A North Carolina man reportedly dealt with mental illness before killing his wife, three children, and himself on Saturday. High Point police said Robert J. Crayton Jr., 45, fatally shot Athalia A. Crayton, 46, Kasin Crayton, 18, and two other children, ages 16 and 10, before taking his own life. NBC News reported that two …
A Kentucky man is believed to have killed his wife and two daughters before taking his own life. WDRB reported that Gary Stanton, 60, Mary Stanton, 49, Adrianna Stanton, 17, and Brianna Stanton, 11, were found dead in a home on Saturday. Since then, Louisville Metro police have said Gary fatally shot the three victims …
New court documents filed earlier this week change the timeline of the deaths of Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her 22-year-old son Paul Murdaugh, whose bodies were found on the legal scion family’s hunting property in Colleton County, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021. Alex Murdaugh, Maggie’s husband and Paul’s father, has been charged with their …
A three-part documentary premiering on Netflix next month attempts to understand how cult mom Lori Vallow went from loving wife and mother to suspect in the murders of two of her children. The dramatic trailer for “Sins of Our Mother” opens with another of Vallow’s children, Colby Ryan, on the phone with his mother while …
Authorities in Virginia are investigating an incident in which seven children overdosed on sleeping pills while their adult supervisor went to a corner store. According to WTVR, authorities responded to a home in Hopewell early Monday evening where they found four children unresponsive and three others lethargic. All seven children were under the age of …
An Idaho judge has ruled that Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell will not be tried separately for the murder and conspiracy cases involving Vallow’s two children and Daybell’s late wife Tammy Daybell. As East Idaho News reports, District Judge Steven Boyce filed a written decision Monday denying Daybell’s defense team request to sever his and …
A toddler playing with a gun in the backseat of a car accidentally shot and killed his mother this weekend. The fatal incident took place outside a grocery store in Dalton, Illinois, on Saturday, WLS reports. While the car was in the parking lot, a 3-year-old boy sitting in the backseat got his hands on …
Authorities in Texas are investigating the apparent abandonment of four young children who were found in a roadway near a residence in Spring. According to Click2Houston, two teenagers first discovered the children, all believed to be under the age of four, in various states of undress on Cypress Road. Responding officers discovered there were no …
Authorties in Washington state are still working to determine how to two teen girls and their father died, more than two months after all three bodies were found in a Renton apartment. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 17-year-old Adriana Gil, 16-year-old Mariel Gil, and their father Manuel Gil, 33, were found dead on December 11. The …
More disturbing allegations have surfaced about the horrific abuse of a 4-year-old Texas boy who died from starvation last year, KSAT-TV reports. As Crime Online reported earlier this week, authorities obtained a video allegedly showing the boy being forced to drink hand sanitizer and then crying that his mouth was burning. The boy had reportedly been begging …
A lawyer for the mother of a boy found dead in a freezer this week has shared more about her reported claims that the child’s suspected killer, her boyfriend, had been holding her captive for an extended period of time. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 4-year-old Mason Dominguez was discovered dead on Tuesday during an investigation …
At least one person is facing charges in the death of a 4-year-old boy who was brought to the hospital in an unresponsive state in August, and cell phone video has led to new evidence in the case against the boy’s father. Brandon Cervera, 28, was arrested Thursday on a charge of injury to a …
