A 5-year-old boy is dead after he was shot inside a Los Angeles-area home. KTLA reports that the unidentified boy was shot Wednesday afternoon in the Leimert Park area of south Los Angeles. He was reportedly transported to a hospital and later pronounced dead. A spokesperson with the Los Angeles Police Department told the news …
Surveillance footage provided to CBS showed the final moments of a toddler’s life before she fell to her death while aboard a Caribbean cruise ship in July. Chloe Wiegand, an 18-month-old toddler from Granger, Indiana, was on the cruise with family when she lost her life aboard Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas cruise ship. …
Authorities have issued an AMBER Alert for a three-week-old infant who is believed to have been kidnapped by her biological mother, who does not have custody. KSL reports that Audrey Westfall, who is three weeks old, was abducted from her grandmother’s home in Clinton, Utah. Authorities reportedly believe the infant was taken by mother, 25-year-old …
An Ohio teen who shot and killed a 13-year-old girl over false pregnancy rumors will likely be out of jail by the time he is 21. The Columbus Dispatch reports that last Wednesday, Isiah Lynch, 14, pleaded guilty to the March murder of Sylvia McGee. According to Stark County Assistant Prosecutor Michelle Cordova, Lynch was …
A 16-year-old boy in Georgia allegedly shot and killed his younger girlfriend last week and left her to die in her yard. Citing Savannah police, WJCL reported that Jeremiah Seaton walked into the police precinct on Friday night and admitted to shooting his 13-year-old girlfriend, Le’Meya Mitchell. Earlier that day, Mitchell’s mother, April Jones, reportedly …
Authorities in South Carolina are asking for the public’s help in locating a 17-year-old girl who has not been seen in several days. ABC News 4 reports that Angela Paiz Parada of Mount Pleasant was last seen on November 14. She is believed to be a runaway. The report does not indicate if she is …
Four Kentucky high school students have been arrested after a brutal beating that left an autistic teen unconscious. The Herald Ledger reports that 18-year-old Damon Simmons was charged with second-degree assault and second-degree criminal mischief. Simmons, along with three other minor teens, are accused of barricading the victim inside a bathroom at Iroquois High School …
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office gave a press conference on Friday afternoon, in which they acknowledge that the Saugus High School shooting suspect likely planed the attack, but said they did not have any solid theories on a possible motive. Authorities said on Friday in a press conference that was live-streamed on numerous platforms …
The grieving mother says that while her husband has repeatedly apologized, he hasn’t explicitly asked for her forgiveness. “We’ll work on that,” she says.
CrimeOnline’s own Nancy Grace will appear on the “Dr. Oz” show Thursday to talk about the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case. Epstein, 66, was awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors when he reportedly took his own life in his jail cell on August 9. Since then, much of the focus on …
An Arizona mother accused of abusing her children while she profited from their popular YouTube channel has died. ABC 15 reports that Machelle Hobson, 48, has died in a Phoenix hospital as she was facing dozens of child abuse charges. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Hobson, the creator of the “Fantastic Adventures” YouTube channel, was arrested …
A woman who says she has exchanged letters with confessed family-killer Chris Watts will appear on the “Dr. Oz” show Tuesday to discuss the Colorado criminal’s detailed confessions about his family’s brutal murders. Cheryln Cadle, the author of the book “Letters from Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders,” has reportedly exchanged letters …
