The woman jailed along with her boyfriend for killing Clark Atlanta student Alexis Crawford was the 21-year-old’s best friend and spent some holidays with her family, a family spokesman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Rev. Markel Hutchins told the paper that Jordyn Jones, Crawford’s roommate at an off-campus apartment, spent Thanksgiving and Easter with the …
A Long Island woman has been charged with harassing a toddler with a rare genetic disorder for more than a year on social media and via the U.S. mail, NBC New York reported. Krista Sewell, 26, was arrested on Thursday on charges that included aggravated harassment as a hate crime, a felony. She is alleged …
Marquis Jefferson, father a 28-year-old Texas woman who was shot and killed in her own home by a Fort Worth police officer last month, has died, sources have told CBS DFW. The cause of his death was not immediately known. Atatiana Jefferson was playing video games in her home with her 8-year-old nephew on October …
A Florida woman has been charged with animal cruelty after she tried to drown a cat in a drainage culvert, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported. The Edgewater Animal Shelter took custody of Hubble the cat and reported he was “doing well.” An Edgewater police officer responded to a call from a witness who said he …
Montgomery County, Maryland, police said Sunday that a 17-year-old boy with autism who drove away from his home on Saturday has been found safe and unharmed. Micah Kriesberg left his Potomac home on Saturday and was thought to have been trying to drive to Canada. The teen was described as 5′ 11′ and 130 pounds …
Two 16-year-old boys were ordered this week to stand trial as adults in the Labor Day death of an Ohio photographer who was killed by a 75-pound log pushed over a cliff at Hocking Hills State Park. Victoria Schafer, 44, was taking senior photographs for a group of students near the Old Man’s Cave section …
Police in Sanger, California, said Sunday that a teenager who didn’t come home after Friday night’s football came had been found and was safe with her family. Yesenia Luviano, 15, was described as 4′ 11″ with black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with any information should contact the Sanger Police Department at (559) 875-8521 and …
A month long investigation in Polk County, Florida, netted 17 men on hundreds of charges relating to child pornography and solicitation of a minor for sex, the Polk County Sheriff’s Department announced on Friday. A former middle school assistant principle and two Disney employees — a custodian and a guest experience manager — were among …
Shocking video released by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office this week shows a deadly scene play out after a car crashed into a tree in Carmichael, California on October 27. In the end, Earnest Easterling is dead in a hail of bullets from deputies, and Chanell Brown is dead from a single gunshot fired by Easterling …
Raymond Lazarine was convicted of murder in the shooting death of his wife of 35 years and sentenced Friday to 75 years in prison, as a jury didn’t buy his defense that he was sleepwalking when he pulled the trigger, according to the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Lazarine admitted shooting …
An Iowa court ruled Wednesday that Benjamin Schreiber did not finish his life sentence for first degree murder just because his heart stopped during an illness and he was resuscitated. The Iowa Court of Appeals was the latest court to rule against Schreiber, who was sentenced to life without parole in 1996, upholding an earlier …
Testimony in the murder trial of Colorado rancher Patrick Frazee ended for the holiday weekend on Friday with an explosive statement from long time friend Joseph Moore, who said he considers Frazee like a stepson. Moore, who said that he had known Frazee since he was a pre-teen, told the court that the rancher said …
