Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman currently serving a 15-month sentence for encouraging her late boyfriend to kill himself in 2014, has appealed her case up to the U.S. Supreme Court. BuzzFeed reported that Carter, 22, has asked the country’s highest court to review her involuntary manslaughter conviction on the basis that her texts to Conrad …
Minutes after an Indiana man was sentenced for killing his 3-month-old son on Wednesday, the baby’s uncle reportedly attacked him. Initially facing up to 40 years or more, the defendant took a plea deal that allowed him to get out of prison after 19 years, which may have possibly triggered the attack. NBC 14 reports …
Prosecutors have reportedly reduced criminal charges against a Florida woman accused of taking firearms out of an allegedly abusive husband’s residence last month. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Courtney Irby was reportedly arrested on multiple serious charges after allegedly breaking into her estranged husband’s home to retrieve illegally owned guns, which she surrendered to police. According …
Criminal charges have reportedly been dropped against an Alabama woman whose unborn child was killed when she was shot during a fight late last year. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Marshae Jones was arrested last month and was later indicted for manslaughter. Prosecutors initially sought charges against 23-year-old Ebony Jemison, but determined the preceding fight was …
Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher has been acquitted of multiple charges including premeditated murder in connection with allegations that he stabbed a teenage Islamic State insurgent to death in Iraq. According to AP News, Gallagher was only convicted on one of the seven counts against him. He could face a sentence of four months behind bars …
Killer Bruce Davis, a former member of the sadistic “Manson family,” led by the late Charles Manson, was granted parole on Friday after serving 47 years of a life sentence. However, he’s not in the clear yet. New York Post reports that the final decision as to whether Davis actually walks out of the California …
Jurors on Friday convicted “Ivy League Killer” Thomas Gilbert, Jr. of murdering his father over cuts to his weekly allowance, a result that all hinged on a can of Coke, the New York Post reports. The conviction came after deliberations spanned for more than two days. Jurors were not persuaded by an insanity defense that …
The parents of a slain University of Utah student have filed a $56 million federal lawsuit, alleging college police and housing officials failed to act before her ex-boyfriend shot her to death on campus last year. Matt and Jill McCluskey, the parents of slain student Lauren McCluskey, 21, announced Thursday that they’re suing the college …
Charges against the accused shooter were dropped after a grand jury failed to indict her
A Dallas jury reached a verdict on Wednesday for a Texas man who admitted he hid his special needs adoptive daughter’s body in a culvert. Wesley Mathews, 39, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the death of 3-year-old Sherin Mathews, a little girl he adopted from India in 2016. A year …
During the second week of his murder trial, man accused of killing a date he met on the Tinder dating app apparently cut his own throat during a Monday morning court hearing in a Nebraska courtroom. “Bailey is innocent and I curse you all,” 52-year-old Aubrey Trail screamed out in court before slashing himself in …
Some details have emerged surrounding allegations that a trio of women ignored an elderly veteran’s cries for help as he died at a nursing home in Atlanta five years ago. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 89-year-old James Dempsey was at Atlanta Health and Rehabilitation when staff members Loyce Pickquet Agyeman, Wanda Nuckles, and Mable Turman allegedly …
