On Wednesday, a federal judge in New York ruled that Prince Andrew must face a lawsuit that accuses him of sexually abusing a woman when she was 17. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Virginia Roberts Giuffre, 38, can pursue a lawsuit in which she alleges Andrew, now 61, and late billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein …
The man who allegedly purchased the firearm that Kyle Rittenhouse used in the August 2020 protest shooting in Wisconsin that left two demonstrators dead accepted a plea deal on Friday that would spare him from jail. According to the Kenosha County Eye, Dominick Black, 20, agreed to plead no contest to contributing to the delinquency …
Three Georgia men who were found guilty of killing Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020 were sentenced on Friday to life in prison, with only one of them getting the possibility of parole. Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, 64 and 34, were sentenced to life without parole for felony murder, plus 20 years for …
On the two-year anniversary of an Alabama woman Paighton H0uston’s death, a lawsuit was filed against several businesses and individuals. According to the lawsuit, the family of Paighton Houston has filed suit against the Tin Roof Acquisition Company, the City of Birmingham, and suspect Fred Hampton for wrongful death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, police said …
A juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial reportedly answered negatively to a query on the juror questionnaire asking if he, a friend, or family member had ever been a victim of sexual abuse, harassment, or assault, Fox News reports. The juror, identified only as Scott David, later told reporters he had revealed his own childhood sexual assault during deliberations and helped persuade other members of the panel to convict Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Prosecutors have asked Judge Allison Nathan to hold a hearing on Scotty David’s comments, while defense attorneys asked for the convictions to be thrown out. Nathan has set a briefing schedule for the issue.
Prosecutors in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking trial have asked the judge to launch an inquiry about statements made by one of the jurors in the case, but Maxwell’s attorneys said Judge Alison Nathan should just order a new trial. A member of the panel told Reuters that he shared his experiences with sexual abuse with …
A Colorado mother admitted that she faked her 7-year-old daughter Olivia Gant’s terminal illness, causing multiple unnecessary surgeries and medications that led to her death. On Monday, Kelly R. Turner, 43, pleaded guilty to negligent child abuse that caused her daughter’s 2017 death, along with felony theft and charitable fraud. According to the Denver Post, …
After weeks of deliberation, a California jury on Monday found Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes guilty on four counts of wire fraud and not guilty on four others related to the collapse of Theranos, the blood testing company that promised to deliver health information with just a drop of blood — but the technology didn’t …
On Friday, a U.S. federal judge rejected Prince Andrew’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed against him by a woman claiming he sexually assaulted her when she was 17. Andrew’s legal team unsuccessfully argued that Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s lawsuit against him should be thrown out since Giuffre, 38, no longer resides in the U.S despite …
Despite the money, Laundrie allegedly used his dead girlfriend’s debit cards after killing her
On Thursday, a New York jury found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of five of six counts of federal sex trafficking, according to emerging reports. The 12 jurors reached a verdict on their fifth full day of deliberations. During their deliberations, the jury asked the court for transcripts of testimony from several of the state’s witnesses. Maxwell, …
A New Jersey has been released from prison after her 2016 murder conviction was overturned. On Tuesday, New Jersey’s Supreme Court dismissed the charges against Michelle Lodzinski, 54. She was convicted of murdering her 5-year-old son, Timmy Wiltsey. The child was reported missing on May 25, 1991, after attending a carnival in Sayreville with his …
