Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has been subpoenaed after a lawyer filed a petition for a special prosecutor who will investigate her office’s controversial handling of the Jussie Smollett case. The lawyer, retired appellate judge Sheila O’Brien, also subpoenaed Foxx’s leading assistant, Joseph Magats, and filed an additional document requesting Smollett appear for the …
An accused gang member believed to have fatally stabbed a New York City boy in the neck last summer has rejected a plea deal Thursday that could’ve spared him from spending the rest of his life behind bars. According to News12, Jonaiki Martinez-Estrella, 24, one of 14 men charged in the June 20 slaying of …
A Georgia man who sexually abused a North Carolina girl and held her captive for more than a year will not spend a day in prison. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Michael Wysolovski, 33, was sentenced to 10 years, with eight months of that time to be spent in jail and the remainder to be spent …
A lawsuit filed against a fertility clinic in Connecticut reportedly claims that a British man and woman were given someone else’s genetic material, resulting in a child they say is not even the same race as they are. According to the Connecticut Post, the couple reportedly contacted CT Fertility P.C. in Trumbull and spoke to …
Leslie Van Houten, a surviving member of the Manson Family, may have another chance at freedom as an appeals court will hear arguments this week regarding her parole. According to the Associated Press, Van Houten’s case will be presented to California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal, who will decide whether they will uphold a Los Angeles County …
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Lamar Catchings reportedly died of acute promyelocytic leukemia, which, with treatment, has a 90-percent survival rate
David and Louise Turpin, the California couple arrested last year for the torture and abuse of 12 of their 13 children, were sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. In February, the Turpins pleaded guilty to 14 criminal counts, including torture and false imprisonment. The couple was arrested …
The couple’s 17-year-old daughter told a dispatcher that she hadn’t taken a bath in a year and barely had a first-grade education
A man charged for last year’s stabbing death of a 15-year-old New York boy is reportedly in talks with prosecutors about making a plea deal that could spare him from life in prison. The mother of Lesandro Guzman-Ortiz, Leandra Feliz, told WPIX Tuesday that she’s requested a meeting with Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark amid news that Jonaiki …
Authorities in Arizona say a defendant turned his aggression toward his own attorney after a jury announced their guilty verdict against him. According to the Tucson Daily Star, 28-year-old Chet Jack Wadsworth Maley was convicted on Monday of the 2016 stabbing that left his girlfriend dead. As witnesses reported at the time of 29-year-old Roxanne …
Despite appearing for a hearing on charges related to the attempted murder of her estranged husband, a New York woman was in apparent good spirits as she arrived at a Suffolk County courthouse recently. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 40-year-old Renee Burke is accused of pouring antifreeze in Matthew Burke’s drinks on multiple occasions — even …
