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.
A California judge formally handed down the death sentence to 45-year-old Michael Gargiulo, nearly two years after a Los Angeles jury convicted him of murdering two women and stabbing a third, who survived. Media outlets dubbed Gargiulo “the Hollywood Ripper” for the Los Angeles-area killings of Ashley Ellerin, 22, on February 22, 2001, and Maria …
A Colorado jury found Mark Redwine guilty of second degree murder and child abuse in connection with the death of his 13-year-old son Dylan, who disappeared while on a court-ordered visit with his father in November 2012. The jury began deliberating on Thursday and conferred for about 6 1/2 hours before returning their verdicts, Denver …
The Chandler, Arizona, Police Department on Friday released some 2,500 documents from their investigation into “cult mom” Lori Vallow after the disappearance of two of her children, 7-year-old Joshua “JJ” Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan. Among the documents is a photo of young JJ, dated September 22, 2019, Fox 10 Phoenix reports. It’s unknown if …
