The months long investigation into Gabby Petito’s murder revealed no evidence that anyone “other than Brian Laundrie (was) directly involved in the tragic death of Gabby Petito,” the FBI’s Denver field office announced Friday. Special Agent in Charge Michael Schneider said in a statement that Petito’s family met with agents at the Tampa field office …
Convicted California murderer, Scott Peterson, was re-sentenced today to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. On November 23, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo had Peterson transferred from San Quentin prison’s death row to the San Mateo County Jail, where has been awaiting Wednesday’s sentencing for …
“Suitcase killer” Heather Mack arrived in the U.S. Wednesday and was arrested after she stepped off a plane at the Chicago O’Hare Airport. Mack, 25, arrived at the airport with her 6-year-old daughter, Stella, but federal agents were waiting at the gate to take her into custody. The child was left with Oshar Putu Melody …
Recently-revealed text messages between “cult mom” Lori Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, reportedly show that the pair had already begun a romantic relationship prior to the death of Daybell’s former wife, Tammy. Police in Chandler, Arizona, released a large file in connection with the death of Lori Vallow’s former husband Charles Vallow, who was …
A California judge ruled Wednesday that Scott Peterson must be re-sentenced after the state supreme court overturned his death sentence last year. Peterson, convicted of murdering his pregnant wife Laci and sentenced to death in 2005, will be resentenced in November to life without parole, Superior Court Judge Anne-Christine Massullo said, according to KRON. Peterson’s …
Florida officials said a man who was previously sentenced to death for abducting, raping, and killing an 11-year-old girl in 2004 died in prison on Monday. The Bradenton Herald-Tribune reported that it is unclear how Joseph Smith, 55, died but the medical examiner’s office will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death. In …
A convicted killer who charmed his way onto the late 1970s version of TV’s “The Dating Game” — in the middle of his killing spree — died in prison early Saturday morning. Rodney Alcala, 77, died of natural causes in an Orange County hospital, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Alcala was …
Convicted killer Cristhian Rivera, who was found guilty this year of murdering slain jogger, Mollie Tibbetts, has not been sentenced as scheduled after witnesses came forward about others possibly being involved in her death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Judge Joel Yates ordered Rivera’s sentencing to be delayed last week after two witnesses told investigators that …
The defense lawyers for Cristhian Bahena Rivera claim that another inmate has admitted to killing University of Iowa student, Mollie Tibbetts. As CrimeOnline previously reported, an Iowa jury found Rivera guilty of murdering Tibbetts earlier this year. Tibbetts was out for a jog in Brooklyn, Iowa, in July 2018, when she vanished. Rivera told investigators …
Dr. Laura Pettler, along with her partner in crime-fighting, Melissa Moore, are taking a deep dive into murder cases in the upcoming podcast, “Life After Happy Face.” “Life After Happy Face” is a follow-up to Moore’s “The Happy Face Killer” podcast, which followed the case of Keith Jesperson, a serial killer who wreaked havoc in …
Gerry Vallow had a hard time accepting his brother’s death. Charles Vallow, married to but separated from “cult mom” Lori Vallow, was shot and killed in July 2019 by his wife’s brother, who claimed self-defense and died himself, of natural causes, five months later. Gerry heard the news during a conference call with his sister, …
A Wisconsin judge on Thursday ordered the release of one of two women convicted in the Slender Man stabbing case when both were 12-years-old. Then-sixth graders Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser stabbed classmate Payton Leutner 19 times in May 2014 in an attempt to curry favor with the fictional horror character, who, they said, they …
