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Parents are pressing charges after Florida teen steals debit card, pays $1,400 of their own money to have them killed: Police

 Parents are pressing charges after Florida teen steals debit card, pays $1,400 of their own money to have them killed: Police
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A Florida teen arrested this week after allegedly stealing her parents’ money to pay someone to kill them will remain in custody, as her parents move forward in pressing charges against her. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 17-year-old Umatilla High School student Alyssa Michelle Hatcher is facing two counts of criminal solicitation of murder and one count of theft. …

Air traffic controller told feds she saw Jeffrey Epstein exiting private plane with girls as young as 11 the year before his jailhouse death: Docs
Juveniles
September 11, 2019

Air traffic controller told feds she saw Jeffrey Epstein exiting private plane with girls as young as 11 the year before his jailhouse death: Docs

Newly released documents reveal more details about the federal sex trafficking investigation that came to a halt when Jeffrey Epstein died of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan jail cell last month. As first reported by the New York Post, the website Muckrock published investigative documents from the Department of Justice and US Marshals Service …

Mom of 5-year-old girl found dead in closet says daughter screamed while boyfriend was bathing her behind a locked door; had vision of dead uncle before saying ‘I’m done’
Family Crime
September 11, 2019

Mom of 5-year-old girl found dead in closet says daughter screamed while boyfriend was bathing her behind a locked door; had vision of dead uncle before saying ‘I’m done’

The mother whose 5-year-old daughter was found dead in a closet in her Texas apartment last week continues to blame her boyfriend for the girl’s death, and said in a jailhouse interview that he wanted to flee to Mexico. As CrimeOnline previously reported, both Priscilla Torres, 27, and her boyfriend Santiago Esparza Jr., are in …

5-year-old accidentally smothers baby cousin
Juveniles
September 9, 2019

5-year-old accidentally smothers baby cousin

An infant in the Bronx has died after her 5-year-old cousin rolled onto her while they were sleeping. The New York Daily News reports that the aunt of Ziebella Thorne-Young, who was six months old, found the baby unconscious early Monday morning. The aunt was reportedly babysitting the infant at her sister’s request, and the …

6-year-old boy dies in family murder-suicide; 4-year-old sister flees and runs for help
Family Crime
September 9, 2019

6-year-old boy dies in family murder-suicide; 4-year-old sister flees and runs for help

A Tennessee couple and their 6-year-old grandson are dead in an apparent murder-suicide. According to Fox News, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department confirmed that Terry Majors, 64;  Leigh Shea-Majors, 61; and their grandson, Ty Dodson, were all shot to death. Terry Majors is believed to have fatally shot his wife and grandson before turning the …

Woman who attempted to smuggle newborn in luggage charged with human trafficking
Family Crime
September 6, 2019

Woman who attempted to smuggle newborn in luggage charged with human trafficking

A 43-year-old American woman, caught allegedly trying to smuggle a newborn onto an international flight, has been charged with human trafficking in the Philippines, the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said in a press conference Thursday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jennifer Talbot initially concealed the 6-day-old boy in what International Airport Investigation Division chief …