A member of another storied South Carolina family lost his job at the family business on Friday after his name surfaced in the ever-broadening investigations into the affairs of disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh. The board of directors of Palmetto State Bank fired CEO Russell Laffitte after subopoenas from the South Carolina Supreme Court’s Office of …
An Alabama man has been jailed after he allegedly tried to hire someone to kidnap and rape a woman in Wisconsin he met online but had never met in person. FBI agents arrested Matthias Jacob Edward Mann, 22, on Thursday at his family home in Hartselle. He faces multiple charges, including attempted kidnapping and attempting …
A Huntsville police officer was arrested and charged with capital murder after an “incident” that resulted in the death of a person in a vehicle. Sources said that David McCoy, 28, shot his girlfriend in the head Friday morning and then called police to report a woman sitting in a parked car who appeared to …
A 6-year-old boy reporting missing from Chicago’s northern suburbs earlier this week was found dead Saturday morning near an abandoned house in Gary, Indiana. The North Chicago Police Department said that three adult members of Damari Perry’s family “believed to be responsible for Damari’s death are in police custody.” Other juvenile members of the family …
Paola Miranda-Rosa was last seen three weeks ago in Wekiwa Springs State Park.
A Texas teacher has been charged with endangering a child after she allegedly locked her 13-year-old son in the trunk of her car to drive him to a COVID testing site after he apparently tested positive for the virus at home. Court documents say that Sarah Beam, 41, told an employee at the test site …
Judge denies bond reduction for James and Jennifer Crumbley.
A juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial reportedly answered negatively to a query on the juror questionnaire asking if he, a friend, or family member had ever been a victim of sexual abuse, harassment, or assault, Fox News reports. The juror, identified only as Scott David, later told reporters he had revealed his own childhood sexual assault during deliberations and helped persuade other members of the panel to convict Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Prosecutors have asked Judge Allison Nathan to hold a hearing on Scotty David’s comments, while defense attorneys asked for the convictions to be thrown out. Nathan has set a briefing schedule for the issue.
Two Mississippi men have been charged with kidnapping and rape in relation to a missing toddler who disappeared on December 30 and was found 15 miles away the next day. Keldrick J. Magee, 33, has been charged with four counts of rape, one count of sexual battery, and one count of kidnapping, WDAM reported. Kim …
A 61-year-old North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with the kidnapping and murder of a 4-year-old girl 35 years ago in South Carolina. The Lexington County, South Carolina, Sheriff’s Department said that Wake Forest Police had arrested Thomas McDowell at his home north of Raleigh on Thursday. Jessica “Jessie” Gutierrez was abducted from her …
Investigators in Atlanta revealed the identity of the man they say was responsible for the 1995 rape and murder of 14-year-old Nacole Smith as well as another rape almost 10 years later. Acqunellia Smith, Nacole’s mother, told WGCL anchor Karyn Greer, who had been working the case since it happened, last week that a detective …
A Washington state medical examiner’s office has identified a body found in a vehicle trunk last month as a woman who was last seen in early November. The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has not identified Patricia Soto’s cause or manner of death, but investigators said they were investigating the case as a homicide. Soto, …
