A Pennsylvania mother charged with killing her 11-year-old son did it so the boy didn’t have to grow up under the stress of “the family’s financial difficulties.” Ruth DiRienzo-Whitehead, 50, strangled her son Matthew as he slept with her husband’s belt, then locked the bedroom door and drove to Cape May, New Jersey, where she …
Texas police have made an arrest in the murder of a missing El Paso woman whose body was found in the Red Sands desert earlier this week. Christopher Paul Maya, 34, was charged Wednesday with the death of Michelle Morales-Nakaza, a 32-year-old mother of three who disappeared last month, according to KDBC. As CrimeOnline previously …
A 32-year-old Texas woman missing since March 27 has been found dead in the Red Sands desert outside El Paso. Michelle Morales-Nakaza was last seen at the Baskin-Robbins across from El Dorado High School, police said, and may have been picked up by a man driving a white Toyota Camry. A missing persons report was …
Update 9:45 a.m.: Ruth White-DiRienzo has been charged with first and second degree murder in the death of her 11-year-old son, WCAU reports. Original story: An 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy is dead and his mother in custody after the child’s father found him dead Tuesday morning. Daniel Whitehead called 911 when he woke up around 7 …
A Pennsylvania mother and school teacher was shot to death in the drive-thru lane of a Cheltenham Township Dunkin’ Tuesday morning, while he 11-year-old son watched from the back seat. Rachel King’s son was not hurt in the shooting, WTXF reported. The station said that King, 35, had taught for more than a decade at …
A Texas man has been arrested on charges of murder and assault after he allegedly shot a woman and their two young children, killing one of the children. Two boys, ages 8 and 11, escaped the home and were not physically harmed. San Antonio Police said Stephen Michael Clare, 50, fled the home after the …
A 28-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with criminal homicide and kidnapping in the death of his mother, whose body was found in a shed outside a Philadelphia behavioral center. The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said that Sean Rivera is accused of drugging 72-year-old Carol Clark with fentanyl and then driving her 30 miles …
Michigan State Police say three people have been arrested for the murder of a 22-year-old woman who was found dead, bound and wrapped in a tarp in an abandoned juvenile detention facility last month. Kayla Sedoskey’s mouth was taped shut when she was found on March 3 at the Boysville Juvenile Detention Center in Frenchtown …
A Texas man free on bond for murder has again been charged with the same crime involving a different victim, KHOU-TV reports. Authorities allege that 20-year-old Daniel Medrano killed 43-year-old Joel Villarreal on March 28 in a robbery that turned deadly. Medrano and another man, 19-year-old Andres Lara, are accused of gunning down Villarreal outside …
Arrest affidavits for two boys charged in the murders of three Florida teens last week reveal more information about how the shootings went down. crimeonline, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday it had arrested a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old for the murders, which stunned the rural community north of Orlando. They are still looking …
Michael Haight was obsessed with appearances, according to a report on the incident from Enoch police.
Police have arrested a man accused of murdering his former girlfriend and her young daughter in Washington – weeks after he was released by authorities on domestic violence charges against the victims as he was facing an unrelated murder charge in another state. Prosecutors allege that 28-year-old Kirkland Warren fatally shot his former girlfriend, 27-year-old …
