A four-day manhunt for a fired Baltimore County police officer who kidnapped his two young children earlier this week ended Thursday with all three — and Robert Vicosa’s alleged accomplice — dead. Vicosa, Tia Bynum, and Vicosa’s 6- and 7-year-old daughters were found after a brief car chase that ended in a minor crash in …
A 2-year-old Alabama girl found dead in her family’s apartment last week died from multiple blunt force trauma Ivy Baker was found dead in her family’s Opelika apartment early Friday morning when first responders responded after her mother, Chasity Umeko Baker, 28, found the little girl unresponsive. Baker and her boyfriend, 28-year-old Jamario Emanuel Mitchell, …
Two men charged with kidnapping in a Missouri missing person case that included photos of the victim kept in a cage have now been charged with her murder, according to court documents that also revealed investigators had found the remains of Cassidy Rainwater. The upgraded charges against James Phelps and Timothy Norton came after the …
Two men convicted of killing civil rights leader Malcolm X will be exonerated more than half a century after they were sentenced to prison for 20 years to life. The New York Times reports that a 22-month-investigation found that prosecutors, the FBI, and the NYPD withheld evidence that likely would have led Muhammad A. Aziz …
A California couple remains jailed after pleading not guilty to killing their infant daughter, who passed away shortly after she returned to live with them. San Diego police arrested Brandon Copeland, 21, and Elizabeth Ucman, 22, and charged them with the murder of their 3-month-old daughter, Delilah, last Tuesday. Both suspects appeared at the San …
One child is dead and the other is clinging to life after they were reportedly stabbed and tossed from a balcony. Citing the Swedish news outlet Expressen, Metro reports that two children under the age of 10 were thrown from the balcony of an apartment complex in Stockholm after they were stabbed, possibly by their father. …
Texas police are continuing to search for a suspect accused of kidnapping and murdering his pregnant girlfriend last month, as new details have surfaced about the harrowing crime. The Daily Beast reported that investigators discovered a greeting card from the slain woman, Cavanna Smith, 25, in which she revealed her pregnancy to Kwanmaine Boyd, 25. …
A just in Wisconsin will begin deliberations Tuesday to determine the fate of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old accused of shooting people during a 2020 protest in Kenosha, two fatally. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Rittenhouse allegedly shot three people at an August 2020 demonstration protesting the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, Joesph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony …
The parents of a 15-month-old boy who died of fentanyl poisoning in September have been charged with the toddler’s murder. The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office added a murder charge at 22-year-old Adler Metcalf’s initial court appearance, KTLA reported. He had previously been charged only with child endangerment. The boy’s mother, 20-year-old Sandy Acuna, is …
A woman and man were reportedly found dead in a New York apartment on Saturday in what is being investigated as a murder-suicide. Police discovered Ashley Ducille, 29, and a 40-year-old man’s decomposing bodies at Ducille’s Bronx apartment after a downstairs tenant complained to the superintendent about maggots falling from the ceiling. The super was …
A 20-year-old Missouri man has been jailed for allegedly killing his mother. Police in Liberty received a call about a man being “out of control” just before midnight Friday, and when they arrived, they found 46-year-old Jill Little dead inside her home, according to the Kansas City Star. Investigators determined Little died by homicide and …
A North Carolina man accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend claims that she was trying to poison him, but the woman’s mother says the man is concocting the allegation as part of an insanity defense, the Fayetteville Observer reports. Authorities say 27-year-old Willie Earl Moore fatally shot 31-year-old Tanajwa McMurray on October 11 at her …
