The mother of the Colorado man who pleaded guilty earlier this month to killing his pregnant wife and two daughters says she believes he was coerced into taking a plea deal and did not commit all three murders. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Chris Watts pleaded guilty last Tuesday to murdering his pregnant wife Shannan Watts …
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An Arizona girl may have thwarted a kidnapping last week by using a “code word” made precisely by her family for such dire situations, according to authorities. Officials with the Pinal County Sheriff’s Department said they were alerted Wednesday afternoon to “an attempted luring” in the North Pecan Creek neighborhood of San Tan Valley, near …
A man in Ireland was acquitted of raping a teenage girl after his defense attorney told jurors they should consider what kind of underwear she was wearing, The Irish Examiner reports. The defendant, a 27-year-old man, was accused of raping a 17-year-old girl in Cork, Ireland. In closing arguments, defense lawyer Elizabeth O’Connell said the …
A teen with apparent “chronic mental issues” and his school classmate were discovered dead Thursday night in an upscale Houston apartment in a suspected murder-suicide, according to authorities. Awoman found the bodies of her son and his “best friend” when she returned to her apartment at The Park at River Oaks, police told the Houston …
Federico Luis Cruz, then 16, took the victim’s severed head home and videotaped himself talking to it
The day after Colorado father Chris Watts pleaded guilty to murdering his pregnant wife Shannan Watts and daughters Bella and Celeste, Nancy Grace appeared on Daily Mail TV to talk about the plea deal that stunned those who have been following the murder case. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Watts, 33, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to …
A middle school teacher in Texas took his own life in a classroom while school was in session. ABC News reports that Jordan Halane was found unconscious in his classroom at Wessendorff Middle School and later pronounced dead. Lamar Consolidated Independent School District officials believe Halane, who was a fine arts teacher, intended to harm …
The Wisconsin man alleged to have killed a trio of Girl Scouts and a mother as they collected trash along a rural road Saturday reportedly struggled with a passenger to maintain control of the vehicle before the horrific hit-and-run crash, according to authorities. As previously reported by CrimeOnline citing NBC news, 21-year-old Colten Treu of …
Over $100,000 has been raised in support of a California teacher who reportedly responded to a student who called him a racial slur by repeatedly punching the teen last Friday. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the incident involved 64-year-old Marston Riley and a 14-year-old student at Maywood Academy High School, part of the Los Angeles Unified …
An 11-year-old boy stole his mother’s vehicle on Monday after his mother reportedly took his Playstation away from him. Police say the incident marks the third time the boy took a car without permission. FOX8 reports the young boy took his mother’s SUV from their Brooklyn, Ohio, residence and sped through streets and moved into …
The confessed killer wore a bullet-proof vest as he delivered his guilty pleas
Radiation treatments caused nerve damage to 11-year-old Bethany Thompson’s face—something her parents said led to relentless bullying
