A New Jersey police officer has been charged with striking and killing a pedestrian on the Garden State Parkway then leaving the scene with the victim in his backseat. Louis Santiago, 25, faces multiple charges, including reckless vehicular homicide and desecrating human remains in the November 1 incident, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said. Albert …
Elijah Lewis, a deceased New Hampshire boy whose mother allegedly compared him to Ted Bundy, died from homicide, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 5-year-old Elijah was found dead in a Massachusetts park last month, about 90 minutes from his home in New Hampshire. A state police cadaver dog …
An Arizona mother has been arrested on negligent homicide charges after her toddler daughter was found dead in a backyard pool. Sarah Coleman, 29, reportedly called a family member to say she’d found her 2-year-old daughter in the pool and had performed life-saving measures. The family member alerted Rural Metro Fire Department in Pima County …
A Georgia paramedic has been charged with DUI and homicide after he allegedly drove his ambulance into a ditch, killing an unrestrained patient in the back. The Georgia State Patrol said the wreck happened at about 7:30 p.m. on Friday in Fairburn as the 34-year-old certified paramedic was driving a non-emergency call in a 2007 …
A Tennessee woman suspected of killing her 2-year-old foster son last month was found dead from an apparent suicide on Monday, shortly before her scheduled arrest. Deborah Barnes, 62, was charged with Vincent Carter’s criminal homicide, but Chattanooga police said she took her own life before they could serve an arrest warrant. WRCB reported that …
On Thursday, a juror was dismissed from the Kyle Rittenhouse trial for allegedly joking about last year’s police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, which prompted the protests in Wisconsin where Rittenhouse fatally shot two demonstrators. According to WBBM, prosecutors said the dismissed juror jokingly asked the courthouse deputy, “Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake …
A man who won about $10,000 at a casino was followed to his home and murdered this week in what police believe was an apparent robbery attempt, WPVI-TV reports. The victim, 54-year-old Sree Ranga Aravapalli, left the Parx Casino in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, early Tuesday morning and drove to his home 50 miles away in Plainsboro, …
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As the manhunt for Brian Laundrie continues, the people who say they have encountered or spotted him may be critical in figuring out where he’s located, the Sun reports. Petito and Laundrie had embarked on a summer road trip together across the country in a camper van, but Laundrie returned home September 1 alone. After …
The family of a Pennsylvania woman who was found dead in her home in 2011 will reportedly present new evidence on Friday in hopes of having her death reclassified as a homicide. Ellen Greenberg’s family will plead their case to a judge, and attempt to prove that the 27-year-old teacher did not stab herself 20 …
A Wyoming coroner who performed Gabrielle Petito’s autopsy and announced her cause of death on Tuesday reportedly has a prior domestic violence arrest. According to a 2014 article by the Jackson Hole News & Guide, Teton County Coroner Brent Blue was initially denied a concealed-carry permit renewal due to a prior domestic violence arrest involving …
After weeks of speculation, the cause of death for Gabby Petito has been released. When Petito’s autopsy was performed, the coroner said quickly that Gabby was murdered. This week, we found out that the young woman was strangled to death by “human force.” Dr. Brent Blue said that Petito was throttled. In today’s Body Bags, …
