An Alaska couple has been charged in the August death of a 4-year-old girl in their custody. Alaska State Troopers put out an appeal to help them find Sergie Krukoff III, 46, and Jackie Caswell, 47, following their indictment last month, and they were ultimately taken into custody on Saturday. Caswell is charged with second …
A Indiana man has been charged with shooting his girlfriend in the head — in front of her toddler daughter — and then claiming to police that she shot herself in a struggle over his illegally owned gun, which he was using to pistol whip her. Tyairz Glover, 20, was charged with 19-year-old LaNya Anderson’s …
Convicted child rapist Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach, has filed a new appeal to his conviction, claiming “new evidence.” That “new evidence” claims prosecutorial misconduct in the course of the 2012 trial that found Sandusky, 81, guilty on 45 counts of molesting young boys, WJAC reports. The nearly 400 pages of …
A Michigan father was bound over for trial last week after gunning down his teen son and wounding two of the boy’s siblings. Jeffrey Smerer, 44, slashed his wrist and took “multiple forms of medication” after shooting 17-year-old Kayleb Smerer, 13-year-old Bentley Smerer, and 12-year-old Kinzley Smerer on September 11, police said at a preliminary …
Michael Stanek, 57, was later released from jail after posting $150 bond. He missed his barber appointment.
An Ohio man was arrested and charged with raping a child repeatedly over four years, when the victim was 13 to 17 years old. Mark Lerner, 44, fled to Indiana when he learned he was under investigation in 2018 after the victim confided in a friend, WSYX reported. Lerner came back to Ohio on September …
An Idaho psychiatrist has been arrested for allegedly raping a patient with a foreign object. Boise police said they investigated the claim for nearly a month before taking 45-year-old Alexander Wills into custody on a charge of forcible penetration by use of a foreign object. Police said they were called about the incident on September …
Police in Georgia have arrested a 48-year-old man for the murder of a woman found dead and stuffed into a trash can in a Macon apartment. Snapper Orlando Brundage was arrested on Tuesday in Atlanta by US Marshals and brought back to Macon, where he is charged with the murder of Teasha Ariele Colbert, the …
A California woman reported missing late last week has been found dead, hidden behind a concealed entrance to the attic in a Vallejo home. Vallejo police said that they had arrested Douglas Shaw, 41, for the death of Renia Lewis and that he had “admitted being responsible for this heinous crime.” Renia Lewis was last …
A 35-year-old Illinois man has been charged with the murders of his parents in the home they all shared in Sycamore. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office said a relative asked for a welfare check on Gary and Holly Schmidt, 60 and 59, Tuesday morning, and officers found the couple dead, apparently from blunt force trauma, …
An Alabama police officer has been fired after a a chase ended in a crash that killed an uninvolved teenager. Garry Chapman, son of Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman, lost his job as a result of the September 6 crash, police confirmed to WAFF. Chapman was placed on leave after the crash, as CrimeOnline …
A 68-year-old Massachusetts man was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife last year. It was the second time Kenneth Robson had been convicted of killing a wife. Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni said that Robson called 911 early in the morning of …
