A Texas girl died on Monday, days after she was reportedly infected with a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a river in her backyard. A relative told KBMT that they believe Lily Mae Avant, 10, contracted the deadly amoeba during Labor Day weekend while swimming in the Brazos River, which is located behind her Whitney …
The father took his daughters to church just before he murdered them, and said he didn’t want them to “grow up in a world where daddy had killed mommy”
An 18-year-old girl in Oklahoma allegedly threatened to “shoot 400 people for fun” with her newly acquired AK-47 assault rifle. Fox 23 reports that 18-year-old Alexis Wilson of McAlester is in custody after co-workers at a pizza parlor claimed that she made threats against McAlester High School, where she was a student until she was …
A 6-year-old New Jersey girl escaped an attempted abduction on Sunday afternoon, authorities confirmed. According to the Howell Township Police Department, the little girl told police she was outside playing with friends and when they left, she stayed behind picking up toys at the Adelphia Greens Development off of Crooked Stick Court, in Howell Township …
The family of a South Dakota mother who was gunned down in front of her children has offered a reward for information in the mysterious murder case. The Associated Press reports that the family of Melissa Peskey is offering a $10,000 reward for information about her unsolved murder. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Peskey, 40, was …
The parents claimed the disabled girl, who may have been as young as 9 years old when they abandoned her, is a psychopath
Two Ohio daycare workers are facing charges after they allegedly sat by and allowed other children to bully a young girl. ABC30 reports that two former daycare workers at the Worthington Learning Center in Columbus, identified as Joshua Tennant, 27, and Emma Dietrich, 31, were arrested Tuesday following complaints about an alleged “extreme bullying” incident …
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. …
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 …
The New York father who reportedly admitted to brutally killing a family pet and sending photos of the dead animal to his children is out of jail, and faces a maximum of only two years behind bars if convicted. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Antonio Martin, 40, was arrested this weekend in Buffalo after he allegedly …
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 …
A New York teen who claimed he was being bullied for his sexual orientation by a classmate that he stabbed to death was sentenced on Tuesday to 14 years in prison for the 2017 slaying. Bronx Supreme Court Justice Michael Gross denied youthful offender status for Abel Cedeno, 20, who was convicted of first-degree manslaughter …
