David Creato Jr., the New Jersey man whose relationship with a teenage girl reportedly led him to kill his own 3-year-old son, will face a decade behind bars for the 2015 crime. On Oct. 13, 2015, Creato called police to report his son, Brendan, missing. About three hours later, the boy’s dead body was found …
A woman with a history of mental illness has been charged with killing her mother with a crossbow and hiding the body under a rug for days, the Morning Call reports. Authorities say Lisa Caplan, 51, murdered her 71-year-old mother, Sandra Barndt, at a duplex in Palmerton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday. Caplan allegedly shot her mom …
A 15-year-old Wisconsin boy has been charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide for allegedly punching and choking his mother as she tried to order him a pizza. Police in the village of Eagle in Waukesha County were called to the home of Andrew Romagna last month after a frantic 911 call reporting that the teen …
A Colorado grandmother was convicted on Friday of child abuse that resulted in the death of her baby grandson, the Denver Post reports. Jurors found Sandy Archuleta guilty in the death of 4-month-old Donovan Archuleta. In addition to the boy’s own mother, Sandy Archuleta is the second person to be convicted in the infant’s death, …
A 10-year-old boy sustained multiple injuries after taking his mother’s pickup truck and leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash. Local CBS affiliate KFDM reports that police in the Southeast Texas city of Vidor, near Beaumont, received multiple calls about a reckless driver, believed to be a child, around 7:30 am …
The City of Albuquerque has responded to a lawsuit brought by the parents of a 10-year-old girl who was brutally assaulted and murdered, while her mother looked on, in August 2016. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Victoria Martens died last year after her mother’s boyfriend and his cousin allegedly raped, strangled, and partially dismembered her body …
A 2-year-old girl in Alabama died suddenly while in the care of her mother’s boyfriend, and now the boyfriend is being charged with her murder. AL.com reports that Levi Ellise Pointer, 2, of Hoover ,died on September 21. Police responded to a 911 call made by her mother’s boyfriend, Dlonta Khalil Melton, 19, who was watching the …
A North Carolina woman is behind bars after police say she murdered her toddler son. A recently-released autopsy report revealed the boy died after he drowned in a kitchen sink. FOX8 reports that authorities arrested Angela Maria Olson, 41, in January 13, at her home off of Dennis Road in Jacksonville. They found her in the attic …
The wife of an Arizona judge has admitted that she and her husband originally lied to police about who was responsible for stabbing her. The New York Post reports that Tempe Municipal Judge Thomas Robinson has admitted to stabbing his wife ten times during a martial spat last month. But the couple initially blamed the stabbing …
Sarah and Jacob Hoggle were 4 and 2 years old when they vanished two years ago. Their mother Catherine Hoggle told police she gave them away because of her broken relationship with their father, but prosecutors accuse the 30-year-old Maryland woman of murdering her two children. Hoggle, who has been in a mental health facility …
The husband of a second-grade teacher found dead in her Revere, Massachusetts, home on Saturday afternoon has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The Boston Globe reports that Andrew MacCormack, 29, has been charged in the death of his wife, Vanessa MacCormack, 30. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Vanessa was a popular second grade teacher at Connery Elementary …
Two people are behind bars after authorities found the remains of a baby girl on Saturday, who hadn’t been seen since July. WYFF reports that authorities arrested Ladasha Harriett and her boyfriend, Daquan Simmons, for death of Aaliyana McCoy, a 9-month-old little girl who was last seen in in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in July. According to Myrtle …
