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 …
An Idaho judge on Friday declared cult mom Lori Daybell as indigent. District Judge Steven Boyce’s one-sentence order gives no indication why he made it; Vallow’s attorney, Mark Means, told East Idaho News he will continue to represent her in court. Vallow has been charged with several felonies related to the disappearance of two of …
The second day of Cristhian Bahena Rivera’s trial for the murder of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts focused on surveillance video that allegedly shows Bahena Rivera’s black Chevrolet Malibu several times in the are where Tibbetts was last seen. Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation agent Derek Riessen described the painstaking work looking over the …
A man killed himself inside a North Dakota courtroom on Monday after he was convicted of various federal charges in connection with an April 2019 incident at an Chippewa Indian reservation. The U.S. Marshals Service confirmed to KVLY that Jeffrey Ferris, 55, took his own life at the Federal Courthouse in Fargo. Ferris was on …
A 2017 murder suspect bailed himself out of jail on Wednesday as Texas authorities work to locate a missing tiger that he was seen with before he fled police. Victor Cuevas, 26, appeared in a Fort Bend County courtroom on Friday for a bond repeal hearing which may result in him being sent back to …
The parents of Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old Cal Poly student who disappeared in 1996, say that the mother of the man accused of killing Smart helped moved the girl’s remains, according to a recently amended lawsuit. Santa Maria Times reports that according to the complaint, which was updated on May 7 at the San Luis …
On Thursday, a Minnesota judge delayed a joint trial for three former police officers charged in George Floyd’s death until next year, citing various concerns. According to the Associated Press, Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill moved the state trial for Thomas Lane, 37, J. Alexander Kueng, 26, and Tou Thao, 34, from August 23, 2021, …
A former New York cop accused of torturing his 8-year-old son to death cried in court Tuesday listening to the 911 call he placed the the boy died. Thomas Valva died on January 17, 2020, after he was left in an unheated garage overnight at temperatures outside reached 19 degrees, as CrimeOnline previously reported. His …
The Minnesota judge who will sentence Derek Chauvin has identified multiple aggravating factors in George Floyd’s murder — an indication that the ex-cop will face significant prison time. According to the Star Tribune, Hennepin County judge Peter Cahill wrote that Chauvin “abused a position of trust and authority” as a police officer and “treated Floyd …
