A judge has ruled that surveillance video footage and evidence taken from the home of a NYPD traffic cop accused of killing his son will be permitted in court. Michael Valva, a former member of NYPD, and his girlfriend fiancee Angela Pollina are both charged with murder in the death of Michael’s 8-year-old son Thomas …
Idaho prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for Chad Daybell, according to a notice filed Thursday in the 7th Judicial Court District. Daybell is charged with first degree murder in the deaths of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, and two of his second wife’s children, 16-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow. Their …
Three other former Minnesota police officers who are charged in George Floyd’s May 2020 death asked on Tuesday to have their federal trial separated from their ex-colleague, Derek Chauvin, who is currently serving a 22-year sentence. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, attorneys for Thomas Lane, 37, J. Alexander Kueng, 26, and Tou Thao, 34, filed …
An Iowa judge on Monday denied a request for a new trial for the man convicted of killing jogger Mollie Tibbetts in 2018. At a lengthy hearing last week, Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s attorneys argued for a new trial after two witnesses told authorities they heard another man admit he killed the 20-year-old Tibbetts and that …
Robert Long, a Georgia man who confessed to killing numerous Asian people earlier this year, could still get the death penalty despite taking a plea deal to spare his life. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Long pleaded guilty Tuesday morning during a hearing at the Superior Court of Cherokee County in Canton, to the murders of …
Convicted killer Cristhian Rivera’s defense lawyers argued in court Tuesday that he should be afforded a new trial, claiming other witnesses pinned Mollie Tibbetts’ murder on others. The prosecution argued that there is no doubt that the real killer has been apprehended. Rivera, who was found guilty this year of murdering 20-year-old Tibbetts in 2018, …
A man attacked a bailiff inside a Texas court on Monday after he was found guilty of fatally shooting a police officer in 2016. KENS reported that it took a jury 25 minutes to unanimously convict Otis McKane, 36, of San Antonio police Detective Benjamin Marconi’s capital murder. McKane, who was speechless after the verdict, …
A South Carolina jury convicted Nathaniel Rowland of first-degree murder on Tuesday, in connection with the death of 21-year-old University of South Carolina student, Samantha Josephson. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Columbia Police arrested Rowland in March 2019 for Josephson’s murder. According to police, Rowland’s car was spotted on security footage in the parking lot of …
Robert Aaron Long, a Georgia man who opened fire and killed numerous Asian people last year at three different spas, has taken a plea deal in an attempt to remove the death penalty as punishment. Long pleaded guilty Tuesday morning during a hearing at the Superior Court of Cherokee County in Canton, to the murders …
A former U.S. diplomat could face life behind bars after pleading guilty to 23 counts of drugging and raping women. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 45, carried out a rape spree that lasted a decade after bringing women from the U.S. to Mexico. An investigation began last May after a …
More than two dozen women have come forward to say that accused killer Paul Flores “either raped, drugged, stalked, or peeping tommed them,” CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace said, but none of those allegations will be presented when Flores goes on trial for the death of Kristin Smart. A judge said the evidence for those cases is …
A Florida man was sentenced this week to two years in prison for not telling his sex partners about his positive HIV status. Gentry Burns, 27, appeared in Volusia County court on Thursday and pleaded no contest to a single count of uninformed HIV-infected sexual intercourse, WESH reported. Two other counts of the same charge …
