A pedestrian alerted police to a wanted man accused of killing an UCLA graduate student last week. Citing a law enforcement source, Fox News reports that a witness spotted Shawn Laval Smith sitting on a park bench in Pasadena on Wednesday and alerted authorities. The pedestrian presumably recognized Smith from photos and videos the Los …
A Kansas man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly killed his girlfriend’s friend, who apparently gave her a cover story on the night she went out without her boyfriend. Jose E. Escalante-Corchado, 24, has been charged with murder and numerous related offenses after he allegedly killed Mackenzie Hopkins, 24, and attempted to kill her …
Attorneys for Ghilsaine Maxwell have asked for a retrial after being convicted of sex trafficking earlier this month. The New York Post reports that attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein’s close confidant have requested a retrial, reportedly because one juror did not disclose during jury selection that they were a victim of childhood sex abuse. As CrimeOnline …
San Diego investigators said Wednesday that a mother and her toddler son who died when they fell from a concourse at the city’s major league baseball stadium died from a murder-suicide. Police said the deaths of Raquel Wilkins, 40, and Denzel Browning-Wilkins, 2, were suspicious at the time. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Wilkins and her …
No arrests have been made in the slaying of a 16-year-old California girl who was reportedly shot in the neck and dumped on the side of a highway. According to KABC, Tioni Theus was found dead near 110 Freeway in South Los Angeles on January 8 after drivers spotted her body and contacted authorities. Additional …
On Tuesday, the search for a New South Wales girl ended when police made a gruesome discovery in Mount Wilson. According to Daily Beast, 9-year-old Charlise Mutten was reported missing on January 14 after she vanished while visiting with her mother over the school holidays. The child’s grandmother, who Charlise lived with, said she disappeared …
A Minnesota mother reportedly helped in convicting the man who killed her 18-year-old daughter in September 2019 by stashing a tracking device in the teen’s car before her death. Wendy Poulson told the New York Post that she put the SafeTrack device in her adoptive daughter Dani’s car trunk before overdose death. The device — …
A Texas teen accused of killing his girlfriend has been released from jail. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Houston police responded to a crime scene in the southwest part of the city at around 9:30 p.m. on January 11. When officers arrived, they found the body of 16-year-old Diamond Alvarez with numerous gunshot wounds. She was …
An Alabama man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a young child in Georgia was also named in a police report concerning a deceased adult female. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 37-year-old Jeremy Williams is accused of kidnapping and killing 5-year-old Kamari Holland in December 2021. Kamari’s mother, 35-year-old Kelly Siple, was arrested for murder and …
Three teenagers were found dead in a rural Texas home on Tuesday, and police reportedly believe it was the result of a murder-suicide. According to USA Today, a relative of the homeowner discovered the bodies of two females and one male on Tuesday. The relative reportedly lives next door to the residence in Crosby, a …
Authorities in southern California have identified the suspect in the brutal murder of a 24-year-old UCLA grad student, and have warned residents not to approach him as the search continues. As CrimeOnline previously reported, the Los Angeles Police Department announced Tuesday night that investigators have identified the suspect in Brianna Kupfer’s murder as 31-year-old Shawn …
A Mississippi man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly fatally shooting a pregnant woman whose near full-term baby also died. Brianna Carter, 20, was killed when she was shot multiple times in Jackson on January 8. Carter, who was eight months pregnant, identified Daniel Jones, 21, as the shooter before dying at the hospital, according …
