ladonna Emerson in the kitchen of the home he shared with her. When asked how many times he stabbed …
Investigators said they found DNA consistent with Robert Telles’s beneath reporter Jeff German’s fingernails.
Shelby County General Sessions Judge Louis Montesi set September 19 as the next report date in the case of Cleotha Henderson, AKA Abston, for the abduction and murder of Memphis mom Eliza Fletcher. Henderson appeared in Montesi’s court Thursday morning for the third time in three days. At issue Thursday were two matters presented Wednesday …
A Clark County public official has been arrested for the murder of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, whose reporting of alleged wrongdoing by that official cost him his party’s nomination for another term in office this year. Investigators searched the home of Robert Telles early Wednesday morning, as CrimeOnline previously reported, but police provided …
A Missouri man flagged down a Texas police chief Wednesday and told him he’d shot his wife. Floydada Police Chief Reuben Ramon told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that he was checking out a report of a hay bale in the road early Wednesday afternoon when Keith Bass II, 48, waved him over. Ramon said Bass approached …
The president of a Florida condominium association has been accused of installing a surveillance camera hidden in a flower pot in a neighbor’s bedroom. Robert Orr, 49, was booked on four counts of video voyeurism Tuesday night, the Flager County Sheriff’s Office said, and has since been released on a $20,000 bond. The sheriff’s office …
A North Carolina teacher previously charged with having a sexual relationship with a student now faces a host of other charges after investigators say she met with the victim to her home at least nine times while she was on house arrest. Elizabeth Suzanne Bailey, 36, was first arrested on August 1 and charged with …
The man charged with the abduction and murder of Memphis mom Eliza Fletcher appeared again in court on Wednesday and was ordered held without bond. Abston, called Henderson by the court because that is his “true valid name,” appeared Tuesday on kidnapping and tampering with evidence charges, as CrimeOnline reported. He was ordered back to …
