Chicago police have captured a suspect they believe shot and killed 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams while she sat in a car with her father in a McDonald’s drive-thru earlier this week. Authorities have not released the man’s name, but they said charges are pending against him, according to WLS. He was taken into custody after being …
The 46-year-old housekeeping manager of a Florida hotel was found Tuesday brutally beaten to death in one of the rooms she was cleaning. Tina Strader’s husband, Gerald Strader, identified his wife as the victim after he found her and called police, WLFA reported. Sarasota County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 30-year-old Stephen Havrilka, who had been staying …
District Attorney says Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa had 10 high capacity magazines, which are illegal to own in Colorado, but investigators suspect he may have legally bought the parts and built them.
New York police performing a wellness check at a Queens apartment on Thursday found twin babies dead inside. Police sources told the New York Daily News that the infants, a boy and girl, were 46 days old. Officers found one of them in the apartment kitchen and the other in a bedroom, according to the …
Police in Florida are looking for a woman they say scammed several people out of tens of thousands of dollars offering “spiritual/witchcraft services.” Naples police say ten victims have come forward so far and that they found the woman through ads in free Hispanic newspapers, radio ads on Hispanic radio stations, and flyers in the …
A Tennessee grand jury has indicted a Nashville mother on a charge of first degree murder following the death of her 3-year-old daughter last year. Prestina Clark-Wilcox, 24, is behind held on a $250,000 bond, WSMV reported. Metropolitan Nashville Police said Paris Clark-Wilcox was found unresponsive in her mother’s home last July. Clark-Wilcox and her …
A 21-year-old Missouri woman has been charged in connection to the death of a toddler found unresponsive in a bathtub of water. Jodi Crum is being held in the Stoddard County Jail on a $100,000 bond, charged with second degree involuntary manslaughter, according to the Bloomfield Department of Public Safety. Detectives said the 17-month-old child …
Police searching for an Amish teen who went missing 10 months ago have found human remains in a rural area of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Linda Stoltzfoos, 18, disappeared on June 21, 2020, while walking home from church in Bird-in-Hand, in Lancaster County, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Justo Smoker, 35, was arrested and charged with kidnapping …
Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill on Monday denied a defense motion for a mistrial in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin but said that comments by US Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, were “disrespectful” and could “result in this whole trial being overturned.” Attorney Eric Nelson’s motion cited media exposure, particularly comments …
A Missouri woman has been charged with murder after an 8-month-old girl died in her care. According to court documents, the baby’s parents left her and two other children in the care of Jennifer Johnson, 44, at about 5 p.m. Saturday. After returning home, the mother said she found the child unresponsive and cool to …
A former Texas sheriff’s deputy has been charged with killing his ex-wife, teenage stepdaughter, and the girl’s boyfriend in a shooting Sunday afternoon that rocked the northwest Austin neighborhood where it took place. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 41-year-old Stephen Broderick was taken into custody early Monday in Manor, about 15 miles north of Austin. He …
An Idaho grandmother has been ordered held on an $800,000 bond after the body of her 8-year-old granddaughter was found in a trash bag in the floorboard of her son’s black Lexus last week, but the initial first degree murder charge she faced was changed before the arraignment. Connie Smith, 54, now faces charges of …
