A Tennessee woman and her adult son accused of abusing the woman’s adopted children and killing two of them appeared in a Knox County court Friday for the first time, where a judge refused to lower Michael Gray Jr’s bond, WBIR reported. Gray Jr, 40, his mother Shirley Gray, 60, and his father Michael Gray …
Victim’s mom testifies FOR HUBBY WHOSE fingerprints were on LIQUOR BOTTLE-murder weapon that killed HER DAUGHTER Kat West
Prosecutors revealed in court on Thursday that Jeff West’s fingerprints were found on a bottle of absinthe investigators believe was used to murder his wife Kat West in 2018. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kat West was found dead outside her home in Calera, Alabama, on the morning of January 13, 2018, hours after a ‘date …
The Department of Justice confirmed that Orlando Hall was executed on Thursday night at U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute in Indiana. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Hall was convicted for his role in the 1994 kidnapping, rape, and murder of 16-year-old Lisa Rene, the sister of two Texas drug dealers he believed had stolen money from him. …
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the execution of a Texas man after an appeals court ruled earlier this week that the Justice Department’s protocols for execution violate federal law. Orlando Hall, 49, would have been the eighth person executed by the federal government this year after a 17-year hiatus, Reuters reported. Hall, an African-American …
Brooke Skylar Richardson, an Ohio teen convicted last year of abusing a corpse in connection with the death of her newborn, has been released from probation two years early. The Dayton Daily News reports that Richardson’s lawyers requested the early probation release after Richardson pleaded with Warren County Judge Donald Oda II to give her …
A Pennsylvania woman facing murder and bestiality charges plans to plead insane, according to a motion filed by her defense team. The Morning Call reports that that the defense lawyers for Lisa Snyder filed a 43-page motion at the Berks County courthouse last week, confirming they plan to seek an insanity defense. They also asked …
A newly released recording reveals that cult mom Lori Vallow had considered killing her third husband, Joseph Ryan, before turning her life back to her religion, but that 2018 recording still prompted the Phoenix Police Department to announce a review of Ryan’s death. Nancy Grace discussed the recording and other issues with a panel of …
A woman who strangled an expectant mother and cut her newborn baby out of her womb is scheduled to be executed in December, but her lawyers apparently have coronaviruses, which prompted them to request a pushback. Fox News reports that the lawyers for Lisa Montgomery filed a lawsuit at the U.S. District Court for the …
A Utah woman will spend time in jail over a sexual relationship with a teenage boy in 2016, but she won’t have to register as a sex offender after a plea deal took a sex crime off the table, East Idaho News reports. District Judge Darren Simpson sentenced Amanda Katherine Steele, 35, to 90 days …
Text messages will show that an Alabama man accused of murdering his wife had frequently argued with her before her nearly nude body was found outside their home, AL.com reports. Prosecutors revealed the existence of the text messages in court documents recently filed in the case against Jeff West, whose trial is scheduled to start next …
On Friday, a Georgia judge denied bond for the father and son accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery. Travis McMichael, 34, and Gregory McMichael, 64, were denied bond following a two-day hearing in Glynn County. WSB-TV reported that during Friday’s proceedings, the courtroom was showed the video of Arbery’s death — eliciting anguished cries from a …
