An Indiana man goes on trial next month in Tennessee, charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of 19-year-old Grace Anne Sparks two years ago — while he was 300 miles away at his home. Hayden Berkebile, 29, also faces a charge of false reports because he called 911 to report that Sparks had …
Authorities in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday released more details about a deadly school middle school shooting that took place during lunch on Friday. Juan Saucedo, 13, was charged with murder and unlawfully carrying a deadly weapon on school premises in Friday’s shooting at Washington Middle School, Albuquerque Police said at a news conference. Saucedo …
A 27-year-old Atlanta bartender was kidnapped at gunpoint outside her home early Friday morning, her body found hours later a few miles away in another neighborhood. A witness said they saw Mariam Abdulrab, identified by friends and co-workers, forced into an SUV in the city’s Grant Park neighborhood at about 5 a.m. as she returned …
A 38-year-old Wisconsin woman is being held on a $1 million bail after she allegedly offered a police informant $500 to kill another person. A criminal complaint filed this week in Winnebago County says Melissa A. Smith told the informant the person she wanted killed “had told police [Smith] was selling drugs, had urinated on …
A former “Saturday Night Live” cast member has been accused of grooming and sexually assaulting a teenage girl during his time on the nearly 50-year-old sketch comedy show. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in New York City Supreme Court, says that Horatio Sanz “began his process of grooming” the girl, who ran a website about SNL, …
A 14-year-old Atlanta girl who didn’t return home from her first day at school last week has been found in Texas. Caitlin Winchester was found safe, and Arlington police arrested 23-year-old Andre McNair, charging him with harboring a runaway child, CBS DFW reported. Atlanta Public Schools confirmed the girl had been found and said in …
A 42-year-old Florida man was found guilty of first degree murder on Thursday, more than four years after the body of 12-year-old Naomi Jones was found in an Escambia County creek. Robert Letroy Howard, a convicted sex offender, was arrested just three days after fishermen found the body about five miles from the apartment complex …
A Florida woman has been arrested for the 2014 murder of her brother — after investigators uncovered his body buried in the backyard of a Dania Beach home. Darlene Ann Shoff-Brock is being held without bond on a single count of first-degree murder in the death of Donald Marks Shoff, WSVN reported. The Broward County …
Nashville police this week arrested a rideshare driver accused of dragging country star Claire Dunn out of her car in June and flinging her face-first into a ditch before marking the ride complete and speeding off. Albert Boakye, 46, was arrested early Tuesday morning on a misdemeanor assault warrant and was released shortly afterward on a …
The husband of a missing North Carolina woman whose body was found last week has been charged with murder. Kiara Wiggins, 39, was last seen by her family on June 9 and reported missing on June 18, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The family also reported at that time that they were unable to contact Wiggins’ …
A 22-year-old Connecticut woman took an Uber to her grandmother’s apartment on Sunday and stabbed the 72-year-old woman to death along with her 63-year-old boyfriend while the Uber driver waited outside. Harlee Swols was in violation of a protective order when she went to Maryrose Riach’s second story apartment in Enfield, NBC Connecticut reported. She …
A Las Vegas landlord was denied bail on Wednesday in his initial court appearance on charges that he settled a dispute with his tenants by shooting them. Arnoldo Lozano Sanchez, 78, is accused of killing two women and critically wounding a man in the early Tuesday shooting, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said. In the arrest …
