Investigators found the body of a missing University of Minnesota student this week in the Mississippi River. Authorities said Austin Ray Retterath was reported missing on May 8 in Minneapolis, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The Pioneer Press said that the body was found on Wednesday and identified as Retterath on Friday by the University of …
Oregon police have charged a 16-year-old boy with the death of a sixth-grader found dead in a park near her Beaverton home earlier this month. Milana Li, 13, was reported missing on May 9 and was initially thought to be a runaway, as CrimeOnline previously reported. But police found her body the next day in …
Police in Eastlake, Ohio, are searching for a 20-year-old pregnant woman who may have been taken in a “violent abduction.” WEWS reported that police took a report about the apparent abduction of Isabella Scaletta at about 12:30 p.m. on Friday. “Information obtained from the reporting party indicated that the victim was a possible target of …
An Atlanta pastor was found stabbed to death and burned in her van Wednesday after counseling a man who was recently released from prison. DeKalb County police have arrested 27-year-old Christopher Griggs and charged him with malice murder and arson in the death of Marita Harrell, 57, the pastor at Connections @ Metropolitan United Methodist …
A jury is deliberating the case of a middle Georgia man accused of killing a popular Irwin County High School history teacher in a botched robbery and burning her body in a pecan orchard. Ryan Duke’s attorney argued that her client didn’t kill Tara Grinstead, 30, but instead it was another man, who has already …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace described the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp battle as “two wet cats in a barrel” on Friday but said Thursday’s witness list was a “hit parade” on Depp. “Everybody is drunk and high and on drugs,” Grace told Fox News. “I don’t know, if I was accessing their credibility, who even knows what really …
A Florida sheriff’s deputy will be charged with a misdemeanor for firing a taser at a suspect that sparked a massive fireball and left the suspect with burns over 75 percent of his body. Osceola County Deputy David Crawford was also injured in the February 27 inferno, although he has long since been released from …
An Arizona woman accused of child abuse told investigators she held her toddler son’s hand under scalding hot water because “she saw a demon” in him. Court documents say that the skin on the 4-year-old boy’s hand burned and blistered after Brittany Breanna Gaines, 32, held his hand under the water, according to KSAZ. “Brittany …
The man accused of attacking comedian Dave Chappelle on stage earlier this month has now been charged with attempted murder for allegedly stabbing his roommate in December. Isaiah Lee, 23, has been in jail since his May 3 arrest for rushing Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl during the Netflix Is A Joke Festival, as CrimeOnline …
A Tennessee man has been jailed on kidnapping and evading arrest charges after a woman slipped a note to a Kentucky Fried Chicken employee begging for help, and that employee called police. Memphis police officers responded to the restaurant, and the employee gave them a description of the woman and man who was with her. …
Actor Ellen Barkin testified Thursday that Johnny Depp once threw a wine bottle across the room in a Las Vegas hotel room. Barkin and Depp, who appeared together in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” had a “sexual” relationship in the 1990s, the New York Post reported. She testified via a recorded deposition on behalf …
A Florida woman was charged this week with killing an elderly man and burying him in a shallow grave in the back yard. An arrest report for 50-year-old Clio Marcia Trice says that Miami Gardens police responded to her home Monday night after a neighbor called and said that Trice told him she had killed …
