An Ohio mother is awaiting extradition from Louisiana to Mississippi, where she will face charges that she killed her 11-year-old son and left his body in a Laurel hotel room, the Hattiesburg American reported. Latina Oates, 33, was arrested Wednesday morning in New Orleans, where she was accompanied by her two other children. Authorities had …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace takes on the coronavirus and those who would take advantage of it to scam the unsuspecting in the latest episode of Crime Stories on Fox Nation. “Online scams, jacking up the prices of Purell to $48 a bottle, people losing money, Jim Bakker, the televangelist on TV, offering a cure for coronavirus …
A Syracuse police officer was stabbed in the neck by a burglary suspect on Sunday before he opened fire and killed the man. Officer Walter Brainerd was rushed to Upstate University Hospital and was later released, CNYCentral reported. He’s expected to recover. The suspect, Darrell Mobley, 48, died after he, too, was taken to the …
Jeffrey Epstein’s procurer Ghislaine Maxwell wants the estate of the convicted pedophile to pay her legal fees and security costs, citing “extensive global coverage” of the investigation into Epstein’s wrongdoing and “regular threats to her life and safety, which have required her to hire personal security and find safe accommodation,” a lawsuit filed in the …
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has a new home, for now: He was transferred Wednesday to Wende Correctional Facility in the Alden, New York, a tiny town in the far west of the state, about 20 miles east of Buffalo, according to New York correctional records. Weinstein was convicted on February 24 of raping an …
In a trio of motions filed this week in Stamford Superior Court, Michelle Troconis’s attorney asked to suppress evidence against her, claiming Connecticut state police illegally strip searched her, photographed her partially naked body, and made false statements to a judge to obtain search warrants in their investigation of the death of Jennifer Farber Dulos, …
“There’s a guy at my house shooting right now.” Those were the chilling words Chatham County, North Carolina, dispatchers heard late Sunday afternoon, from a voice that told them he was hiding in a closet and to “please get somebody here to the house.” By the time deputies arrived and sorted out the gruesome scene, …
A 44-year-old Idaho man has been charged with first degree murder in a bizarre incident Sunday night that left an 11-year-old boy dead, KTVB reported. The Boise County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as Benjamin Michael Poirier and said he had no known connection with the family of the victim, Micah Lee Pecyna. The incident …
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein returned to prison Monday after spending five days at Bellevue Hospital in New York when he experienced “chest pains” last week just hours after he was sentenced to 23 years in prison, according to the New York Daily News. It was Weinstein’s second stint in the hospital since he was …
Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum announced on Sunday he was headed into rehab for alcoholism, two days after he was reportedly found drunk in a hotel room with a male escort who suffered an apparent drug overdose, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. The reported incident involving Gillum, 40, occurred early Friday at a hotel in …
Televangelist Jim Bakker, who spent five years in prison after being convicted on multiple counts of fraud, has run afoul of two state attorneys general, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA, and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), ABC reported. Bakker touted a product called “Liquid Silver Sol” on his website and The Jim Bakker …
A man in a hazmat suit dashed into a Las Vegas Walmart shortly before 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, but he wasn’t there to stock up on supplies. Instead, he sprayed a clear liquid of unknown origin onto people, conveyor belts, fresh food, and other items. Police said 13 people came in contact with the liquid, …
