A 44-year-old Long Island man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole for torturing and killing his long-time friend, 43-year-old Christopher Hahn. Jeremy Allen was convicted of murder and tampering with physical evidence in January, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said. “Christopher Hahn deserved better than to have his life violently taken …
The parents of a 5-year-old Baltimore girl who weighed just 18 pounds when she was found dead pleaded guilty this week to child abuse charges. Gerald Byrd, 36, and Bernice Byrd, 33, were scheduled to go on trial next week for the October 2024 death of little Zona Byrd, WBAL reports. Zona’s 6-year-old brother was …
A North Carolina man was arrested on Thursday for attacking his son’s alleged killer in court. Marion McKnight, 21, was accused of killing Jamariyae Dixon, 16, in May during a shooting at Stroud Park Court that left three other people wounded. McKnight, who was free on a $100,000 bond, appeared at the Meck County courthouse …
The man accused of being the gunman in a murder for hire plot to kill Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan in 2022 has filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, saying his testimony against Bridegan’s ex-wife and her second husband is false. Henry Tenon was charged in January 2023 with second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit …
Michael McKee, an Illinois man accused of killing his former wife, Monique Tepe, and her husband, Spencer Tepe, will be back in court this month. According to The Columbus Dispatch, McKee, 39, is scheduled to appear in Ohio’s Franklin County Common Pleas Court on April 16. As CrimeOnline previously reported, McKee is currently facing two …
A Utah man pleaded guilty last week to killing an Alaska woman who lived at the assisted living facility where he worked. Kirby Calderwood, initially charged with first degree murder and other charges, pleaded guilty to second degree murder and will be sentenced to 99 years in prison with 12 years suspended adn 10 years …
The 16-year-old stepbrother of Florida teen Anna Kepner appeared in court Friday, following allegations of his involvement in her death aboard a Carnival cruise ship. According to NBC 6 Miami, the stepbrother arrived Friday morning at the James Lawrence King Federal Justice Center in Miami. The courtroom locked after the teen’s arrival, who appeared before …
An Oklahoma grandmother was sentenced Monday to two life sentences without parole for the murders of two Kansas women during a custody exchange in 2024. Tifany Adams pleaded no contest last year to multiple charges related to the murders of Veronica Butler and Julian Kelley, KFOR reported. In addition to the life sentences, she was …
An Idaho white supremacist who killed two men after escaping prison during a hospital shootout in 2024 was sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the murders. Skylar Meade and fellow white supremacist Nicholas Umphenour went on a 36-hour crime spree after the hospital shootout that happened after Meade cut up his own face, prompting …
A Michigan mother and her son will stand trial on upgraded charges in the death of his girlfriend, 17-year-old London Thomas. Jalen Pendergrass, and his mother, 49-year-old Charla Pendergrass, have now been charged with first degree murder in Thomas’s death after a 4-hour preliminary hearing on Thursday, WXYZ reported. Thomas was last seen April 5 …
A Minnesota man pleaded guilty last week to killing and dismembering his pregnant sister because he was angry that she was pregnant and “no longer innocent.” Jack Joseph Ball, 24, pleaded guilty to first degree murder and first degree murder of a fetus, the Dakota County Attorney’s Office said. He had also been charged with …
A former MMA fighter pleaded guilty last week to second degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old daughter, who was found dead stuffed into a pack-and-play so small she lay in it in a fetal position. That’s where Charlotte Buskey spent her last days, locked in the bedroom with no food, no water, and …
