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 …
A California woman who said she was raped and impregnated at age 13 has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. According to a complaint filed at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, a victim identified as F.M. is suing the agency after she became pregnant by …
A Pennsylvania man accused of kidnapping and killing Linda Stolzfoos, the 18-year-old Amish woman who disappeared walking home from church last year, will plead guilty Friday, but it’s not clear what charges are involved in the deal. Justo Smoker, 35, has been charged with homicide, kidnapping, and false imprisonment and is on the Lancaster County …
The man accused of kidnapping and killing University of South Carolina senior Samantha Josephson in 2019 had blood in his car the day after the murder and told his then-girlfriend it was none of her business how it got there. Maria Howard testified Wednesday in the trial of Nathaniel Rowland, who has been charged with …
The attorneys for Rodney Reed, a Texas man on death row for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites, are in court today with what they say is proof that Reed is innocent. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Reed was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of 19-year-old Stites. Authorities arrested Reed after finding his …
Seventeen people — including nine members of a single family from Indiana — died on July 19, 2018 when Scott McKee piloted Stretch Duck No. 7 into Table Rock Lake during a severe thunderstorm warning and the boat was subsequently swamped by high winds and rains. One of the dead was a member of the boat’s crew.
