A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request to toss out the confession by the woman accused of helping dismembered the body of Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen. Cecily Aguilar, the girlfriend of murder suspect Aaron Robinson, asked in March to throw out the confession, saying she was not read her Miranda rights at the …
A jury deliberated less that two hours last week before acquitting a Maryland high school teacher on charges that she had sex with a student. Meredith Susan Barry Martin, 39, was charged in February 2020 on multiple counts, including sexual offense by a person in authority, having intercourse while in a position of authority, unnatural …
In November 2020, Shane Wayne Michael beat up a customer before lowering his mask and spitting on him. He’ll now serve at least 10 years in prison for the incident. Michael, who had a mask on when he walked into the Vision 4 Less store in Des Moines, pulled the mask down from his nose …
Aubrey Trail, a Nebraska man who killed an unsuspecting woman lured in by his girlfriend through a dating app, learned his fate on Wednesday. A Dawson County judge sentenced Trail to death, the Lincoln Journal Star reports. Bailey reportedly said he “could care less” about his sentencing. He was convicted in July 2020 of first-degree …
Apple reportedly paid millions of dollars to a 21-year-old Oregon woman after its contracted repair techs posted nude photos on her phone on her Facebook page. According to The Telegraph, in 2016 the woman brought her iPhone to a California facility run by Pegatron, an Apple contractor after it had stopped working. The woman alleged …
A Utah man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday for the beating death of his wife during a family cruise to Alaska in 2017. Kenneth Manzanares, 43, pleaded guilty in February 2020 to the second-degree murder of Kristy Manzanares, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Kenneth, Kristy, their three daughters, and several members of Kristy’s …
On Wednesday, the defense filed a motion in a Minnesota court which seeks time served for ex-Minnesota officer Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s slaying. The Star-Tribune reported that prosecutors are seeking a 30-year sentence for Chauvin, who was convicted on April 20 of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Conversely, defense attorney Eric …
Former Minnesota police officer and convicted murderer Derek Chauvin is expected to appear in federal court on Tuesday amid allegations that he violated George Floyd’s rights during last year’s arrest that ended with Floyd’s death. According to the Star-Tribune, Chauvin, 45, will appear in U.S. District Court via videoconference from Oak Park Heights prison, where …
A woman charged with abducting a Virginia toddler from church earlier this month apparently tried to abduct children from two other churches earlier in the day but was turned away by workers in the nurseries. Prosecutors said Thursday that Nancy Renee Fridley, 44, apparently had plans to abduct two children, as investigators had learned she …
The lawyers of a South Carolina man on death row for the deaths of 12 church-going Black people are appealing his death sentence, claiming that a mental illness should have prevented him from representing himself. As CrimeOnline previously reported, attorneys for Dylann Roof filed a 321-page legal brief with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
Two New York Bureau of Prisons employees have admitted faking official records the night convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his prison cell, but they won’t be serving time in jail themselves.
Prosecutors showed graphic photos of the crime scene where the body of 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts was found a month after she disappeared in the summer of 2018. Former farmhand Cristhian Bahena Rivera is on trial for the murder of Tibbetts, who disappeared while jogging on July 18 in Brooklyn, Iowa. On …
