The father of a 14-month-old Michigan baby was sentenced last week to 15 to 70 years in prison for the boy’s death. Isaias Aurelio Porras and the baby’s mother, Amanda Jajou, were arrested in October 2021 after police found Isaias Daniel Porras dead at the Farmington Hills motel where the family had been living on …
A man accused of killing his sister late last year has been extradited back to South Carolina after he fled to North Carolina following the murder. The body of Lisa Rosenzweig, 53, was found in her home on November 9 after her daughter requested a welfare check, WSOC reported. Prosecutors say that Rosenzweig was allowing …
An Indiana foster mom was sentenced last week to prison for the death of 10-year-old Dakota Levi Stevens last April. Jennifer Wilson pleaded guilty in October to reckless homicide in the incident, in which the 340-pound woman sat on the 90-pound boy for at least seven minutes after he fled to a neighbor’s house begging …
A South Carolina man changed his plea Friday to guilty in the murder of a New Mexico State Police officer who stopped to help him with what appeared to be a flat tire on Interstate 40. Jaremy Smith was already wanted for the murder of a paramedic in South Carolina when he shot Officer Justin …
A New Mexico woman who tried to blame her teenage son for a murder she committed pleaded guilty this week to second degree murder with a firearm enhancement. According to prosecutors, Elizabeth Ortiz-Chavez, 49, set up a fight between her then-16-year-old son, Angelo Baldonado, and another 16-year-old, Josue Ruiz, Law&Crime reported. Reportedly, Baldonado’s pregnant sister, …
A scheduled status conference in the case of the Manhattan architect accused of being the Gilgo Beach serial killer has been postponed for two weeks to give prosecutors time to respond to a motion the defense made last week to exclude DNA results on some evidence. Rex Heuermann, charged with killing seven women, was to …
Lori Vallow Daybell, who is representing herself in the her Arizona cases of conspiracy to commit murder, told a judge on Friday she was ready for trial despite accusing the prosecution of impeding the defense. Vallow Daybell is charged with conspiracy in the murder of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, and the attempted murder of …
On Wednesday, Jay-Z filed to dismiss a federal lawsuit that accuses him and Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a 13-year-old girl in New York in 2000. According to Variety, Jay-Z’s attorney cited an NBC News interview from December in which the accuser said she made “some mistakes” with her claims. In addition to dismissing the …
Update Morgan Geyser, convicteed for stabbing a classmate to appease the fictional character Slender Man, received conditional release from a state psychiatric hospital on Thursday, FOX 6 Milwaukee reports. Initial Coverage A Wisconsin woman, who stabbed her classmate over a decade ago, a judge’s permission to be released from a psychiatric hospital. In court Thursday, …
On Wednesday, the trial began for a Texas man who allegedly killed his 2-year-old daughter in 2023. Deontray Flanagan reportedly took Zevaya Flanagan out of daycare in March 2023, then drove to a Walmart where his daughter’s mother worked and attacked her. KHOU reported that during the 45-minute police chase that followed, Deontray Flanagan strangled …
The father of a baby girl found dead in a Connecticut motel bathroom in August has been ruled incompetent to stand trial. Dale Kirkland will return to court in March for another competency hearing after spending 60 days at Whiting Forensic Hospital in Middletown, WVIT reports. Kirkland was initially charged with risk of injury to …
Massachusetts’ highest court is deliberating on whether to make audio recordings from the hearing that resulted in slain girl Harmony Montgomery being placed in the custody of her killer father. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, who was convicted last year for her murder, gained custody in a Massachusetts courtroom before relocating with …
