A Pennsylvania jury took less than an hour Thursday to return guilty verdicts for a man and a woman charged in the murder of a school teacher and mom shot dead in her car in a Dunkin’ drive-thru with her 11-year-old son in the back seat. Rachel King, 35, was taking her son to violin …
Chad Daybell, the Idaho doomsday writer whose wife has already been convicted of killing her children and his first wife, has been transferred to Ada County where his own murder trial will be held. Daybell’s trial is set to begin April 1 in the same courtroom where Lori Vallow Daybell was tried and convicted last …
Months after fabricating her abduction and making a false report to police, Alabama woman Carlee Russell is set to reappear in court. Carlee Russell admitted guilt in court on Thursday in Jefferson County, to two misdemeanor charges of false reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting an incident after calling 911. As CrimeOnline previously reported, …
The parents of a 36-year-old Louisiana woman with autism found “melted” into her couch were sentenced this week to 40 years in prison with 20 years suspended. Clay and Sheila Fletcher entered no-contest pleas to manslaughter charges in February, WAFB reported. “You know, you wouldn’t treat your animals like that,” West Feliciana District Attorney Sam …
Following a request from his lawyer for a revised criminal complaint, prosecutors filed more details concerning Jesse Vang, a caregiver who reported 3-year-old Wisconsin tot, Elijah Vue, as missing. Vang was caring for Elijah when the child vanished from a Twin Rivers apartment complex in the 3900 block of Mishicot Road on February 20. While …
A newly unsealed search warrant reveals a Utah detective’s suspicions that Kouri Richins’ mother may have been involved in planning the death of Richins’ husband, Eric. Kouri Richins is accused of lacing a Moscow Mule she made for her husband with five times the lethal amount of fentanyl in March 2022, as Crime Online has …
Indiana’s Special Judge Fran Gull discussed two separate issues Monday in connection with the Delphi murder case against Richard Allen, including a push by Allen’s law team to drop murder charges. During the court hearing Monday in Fort Wayne, Allen’s attorney, Andrew Baldwin, argued that murder charges should be dropped against his client, claiming police …
A former California fertility doctor was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison for murdering his wife and staging it to look like she fell down the stairs. E. Scott Sills, 58, was found guilty in December in the murder of Susan Sills, 45, as CrimeOnline reported. Sills was arrested in 2019, more …
An Ohio judge ruled last week that an interrogation video cannot be shown at the trial of a man who allegedly confessed to killing his three sons last year. Judge Richard Ferenc ruled that Chad Doerman’s rights were violated when Detective Michael Ross failed to read him his Miranda Rights verbatim, according to court documents …
An Idaho judge issued a series of orders last week as the start date of Chad Daybell’s trial for the murders of two of his wife’s children and his first wife rapidly approaches. Daybell’s trial is set to begin on April 1 in Ada County, Idaho, where Lori Vallow Daybell was convicted last year on …
Scott Peterson appeared in a California court on Tuesday amid claims that DNA evidence will exonerate him in his wife and unborn son’s murders. The Los Angeles Times reported that the Los Angeles Innocence Project is backing Peterson’s case. Paula Mitchell, executive director of the nonprofit organization, argued in court that Peterson’s rights were violated …
A New Hampshire judge has approved the request made by Harmony Montgomery’s biological mother to declare the 5-year-old girl as legally deceased. Crystal Sorey appeared at the Nashua District Court Monday, urging the judge to recognize Harmony as legally dead so that she can be appointed as the administrator of Harmony’s estate. Sorey’s basis for …
