Jury selection began this week in connection with a Texas man accused of killing his toddler daughter. It’s been two years since the untimely death of 2-year-old Savannah Roque. Her father, 26-year-old Yovahnis Roque, has been behind bars since February 2019, on murder charges in connection to the child’s death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Roque …
A California man who spent nearly four decades in prison for two murders he did not commit has offered a $50,000 reward for evidence leading to the conviction of the real killers. Craig Coley, now 74, was convicted in 1980 of raping and killing his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Rhonda Wicht, and smothering her 4-year-old son Donnie …
An Iowa woman already sentenced to 25 year for intentionally running over a 14-year-old Latina girl and a 12-year-old Black boy with her SUV was sentenced Thursday to the same amount on federal hate crimes charges stemming from the incidents. Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, was given two concurrent 25 year sentences in May after pleading …
A California judge heard from witnesses on Thursday at the Orange County Superior Court, including a woman who had her case dismissed against a doctor and girlfriend accused of raping people. As CrimeOnline previously reported, prosecutors accused Grant Robicheaux, 40, and his girlfriend, Cerissa Laura Riley, 34, of drugging and raping mostly women. Since the …
On Tuesday, the parents of one of the men who Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot and killed at a 2020 protest in Wisconsin sued police, claiming they gave the then-17-year-old carte blanche to harm peaceful protestors. Anthony Huber’s father and mother, John Huber and Karen Bloom, filed a constitutional civil rights lawsuit which lists Kenosha Police …
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 Montana grandfather pleaded guilty for his role in torturing and abusing his slain grandson. James Sasser Jr. pleaded guilty to felony deliberate homicide, tampering with a witness, and criminal child endangerment at the Gallatin County District Court Monday morning. He was the grandfather of 12-year-old James “Alex” Hurley. As CrimeOnline previously reported, authorities found …
Convicted wife and child killer Scott Peterson has been requested to testify at the pre-trial hearing in connection with the 1996 death of Cal Poly student, Kristin Smart. Peterson knew Smart when she attended the college in May 1996, the same year she was last seen alive, according to Paul Flores’ attorney. Flores stands accused …
Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer convicted of killing a man in his own apartment when she mistakenly thought it was her unit, lost her first round of appeals this week. Botham Jean was sitting on his sofa eating ice cream on September 6, 2018, when Guyger, still in uniform, entered his apartment. She …
A Texas jury deliberated for more than seven hours on Friday before sentencing Otis McKane to death for killing San Antonio Police Detective Benjamin Marconi in 2016. The jury took just 25 minutes last month to convict McKane, and he promptly attacked a bailiff who tried to handcuff him after the verdict, as CrimeOnline previously …
A 19-year-old British woman sobbed in court Friday when a judge sentenced her to nine years in prison after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter for leaving her toddler daughter alone for nearly a week while she celebrated her 18th birthday. Paramedics who responded to Verphy Kudi’s apartment after she returned on December 11, 2019, found …
On Thursday, a Texas appeals court upheld the murder conviction of a former police officer who is serving a 10-year sentence for fatally shooting her upstairs neighbor in his own apartment in 2018. Ex-Dallas cop Amber Guyger, 32, argued that she was not culpable of murder because she mistakenly believed she was in her own …
