A Colorado funeral home owner has pleaded guilty to mail fraud for illegally selling body parts and giving clients fake ashes. Megan Hess, 45, and her mother Shirley Koch, were indicted in March 2020 on six counts of mail fraud and three counts of transporting hazardous material, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The remaining charges against …
Buster Murdaugh was reportedly ousted from USC for low grades and plagiarism
A New York bodybuilder collected disability insurance for years for seven years, all the while pumping iron and running a business even though he claimed he couldn’t sit for more than 30 minutes or walk for more than 15 minutes. Anthony Ragusa, 52, pleaded guilty to a single count of second-degree larceny and must pay …
Embattled South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s law license was suspended on Thursday, on the heels of officials releasing recorded jailhouse phone calls that apparently capture Murdaugh’s surviving son confronting him about illegal behavior. The State acquired a December 22, 2021, phone call in which Alex’s son, Buster, suggests a search warrant was illegally served as …
Last week, a second batch of phone calls Alex Murdaugh placed from a South Carolina jail was released to the public — despite Murdaugh’s lawyers’ efforts to keep them private. FitsNews reported that the latest calls suggest the family was attempting to divert money that would have gone to Murdaugh’s creditors. The money garnered from …
A woman whose bakery was once featured on the Food Network allegedly stole the identity of a deceased infant for nearly two decades and is now facing up to 30 years behind bars in connection with the ruse, WSYX-TV reports.On Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced charges against 49-year-old Ava …
Gloria Satterfield allegedly died after a fall on the steps of a Murdaugh home.
Court documents filed on Thursday alleged that a bank often allowed South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh to overdraw his account, sometimes in the six-figure range. FITS News reported that Palmetto State Bank apparently allowed Murdaugh to keep his accounts in the negative for the past several years. Despite this, the bank allegedly gave Murdaugh large …
An Alabama-born Florida man is expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal wire and mail fraud and money laundering charges, all related to his alleged romance scams that netted him more than $750,000 from at least 21 women in eight states. Brian Brainard Wedgeworth, 46, was indicted last October and arrested in Nashville not long …
Disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh allegedly made a series of unsubstantiated — and contradictory — claims about a housekeeper who suffered a fatal fall on his property in 2018 to receive substantial insurance payouts. FITS News, citing 911 calls and various documents, reported that at the time of Gloria Satterfield’s fall, Murdaugh had an …
A disgraced former MIT professor is headed to prison after forging documents in an attempt to steal from his late son’s estate. As CrimeOnline previously reported, John Donovan Sr., 80, of Hamilton, was convicted of seven forgery charges on 25 documents, including mortgages, deeds, land transfers, and even his late son’s will codicil. Donovan Sr.’s …
Disgraced former MIT professor John Donovan Sr. was taken into custody inside a Salem, Massachusetts courtroom last week, after a jury found him guilty of forgery and fraud in a scheme to steal from his dead son’s estate. The conviction is the latest chapter in a decades-long saga of criminality, fraud, and family conflict. John Donovan Sr., …
